U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.

Current building trends toward compact houses-many without basement or attic-and increased acceptance of functional planning have focused attention on the need for planned storage areas. One aspect of a coordinated program of research on farm housing, which is now underway, was designed to meet this need, first by determining what farm families actually store, and then by interpreting storage needs in terms of space requirements. Some of the findings related to the storage of household linens are reported here.