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Two hundred years' worth of American history all in one house. Learn what a close examination of a single-family dwelling can tell us about what life was like during five different periods of American history: the colonial era, the revolutionary era, the Civil War era, the late nineteenth century, and World War II.
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colonial families, cultures through time, environments change over time, family life, historic home, historic house, home front, home war effort, places change over time, understanding history, american revolutionary family, american colonist family, american immigrant family, smithsonian, smithsonian institution, wwii home effort, families in world war ii
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- Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)