The Bureau of Home Economics

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 25 May 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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For a time, the U.S. Department of Agriculture had a whole bureau of home economics, which was run by and for women, and was a huge part of the response to crises like the Great Depression and World War II.

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0:32.1	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History class,
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0:42.8	Hello and welcome to the podcast.
0:44.9	I'm Tracy V. Wilson, and I'm Holly Fry.
0:47.7	Uh, this may not surprise people when I get to the end of this sentence,
0:51.4	but I have been thinking a lot lately about my maternal grandmother,
0:56.5	who grew up during the Great Depression.
0:59.3	Uh, after that, she went on to raise five children,
1:02.5	while also working full time at the mom and pop furniture store
1:06.4	that she and my grandfather started together.
1:09.0	Uh, and before, before that really got off the ground,
1:11.7	she had also graduated from college in 1939,
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