“Home ec.” The words conjure images of high school girls concocting muffins, stitching aprons, dutifully preparing for life as wives and mothers. Forget all that. In her revelatory new book “The ...

"Home ec" is a class many people, who came long before the Facebook generation, took in school. Long before Martha Stewart taught us how to fold a fitted sheet on "Oprah," we learned about proper ...

A home economics class at Howard University in Washington, circa 1920. Early African American educators developed domestic science as a means of “educating moral leaders who would lift up their ...