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“New Mexico Heroines of the Twentieth Century: Role Models for Today” by Ron Hamm features hundreds of influential women from the state.

Save this story for later. Of all the paradoxes in the paradoxical field known as home economics, perhaps the most peculiar is the practice house, with its practice baby. Colleges and universities that offered home-ec majors—and there were many in the twentieth century, including historically Black colleges, land-grant universities, and Ivy League institutions—often had a cottage or an apartment on campus where female home-ec students could keep house. Some of them were preparing for ...