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Catherine Beechor contributes to the domestic science movement by writing her Treatise on Domestic Economy.
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The First Morrill Act is passed, providing federal lands to the states to be sold to support colleges of agriculture and mechanical arts.
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Kansas State begins its domestic economy curriculum.
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Ellen Richards is the first woman to be granted the Bachelor of Science at MIT. Vassar awards her a Master's degree based on her scientific thesis. She is the first woman to earn an advance science degree
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Ellen Richards publishes The Chemistry for Cooking and Cleaning: A Manual for Housekeepers
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Domestic Sciences courses are introduced into the public school system in Boston.
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The Hatch Act is passed, providing $15,000 a year for sate established agricultural experiments stations.
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Ellen Richards conduces the Great Sanitary Survey that modernized municipal sewerage treatment and develops the first water purity tables and water quality standards.
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The Second Morrill Act passed, providing further funding for black student colleges.
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The World Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the Rumford Kitchen of "science of nutrition"
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First nutritional lunch school program in Boston by Ellen Richards
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The first Lake Placid conference that began the creation of the American Home Economics Association
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Childcare and an emphasis on promoting a more enduring type of family life becomes a focus in home economics
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State backed support grows for practical education beyond the 8th grade. Secondary education expands to include vocational education.
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the first girl's Tomato Club (4-H) organized by Marie Cromer a teacher through Agricultural Extension.
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American Home Economics Association extablished
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Two white women become home demonstration agents in South Carolina.
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The Smith-Lever Act is passed, specifying the creation of the Agriculture Extension Service to provide farm women with education in home economics and men with education in agriculture.
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The Smith Hughes Act is passed, establishing federal support for vocational education.
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AHEA sets goals to establish and maintain instruction in elements of home management for elementary and high school girls and appropriate home economics instruction for boys.
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The Home Economic section is added to the American Association of Land-Grant Colleges
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Parenting classes for men and women are encouraged.
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Childcare is recognized as a key element in the home economics curriculum.
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Food corporations begin employing home economists to create recipes and nutritional information for other home economists in the class room.
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Home Economists in the state become accepted by the public as experts in human nutrition
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Agnes Faye Morgan, chair of the Department of Home Economics at University of California at Berkley, is appointed to serve on President Roosevelt's First Nutrition Congress.
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The USDA Bureau of Home Economics becomes the Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics
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Integration of Blacks and Whites
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Feminists criticize scientific experts in home economics for fostering restrictive roles for women.
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Specialized programs emerge
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Accreditation of undergraduate programs in home economics begins
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Racial tension acknowledged within the organization, Florence Low sets out to eliminate it.
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Vocational Education Act gainful employment outside the home.
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Vocation Education Act amended to include handicapped and disadvantaged students.
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The 11th Lake Placid Conference is held to develop consensus among its members.
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The economists begin to gear its work seriously towards males - Vocational Education Act
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AHEA launched Project 2000 - enhancing programs to meet diversity needs.
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Cornell University sponsors a conference entitled "Rethinking Women & Hoe Economics in the 20th Century"
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Scottsdale meeting recommends name change
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Name changes from Home Economics to Family and Consumer Sciences
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Association membership begins to decrease and the FCS program struggles to stay in public schools.
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100 year celebration held nationally for the organization of AAFCS
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First Lake Bonneville Summit held at BYU-Idaho to commemorate and generate positive professional networks in the Southeast Idaho area.
