My grandmother‘s sister had a BA in Home Economics and taught Appalachian households to use electric appliances in the 1940s. Because of that, I have always been curious about HE. Dreilinger traces its history from its founding in the mid-19th c to today. It began as a cutting-edge field, but after WWII lost some of its seriousness, however post-pandemic there‘s been a resurgence. She looks at Black, white, and Latinx practitioners.