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In 1871, Mary Welch began making lectures on housekeeping which was first seen as a home economics course. Mary spent more than fifteen years advocating for women to be in schools -
First nutritional lunch school program in Boston by Ellen Richards -
In 1909, the first home economics association was held
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Smith-Hughes Act, formally National Vocational Education Act, U.S. legislation, adopted in 1917, that provided federal aid to the states for the purpose of promoting precollegiate vocational education in agricultural and industrial trades and in home economics.
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The USDA Bureau of Home Economics becomes the Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics
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Finally, in 1961, accreditation of undergraduate programs in home economics began