Have you ever wondered why so many Americans drink coffee in the morning? In early America, colonists drank a lot of coffee — and less tea that we usually think. Coffee is among the most common goods traded and consumed worldwide, and so omnipresent its popularity is often taken for granted.
But even everyday habits have a history. When and why coffee become part of North American daily life is at the center of the book Coffee Nation: How One Commodity Transformed the Early United States (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025). [Read more…] about Coffee: A Commodity That Transformed Early America
