Recent Scholarship
Agricultural and Rural
Barker-Devine, Jenny, “‘Mightier than Missiles’: The Rhetoric of Civil Defense for Rural American Families, 1950–1970,” Agricultural History, 80 (Fall 2006), 415–35.
Barron, Hal S., “Rural America on the Silent Screen,” Agricultural History, 80 (Fall 2006), 383–410.
Bruegel, Martin, “The Social Relations of Farming in the Early Republic: A Microhistorical Approach,” Journal of the Early Republic, 26 (Winter 2006), 523–53.
Conard, Rebecca, “Tough as the Hills,” Kansas History, 29 (Summer 2006), 69–83.
Di Stefano, Diana, “Alfred Packer’s World: Risk, Responsibility, and the Place of Experience in Mountain Culture, 1873–1907,” Journal of Social History, 40 (Fall 2006), 181–204.
Hicks, Gregory A., “Memory and Pluralism on a Property Law Frontier: The Contested Landscape of the Costilla Valley,” New Mexico Historical Review, 81 (Summer 2006), 299–335.
Isern, Tom, and Tricia Velure Nissen, “How to Read a Farm: Stories from the Material Culture of Bowman County, North Dakota,” Heritage of the Great Plains, 38 (Fall–Winter 2005), 22–39.
Popper, Deborah E., “‘Great Opportunities for the Many of Small Means’: New Jersey’s Agricultural Colonies,” Geographical Review, 96 (Jan. 2006), 24–49.
Sexton, Rocky L., “Rice Country Revisited: The Socioeconomic Transformation of a French Louisiana Subregion,” Louisiana History, 47 (Summer 2006), 309–32.
Thompson, Charles D., Jr., “Raising Citizens: The Old German Baptist Brethren and Community-Based Farming in the Virginia Blue Ridge,” Journal of Appalachian Studies, 11 (Spring–Fall 2005), 182–94.
Burch, John Russell, “The Dammed: Imagining the American Dream in Appalachian Kentucky” (University of Kentucky, 2005). Order No. DA3201062.
Minor, Kelly Anne, “Power in the Land: Home Demonstration in Florida, 1915–1960” (University of Florida, 2005). Order No. DA3202718.
Street, Richard Steven, Beasts of the Field: A Narrative History of California Farmworkers, 1769–1913. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. xxx, 904 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 0-8047-3879-3. Paper, $29.95, isbn 0-8047-3880-7.)
Walker, Melissa, Southern Farmers and Their Stories: Memory and Meaning in Oral History. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006. xiv, 324 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-8131-2409-4.)
Williams, Michael Ann, Staging Tradition: John Lair and Sarah Gertrude Knott. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xvi, 221 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-252-03102-1. Paper, $20.00, isbn 978-0-252-07344-1.)
Henshaw, Betty Grant, Children of the Dust: An Okie Family Story, ed. Sandra Scofield. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2006. xxviii, 229 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-89672-585-0.)
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