Margaret Weber Talks to Jeannie Whayne for Agricultural History Available to Purchase

JEANNIE WHAYNE is professor of history at the University of Arkansas. She has published eleven books, including Delta Empire: Lee Wilson and the Transformation of Agriculture in the New South (2011), which won the John G. Ragsdale award from the Arkansas Historical Association. She has had fellowships at the Smithsonian Institution and at the Carter Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia. She is currently researching a book on the development of the cotton economy in Memphis, Tennessee, focusing particularly on the city's interaction with the cotton counties in its periphery and on its inter-relationship with the world cotton market.