...Bonnie Stepenoff The St. Louis African-American Community and the Exodusters . Bryan M. Jack . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 AgriculturHalistory Winter archaeologicaldigs,possiblelocationsof buildingsw, hetheror nota given floorwaswoodor stone,orlocationsofpotteryshardsH...

... John Blassingame , The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South , 2 nd ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979 ) Stanley Elkins , Slavery: A Problem in American Institutionalized and Intellectual Life (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1959 ) Kenneth...

...Learotha Williams Jr. And Grace Will Lead Me Home: African American Freedmen Communities of Austin, Texas, 1865–1928 . By Michelle M. Mears . Lubbock : Texas Tech University Press , 2009 . 256 pp., $45.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-89672-654-3 . © the Agricultural History Society...

...Peter Kolchin The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South . Dylan C. Penningroth . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 112 / Agricultural History memory. "A Personal History of Memory," by Robert R. Archibald advocates...

...Bruce L. Bigelow Southern Seed, Northern Soil: African-American Farm Communities in the Midwest, 1765-1900 . Stephen A. Vincent . Copyright 2001 Agricultural History Society 2001 Book Reviews Southem Seed, Northern Soil: African-American Farm Communities in the Midwest, 1765-1900...

... African American education, Jeanes supervisors aided black teachers in rural southern schools as they sought to improve educational quality and access and reform domestic habits. The communities in which they labored often lacked or, more appropriately, were systematically denied the resources to make...

... of peasants that ascended to the ranks of landowners and hired out other peasants to labor for them. This went against the ideal of the collective commune in which these members were to assimilate among the existing population. 91. Sawyer, “American ‘Know-How,’ on the Soviet Frontier” 8–9. 92...

... , The Sociological Tradition (New York: Basic Books, 1966 ), 75 . 3 Susan Sessions Rugh , Our Common Country: Family Farming, Culture, and Community in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001 ) American Historical Review 107 ( June 2002 ): 874 -75...

..., 1993). Adam Rome, "’Give Earth a Chance’: The Environmental Movement and the Sixties," Journal of American History 90 (Sept. 2003): 525-54. Arthur Kopecky, New Buffalo: Journals from a Taos Commune (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004) Kopecky, Leaving New Buffalo Commune...

... County, 974-79 Stephen J. Gross, "Family, Property, Community: Class and Identity among German Americans in Rural Stearns County, Minnesota, 1860–1920" (PhD diss., University of Minnesota, 1995), 425-28 John C. Hudson notes the frequency in which small town businessmen established...

...Seth Bernstein; Robert Cherny Abstract In 1922 a group of Americans moved from the Pacific Northwest to Soviet Russia to settle an agricultural commune they called Seattle. The Seattle Commune was one among many enterprises founded by foreign sympathizers in the new Soviet republic. All...

... is representative of this concern. See also the manual prepared under the direction of the FSA Personnel Training Committee for FSA employees by Joseph Gaer, Toward Farm Security (Washington, DC: GPO, 1941). American Indians and the African-American community at Gee’s Bend, Alabama, may be the only exception...

... Cooperation Between Native American and Rural White Communities (Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2002). 2 National Academy of Sciences , Rehabilitation Potential of Western Coal Lands . Report to the Energy Planning Project of the Ford Foundation (Washington, D.C.: Ford...

...Phillip B. Gonzales Abstract At the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848, the United States annexed what had been the Mexican Department of New Mexico, and as it did, it absorbed millions of acres of agro-pastoral land whose parcels had been under a communal system of ownership by Mexican...

..., individuals with their own agendas absorbed and transformed these policies. Local farmers utilized imported agricultural knowledge for their own purposes and did not conform to the experiences or expectations of American-trained agricultural missionaries. Within these mission communities, converts...

... describing the area. Similar ideas about Steinbeck s relationship with the community live on in the oral tradition of some local residents. 35. Brian Railsback, A John Steinbeck Encyclopedia (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2006), 130; Picture Being Filmed Here by Hollywood Unit, Democrat-American, Sept. 21...

... support. More than just an exercise on paper, American silk was widely produced, thanks especially to the labor of women. Eventually, the far-flung community of sericulturists fell prey to environmental and labor-related limitations. But the speed of their downfall, linked to a speculative bubble...

...Christopher W. Wells Abstract The period from the end of the Civil War to about 1905 saw some key changes in American country roads, including the passage of the first state-aid road laws, the creation of the first federal road agency, and the growth of a strong urban-rural coalition promoting...

... to crystallize certain ideas as to practicable methods of long-time development of states and countries. 17 After studying these rural communities in Western Europe, he concluded that the lot of the European peasant can stand comparison with such American independent farmers as may be hardly able to make...

... and Robert Lewis, "The Geography of North American Cities and Suburbs, 1900-1950: A New Synthesis," Journal of Urban History 27 (Mar. 2001): 263; Walker and Lewis, "Beyond the Crabgrass Frontier," 3; Henry C. Binford, The First Suburbs: Residential Communities on the Boston Periphery, 1815-1860 (Chicago...