... Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 Agricultural History Talks to Gilbert Fite Q. What made you want to become a historian? A. My high school teacher at Wessington Springs, South Dakota, Academy and Junior College first interested me in history. Clifford Roloff made history so...

...Jess Gilbert Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 AgriculturalHistoryTalks to Jess Gilbert Q. What drew you to agricultural history? A. I feel some natural affinity for the subject since I was born and raised inveryruralnortheastLouisiana, near theMississippiRiver.My parents were...

...NANCY TYSTAD KOUPAL © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 Gilbert Courtland Fite (1918-2010): A Memorial NANCY TYSTAD KOUPAL Gilbert Courtland Fite, eminent agricultural historian and influen tial educator, died on July 13, 2010, in Fort Myers, Florida. For a South Dakota farm boy, he...

...Jess Gilbert Copyright 2000 Agricultural History Society 2000 [Footnotes] 1 George N. Peek and Samuel Crowther, Why Quit Our Own (New York: Van Nostrand, 1936 ), 20 , 114 Alger Hiss , Recollections of a Life (New York: Seaver, 1988 ), 66 , 149-60 Arthur...

...Jess Gilbert © 2021 Agricultural History Society 2021 Comment: Family Farms, Agricultural Policy, and SmallFarm Essentialism JESS GILBERT The three articles by Anne Effland, Mary Summers, and David Hamilton show several commonalities that would seem to provide a basis for interweaving...

...Jess Gilbert Copyright 2003 Agricultural History Society 2003 Introduction JESS GILBERT Racial and ethnic struggles over land frequently are matters of life and death. Communities, especially rural communities of color, often survive depending on whether or not they maintain their land base...

...Jess Gilbert Sociology in Government: The Galpin-Taylor Years in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1919-1953 . Olaf F. Larson and Julie N. Zimmerman . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 Book Reviews / 241 to lobby Congress for a second County Life Commission during...

...Jess Gilbert Abstract In the early 1940s, the agricultural New Deal was broader and more democratic than those aspects of it that survived World War II. Carl C. Taylor, who led the sociological research unit in the USDA’s Bureau of Agricultural Economics, and other rural sociologists shared a two...

...Daniel Immerwahr Planning Democracy: Agrarian Intellectuals and the Intended New Deal . By Jess Gilbert . New Haven : Yale University Press , 2015 . 368 pp., $45.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-300-20731-6. © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016 Agricultural History Winter Briefly...

...Jeff Kolnick Homecoming . Charlene Gilbert . Copyright 2001 Agricultural History Society 2001 Film Reviews Homecoming. Produced by Charlene Gilbert. San Francisco: California Newsreel, 1998. 56 min., videocassette. $195. Homecoming charts the experiences of one African American farm...

..., dorian garrick, S. Craig gerlach, Jess gilbert, marion gray, alison greene, andrew gritt, robert gudmestad, Jonathan hagood, barbara hahn, matthew hatvany, elizabeth herbin-Triant, Joe horan, Charles hughes, Samuel hyde, John inscoe, linda ivey, richard Judd, ronald Kline, michael lansing, Todd leedy...

... A. Galston , A Tough Row to Hoe: The 1985 Farm Bill and Beyond (Washington, D.C.: Hamilton Press, 1985) Don Paarlberg and Robert Paarlberg, "Agricultural Policy in the Twentieth Century," Agricultural History74 (Spring2000) 3 Jess Gilbert, "Eastern Urban Liberals and Midwestern Agrarian...

... agricultural and/or rural history for his work, A Golden Weed: Tobacco and Environment in the Piedmont South (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014). Swanson earned his PhD from the University of Georgia. He is an assistant professor of history at Wright State University. Gilbert C. Fite Award SAMANTHA...

... Gadd, Samuel Garrido, Victor Geraci, Jess Gilbert, Monica Gisolfi, Susan Grayzel, Sara Gregg, Annie Elizabeth Hanshew, Marjory Harper, Jonathan Harwood, John B Henderson,Kathleen Hilliard,Joseph M.Hodge,Suzanne Kaufman, Sharon Kingsland, Marta Macedo, Carin Martiin, Fazal Marwat, Gillian McGillivray...

... , 1943 ). This article was originally presented as a paper at the Georgia Workshop in the History of Agriculture and the Environment , University of Georgia , Mar. 2009 . 2. Jess Gilbert , “Rural Sociology and Democratic Planning in the Third New Deal,” Agricultural History 82 ( Fall...

... Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011). Gilbert C. Fite Award GABRIEL ROSENBERG is the 2011 winner of the Gilbert C. Fite dissertation award for his dissertation entitled, Breeding the Future: The American 4-H...

... University, and currently works as a freelance book developer for academic authors. Gilbert C. Fite Award TOM OKIE is the 2012 winner of the Gilbert C. Fite dissertation award for his dissertation entitled, Everything Is Peaches Down In Georgia : Culture and Agriculture in the American South. Okie...

... in North Carolina since the Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013). Petty holds a PhD from Columbia University, teaches history at the City College of New York, and specializes in the social history of the American South. Gilbert C. Fite Award TORRE OLSSON is the 2013 winner of the Gilbert C...

... sociologist Jess Gilbert has called agrarian intellectuals in the USDA and their Latin American counterparts, who largely remain absent in agricultural histories of the period.27 Although political rivalries caused him to resign within a year, Chardón s political project emphasized how agricultural science...

... winners and the criteria for submitting manuscripts for consideration. Gilbert C. Fite Award The Agricultural History Society presents the Gilbert C. Fite Award and a $300 honorarium to the author of the best dissertation on any aspect of agricultural history, broadly interpreted, completed during...