...Carmen V. Harris Abstract This essay examines the intersectional experience of African American home demonstration agents in South Carolina between 1910 and 1968. It investigates how gender created common experiences and how white supremacy complicated those commonalities. Both black and white...

...Peter Thompson Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake . By Sarah Hand Meacham . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2009 . 208 pp., $48.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8018-9312-4 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011...

...Pamela Riney-Kehrberg The Home Fronts of Iowa, 1939–1945 . By Lisa L. Ossian . Columbia : University of Missouri Press , 2009 . 264 pp., $39.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8262-1856-8 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 Agricultural History Winter historians who have...

...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...

...Todd M. Kerstetter Wyoming Will Be Your New Home: Ranching, Farming, and Homesteading in Wyoming, 1860–1960 . By Michael Cassity . Cheyenne : Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office , 2011 . 354 pp., free, electronic, OCLC 760022141 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015...

...Gordon M. Winder Home in the Howling Wilderness: Settlers and the Environment in Southern New Zealand . By Peter Holland . Auckland : Auckland University Press , 2013 . 256 pp., $44.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-86940-739-1 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015...

...Nancy K. Berlage Remaking Home Economics: Resourcefulness and Innovation in Changing Times . Edited by Sharon Y. Nickols and Gwen Kay . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2015 . 272 pp., $34.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8203-4807-0 . © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016...

... ). Newspapers surveyed include Athens Post, Blount County Democrat, Bolivar Bulletin, Bristol News, Clarksville Weekly Chronicle, Columbia Herald, Fayetteville Observer, Jonesborough Herald and Tribune, Winchester Home Journal, Knoxville Daily Chronicle, Knoxville Weekly Chronicle, Knoxville Whig...

...Susan E. Gray Rethinking Home: A Case for Writing Local History . Joseph A. Amato . Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 Book Reviews / 723 Rethinking Home: A Case for Writing Local History. By Joseph A. Amato. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. 245 pp...

...Rebecca Sharpless Strangers at Home: Amish and Mennonite Women in History . Kimberly D. Schmidt , Diane Zimmerman Umble and Steven D. Reschly . Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 Book Reviews / 739 simply too general and vague. For example, Martha Rees's article...

...Barbara Steinson At Home in the Hoosier Hills: Agriculture, Politics and Religion in Southern Indiana, 1810-1870 . Richard F. Nation . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 2008 BookReviews peculiar and quite intense pressures placed on communities by the isolation...

...Jane M. Pederson Calling This Place Home: Women on the Wisconsin Frontier, 1850-1925 . Joan M. Jensen . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 AgriculturHalistory Winter Calling thisPlace Home: Women on thWe isconsin Frontier1, 850-1925. By JoanM. Jensen. St. Paul: Minnesota...

...Jaclyn J. S. Miller Farmers Helping Farmers: The Rise of the Farm and Home Bureaus, 1914–1935 . By Nancy K. Berlage . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 2016 . 328 pp., $48.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8071-6330-6 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018 Book...

...Tommy C. Brown Driven from Home: North Carolina’s Civil War Refugee Crisis . By David Silkenat . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2016 . 264 pp., $49.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8203-4946-6 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 450 Agricultural History of political...

...Renee M. Laegreid Home Lands: How Women Made the West . By Virginia Scharff and Carolyn Brucken . Los Angeles : Autry Center of the American West , 2010 . 184 pp., $24.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-520-26219-5 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 Agricultural...

... was the effort to raise the standard of living for the county's rural poor through increasing home-farm production and improving diet. The initiative entailed active intervention by Farm Security Administration farm and home supervisors and illustrates the tension between the desire to promote independence among...

...Margaret W. Rossiter Creating Consumers: Home Economists in Twentieth-Century America . By Carolyn M. Goldstein . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2012 . 424 pp., $49.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8078-3553-1 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013 2013...

...Nick Johnson Agricultural History Winter survey of US agricultural history from 1860 1960 that could serve researchers working in other fields. Todd M. Kerstetter Texas Christian University Home Grown: Marijuana and the Origins of Mexico s War on Drugs. By Isaac Campos. Chapel Hill: University...

... their limited financial and labor resources into household equipment and furnishings, knick-knacks and personal adornment, land, and homes. They used the legal system to secure their property and convey it to heirs even as unscrupulous landlords conspired against them. But purchasing land could limit a family’s...

...; it changed women’s work patterns and improved their economic status. Thus, focusing on the transition from wood and coal to electricity and gas in home heating and cooking misses a step. Moreover, as this story reveals, energy transitions differed between men and women and were contingent upon economic...