...JENNY BARKER DEVINE Abstract Over the course of twenty-eight years, between 1964 and 1991, members of the Iowa Porkettes, the women’s auxiliary to the Iowa Pork Producer’s Association (IPPA), promoted pork products in order to assert their roles as agricultural producers. For the members...

...Sarah Egge Carnival in the Countryside: The History of the Iowa State Fair . By Chris Rasmussen . Iowa City : University of Iowa Press , 2015 . 230 pp., $27.50 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-60938-357-2 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 454 Agricultural History example, he...

...Barbara Steinson On Behalf of the Family Farm: Iowa Farm Women's Activism since 1945 . By Jenny Barker Devine . Iowa City : University of Iowa Press , 2013 . 201 pp., $19.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-60938-149-3 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Agricultural...

...J. L. Anderson A Good Day’s Work: An Iowa Farm in the Great Depression . Dwight W. Hoover . © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 Book Reviews NorthAmerica A Good Day's WorkA: n Iowa Farmin theGreatDepression.By Dwight W.Hoover. Chicago:Ivan R. Dee, 2007.240 pp26.00,hardback,ISBN...

...Pamela Riney-Kehrberg Abstract The Farm Crisis of the 1980s was not just an economic crisis, but an identity crisis for the two-thirds of Iowa farm families that risked losing their livelihoods. Confronted with a situation that was well outside of their control, they sent thousands of letters...

...Seth Hedquist Abstract This article tells the story of musicians in rural Iowa who played on behalf of their county farm bureaus between 1921 and 1937. An examination of their family and kinship ties and their musical repertoires reveals that these performers brought community and a wide array...

...Jeff Bremer [email protected] Copyright © 2023 the Agricultural History Society 2023 I teach an Iowa history class at Iowa State University. In recent years, this course has been online, but I taught it for several years face-to-face. One of the major readings for the class...

...Lisa L. Ossian Abstract Iowa experienced two well-known incidents of rural violence in the early 1930s with the "Cow War of Cedar County" during 1931 and the Farmers’ Holiday Movement Strike in northwest Iowa in August 1932. However, the violence in rural Iowa from 1930 to 1933 became far more...

...Mark Friedberger [email protected] When a Dream Dies: Agriculture, Iowa, and the Farm Crisis of the 1980s . By Pamela Riney-Kehrberg . Lawrence : University Press of Kansas , 2022 . 304 pp., $39.95 , hardcover, ISBN 9780700633555 . Copyright © 2023...

...Andria Pooley The Farm at Holstein Dip: An Iowa Boyhood . By Carroll Engelhardt . Iowa City : University of Iowa Press , 2012 . 238 pp., $22.00 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-60938-117-2 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013 2013 Book Reviews contrary, although thousands...

... Campbell , The Farm Bureau and the New Deal: A Study in the Making of National Farm Policy, 1933–1940 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1962 ), 36 -38 Henry C. Wallace , much-needed support. Iowa Farm Bureau Messenger , February -March 1924 , 1 7 House Committee...

...Thomas Burnell Colbert Copyright 2000 Agricultural History Society 2000 [Footnotes] 1 John T. Schlebecker , Whereby We Thrive: A History of American Agriculture, 1607–1972 (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1972), 252 Keith E. Roe , Corncribs: In History...

... Fronts of Iowa, 1939 1945. By Lisa L. Ossian. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2009. 264 pp., $39.95, hardback, ISBN 9780-8262-1856-8. In The Home Fronts of Iowa, 1939 1945, Lisa Ossian examines the many ways that Iowans met the challenge of the Second World War. Ossian divides 138 2011 Book...

...Jenny Barker Devine The Depression Dilemmas of Rural Iowa, 1929–1933 . By Lisa Ossian . Columbia : University of Missouri Press , 2012 . 254 pp., $45.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8262-1946-6 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013 2013 Book Reviews to improve native...

... of Kansas) J. Sanford Rikoon discusses the beginnings of combined harvesting-threshing in Threshing in the Midwest, 1820–1940: A Study of Traditional Culture and Technological Change (Bloomington: Indiana Univer¬ sity Press, 1988 ) Thomas Burnell Colbert, "Iowa Farmers and Mechanical Corn...

... There Goes the Neighborhood: Rural School Consolidation at the Grass Roots in Early Twentieth-Century Iowa. By David R. Reynolds. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1999. 306 pp., $39.95, hardback, ISBN 0-87745693-3. By 1999, the number of school districts in Iowa numbered 375. In 1900, on the other hand...

... of the farm economy as Iowa grappled with the Farm Crisis that engulfed farmers and soon engulfed the entire state. Through the lenses of a community organizer and an academic rural sociologist, the authors provide insights into the myriad contradictions and opposing forces that contributed to the difficult...

... these communities in the wake of the farm crisis in the early 1990s. For a multitude of reasons, the long-term experiences of the communities often bore very little relation to the predictions made in the 1940s. This article discusses a planned project to re-examine one of these small places, Irwin, Iowa, in order...

...Paul Burnett Abstract The oleomargarine controversy was a case of academic freedom in which nineteen researchers resigned from Iowa State College to protest pressure from the dairy industry to change their research findings. This article explores the ways in which the boundaries between science...