...Stephanie A. Carpenter Oh Freedom after Awhile: The Missouri Sharecroppers Strike of 1939 . Lynn Rubright , Candace O’Connor and Steven John Ross . Copyright 2001 Agricultural History Society 2001 Film Reviews / 119 My hope is that soon more historians and other scholars...

... IndependentImmigrantsA: Settlemenotf HanoverianGermansin WesternMissouri.By RobertW. Frizzell.Columbia: Universityof Missouri Press,2007.224 pp34.95,hardback,ISBN 978-0-8262-1761-5. RobertFrizzellhas craftedan excellentadditionto theliteraturoef chain migrationcommunitieisnNorthAmerica.In thetraditionofKamphoefner...

...Charles Closmann A River in the City of Fountains: An Environmental History of Kansas City and the Missouri River . By Amahia K. Mallea . Lawrence : University Press of Kansas , 2018 . 358 pp., $29.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-7006-2711-0. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019...

...Gordon Morris Bakken Legal Systems in Conflict: Property and Sovereignty in Missouri, 1750–1860 . Stuart Banner . Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 Book Reviews / 129 an English landscape on their domain; and the impact of the Batiscan Iron? works (1799-1813...

...," Fortune Magazine16 (April1937): 92 -99. 5 Gregg Andrews , City of Dust: A Cement Company Town in the Land of Tom Sawyer (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1996 ) 6 David Thelen , Paths of Resistance: Tradition and Dignity in Industrializing Missouri (New York...

...Amahia Mallea Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 [Footnotes] 1 Champion S. Chase of Omaha, as quoted in the Official Report of the Proceedings of the Missouri River Convention, held in Kansas City , Missouri, 29-30 December 1885 Secretary H. M. Kirkpatrick...

...Andrew Slap Rebels on the Border: Civil War, Emancipation, and the Reconstruction of Kentucky and Missouri . By Aaron Astor . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 2012 . 360 pp., $47.50 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8071-4298-1 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2014...

...Heidi Dodson J. V. Conran and Rural Political Power: Boss Mythology in the Missouri Bootheel . By Will Sarvis . Lanham : Lexington Books , 2012 . 194 pp., $60.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-7391-6985-8 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2014 2014 2014 Book Reviews African...

...Samuel J. Klee Abstract The Hellwig Brothers’ Farm in Chesterfield, Missouri, became a carceral space during World War II. The Hellwigs contracted Mexican and Mexican American farmworkers, incarcerated Japanese Americans, and prisoners of war from Italy and Germany through the War Food...

...Virgil W. Dean The Border between Them: Violence and Reconciliation on the Kansas-Missouri Line . Jeremy Neely . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2009 Book Reviews As an introductory text,TheMachine inAmerica covers thebenchmark top ics in thehistoryof technology.The...

...Donald B. Oster Lives and Letters of an Immigrant Family: The Van Dreveldts’ Experiences along the Missouri, 1844-1866 . Kenneth Kronenberg . Copyright 2000 Agricultural History Society 2000 108 / Agricultural History legal context and practices. This is important because Kantor...

...Brooks Blevins A Store Almost in Sight: The Economic Transformation of Missouri from the Louisiana Purchase to the Civil War . By Jeff Bremer . Iowa City : University of Iowa press , 2014 . 252 pp., $39.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-60938-226-1 . © the Agricultural History Society...

...J. Michael Crane Slavery on the Periphery: The Kansas-Missouri Border in the Antebellum and Civil War Eras . By Kristen Epps . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2016 . 288 pp., $59.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8203-5050-9 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018 128...

...C. Fred Williams From Missouri: An American Farmer Looks Back . By Thad Snow . Edited by Bonnie Stepenoff . Columbia : University of Missouri Press , 2012 . 304 pp., $25.00 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8262-1990-9 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013 Agricultural...

...Robert Gudmestad On Slavery's Borders: Missouri's Small-Slaveholding Households, 1815–1865 . By Diane Mutti Burke . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2010 . 368 pp., $24.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8203-3683-1 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 Agricultural...

...Bonnie Stepenoff Abstract Scholars have paid a great deal of attention to the Sharecroppers’ Roadside Demonstration by evicted farmworkers, who camped out along rural highways in Missouri’s southeastern Bootheel in January 1939. This article differs from previous works by focusing on Fannie Cook...

... and helped establish cooperative programs that evolved into the Agricultural Extension Service. Spillman, an iconoclast of sorts, straddled the rural world of empirical thinking as well as the world of professional science. He remained linked to his Missouri roots by participating in the National Grange his...

... that American agricultural history would have been very different had these votes tipped the other way. Evidence from three outlying slave regions--the Kentucky bluegrass, Missouri’s "Little Dixie," and the wheat belt of Virginia--shows that slavery could adapt readily to crops and regions commonly considered...

..., Volume 1: The Old Ozarks. By Brooks Blevins. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2018. 312 pp., $34.95, hardback, ISBN 978-0-252-04191-4. Brooks Blevins s A History of the Ozarks, Volume 1: The Old Ozarks is the first of a three-part study of the hilly region sandwiched between the Missouri...