...John J. Fry Abstract Between 1895 and 1920 technological, economic, demographic, and cultural changes transformed American rural life. This article argues that historians should not take agricultural newspapers as is and assume that they expressed the farmer’s point of view. Because most...

... to the professionalization of veterinary medicine. Using Tennessee in the nineteenth century as a case study, this paper examines the corpus of popular knowledge on the identification and treatment of horse ailments available to lay people in printed sources, focusing primarily on newspapers and to a lesser extent on patent...

... multiple obstacles. Extensive reading (whether books, farm journals, or newspapers) was limited to those who had access to publications and could make time to read. The South Dakota Free Library Commission was valuable in circulating reading materials to the state’s rural population. In the 1930s...

... to convey these limits adequately in newspaper articles and subsequent reports allowed for their work to be used by agricultural boosters throughout the region. The result was a cycle of erosion, fire, and farm abandonment that proved to be a political problem in Michigan for the first three decades...

... the chain of events, the story of these adoptions equally reflects the influence of human and social factors upon the pattern of agricultural change. Individuals and newspapers were more integral to the process of investigating the uses of Chewings fescue and paspalum than departments and government reports...

...Francis K. Danquah Abstract Japan’s occupation of Southeast Asia placed enormous stocks of the region’s industrial crops under Japanese control. English language Japanese newspaper reports from the Philippines suggest that the invaders grossly under-utilized this vast storehouse of agricultural...

..., suggesting that it was not the loss of farms but the specific way these agricultural valleys were flooded that became important for collective memories about this local history. Using transcripts from eminent domain proceedings and local newspapers, this article explores the making and mobilization...

...figure 8. The 1903 harvest. Newspapers indicate in this year, thirty thousand harvest hands were employed in Kansas, perhaps seventeen thousand in the Northwest, and twenty thousand more in Manitoba, Canada. Map by author. ...

... intimidated, raped, tortured, and killed African Americans and the disembodied Klan, the idea of the organization that filled northern newspaper reports. She argues that despite racial violence throughout the South following the Civil War, the first Klan was a lone organization, and for the first year...

... and was asked to find articles in newspaper databases (e.g., the New York Times ) using several specific keywords, such as “food riot,” “food revolt,” “food disturbances,” and so on. After finding relevant articles that reported news about food riots in different cities across the world, students put this data...

.... Culling cartoons out of dozens of People s Party newspapers and other publications and using graphics software to clean up the images, Miller presents over one hundred forty of these primary documents. It is the largest such collection ever assembled. The cartoons themselves are fascinating...

... Press, 2014. 288 pp., $35.00, hardback, iSBn 978-0-226-12875-7. it is commonplace today to open a newspaper or magazine and find journalists lamenting how divorced americans are from their food sources, how children believe that food originates in supermarkets rather than on farms, and how social...

.... Culling cartoons out of dozens of People s Party newspapers and other publications and using graphics software to clean up the images, Miller presents over one hundred forty of these primary documents. It is the largest such collection ever assembled. The cartoons themselves are fascinating...

... weekly and daily local Chinese newspapers and periodicals. Many of these periodicals have rarely, if ever, been studied before, and Fuller successfully demonstrates just how much scholars of Republican China (1912 1949) have missed by only focusing on a small handful of large national newspapers. Both...

... Goddard, "The Development and Influence of Agricultural Periodicals and Newspapers, 1780-1880," Agricultural History Review 31:2 (1983): 118-19. 2 Nicholas Goddard, "Agricultural Institutions: Societies, Associations and the Press," in The Agrarian History of England and Wales, Vol. 7 (1850-1914), ed...

..., and hoped-for popularization never materialized (105). Instead, the society s most tangible impact was its newspaper, which created a networked public in which the democratizing potential of mass communication collided with elite ideas about scientific knowledge, agency, and capacity. The newspaper s...

... Carolina Pee Dee. The impetus for growing bright leaf tobacco was provided by farmer Frank M. Rogers, the advocacy of the state's largest newspaper, the Charleston News and Courier, and the South Carolina Department of Agriculture. Within a decade the production of bright leaf was flourishing as were...

... during incarceration: the initial registration of individuals by the War Relocation Authority, the final government accounting completed after termination of the program, and the published issues of the camp newspaper, the Heart Mountain Sentinel . She acknowledges that these sources have issues...