Explore how one-room schoolhouses shaped rural America, supported farm communities, and educated generations across the expanding agricultural ...

HBCU is an acronym used to describe Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Although this description was not formally adopted by the U.S. Department of Education until 1965, such institutions ...

Lewis and Clark uncovered advanced Native American agriculture along the Missouri River, reshaping early views of Indigenous communities.

The story of American agricultural history runs through Iowa, and during Iowa History Month, it’s a great time to explore the intersection of agriculture and Iowa history. In the late nineteenth and ...

MOORHEAD, Minn. — Hiram “Hi” Drache, one of the nation’s most provocative and conservative agricultural historians and authors, died Oct. 17, 2020, in Moorhead, Minn. He was 96. Drache of Moorhead, ...

St. Croix had such a rich history in agriculture. Today, the island doesn’t reflect that it was once known as the “Garden Spot of the Antilles.” In 1892, the government of the Danish West Indies ...

R. Douglas Hurt, professor and head of the Department of History at Purdue University, can talk about Indiana's agriculture history as it relates to the state's bicentennial celebration. Hurt can talk ...

Agriculture has played an indelible role in the Yakima Valley’s history. As the world has modernized, it’s easy to forget the history of early farming and agriculture. Luckily, to help preserve that ...

When Monica White came to teach at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in fall 2012, she knew she had a book to write. White had spent the previous few years teaching in the sociology department at ...