Stories of the Land: Diverse Agricultural Histories in the U.S.

Additional Readings


Baszile, Natalie. We Are Each Other’s Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers, Land, and Legacy. New York: HarperCollins, 2021.

Brown, David. Rural People and Communities in the 21st Century: Resilience and Transformation. Medford, MA: Polity Press, 2019.

Burton, Rob. The Good Farmer: Culture and Identity in Food and Agriculture. New York: Routledge, 2021.

Carlisle, Liz. Healing Grounds: Climate, Justice, and the Deep Roots of Regenerative Farming. Washington: Island Press, 2022.

Daniel, Jaster. Bygone Utopias and Farm Protest in the Rural Midwest: Returning Home. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.

Daniel, Pete. Dispossession: Discrimination against African American Farmers in the Age of Civil Rights. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013.

Dawson, Julie C., and Alfonso Morales. Cities of Farmers: Urban Agricultural Practices and Processes. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2016.

Eldredge, Charles C. We Gather Together: American Artists and the Harvest. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021.

Fitzgerald, Deborah. Every Farm a Factory: The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.

Foner, Eric. Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877. New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1988.

Gardner, Bruce L. American Agriculture in the Twentieth Century: How It Flourished and What It Cost. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006.

Jackson, Wes, Wendell Berry, and Bruce Colman, editors. Meeting the Expectations of the Land: Essays in Sustainable Agriculture and Stewardship. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1984.

Laidlaw, Zoë, and Alan Lester, editors. Indigenous Communities and Settler Colonialism: Land Holding, Loss and Survival in an Interconnected World. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillon, 2015.

Martin, Phillip L. Promise Unfulfilled; Unions, Immigration and the Farm Workers. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003.

Minkoff-Zern, Laura-Anne. The New American Farmer: Immigration, Race, and the Struggle for Sustainability. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2019.

Motter, Jeff, Stephanie Houston, and Ross Singer. Rooted Resistance: Agrarian Myth in Modern America. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2020.

Paddock, Joe, Nancy Paddock, and Carol Bly. Soil and Survival: Land Stewardship and the Future of American Agriculture. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1986.

Pawlick, Thomas F. The Invisible Farm: The Worldwide Decline of Farm News and Agricultural Journalism Training. Chicago: Burnham, 2001.

Peterson, Bo. Washing Our Hands in the Clouds: Joe Williams, His Forebears, and Black Farms in South Carolina. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2015.

Reid, Debra A., and Evan P. Bennett, editors. Beyond Forty Acres and a Mule: African American Landowning Families Since Reconstruction. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2012.

Strange, Marty. Family Farming: A New Economic Vision. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008.

Ward, William B. Reporting Agriculture Through Newspapers, Magazines, Radio, Television. Ithaca: Comstock Publishing, 1959.

Next: Notes

Russell Lee. New Madrid County, Missouri. Sharecropper woman filing hoe in cotton field, 1938.

Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. LC-DIG-fsa-8a23251.