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

¹ Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1988).

² Monica Richmond Gisolfi, “From Crop Lien to Contract Farming: The Roots of Agribusiness in the American South, 1929-1939,” Agricultural History 80, no. 2 (Spring 2006): 167-89, https://www.jstor.org/stable/3744805; Michael D. Thompson, “This Little Piggy Went to Market: The Commercialization of Hog Production in Eastern North Carolina from William Shay to Wendell Murphy,” Agricultural History 74, no. 2 (Spring 2000): 581, https://www.jstor.org/stable/3744872.

³ Deborah Fitzgerald, Every Farm a Factory: The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003), 12.

⁴ Fitzgerald, Every Farm a Factory, 7-8.

⁵ David M. Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 208-9.

⁶ Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern, The New American Farmer: Immigration, Race, and the Struggle for Sustainability (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019).

⁷ Ross Singer, Stephanie Grey, and Jeff Motter, Rooted Resistance: Agrarian Myth in Modern America (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2020), 191.

⁸ Josh Shepperd, “Public Broadcasting,” in A Companion to the History of American Broadcasting, ed. Aniko Bodroghkozy (Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, 2018), 231.

⁹ N. Scott Momaday, “A First American Views His Land,” National Geographic Magazine, vol. 150, no. 1 (1976): 13-18.

¹⁰ Kent C. Ryden, Mapping the Invisible Landscape: Folklore, Writing, and Sense of Place (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1993), 59.

¹¹ Walter L. Hixson, “Adaptation, Resistance, and Representation in the Modern US Settler State,” in The Routledge Handbook of the History of Settler Colonialism, eds. Lorenzo Veracini and Edward Cavanagh (New York: Routledge, 2017), 174.

¹² Analena Hope Hassberg, “Introduction,” in Natalie Baszile, ed., We Are Each Other’s Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers, Land, and Legacy (New York: Amistad, 2021), 8.

¹³ Gerald W. Creed and Barbara Ching, “Recognizing Rusticity: Identity and the Power of Place,” in Knowing Your Place: Rural Identity and Cultural Hierarchy, ed. Gerald W. Creed and Barbara Ching (New York: Routledge, 1997), 19-31.

¹⁴ The Cesar E. Chavez Foundation, “Education of the Heart: Cesar Chavez in His Own Words,” United Farm Workers, https://ufw.org/research/history/education-heart-cesar-chavez-words.

¹⁵ Minkoff-Zern, New American Farmer, 31-32.

¹⁶ Sara Kohlbeck, Andrew Schramm, Terri deRoon-Cassini, Stephen Hargarten, and Katherine Quinn, “Farmer Suicide in Wisconsin: A Qualitative Analysis,” The Journal of Rural Health 38, no.3 (2022): 547, https://doi.org/10.1111/jrh.12622.

¹⁷ Joe Paddock, Nancy Paddock, and Carol Bly, Soil and Survival: Land Stewardship and the Future of American Agriculture (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1986) 4.

¹⁸ Richard M. Adams, Brian H. Hurd, Stephanie Lenhart, and Neil Leary, “Effects of Global Climate Change on Agriculture: An Interpretive Review,” Climate Research 11, no. 1 (1998): 19.

¹⁹ Thomas F. Pawlick, The Invisible Farm: The Worldwide Decline of Farm News and Agricultural Journalism Training (Chicago: Burnham, 2001), 11.

²⁰ Mary Hufford, American Folklife: A Commonwealth of Cultures (Washington, DC: American Folklife Center, 1991), 1, https://maint.loc.gov/folklife/cwc/

²¹ Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), 9.

²² Pawlick, Invisible Farm.

²³ Rob J. F. Burton, Jérémie Forney, Paul Stock, and Lee-Ann Sutherland, The Good Farmer: Culture and Identity in Food and Agriculture (New York: Routledge, 2021), 1.

²⁴ Ronald Sandler, “Virtue Theory, Food, and Agriculture,” in Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics, ed. David M. Kaplan (Springer, 2019), https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1179-9.

²⁵ Fitzgerald, Every Farm a Factory.

²⁶ Donald Worster, “Good Farming and the Public Good,” in Meeting the Expectations of the Land: Essays in Sustainable Agriculture and Stewardship, ed. Wes Jackson, Wendell Berry, and Bruce Colman (San Francisco: North Point Press, 1984), 33.