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GEOGRAPHY

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U.S. CENSUS BUREAU REGIONS OF THE UNITED STATES
MAPS
- Agricultural Atlas [1997]
- Crop Maps [1997]
- Agricultural Atlas [2002]
- Biomass Resources Available in the United States [000's tons per year]
- Biomass Resources Available in the United States [tons per kil² per year]
- Water Resources
- USDA Plant Hardiness Zones
- Vegetation and Plant Distribution Maps
SATELLITE AND OTHER GEOGRAPHIC IMAGES
- History of Remote Sensing for Crop Acreage in USDA's National
  Agricultural Statistics Service, by Allen, Rich, et al.
- NatureServe Explorer
GAZETTEERS

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REFERENCE

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BIBLIOGRAPHY, GATEWAYS AND PORTALS

GENERAL

Web Search Builder,
by The National Research Council
Bibliography of Periodicals
Melvyl Catalog: California Digital Library
CIC Virtual Catalog (Big Ten Libraries)
OCLC: WorldCat
[Offers Connections to over 9,000 libraries world-wide
On-line Texts on Exposure to Hazardous Waste,
from the Commission on Life Sciences

BIBLIOGRAPHY: SEARCHES

LIBRARY CATALOGS

GENERAL

AGRICULTURE IN PARTICULAR

INDEXES AND ABSTRACTS

BOOKSELLERS

MATERIALS

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ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

BOOKS

JOURNALS

AgEcon Search [Search Facility]
AGRICOLA: Includes a Full Index to Agricultural History
Agriculture.com Online
Bibliography of Periodicals
FAS Worldwide
[An online review of Foreign Agricultural Service initiatives and services]
"How to Update or Expand this Bibliography"
[NAL article Database]
Spore: Bimonthly Bulletin of the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation for Dissemination of Scientific and Technical Information
USDA Home and Garden Bulletin Archive

ARTICLES

History Articles | NRCS

DOCUMENTS AND MANUSCRIPTS

DATA BASES

"How to Update or Expand this Bibliography"
[NAL Article Database]

IMAGES

AUDIO

BIOGRAPHY

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COLLECTIVE

INDIVIDUAL

Norman Borlaug
Luther Burbank (1849-1926)
George Washington Carver (1865? - 1943)
George Washington Carver - Research
George Washington Carver (1865? - 1943)
Henry Agard Wallace (1888-1965). from The Encyclopedia of World Biography
Henry A. Wallace (1888-1965)

ORGANIZATIONS

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Timeline of American Agricultural Organizations

GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS
UNIVERSITIES
RESEARCH CENTERS
LIBRARIES
- National Agricultural Library: AGRICOLA
- Biodiversity Heritage Library
ARCHIVES
MUSEUMS
SCHOLARLY ASSOCIATIONS
COMMERCIAL ASSOCIATIONS
- European Fertilizer Manufacturers Association
- The International Fertilizer Industry Association
LIVING HISTORY SITES
- U.S. Living History Sites
- Living History/Agricultural Museum Funding Opportunity
FUNDING INSTITUTIONS
- Living History/Agricultural Museum Funding Opportunity

SCHOLARLY EXCHANGE

TIMELINES

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INSTRUCTION

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HISTORY

OVERVIEWS

Agriculture, history, U.S., from The Citizendium
A History of American Agriculture 1776-1990
[about.com]
History of agriculture in the USA, [Wikipedia]

SPECIALIZED HISTORIES

THE AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION

The Agricultural Revolution
[from about.com]
Agricultural revolution
[from Wikipedia
The Agricultural Revolution
[from the University of Missouri]
The Agricultural Revolution
[from Washington State University]

CHRONOLOGICAL

INDIGENOUS

Also see WWW-VL : American History:
America Before the Europeans Also see WWW-VL : American History:
Discovery and Exploration 1492-1650

1600 - 1750, COLONIAL PERIOD

Timeline of US Agriculture : 17th-18th Centuries
Also see WWW-VL - American History:
The Colonial Era 1650-1765
An Outline History of U.S. Agriculture, 1600-1700
1799, March 3, An Act to Regulate Trade and Intercourse
With the Indian Tribes, and to Preserve Peace on the Frontiers,

IMMIGRATION

Facts and Notes Relating to the Redemptioners and
the Early Emigration of the Poor to America, Benjamin P. Hunt

THE NORTHERN COLONIES

INDENTURED SERVANTS AND REDEMPTIONERS

LIFE IN THE NORTHERN COLONIES

Plimouth Plantation [Wikipedia]
- Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647, by William Bradford, Charles Deane
- Plymouth Colony, Its History & People, 1620-1691
THE SOUTHERN COLONIES
- Also see WWW-VL Slavery
- and WWW-VL Slavery
- and WWW-VL: Boone & Crockett's America
- and WWW-VL: The Revolutionary Era 1765-1783
- Slavery and American Agricultural History,
  by Gavin Wright (Stanford University: April 2003
- Slavery's role in agriculture 1680 - 1870
- Slave Narratives ~ Audio Interviews ~ 1932-1975
- Triangle Trade 1680 - 1880
  
  RURAL LIFE IN THE OLD SOUTH
- The Plantation Way of Life
- Black Southerners in the Old South
- Documenting the American South: First-Person Narratives
  [Offers a large collection of materials]
- Classic Slave Narratives

1770-1785, THE REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD

1785-1800, THE FEDERALIST ERA

1800-1840, THE ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS

1820

Timeline of US Agriculture : 1820

1830

1830, The History of the Tom Thumb - Peter Cooper
- Railways in the 19th Century
- Photo Gallery, Railways in the 19th Century
1837, John Deere (1804-1886), The First Self-polishing Cast Steel Plow
1838 - 1872, Cyrus McCormick (1809-1884) and the development of the Reaper
History of the Grange Movement: or, The Farmer's War Against Monopolies,
by James Dabney McCabe (Chicago: National publishing co., 1874)

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History of the Plow

GENERAL

1849 March 7, Luther Burbank develops he Idaho Potato
THE SOUTHERN STATES
Documenting the American South: First-Person Narratives
[Offers a large collection of materials]
Slavery's role in agriculture 1680 - 1870
Time on the Cross, by Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman
[A statistical study of the slave-based agriculture of the Old South]
- Tobacco
- Cotton
THE MIDWEST
The Midwestern United States
An Outline History of U.S. Agriculture, 1840
A nation built on agriculture, 1700 - 1880
1838 - 1872, Cyrus McCormick (1809-1884) and the development of the Reaper
The Invention of Sickles and Reapers

American Farmer's New and Universal Handbook,
(Philadelphia: Cowperthwait, Desilver & Butler, 1854.)
1852, Rrural Architecture; Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses,
by Lewis F. Allen, C. M. Saxton (New York : 1852)
1852, Ral architecture; being a complete description of farm houses
1853, Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained; Being a Complete Analysis of the
Whole Subject, by C. M. Quinby (New York : 1853)
1853, Guano: A Treatise of Practical Information for Farmers :
Containing Plain Directions How to Apply Peruvian Guano to the
1853, Various Crops and Soils of America,
Solon Robinson, New York : [s.n.], 1853
1854, The Elements of Agriculture: A Book for Young Farmers,
George E. Waring, New York : D. Appleton and Company, 1854
1855-1912, History of Farm Tractors - Geiser Manufacturing Company ()
1857, Soil culture; containing a comprehensive view of agriculture 1857,
by J. H. Walden (New York: 1858, c1857)
1858, Soil Culture; Containing a Comprehensive View of Agriculture, by J. H. Walden (New York: 1858, c1857)

1860

Timeline of US Agriculture : 1860

1860 - 1865, THE CIVIL WAR
Also See WWW-VL: The American Civil War 1861-1865
1860, An Outline History of U.S. Agriculture
1860, Farm drainage; the principles, processes, and effects of draining
by Henry Flagg. French, C. M. Saxton (New York : 1860)

DOCUMENTS
1862, Isaac Newton to Abraham Lincoln
(Annual Report of the Department of Agriculture) [Image]
1863 March 06, Albert S. White to Owen Lovejoy
(Appropriation for Agriculture Department) [Image]
1864 December 01, Isaac Newton to Abraham Lincoln
(Annual Report on Agriculture Dept.) [Image]4
1864 December 6, (Memoranda on Agriculture Department
drafted for Annual Message) [Image]
1865 March 7, Joseph C. G. Kennedy to Abraham Lincoln,
(Sends agriculture census) [Image]
Revolution in Agriculture, 1865-1900

1865 - 1876, RECONSTRUCTION

1865-1900, Revolution in Agriculture
1866, Peat and its uses: as fertilizer and fuel,
Samuel William Johnson, New York : O. Judd & Company, 1866

1870

1872, The History of Harvesters
1873, Origin and Progress of the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry
n the United States: A History from 1866 to 1873
Kelley, Oliver H. Philadelphia, Pa. : J.A. Wagenseller, 1875
1874, The Great Mississippi River Flood of 1874, by Louis Alfred Wiltz
1874 November 24, The Development of Barbed Wire, by Joseph Glidden
Barbed Wire History

THE SOUTH UNDER RECONSTRUCTION
The Cotton Plantation South Since the Civil War
Sharecropping And Tenantry
[1876 - 1900 : THE GILDED AGE]

Also see
WWW-VL: American History, The Gilded Age, 1876-1900
Also see WWW-VL: American History, Populism
A Comprehensive View of our Country and Its Resources (1876),
by James Dabney (Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Library 2005)
1877, Village Improvements and Farm Villages ,
George E. Waring, Boston : J. R. Osgood and Company, 1877
1878, Food from the Far West . . . Importation of Dead Meat from America to Great Britain,
Macdonald, James. London : W. P. Nimmo, 1878
1879, Commercial Fertilizers: Paper from the Twenty-sixth Annual Report of the Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture,
Charles A. Goessmann, Boston : Rand, Avery & Co., 1879

1880

Timeline of US Agriculture : 1880
1880, An Outline History of U.S. Agriculture, 1880
Farm Machinery Companies 1880-1920
1882, Injurious Insects of the Farm and Garden,
Treat, Mary. New York : Orange Judd Company, 1882
1887, Hatch Act of 1887
1888 January 12, Schoolhouse Blizzard of 1888 [Great Plains]
Frank Adams (1875-1967), On Irrigation, Reclamation and Water Administration
[transcript, 1958]
Lucius Powers, The Fresno Area and the California Wine Industry
[an oral history transcript / and related material, 1969-1972]

1890

Agriculture and Farm Innovations
The History of Peanut Butter THE POPULIST REVOLT, 1880 - 1910
- WWW-VL: History: US Gilded Age 1876-1900
- The Farmer's Last Frontier: Agriculture, 1860-1897, by Fred Albert Shannon (Madison: 1899)
- The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America,
  by Lawrence Goodwyn, 1978, Oxford University Press
- Agrarian Discontent
CAUSES
- Inflation Calculator
- The Depression of 1893
THE PEOPLES' PARTY
- Populist Party Documents
- Populist Party (United States), Wikipedia
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as a Parable on Populism,
  by David B. Parker, 1994
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by Frank Baum, KanColl Books
- People's Party Platform
  Adopted at St. Louis, July 24, 1896
- Mary E. Lease
- Lease's 1896 address at Cooper Union Hall
- Addresses of Marion Butler, President,
  and Cyrus Thompson, Lecturer, to the
  North Carolina Farmers' State Alliance,
  at Greensboro, N.C., Aug. 8, 9, and 10, 1893, at its
- The Negro Smith Scores Populist Johnson
  [Raleigh?]: [s.n.], [1900?]
"An Examination of the Grange Movement in Washington I: The Progressive Grange",
by Jim Bauermeister, in The Producers Quarterly , Summer, 1979

1900

Timeline of US Agriculture : 1900
Also see WWW-VL History: 1900-1909
Also see WWW-VL 1900-1910
And WWW-VL 1910-1920
American Agriculture, 1820 - 1910
E. Kotok, The U.S. Forest Service: Research, State Forestry and FAO
[oral history transcript / and related material, 1963-1975]
Reminiscences on people and change in California agriculture, 1900- 1975 :
oral history transcript, 1975-1976 - Coke, J. Earl
The 20th Century Transformation of U.S. Agriculture and Farm Policy USDA historical Photos
1900-1910, Scenes of Farm Life and Work: Horese-Drawn Disking [Image]
1900-1915, Scenes of Farm Life and Work: Putting Out Milk for Pick-up [Image]
1900, The Haber-Bosch Processor the Production of Nitrate Fertilizers from Natural Gas
MECHANIZATION
History of American Agriculture - Farm Machinery and Technology
[from about.com

1910

Timeline of US Agriculture : 1910
Also see WWW-VL History: 1910 -1919
Arthur C. Ringland (b. 1882), Conserving Human and Natural Resources
[oral history transcript and related material]
1913, Scenes of Farm Life and Work: Branding Cattle [Image]
1913, Scenes of Farm Life and Work: A Milk Herd [Image]
A Half Century in Food and Wine Technology
[oral history transcript, 1966 - Cruess, W. V. (William Vere), 1886-1968]

RURAL LIFE
Life on the Farm
- One Room School House Project
Farmers and the Land
Crops and Livestock The Patterson Family and Ranch : Southern Alameda County in Transition
[oral history transcript / 1988]
1919 March 21, The Stars and Stripes (Paris, France), Page 2 [Image]

1920

Timeline of US Agriculture : 1920
Also see WWW-VL, 1920-1930
An Outline History of U.S. Agriculture, 1920
Sluggish 1920s
1920, Mississippi River Flood of 1920
Mississippi Flood of 1920
Flood Crests in the Ohio and Mississippi, and their Movement
Decline of cotton and rural exodus
1927, Mississippi River Flood of 1927
Flood Crests in the Ohio and Mississippi, and their Movement

THE DEVELOPMENT OF SYNTHESIZED FERTILIZERS
Fertilizer
- "Soils and Fertilizers",
  by V. A. Haby, Marvin L. Baker, and Sam Feagley
  [from The Texas Vegetable Growers' Handbook,
  Chapter 3, "The Colonial Era 1650-1765"]
- The Haber-Bosch Process
- 1920 June 2, "The Synthesis of Ammonia from its Elements"
  [Nobel lecture by Fritz Haber, Laureate in Chemistry for 1918]
  Organizations:

1930

An Outline History of U.S. Agriculture, 1930
Also see WWW-VL 1930-1940
Insects, Their Ways and Means of Living,
by R. E. Snodgrass, (New York Smithsonian Institution series, 1930)
THE GREAT DEPRESSION
THE DUST BOWL
- Voices from the Dust Bowl:
  The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-1941
- Surviving the Dust Bowl
- Dust Bowl History | Kansas (KS) History | 1935 | 1930s history
- Florence Leona Christie (1904-1983) ["A Migrant Mother" Icon of the emigrant "Okies"]
- Folk Music, Dust Bowl
- Following the Cattle King : A Lifetime of Agriculture,
  Water Management, and Water Conservation in California's Central Valley
  [an oral history transcript George Wilmarth Nickel, 1917-]
THE NEW DEAL
- UPGRADING THE NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
  - Agriculture
  - Henry Agard Wallace (1888-1965).
    from The Encyclopedia of World Biography
  - Henry A. Wallace (1888-1965)
  - 1936, US Supreme Court: United States v. Butler
    [Struck down the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933]
  A HISTORY OF THE TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY (TVA)
  - THE BEGINNINGS
  - THE PEOPLE OF NORRIS BASIN
  - CHANGING THE LAND : THE DAMS AND THEIR BUILDERS
  - ADDITIONAL MATERIALS
    - Lesson Plans for "TVA: Electricity for All"
    - Library
      [A large and well-selected ]library of online works]
    - TVA Gallery
- THE RURAL ELECTRIFICATION AUTHORITY (REA)
- THE AGRICULTURAL ADJUSTMENT ADMINISTRATION
- BUILDING
  - Building a Farm-to-Market Road: Image

THE 1940'S
1940
1950
1950 - 1979 : THE GREEN REVOLUTION
- The Green Revolution
- Also see WWW-VL , 1950-1960
1960
ELEMENTS OF THE GREEN REVOLUTION AND THEIR EFFECTS
- FERTILIZER
  - "Soils and Fertilizers", by V. A. Haby, Marvin L. Baker, and Sam Feagley [from The Texas Vegetable Growers' Handbook, Chapter 3]
  - Nitrification in the Upper Mississippi River: Patterns, Controls, and Contribution to the No₃ Budget,
    by Eric A. Strauss, et al., from the Journal of the North American Benthological Society, Article: pp. 1- 14
  - The Clean Water Farms Project: Purpose, Goals and Objectives
  - As You Sow: Toxic Waste in California Home and Farm Fertilizers ...
  - Soil Management and Fertilizer Use: Water Quality
  PESTICIDES
  - Invasive Alien Species (IAS): Online Information Systems
    [Scroll Down. USA begins at item #170]
  CONSEQUENCES
  - 1962, The Effect of the publication of The Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson
  - The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson
  - An Assessment of the Health Risks of Seven Pesticides Used for Termite ControlM
    by National Research Council Committee on Toxicology
  - The Story of Silent Spring
  - Regulating Pesticides (1980) ,
  - On-line Texts on Exposure to Hazardous Waste,
    from the Commission on Life Sciences
    by The National Research Council (NRC)4
  - On-line Texts on Policies to control harzardoes Watse Production,
    from The Earth And Life Studies
  - The Future Role of Pesticides in US Agriculture ((2000) )
    by National Research Council Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources
    and National Research Council Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology.
  - Regulating Pesticide, by National Research Council Committee
    on Prototype Explicit Analyses for Pesticides
  HERBICIDES
  - Irrigation
1970
- An Outline History of U.S. Agriculture, 1970
- Timeline of US Agriculture : 1970
- Also see WWW-VL, 1970-1980
- 1973, "The 1973 Flood and Man's Constriction of the Mississippi River.",
  by C. B. Belt Jr., in Science 29 August 1975:
  Vol. 189. no. 4204, pp. 681 - 684
- "Need for Ecosystem Management of Large Rivers and Their Floodplains" (1995)
1980
- Timeline of US Agriculture : 1980
- Also see WWW-VL, 1980-1990
- And WWW-VL, 1990-2000
- An Outline History of U.S. Agriculture, 1980
- Challenges for U.S. Agricultural Research Policy (1995)
- Energy From Biological Processes (1980),
  by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  - Volume I
  - Volume I
- The Farm Problem, ed. by Paul L. Poirot
1990
- Timeline of US Agriculture : 1990
- Also see WWW-VL History: 1990 - 1999
- 1993 Mississippi River Flood of 1993
- Flood Risk Management and the American River Basin: An Evaluation, 1995
- Nitrification in the Upper Mississippi River: patterns, controls, and contribution to the NO₃- budget,
  by Eric A. Strauss, et al., from the Journal of the North American Benthological Society, Article: pp. 1�14
- 1995, Challenges for U.S. Agricultural Research Policy
- The Farm Problem, ed. by Paul L. Poirot
- 1995,Agriculture, Trade, and Environment: Achieving Complementary Policies ,
  by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Prin

21st CENTURY

Also see WWW-VL, 2000-2010

2000
- 1980, Food and Energy: Strategies for Sustainable Development,
  by Ignacy Sachs and Dana Silk (United Nations University Press)
- 2008, Mississippi River Flood of 2008
  - Mississippi River Flood of 2008
  - Organic Agriculture Information Access

GATT, NAFTAn WTO and Global trade, 1960 - present

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TOPICS

THE GRANGE MOVEMENT

The Grange Movement (1857 - present): A Brief History
The National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry
Manual of Subordinate Granges of the Patrons of Husbandry,
by Patrons of Husbandry (National Grange. Philadelphia: J. A. Wagenseller, 1873.)
NationMaster Encyclopedia: Grange Movement
Fifty years on the firing line. My part in the farmers'
movement, by "The cornfield philosopher.", by James W. Witham
Timeline of US Agriculture : 1840
Also see WWW-VL: The Age of Jackson 1830-1855
Also see WWW-VL: The Coming of the Civil War 1850-1860

1880 - 1904, THE PROGRESSIVE GRANGE
- 1892, The Agrarian Crusade: A Chronicle of the Farmer in Politics,
  by Solon J. Buck (Volume 45, The Chronicles Of America Series )
- 1899, The Farmer's Last Frontier: Agriculture, 1860-1897,
  by Fred Albert Shannon (Madison: 1899)
- Fifty years on the firing line. My part in the farmers' movement,
  by "The cornfield philosopher.", by James W. Witham
- History of the Grange Movement: or, The Farmer's War Against Monopolies,
  by James Dabney McCabe (Chicago: National publishing co., 1874)
- Tom Gill (1891-1972), A Summary of The Career of Tom Gill, International Forester
  [an oral history transcript / and related material, 1964-1969]
ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE GRANGE MOVEMENT
- Cooperative Extension Service
  - By State
- Rural Free Delivery
  
  Farm Credit
  - "History and Unique Features of the Farm Credit System,"
    by Neil E. Harl, from Choices.

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Agricultural Education & Extension
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Government Programs & Policy
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WOMEN'S HISTORY
- American Women's History: Farm Work & Life
  [a compendium of research aids]
- Rural Women's Project
- Fighters on the Farm Front: Oregon's Emergency Farm Labor Service, 1943-1947
- Women in Agriculture, 1917-1958

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