Agricultural History Society
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The Short Rows

The Short Rows is the Agricultural History Society’s online space for members and guest scholars to comment on current affairs from their unique perspective as experts on the rural and agricultural past. If you are interested in contributing, please email Adrienne Petty (ampetty@wm.edu), Shane Hamilton (shane.hamilton@york.ac.uk) , or Cherisse Jones-Branch (crjones@astate.edu). All posts are licensed under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

Presentation: Cherisse Jones-Branch, "To Make the Farm Bureau Stronger and Better for All the People"

While the ongoing global pandemic has taken away some opportunities for us to gather in person to share research, it has reminded us of the many other venues we do have to speak to each other. AHS will be posting presentations and recorded lectures pertinent to agricultural and rural history from time to time on this website. If you would like to submit something for consideration, please contact the executive secretary and webmaster.

Cherisse Jones-Branch (Dean of the Graduate School and James and Wanda Lee Vaughn Endowed Professor of History at Arkansas State University) delivered a lecture to the Central Arkansas Library System on 1 February 2021. Part of their “Race, Rage, and Resistance” series, Jones-Branch’s lecture was titled: “‘To Make the Farm Bureau Stronger and Better for All the People:’ African Americans and the American Farm Bureau Federation, 1920-1966.”

You can watch the lecture here.

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