December 2009
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Getting closer to our food... →
Green has come to Baltimore in many ways. Down the street from where I live a group of neighbors started an urban gardening project. The farmer’s markets downtown and near Hopkins are thriving. Trees are being planted. Recycling has been stepped up.
I encounter often during teaching about the history of farming in the United States and economics in general a lack of connection between...
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Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade →
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History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web →
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Cotton is King
One would suppose that Cotton led the antebellum agricultural sector in the South, but that is not the case.
While occupying an almost mythic place in the literature of the period, cotton was responsible for the dramatic rise in fortunes for many large and small planters, both the total yield and the number of acres was actually far subordinate to other staple crops: namely corn and wheat....
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Shorpy Historic Photo Archive →
This site is pretty incredible. An excellent photo archive that can be searched and or browsed for historical pleasure. Really.
A new blog...
I’ve tooled around with several other sites, namely “Blogger” and have never really kept going with it…here’s a next attempt, and I think this site— Tumblr— has got a nice and simple interface, plus is easier to customize. We’ll see if inspiration takes hold.
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