My first two books deal with the history of southern Illinois. An edited volume, Fighting for the Farm: Rural America Transformed, deals with the political processes that transformed North American agriculture.
My articles have centered on changing rural life, and results from the Cache River Watershed project.
Papers on the Web
J. C. Coovert: Photographer of the Cotton South 1997-1937. Site includes an illustrated lecture, "In Search of J.C. Coovert" and a collection of Coovert's photographs. Published to the web June 2003.
Memory and Judgment: Ethnicity and Race in the Lower Mississippi Delta. This developing site publishes my current research project, with D. Gorton. It currently (2004) consists of an abstract of our research proposal, and a site developed to accompany a short film, "Race:Mississippi, Summer 2000".
"Modernity" and U.S. farm women's poultry operations: farm women nourish the industrializing cities 1880-1940. Paper presented at the international conference, The Chicken: Its Biological, Social, Cultural, and Industrial History: From Neolithic Middens to McNuggets. May 17-19, 2002, Yale University, Program in Agrarian Studies.
A Twenty-First Century Landscape: The Rural Lands of Central and Southern Illinois. Lecture accompanying exhibit by D. Gorton at the Southern Illinois University Museum. published to the web 2002.