Right On, Sister! The Feminization of Farming in North America
There has always been a female face to agriculture: the tough homesteader…
Dearfield: A Dream Lost to Drought and Depression
It’s a story with a simple, but remarkable, beginning. In 1910 a…
Going Full Circle: A Journey Back to Sustainable Agriculture
There are many reasons why people are drawn to the homesteading lifestyle…
The Blair Colony: Freed Slaves Homesteading in the Dakota Territory
In the space of a few short months, two momentous and highly…
He Wrote the Book – Oscar Micheaux: The Homesteader
Oscar Micheaux walked the walk, talked the talk, wrote the book, and…
The Exodusters: The Roots of African American Homesteading
History’s ironies never cease to amaze me. The same day that Abraham…
Gilliard Farms: Snapshots in Time from Black Farmers in America
Down on the southern Georgia coast, there was a time when you…
Music Carriers of the Southern Appalachians: Sharing History Through Song
If you’ve ever traveled through the southern Appalachian Mountains, you will immediately…
An Empire That Stood Alone: Black American Homesteaders in Wyoming
There were a lot of reasons for Americans to head West after…
A Town Named Audacious and African American Homesteaders
“Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in…