The Tygart Valley Homesteads: Pioneers of the Great Depression
"Two days after Thanksgiving, hospitable Anna Eleanor Roosevelt…motored in a White House…
A Woman in No Man’s Land: Caroline Henderson, Homesteader
No one knows, or will ever fully understand, why Caroline Henderson, nee…
Matilda Jackson: Making a Home on the Last Frontier
Sometimes the best plans go awry, and for intrepid female Matilda Glover…
Helen Nearing, Twentieth Century Pioneer
March is Women’s History Month, and it seemed fitting to me that…
The View from Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House: A True Pioneer Woman
“The days of wilderness adventure are not past! The pioneer spirit is…
Music Carriers of the Southern Appalachians: Sharing History Through Song
If you’ve ever traveled through the southern Appalachian Mountains, you will immediately…
Dearfield: A Dream Lost to Drought and Depression
It’s a story with a simple, but remarkable, beginning. In 1910, a…
Gilliard Farms: Snapshots in Time from Black Farmers in America
Down on the southern Georgia coast, there was a time when you…
A Town Named Audacious and African American Homesteaders
“Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in…
The Exodusters: The Roots of African American Homesteading
History’s ironies never cease to amaze me. The same day that Abraham…