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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…
An Empire That Stood Alone: Black American Homesteaders in Wyoming
There were a lot of reasons for Americans to head West after…
He Wrote the Book – Oscar Micheaux: The Homesteader
Oscar Micheaux walked the walk, talked the talk, wrote the book, and…
Life Beyond The Longships: Viking Culture
They came from the land of ice and snow. They raided, they…
How Sears Roebuck Helped Homesteading Happen
The year was 1886. Sears Roebuck helped homesteading happen quite by accident,…
FarmHer Genes: Is Homesteading in your DNA?
I always felt different than my sisters. We were all born in…
The Mountain Men: America’s Original Survivalists
Who were the mountain men? They were the pathfinders of yore, lovers…