History

Homesteaders from Across the Waves: Immigrant Homesteaders

While the question of immigration is on the boil in America, and while the current season is one that should…

5 months ago

Music Carriers of the Southern Appalachians: Sharing History Through Song

If you’ve ever traveled through the southern Appalachian Mountains, you will immediately understand, even from the window of your car,…

5 months ago

Peboan and Seegwun (Winter and Spring)

Peboan and Seegwun is a Chippewa allegory.  This is another example of one of Jane Schoolcraft's translated stories that found…

5 months ago

How the Ancients Farmed

Mrs. Cro-Magnon just got home with a basket of berries and tubers; she’s been foraging all day and has just…

6 months ago

How Sears Roebuck Helped Homesteading Happen

The year was 1886. Sears Roebuck helped homesteading happen quite by accident, but it happened at a time when the…

7 months ago

Grandma Moses: A Primitive Freshness

She was an octogenarian, an artist, a naturalist, a visionary, a farm wife, and a mother of ten children. She…

8 months ago

How to Do Things – 1919 Style

A thoughtful young person in 2019 might ask, “What did people do before they had… [fill in the blank: cellphones,…

8 months ago

Johnny Appleseed: The Myth and the Man

There are still those who think he was a myth, which is not so surprising considering the many ways he…

9 months ago

From Starvation to Frozen Dinners in a Few Thousand Years: The History of Refrigeration

It was strawberry season again.  Strawberries are so good and so inexpensive around here.  Despite the heavy rains in the…

1 year ago

The Corn Story (The Origin of Corn)

Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (1800-1842) also known by her Objibwa name, which is translated as "Woman of the Sound the Stars…

1 year ago