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…
Black, Woman, and Homesteader
It was tough to be Black in the U.S. in the era…
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…
Life Beyond The Longships: Viking Culture
They came from the land of ice and snow. They raided, they…
How the Ancients Farmed
Mrs. Cro-Magnon just got home with a basket of berries and tubers;…
How Sears Roebuck Helped Homesteading Happen
The year was 1886. Sears Roebuck helped homesteading happen quite by accident,…
Johnny Appleseed: The Myth and the Man
There are still those who think he was a myth, which is…
FarmHer Genes: Is Homesteading in your DNA?
I always felt different than my sisters. We were all born in…
