The farm press, reform, and rural change, 1895-1920 / John J. Fry.
Material type: TextSeries: American popular history and culture (Routledge (Firm))Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2005Description: 1 online resource (xxviii, 230 pages)Content type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780203958650
- 9781135475284
- 9781135475352
- 9781135475420
- 070.449630977 F946
- PN4888.A43 F78 2005
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-225) and index.
Introduction. The rural midwest and the farm press during the progressive era -- chapter 1. "First class papers" and "never-stop papers" : twenty-five years of the midwestern farm press -- ch. 2. Editors and publishers : the faces behind the midwestern farm press -- ch. 3. "What farmers read and liked" : scenes of reading in the rural midwest -- ch. 4. "Who read the agricultural journals?" : farm newspaper subscribers in the lower midwest -- ch. 5. "Innumerable little white churches" : the rural church and the midwestern farm press -- ch. 6. "The school house at the crossroads" : the rural school and the midwestern farm press -- ch. 7. "Why leave the farm?" : the rural family and the midwestern farm press -- Conclusion. "Good farming, clear thinking, right living" : the uses of midwestern farm newspapers -- Epilogue. Midwestern farm newspapers since the 1920s.
An in-depth look at producers and readers of Midwestern farm newspapers at the turn of the twentieth century.
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