Debra A Reid
Biographic Data
| ID | 3815288 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Debra A Reid |
| GIVEN NAMES | Debra A |
| FAMILY NAME | Reid |
| SIGNATURE | REID D A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Eastern Illinois University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Curating the American Past
In the introduction to Curating the American Past, Pete Daniel tells us what to expect: “Attacking is far more exciting than defending” (3). The remainder of the book makes good on that epigram as Daniel chronicles his career as a curator at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History (1982–2009). He acknowledges that he approached the work with “a naïve belief that [the Smithsonian] soared above political skirmishes and liv…
Motor City Green
Motor City Green explores the ways that Detroiters maintained green landscapes in the rapidly growing Motor City during the long twentieth century (between the late 1800s and early 2000s). Author Joseph Stanhope Cialdella identifies personal investment and public projects dedicated to retaining and creating gardens as the city experienced a growth spurt comparable to other industrial centers. Cialdella describes the result as “a landscape in a pe…
Field Trip
Field Trip! Many first encounter museums during a school visit. The best of such trips tend to feature close inspection of historic artifacts or opportunities to put the hand to the plow and learn by doing. These two approaches—“reading” an artifact as higher-level thinking or performing a historic task as kinesthetic learning—affirm the primary function of a museum, which is to create knowledge through interpretation of historic artifacts and ar…
Elusive Utopia
Creeps, Feeders, and Creep Feeders
Public history and the food movement
From the beginning, historic houses, living history farms, historical societies and museums have interpreted food production and processing. Demonstrations most often convey the content to visitors
Roundtable Review
A Settler’s Year
"A Settler’s Year: Pioneer Life through the Seasons." Folk Life, 54(2), pp. 173–174
Tangible Agricultural History
Scholars who incorporate objects into their research have their fingers closer to the pulse of the historic subjects of their studies than do those scholars who rely on only one type of data. But taking full advantage of the treasure trove of material culture requires a visual literacy that few historians have been trained to exercise. This essay explains some of the reasons for the disciplinary divides that separate objects and their curators fr…
Reaping a Greater Harvest
Freedom Colonies
Book Review| January 01 2008 Freedom Colonies: Independent Black Texans in the Time of Jim Crow Freedom Colonies: Independent Black Texans in the Time of Jim Crow. Thad Sitton and James H. Conrad. Debra A. Reid Debra A. Reid Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2008) 82 (1): 114–115. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-82.1.114 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Debra …
Reaping a Greater Harvest
Cooperative demonstration work began in Texas in 1903 as an effort to teach farmers new methods of crop cultivation and management. However, black farmers in Texas were excluded from demonstration work until the Smith-Lever Agricultural Extension Act in 1914. By World War I, the resulting Negro Division included a complicated bureaucracy of African American agents who reported to white officials, were supervised by black administrators, and serve…
Work, Family, and Faith
To Love the Wind and the Rain
To Love the Wind and the Rain is a groundbreaking and vivid analysis of the relationship between African Americans and the environment in US history. It focuses on three major themes: African Americans in the rural environment, African Americans in the urban and suburban environments, and African Americans and the notion of environmental justice. Meticulously researched, the essays cover subjects including slavery, hunting, gardening, religion, t…
The Rural Face of White Supremacy
It took Mark Schultz sixteen years to document the complex personal relationships between white and black inhabitants of rural Hancock County, Georgia. He recorded more than 180 oral interviews with residents who represented a cross-section of the race, class, educational, and occupational variables in the county. Their memories prompted him to rethink southern history and to claim that “segregation is simply an inadequate model to understand rac…
Furniture Exempt from Seizure
The real and personal property that African-American farm families accumu? lated between the 1880s and the 1930s can tell a lot about the political consciousness ofthe disfranchised at the height of African-American landowner? ship. Farm women and their families invested their limited financial and labor resources into household equipment and furnishings, knick-knacks and per? sonal adornment, land, and homes. They used the legal system to secure…
Furniture Exempt from Seizure
The real and personal property that African-American farm families accumulated between the 1880s and the 1930s can tell a lot about the political consciousness of the disfranchised at the height of African-American landownership. Farm women and their families invested their limited financial and labor resources into household equipment and furnishings, knick-knacks and personal adornment, land, and homes. They used the legal system to secure thei…
African Americans and Land Loss in Texas
African American Farmers and Land Loss in Texas," surveys the ways that discrimination at the local, state, and national levels constrained minority farmers during the twentieth century. It considers the characteristics of small-scale farming that created liabilities for landowners regardless of race, including state and federal programs that favored commercial and agribusiness interests. In addition to economic challenges African American farmer…
Debt and Dispossession
Book Review| July 01 2001 Debt and Dispossession: Farm Loss in America’s Heartland Debt and Dispossession: Farm Loss in America’s Heartland. Kathryn Marie Dudley. Debra Reid Debra Reid Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2001) 75 (3): 356–358. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-75.3.356 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Debra Reid; Debt and Dispossession: Farm Loss …
Rural African Americans and Progressive Reform
Rural African Americans and Progressive Reform DEBRA REID Histories of African Americans in the postbellum rural South tend to depict sharecroppers and tenants as victims of the crop lien system, racism, and the capitalization of agriculture. This paper concentrates instead on rural reformers who celebrated life in the country and believed that comfortable homes, better schools, and wholesome residents could free blacks from bondage. Their agrari…
African Americans and Land Loss in Texas
African American Farmers and Land Loss in Texas," surveys the ways that discrimination at the local, state, and national levels constrained minority farmers during the twentieth century. It considers the characteristics of small-scale farming that created liabilities for landowners regardless of race, including state and federal programs that favored commercial and agribusiness interests. In addition to economic challenges African American farmer…
Rural African Americans and Progressive Reform
Rural African Americans and Progressive Reform DEBRA REID Histories of African Americans in the postbellum rural South tend to depict sharecroppers and tenants as victims of the crop lien system, racism, and the capitalization of agriculture. This paper concentrates instead on rural reformers who celebrated life in the country and believed that comfortable homes, better schools, and wholesome residents could free blacks from bondage. Their agrari…
A Settler’s Year
"A Settler’s Year: Pioneer Life through the Seasons." Folk Life, 54(2), pp. 173–174
Furniture Exempt from Seizure
The real and personal property that African-American farm families accumu? lated between the 1880s and the 1930s can tell a lot about the political consciousness ofthe disfranchised at the height of African-American landowner? ship. Farm women and their families invested their limited financial and labor resources into household equipment and furnishings, knick-knacks and per? sonal adornment, land, and homes. They used the legal system to secure…
Rural African Americans and Progressive Reform
Rural African Americans and Progressive Reform DEBRA REID Histories of African Americans in the postbellum rural South tend to depict sharecroppers and tenants as victims of the crop lien system, racism, and the capitalization of agriculture. This paper concentrates instead on rural reformers who celebrated life in the country and believed that comfortable homes, better schools, and wholesome residents could free blacks from bondage. Their agrari…
Debt and Dispossession
Book Review| July 01 2001 Debt and Dispossession: Farm Loss in America’s Heartland Debt and Dispossession: Farm Loss in America’s Heartland. Kathryn Marie Dudley. Debra Reid Debra Reid Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2001) 75 (3): 356–358. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-75.3.356 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Debra Reid; Debt and Dispossession: Farm Loss …
African Americans and Land Loss in Texas
African American Farmers and Land Loss in Texas," surveys the ways that discrimination at the local, state, and national levels constrained minority farmers during the twentieth century. It considers the characteristics of small-scale farming that created liabilities for landowners regardless of race, including state and federal programs that favored commercial and agribusiness interests. In addition to economic challenges African American farmer…
Furniture Exempt from Seizure
The real and personal property that African-American farm families accumu? lated between the 1880s and the 1930s can tell a lot about the political consciousness ofthe disfranchised at the height of African-American landowner? ship. Farm women and their families invested their limited financial and labor resources into household equipment and furnishings, knick-knacks and per? sonal adornment, land, and homes. They used the legal system to secure…
Furniture Exempt from Seizure
The real and personal property that African-American farm families accumulated between the 1880s and the 1930s can tell a lot about the political consciousness of the disfranchised at the height of African-American landownership. Farm women and their families invested their limited financial and labor resources into household equipment and furnishings, knick-knacks and personal adornment, land, and homes. They used the legal system to secure thei…
Work, Family, and Faith
To Love the Wind and the Rain
To Love the Wind and the Rain is a groundbreaking and vivid analysis of the relationship between African Americans and the environment in US history. It focuses on three major themes: African Americans in the rural environment, African Americans in the urban and suburban environments, and African Americans and the notion of environmental justice. Meticulously researched, the essays cover subjects including slavery, hunting, gardening, religion, t…
The Rural Face of White Supremacy
It took Mark Schultz sixteen years to document the complex personal relationships between white and black inhabitants of rural Hancock County, Georgia. He recorded more than 180 oral interviews with residents who represented a cross-section of the race, class, educational, and occupational variables in the county. Their memories prompted him to rethink southern history and to claim that “segregation is simply an inadequate model to understand rac…
Reaping a Greater Harvest
Freedom Colonies
Book Review| January 01 2008 Freedom Colonies: Independent Black Texans in the Time of Jim Crow Freedom Colonies: Independent Black Texans in the Time of Jim Crow. Thad Sitton and James H. Conrad. Debra A. Reid Debra A. Reid Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2008) 82 (1): 114–115. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-82.1.114 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Debra …
Reaping a Greater Harvest
Cooperative demonstration work began in Texas in 1903 as an effort to teach farmers new methods of crop cultivation and management. However, black farmers in Texas were excluded from demonstration work until the Smith-Lever Agricultural Extension Act in 1914. By World War I, the resulting Negro Division included a complicated bureaucracy of African American agents who reported to white officials, were supervised by black administrators, and serve…
Tangible Agricultural History
Scholars who incorporate objects into their research have their fingers closer to the pulse of the historic subjects of their studies than do those scholars who rely on only one type of data. But taking full advantage of the treasure trove of material culture requires a visual literacy that few historians have been trained to exercise. This essay explains some of the reasons for the disciplinary divides that separate objects and their curators fr…
A Settler’s Year
"A Settler’s Year: Pioneer Life through the Seasons." Folk Life, 54(2), pp. 173–174
Roundtable Review
Creeps, Feeders, and Creep Feeders
Public history and the food movement
From the beginning, historic houses, living history farms, historical societies and museums have interpreted food production and processing. Demonstrations most often convey the content to visitors
Elusive Utopia
Field Trip
Field Trip! Many first encounter museums during a school visit. The best of such trips tend to feature close inspection of historic artifacts or opportunities to put the hand to the plow and learn by doing. These two approaches—“reading” an artifact as higher-level thinking or performing a historic task as kinesthetic learning—affirm the primary function of a museum, which is to create knowledge through interpretation of historic artifacts and ar…
Curating the American Past
In the introduction to Curating the American Past, Pete Daniel tells us what to expect: “Attacking is far more exciting than defending” (3). The remainder of the book makes good on that epigram as Daniel chronicles his career as a curator at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History (1982–2009). He acknowledges that he approached the work with “a naïve belief that [the Smithsonian] soared above political skirmishes and liv…
Motor City Green
Motor City Green explores the ways that Detroiters maintained green landscapes in the rapidly growing Motor City during the long twentieth century (between the late 1800s and early 2000s). Author Joseph Stanhope Cialdella identifies personal investment and public projects dedicated to retaining and creating gardens as the city experienced a growth spurt comparable to other industrial centers. Cialdella describes the result as “a landscape in a pe…
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