rural conditions

Words and photographs describe the daily lives of typical sharecropper families in the American South.

The author recalls his poverty-stricken youth in Alabama in the 1960s and 70s, focusing on the extraordinary efforts of his mother to protect her sons from the violence of their father, a man scarred by war, and telling of the sacrifices she made so her children could have a better life.

Contains over 230 alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about various aspects of rural America, discussing agriculture, livestock production, barns, community, folklore, land values, migration, public services, taxes, weather, and many other topics.

Focusing on the village of Elton in the English East Midlands, medieval peasants are portrayed at work and at play seven hundred years ago.

Presents a photographic anthology of American life between 1939 and 1943 as it emerged from the Great Depression to fight in World War Two and includes color photos of cities and countryside, farm life and war plants, as well as work and play.

Presents over four hundred photographs taken between 1935 and 1943 by photographers employed by the Farm Security Administration, featuring images made in large cities, as well as small towns and villages throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico, and includes an essay that places the pictures in context.

The author recalls his poverty-stricken youth in Alabama in the 1960s and 70s, focusing on the extraordinary efforts of his mother to protect her sons from the violence of their father, a man scarred by war, and telling of the sacrifices she made so her children could have a better life.

Follows the life of one of the first black organizers of voter registration in Mississippi.

In a small North Carolina town in the early 1960s, Luce finds her solitary life in the Appalachian landscape changing in various ways with the arrival of her murdered sister's troubled twins.

President Jimmy Carter remembers his childhood on a farm in Depression-era Georgia; comments on rural life, family, and race relations.