Food Studies
A Canadian Farmstead’s Baked Beans: Luscious Lesson
We can learn a lot from the way a family bakes its beans . . .
history
Diaries of August 1920: “More to life than the daily grind”
[D]espite the pressures of harvest, August allowed the Sweetser family time for their favorite summer activities: Chautauqua, picnics, and lake excursions.
feminism
OK, I’ll Do it Myself
For the past half century, Caroline Schimmel has collected narratives of women overcoming obstacles in the wilderness.
Activism
The Langham Place Feminists and Women Farmers/Farming for Women
The Langham Place group thus challenged dominant conceptualisations of respectable femininity for rural womenthroughout the second half of the nineteenth-century