Archival research is the gold standard in the historical profession. Sure, you can do good historical research using published primary...

Most historians credit the British plant scientist Sir Albert Howard with first developing the system that we now call organic farming....

What is it like to do an oral history? It’s as easy as telling a story—your story. That’s what an oral history is: a chance for you to...

“But didn’t all agriculture used to be organic?” That’s the number one question that I get when I tell people that I am doing research on...

I had never seen so many books in one place in my life. It wasn’t my first time in The Ohio State University’s Thompson Library, but I...

Welcome to the first-ever blog post on my new History of Organic Farming in America website! I’ve been researching the history of organic...