Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Home; 2. Farm; 3. Town; 4. Church; 5. School; Conclusion; Family Trees; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Carroll Engelhardt's parents grew up in homes without electricity on farms without tractors and began farming in the same way. As a farm boy in northeastern Iowa, he thought that history happened only to important people in earlier times and more exotic places. After decades of teaching, he at last perceived that history happens to us all, and he began writing this book. Set within the thoughtfully presented contexts of the technological revolution in American agriculture, the Second World War, the Cold War, and the emerging culture of affluence, The Farm at Holstein Dip is bo
