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In 1890 65% of the national population, or 36 million people, lived in rural areas. Of these 2.7 million lived in 13,000 towns of less than 2500 people. and 36 million --mostly farmers--lived in open country. In 1920 the urban population reached 54 million, or 51% while rural America had 52 million or 49%. [5]
Rural areas in the United States, often referred to as rural America, [1] consists of approximately 97% of the United States' land area. An estimated 60 million people, or one in five residents (17.9% of the total U.S. population), live in rural America. Definitions vary from different parts of the United States government as to what ...
The Country Life Movement in America, 1900-1920 (Kennikat Press, 1974). online; Danbom. David B. Born in the Country: A History of Rural America (1995) pp 161–184. Ellsworth, Clayton S. "Theodore Roosevelt's Country Life Commission" Agricultural History 34#4 (1960), pp. 155-172 in JSTOR
In their new book, "The Rural Voter: The Politics of Place and the Disuniting of America," Colby College political scientists Nicholas F. Jacobs and Daniel M. Shea set out to describe what ...
London also served as a central receiving area for book donations. [17] One large central book distribution program was run out of Pittsburgh by Mrs. Malcolm McLeod, wife of the head of the English department at Carnegie Tech, who sent her donations to London. [17] The first location to have a pack horse library was Johnson County, Paintsville. [6]
Its field was broadly that of rural social improvement, embracing among others the following country life interests: the rural home, rural education, morals and religion, rural government, and rural recreation. [6] It published several volumes, averaging 225 pages each, on the country life movement. [1] The functions of the Association were to: [1]
Those rural areas were considered “the dark land.” While communication technology has advanced quite a bit in the last three decades, the investment wasn’t focused on rural Oklahoma. They ...
In historiography, rural history is a field of study focusing on the history of societies in rural areas. At its inception, the field was based on the economic history of agriculture. Since the 1980s it has become increasingly influenced by social history and has diverged from the economic and technological focuses of " agricultural history ".
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