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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] consist 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 constitutes ...
Women were very involved in the project which eventually had 30 different libraries serving 100,000 people. Pack horse librarians were known by many different names including "book women," "book ladies," and "packsaddle librarians." [1]: 290 The project helped employ around 200 people and reached around 100,000 residents in rural Kentucky. [2]
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 ...
We have many great choices and the best books this year are, “This Is Why We Lied: A Will Trent Thriller” by Karin Slaughter, who writes the most hardboiled crime tales of all (move over ...
Women's clubs in the United States were indexed by the GFWC, and also by Helen M. Winslow who published an annual "register and directory" of the GFWC ones and some more, which was in its 24th annual edition in 1922. [8] The GWFC did not admit clubs for African-American women, and Winslow's directory seems to omit them too.
Literary women's clubs in pioneer areas gave women an outlet to explore reading and make friends. [28] Many women's clubs maintained book collections for use by club members. [29] Instead of forming a literary club, women in Galveston created a scientific club, which also focused on learning. [30]
Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo. This Good Morning America book club pick follows the life of a Dominican-American family ahead of a living wake—yes, you read that right. One of the sisters can ...