The Family Farm explores the diverse agricultural pursuits of farm families, and serves as a window into the small-scale food production process that modern day consumers have become estranged from.

Trace the evolution in American agriculture with this interactive timeline. Learn how the history of one small Illinois farm reflects the larger changes, decade by decade.

Learn about the status of farming as a career, investigate the management of a family farm, and examine one recent farm crisis in this lesson.

Captioned slideshow depicting what everyday life is like for a family on a farm in Iowa.

Find a list of events in many categories that occurred in the 1920s.

Imagine moving into a house made out of sod that you and your family had to build in the middle of a prairie! Find great information and activities that will help you understand how it felt to live on the prairie.

This interactive fiction ebook focuses a family and a pet dragon go to visit a farm. Students can choose to read independently or listen to each sentence.

Read about the impact of the humble wooden clock on life for a frontier farming family in this article, which is a transcript of a radio broadcast.

In 1723, when Sherman was 2 years of age, his family relocated from his Newton, MA, birthplace to Dorchester (present Stoughton). As a boy, he was spurred by a desire to learn and read widely in his spare time to supplement his minimal...

A detailed leaflet descibing the history of child labor in Pennsylvania. Across the state it was never uncommon to find children working difficult and dangerous jobs in factories restaurants, on railways, in mines, as well as on farms....

Dual-language site containing images and documents that show the role Mexican Americans have played in the history and development of Arizona.