The Farm Press, Reform and Rural Change, 1895-1920

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Introduction. The Rural Midwest and the Midwestern Farm Press During the Progressive Era, 1895-1920
1. First Class Papers and Never-Stop Papers: Twenty-Five Years of the Midwestern Farm Press
2. Owners and Editors: The Faces Behind the Midwestern Farm Press
3. What Farmers Read and Liked: Scenes of Reading in the Rural Midwest
4. Who Read the Agricultural Journalist?: Farm Newspaper Subscribers in the Lower Midwest
5. Innumerable Little White Churches: The Ritual Church and the Midwestern Farm Press
6. The School House at the Crossroads: The Rural School and the Midwestern Farm Press
7. Why Leave the Farm?: The Rural Family and the Midwestern Farm Press
Conclusion. Good Farming-Clear Thinking-Right Living: The USes of Midwestern Farm Newspapers
Appendix A. Researching Reading in Rural Midwesterners' Records
Appendix B. Midwestern Farm Newspapers since the 1920s.
Appendix C. Tables
Appendix D. Maps
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