AGRICULTURAL HISTORY ON THE INTERNET:
A FINDING AID


   U.S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE

     Former Secretaries of Agriculture
       http://tinyurl.com/65rhm/

     A History of American Agriculture
       http://www.agclassroom.org/gan/timeline/index.htm

     Condensed History of American Agriculture, 1776-1999
        http://www.usda.gov/news/pubs/99arp/timeline.pdf

AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE

         INFORMATION STAFF

     ARS Timeline . . .138 Years of Agricultural Research
        http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/timeline/

         NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL LIBRARY

PUBLICATIONS

             Introduction, Notes, and Contents for Volumes I, II, and III
              http://www.nal.usda.gov/afsic/AFSIC_pubs/heirloom/heirloom.htm

            Vol. 1, Annotated Bibliography (SRB 98-05)
               http://www.nal.usda.gov/afsic/AFSIC_pubs/heirloom/srb9805.htm

            Vol. 2, Resource Organizations (SRB 98-06)
               http://www.nal.usda.gov/afsic/AFSIC_pubs/heirloom/srb9806.htm

             Vol.3, Historical Supplement (SRB 98-07)
               http://www.nal.usda.gov/afsic/AFSIC_pubs/heirloom/srb9807.htm

     SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
       http://www.nal.usda.gov/speccoll/

     Forest Service Historical Photograph Collection
       http://www.nal.usda.gov/speccoll/collect/forest.html

     Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
        http://www.nal.usda.gov/speccoll/collect/nursery.html

     USDA History Collection
       http://www.nal.usda.gov/speccoll/collect/history.html

FOREST SERVICE

     Forest Service Historical Photograph Collection
        http://www.nal.usda.gov/speccoll/collect/forest.html

     Grey Towers National Historic Landmark and Pinchot Institute for
      Conservation
        http://www.pinchot.org

     U.S. Forest Service History
       http://www.foresthistory.org/Research/usfscoll/


NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS SERVICE

     Census of Agriculture (2002, 1997, & 1992)
       http://www.agcensus.usda.gov/

     Historical Data--Track Records: Crop Production; Grain Stocks; Livestock
        http://www.nass.usda.gov/Data_and_Statistics/index.asp

     History of Agricultural Statistics
        http://www.nass.usda.gov/About_NASS/History_of_Ag_Statistics/index.asp

     1997, 1992, and 1987 Ag Census:
       http://agcensus.mannlib.cornell.edu/

*N.B. Work is in progress on the posting of earlier Census volumes to the NASS Web site. For further information, please call the NASS Hotline, 1-800-727-9540.


NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION SERVICE

     Celebrating 100 Years of the National Cooperative Soil Survey-- 1899-1999
        http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/news/factsheets/soilmnth.html
          and
        http://soils.usda.gov/partnerships/ncss/history.html

     NRCS History Articles
       http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/about/history/articles/

     NRCS History: Selected Speeches of Hugh Hammond Bennett
       http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/about/history/speeches/index.html

     NRCS History: A Story of Land and People
       http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/about/history/story.html


   OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES AND LIBRARIES


U.S. DEPT. OF COMMERCE

   NATIONAL CLIMATE DATA CENTER

     United States Historical Climatology Network (USHCN)
       http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/ushcn/ushcn.html

U.S. DEPT. OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

     FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION

       FDA History
          http://www.fda.gov/oc/history/default.htm

       Milestones in U.S. Food and Drug Law History
          http://www.fda.gov/opacom/backgrounders/miles.htm

      NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE

       History of Medicine Division
          http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/index.html

U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

      History Office. Timeline; Topics; Collections; Publications; Administrators; Photos
          http://www.epa.gov/history

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

     American Folklife Center
        http://lcweb.loc.gov/folklife/

     American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
       http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html

     Local History & Genealogy Reading Room
       http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/genealogy/

     Main Reading Room, Humanities & Social Sciences Division
       http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/main/

     Manuscript Reading Room
        http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/mss/

     Prints & Photographs Reading Room
       http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/

     Rare Book & Special Collections Reading Room
       http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/rarebook/

National Archives and Records Administration
       http://www.archives.gov/index.html

      Archival Research Catalog (ARC)
        http://www.archives.gov/research_room/arc/index.html

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

       Archives of American Gardens
         http://www.gardens.si.edu/horticulture/res_ed/AAG/home.htm

       Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation -- Whole Cloth:
       Discovering Science and Technology Through American Textile History
         http://invention.smithsonian.org/home/
         http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/whole_cloth/

       National Museum of American History: Agriculture
         http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/subject_detail.cfm?key=32&colkey=5

       National Museum of Natural History

       Seeds of Change Garden: Bibliography:
         http://www.mnh.si.edu/archives/garden/bibliography.html

       Seeds of Change Garden: History: Where Food Crops Originated
         http://www.mnh.si.edu/archives/garden/history/

       Smithsonian Institution Libraries
         http://www.sil.si.edu

   UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

     Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
     Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation
        http://huntbot.andrew.cmu.edu/

     Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
     Mann Library - The Core Historical Literature of Agriculture
       http://chla.mannlib.cornell.edu/

     Iowa State University, Ames, IA
     Special Collections Dept. - Agricultural Collections Guide
       http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/collections/agri/tc.html

     Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN
     Library - American Women's History: A Research Guide: Farm Work & Life
        http://frank.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women/wh-farm.html

     University of California, Davis, CA
      Special Collections - Manuscript Collections -- Agricultural Technology
     (Includes the F. Hal Higgins Collection)
        http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/specol/manu-collections/manuscripts/index.php?subject=10

     University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
      Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) - Land-Grant and Sea-Grant:
      Acts, History, and Institutions
       http://ifas.ufl.edu/land_grant_history/

     University of Reading, Berkshire, England
     Museum of English Rural Life
        http://www.reading.ac.uk/merl/


   ASSOCIATIONS AND RESEARCH CENTERS

     Accokeek Foundation and National Colonial Farm
       http://www.accokeek.org/

     Agricultural History Society
       http://www.aghistorysociety.org/

     American Association for State and Local History
        http://www.aaslh.org/

     American Livestock Breeds Conservancy
        http://www.albc-usa.org/

      American Society for Environmental History
       http://www.aseh.net/

     Association for Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums
       http://www.alhfam.org/

     Forest History Society
        http://www.foresthistory.org

      History of Science Society
        http://www.hssonline.org/

     National Trust for Historic Preservation
        http://www.nationaltrust.org/

     Society for the History of Technology (SHOT)
        http://www.historyoftechnology.org/index.html

     World Association for the History of Veterinary Medicine
     Resources of Veterinary History
        http://wahvm.vet.uu.nl/
http://wahvm.vet.uu.nl/specific/resources/resources.html


   LISTSERV ONLINE DISCUSSION GROUPS

     H-NET Discussion Networks
        http://www.h-net.msu.edu/
       

The H-NET Humanities and Social Sciences Online Listserv at Michigan State University hosts over 100 e-mail discussion groups on a variety of historical topics. Of particular interest:

           H-Environment - environmental history
              http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~environ/

           H-RURAL - rural and agricultural history
              http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~rural/

           H-Sci-Med-Tech - history of science, medicine and technology
             http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~smt/


Information is accurate as of January 2000, but is subject to change.
[Links updated June 2008 -- agref@nal.usda.gov]

Compiled by Susan Chapman
Information Research Services Branch
National Agricultural Library
Beltsville, MD 20705-2351
USA

This text was converted to html by Kimberly Raines: updated by Temisha Kinard   January 2000