Food & Agriculture

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advertisement with bi-plane dusting over a field and two farmers talking about it
Remembering Rachel Carson’s "Silent Spring"
Advertisement for DDT featured in Time Magazine, June 30, 1947. This image illustrates the rosy reputation that pesticides enjoyed before the publication of Silent Spring.
A World Drenched with Pesticides: Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
a man harvesting wheat - Lviv, Ukraine 1991 Wheat Harvest on Collective Farm 1991 by Manhhai, Flickr, cc-by 2.0
Ukraine: The Breadbasket of Europe
A wheat field in Ukraine resembles the colors on the country's flag.
Ukraine: The Breadbasket of Europe
seedlings
Seed Money: Monsanto's Past and Our Food Future
Globe on a plate with knife and fork next to it
Diet for a Large Planet
Khrushchev during his visit to the Agricultural Research Service Center in Maryland.
Khrushchev’s Great American Road Trip
Chinese laborers work a sugar plantation in 19th century Hawaii.
A Sweet Beginning: the U.S. Sugar Monopoly
A Hawaiian man employing the spearfishing techniques described by Fagan, circa 1890.
Built Upon Bounty
Red and yellow test tubes on cover of Health Technology and Science ibook
Health, Technology and Science: Today & Yesterday
A woman on the outskirts of Kyiv carrying a bucket of apricots
Eating at You: Food and Chernobyl
A traditional glass of Weissbier
Keeping Beer “Pure”: The 1516 Reinheitsgebot
Top view of person serving themself a rice dish from a table of food
Food for Thought: Diet in History
This painting by Jean-Baptiste de Saive (1562) portrays the environment of the kitchen as a place of making. As Wall argues, the kitchen was one of the main spaces for women to create and experiment.
Kitchen Wisdom
a can of Spaghetti-Os
Spaghetti in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Insects on white flowers
4/22/14: An Earth Day Round Up
The New York Times Article, "The 'Boys' in the Bunkhouse" Cover Photo
3/11/14: History through People, "The 'Boys' in the Bunkhouse"
The flag of Ethiopia under the rule of the Derg, 1975-1987
Blind Aid: Lessons (Not Learned) from the Ethiopian Famine
Poster with a patriotic theme to save food (1917), issued when domestic food restrictions were applied to support the war effort.
The “Invisible Guest” World Food Campaign of the 1920s Should Be a Model for Us Today
Centennial Seal of the Land Grant Colleges
The 1862 Morrill Act Honored the Liberal Arts As Well As Technical Education
The Great Dome at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Democratizing American Higher Education: The Legacy of the Morrill Land Grant Act
School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America's Favorite Welfare Program, by Susan Levine Book Cover
Playing Politics with Our Children's Health
Cover A Revolution in Taste The Rise of French Cuisine, 1650–1800 by Susan Pinkard.
Bon Appetit, Historically Speaking
Cover of Famine: A Short History by Cormac Ó Gráda.
Famine: A Short History