Discover how rural electrification in the 1930s transformed American farms, bringing power, productivity, and modern living to rural ...

The rural exodus by young Americans has ramped up once again, even after rural areas saw increased migration during the COVID-19 lockdowns. Yet, the future of the energy industry could revive rural ...

During the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump clinched most of rural America’s votes, including those in California. To explain Trump’s sustained electoral strength, many reached for the ...

Rural Americans – particularly men – are expected to live significantly shorter, less healthy lives than their urban counterparts, according to our research, recently published in the Journal of Rural ...

April 15 was an unusually warm spring day in Belle Plaine. Jim Glisczinski's worn farm boots compressed the soft, freshly unfrozen ground as he walked toward his new John Deere planter. The complex ...

"Lookin' for better all the time" : rural migration and urbanization in the South, 1900-1950 / Louis M. Kyriakoudes -- "A crude and raw past" : work, folklife, and anti-agrarianism in ...