Participant Info
- First Name
- Pamela
- Last Name
- Riney-Kehrberg
- Country
- United States
- State
- IA Iowa
- Prinkeh@iastate.edu
- Affiliation
- History Department, Iowa State University
- Website URL
- Keywords
- Rural, agricultural, childhood, family, rural women, United States, Midwest, Great Plains, Dust Bowl,
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am primarily a rural and agricultural historian of the United States, with interests in the impact of agricultural change on children, families, and communities. I am the author of four books: Rooted In Dust: Surviving Drought and Depression in Southwestern Kansas; Childhood on the Farm: Work, Play, and Coming of Age in the Midwest; Always Plenty to Do: Growing Up on a Farm in the Long Ago; and The Nature of Childhood: An Environmental History of Growing Up in America, 1865-Present. I am also the editor of two books: Waiting on the Bounty: The Dust Bowl Diary of Mary Knackstedt Dyck, and The Routledge History of Rural America. My current book project is entitled When a Dream Dies: Agriculture, Identity, and the Farm Crisis of the 1980s. One of the most important goals of my work is to be accessible to a broad audience.
- Recent Publications
See above.
- Media Coverage
- Historian, Ken Burns’ The Dust Bowl; Recent C-Span lecture on food in the Great Depression
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Children & Youth, Family, Food History, Local & Regional, Rural & Agrarian History, Women
