The parable of the railway agent: stories of progress and winter legumes in the twentieth-century South
Department
History and Philosophy
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2021
Abstract
This essay examines the abbreviated fiction-writing career of an unlikely author, Central of Georgia Railway agricultural agent Jesse Frisbie Jackson. In the process, the essay explores the centrality of storytelling to the early twentieth-century United States, to farming and agricultural reform, and to the historical profession.
Journal Title
Rethinking History
Journal ISSN
13642529
Volume
25
Issue
1
First Page
37
Last Page
50
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1080/13642529.2020.1829863
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