Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs

American Country Life Association

• American Country Life Association. 1919. Rural Health: Proceedings of the Second National Country Life Conference (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), (accessed October 7, 2008).
• American Country Life Association. 1921. Town and Country Relations: Proceedings of the Fourth Nation al Country Life Conference (Chicago: University of Illinois Press),  (accessed October 8, 2008).
• American Country Life Association. 1924. The Rural Home: Proceedings of the Sixth National Country Life Conference, St. Louis, Mo., 1923 (New York: University of Chicago Press),  (accessed October 8, 2008).

Country Life

• American Sociological Association, “Dwight Sanderson,” (accessed July 23, 2009).
• Dictionary of Wisconsin History, “Charles Josiah Galpin,” Wisconsin Historical Society (accessed June 12, 2008).
• Farrington, Frank. 1915. Community Development: Making the Small Town a Better Place to Live and a Better Place in Which to Do Business (New York: The Ronald Press Co.) (accessed October 7, 2008).
• Fiske, Walter G. 1919. The Challenge of the Country: A Study of Country Life Opportunity (New York: Association Press), (accessed October 7, 2008).
• Galpin, Charles J. 1918. Rural Life ( New York: The Century Company). (accessed October 7, 2008).
• Kirschenmann, Frederick L., “It’s Time for Another Country Life Commission,” Leopold Letter: A Newsletter of the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture 15, no. 4 (2003) (accessed October 15, 2008).
• Sanderson, Dwight, “Democracy and Community Organization,” in Papers and Proceedings, Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association: The Problem of Democracy (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press), (accessed October 8, 2008).
• Sanderson, Dwight, The Farmer and His Community, (New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Co.) (accessed October 8, 2008).

Country Life Commissioners/Theodore Roosevelt

• Forest History Society, “Gifford Pinchot,” (accessed October 2, 2008).
• Houghton Library, “Theodore Roosevelt Collection,” (accessed October 1, 2008)
• Iowa Pathways, “The Wallace Family – An Iowa Agricultural Dynasty,” Iowa Public Television, (accessed May 22, 2008).
• Jeffries, Rogina L., “Biography of TR: Life of Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt Association.” (accessed May 28, 2008).
• Knowsouthernhistory.net, “Celebrating the South’s People, Culture, History, and Heritage, Walter Hines Page: 1855-1918.” (accessed June 6, 2008).
• Liberty Hyde Bailey, “Liberty Hyde Bailey: A Man for All Seasons,” (accessed October 1, 2008).
• Michigan State University Department of Horticulture, “Liberty Hyde Bailey,” (accessed May 21 2008).
• Michigan State University, University Archives and Historical Collections, “Kenyon L. Butterfield: Biographical Information,” (accessed May 21, 2008).
• Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, “Gifford Pinchot,” (accessed May 21, 2008).
• Scott, Carole E. and Richard D. Guynn, “The Disappearance from Georgia of the Farm Union,” State University of West Georgia, (accessed May 21, 2008).
• Theodore Roosevelt Association, (accessed July 17, 2008).
• Theodore Roosevelt Association, Library of Congress, (accessed October 1, 2008).
• Wallace House Foundation, (accessed July 18, 2008).

Theodore Roosevelt: Conferences and Commissions

• Conference of Governors; McGee, W. J.; and Blanchard, Newton C., Proceedings of a Conference of Governors in the White House, Washington, D.C., May 13-15, 1908 (Washington: G.P.O.) (accessed October 22, 2008).
• “Conservation Commissions and Conferences under the Roosevelt Administration 1901-1909,” (accessed July 16, 2008).
• “Declaration of the Conservation Conference. May 15, 1908,” (accessed July 17, 2008).
• National Governors Association,. “Celebrating 100 Years of State Leadership,” (accessed October 1, 2008).
• PBS, “New Perspectives on the West,” (accessed October 1, 2008).

Education

• Ecker, Pam, “John Dewey,” (accessed October 2, 2008).
• National Community Education Association. (accessed February 3, 2008).
• Wolf, Abby, “Genius in the Family: Cameo Biography, William James,” (accessed October 2, 2008).

Government/Legislation

• “Age of Lost Innocence: The FSA,” (accessed October 14, 2008).
• AmeriCorps, “The History of AmeriCorps VISTA,” (accessed August 12, 2008).
• Appalachian Regional Commission, (accessed October 15, 2008).
• Appalachian Regional Commission, “Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965 as Amended February 2007,” (accessed October 16, 2008).
• Appalachian Regional Commission, “Our History,” (accessed June 10, 2008).
• Beatty, Leland, “A Brief History of America's Rural Rehabilitation Corporations,” National Association of Rural Rehabilitation Corporations, (accessed October 13, 2009).
• College of Agriculture & Life Sciences, “Smith-Hughes Act of 1917, United States Statutes at Large, 39 no.1 929-36,” (accessed October 8, 2008).
• College of Agriculture & Life Sciences, Smith-Lever Act, Statutes at Large, 372 (1914), (accessed October 7, 2008).
• Conference of Governors, W. J. McGee and Newton C. Blanchard, Proceedings of a Conference of Governors in the White House, Washington, D.C., May 13-15, 1908. (Washington: G.P.O) (accessed October 22, 2008).
• Cornell University Law School, “Title 7 – Chapter 33 – Farm Tenancy,” U.S. Code Collection, (accessed October 10, 2009).
• Dakota State University, “Mundt Archives,” (accessed June 17, 2008).
• Economic Development Administration, “Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965, as Amended (“PWEDA”), Including the Comprehensive Amendments Made by the Economic Development Administration Reauthorization Act of 2004,” (accessed October 16, 2008).
• Eisenhower, Dwight D. “Executive Order 10847 - Establishing the Committee for Rural Development Program, October 12, 1959,” The American Presidency Project, (accessed October 16, 2008).
• Fisher, Gordon M., “Reasons for Measuring Poverty in the United States in the Context of Public Policy — A Historical Review, 1916-1995,” U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, (accessed August 6, 2008).
• Goldschmidt, Walter. “A Note on the Methodology of the Arvin-Dinuba Study.” Journal of Agriculture and Human Values 7, No. 3-4 (June 1990): 101. (accessed October 15, 2008).
• Hoover, Herbert, “38 - Message to the Special Session of the Congress on Farm Relief, Tariff, Antedating Emergency Legislation. April 16, 1929,” The American Presidency Project, (accessed October 22, 2008).
• Hoover, Herbert, “188 - Statement on the Tariff Bill. June 16, 1930,” The American Presidency Project, (accessed October 15, 2008).
• House Committee on Financial Services, “Part I—Community Development. Community Development Block Grants. Excerpts from Housing and Community Development Act of 1974,” (accessed October 15, 2008).
• Iowa State University, “Rural Development and Small Farm Research and Education. Title V of the Rural Development Act of 1972 as Amended Through Public Law 107–293, Nov. 13, 2002,” (accessed October 15, 2008).
• John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum, “Area Redevelopment Act, 1961,” (accessed June 10, 2008).
• Johnson, Lyndon B. “Executive Order 11306,” The American Presidency Project, (accessed October 16, 2008).
• Kennedy, John F. “158 - Remarks upon Signing the Area Redevelopment Act, May 1, 1961,” The American Presidency Project, (accessed October 16, 2008).
• Lang, Robert E. and Rebecca R. Sohmer, “Legacy of the Housing Act of 1949: The Past, Present, and Future of Federal Housing and Urban Policy.” Housing Policy Debate, v. 11, Issue 2.  (accessed October 15, 2008).
• Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, “President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Biography, (accessed June 19, 2008).
• Maharaj, Nicole, “The Community Development Block Grant Program: A Historical Perspective Celebrating 25 Years of Success, U.S. Mayors’ Articles,” The United States Conference of Mayors,  (accessed June 11, 2008).
• National Agricultural Law Center, “Farm Bill Definitions,” (accessed May 20, 2008).
• National Governors Association, “Celebrating 100 Years of State Leadership,” (accessed October 1, 2008).
• National Postal Museum, “Reaching Rural America,” (accessed October 16, 2008).
• New Deal Network, WPA Workers' Handbook, (accessed October 10, 2008).
• Our Documents.Gov, “Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (1944),” (accessed October 14, 2008).
• Our Documents.gov, “Transcript of Civil Rights Act (1964).” (accessed October 15, 2008).
• PBS, “Address on Agricultural Adjustment Act, May 14,1935,” (accessed October 10, 2008).
• Records of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Guide to Federal Records, United States National Archives, (accessed July 31, 2008).
• Roosevelt, Franklin D., “57 - Executive Order 7027 Establishing the Resettlement Administration, May 1, 1935,” The American Presidency Project, (accessed October 13, 2008).
• Roosevelt, Franklin D. “93 - Announcement of the Appointment of the Great Plains Drought Area Committee, July 22, 1936,” The American Presidency Project, (accessed October 14, 2008).
• Roosevelt, Franklin D. “222 - Statement and Letter on the Appointment of a Special Committee on Farm Tenancy, November 17, 1936,” The American Presidency Project, (accessed October 14, 2008).
• Roth, Dennis, “The Nixon Administration through Passage of the Rural Development Act of 1972,” United States Department of Agriculture, (accessed August 19, 2008).
• Roth, Dennis, “True D. Morse and the Beginnings of Post-War Rural Development Work,” United States Department of Agriculture, (accessed October 16, 2008).
• Roth, Dennis, et. al., “Federal Rural Development Policy in the Twentieth Century.” United States Department of Agriculture - Economic Research Service. (accessed August 6, 2008).
• Tennessee Valley Authority, “From the New Deal to a New Century,” (accessed October 8, 2008).
• The Whitehouse, “William Howard Taft,” (accessed October 15, 2008).
• The Woodrow Wilson Library, (accessed October 15, 2008).
• U.S. Department of State, “Protectionism in the Interwar Period,” (accessed October 8, 2008).
• United States Department of Agriculture, (accessed October 2, 2008).
• United States Department of Agriculture, Farm Services Agency, “About the Commodity Credit Corporation,” (accessed October 10, 2008).
• United States Department of Agriculture. Farmers Home Administration. “A Brief History of Farmers Home Administration.” (Accessed: October 15, 2008).
• United States Department of Agriculture, “History of Agricultural Price-Support and Adjustment Programs, 1933-84,” (accessed October 8, 2008).
• United States Department of Agriculture, “NRCS History,” (accessed October 14, 2008).
• United States Department of Agriculture, "The People Left Behind--Four Years Later. A Report on the Effectiveness of Implementation of the Recommendations of the Presidential Commission on Rural Poverty,” (accessed August 18, 2008).
• United States Department of Agriculture, “Understanding Capper-Volstead,” (accessed October 8, 2008).
• United States Department of Agriculture, United States Government Manual, (accessed July 31, 2008).
• United States House Committee on Financial Services, “Part I-Community Development,” (accessed October 15, 2008).
• United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, (accessed October15, 2008).
• United States Department of the Interior, (accessed October 2, 2008).
• United States Department of Transportation, “Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways,” (accessed October 16, 2008).
• United States Economic Development Administration, “Mission,” Department of Commerce, (accessed October 16, 2008).
• United States Fish and Wildlife Service, “The Civilian Conservation Corps: A New Deal for Wildlife,” (accessed October 10, 2008).
• United States Fish and Wildlife Service, “Digest of Federal Resource Laws of Interest to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act.” (accessed October 10, 2008).
• United States Forest Service, (accessed October 1, 2008).
• United States International Information Programs, “Desertification: Earth’s Silent Scourge, the U.S. Experience.” (accessed October 10, 2008).
• United States Government Printing Office, “Title 7—Agriculture, Chapter 35—Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938,” (accessed October 10, 2008).
• United States Government Printing Office, “From the ‘Golden Age’ to the Great Depression: 1900-1929,” (accessed October 7, 2008).
• United States Library of Congress, “The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920: Proceedings of a Conference of Governors,.” (accessed July 18, 2008).
• United States Library of Congress, “Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945: The Dust Bowl,” (accessed October 8, 2008).
• United States. Report of the Country Life Commission. ed. Liberty Hyde Bailey. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1909.
• United States Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, “Members, Jurisdiction, and History, 1825-1998,” (accessed October 7, 2008).
• United States Soil Conservation Service, (accessed October 10, 2008).
• University of Virginia, “Industrial Recovery: Reviving the Heart of America,” (accessed October 10, 2008).
• University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections,“Essay: The Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA),” (accessed October 10, 2008).
• Weingroff, Richard F., “Milestones for U. S. Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration,” United States Department of Transportation, (accessed October 15, 2008).
• Woolley, John; Peters; Gerhard, “The American Presidency Project,” University of California, Santa Barbara. (accessed October 8, 2008).

Organizations

• American Farm Bureau Federation, (accessed October 8, 2008).
• The Farm Foundation, “Farm Foundation History,” (accessed May 15, 2008).
• The Highlander Center, (accessed October 10, 2008)
• National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, (accessed July 31, 2008).
• National Telecommunications Cooperative Association, “History of Rural Telecommunications,”  (accessed October 15, 2008).
• Southern Christian Leadership Conference, “Our History,” (accessed June 9, 2008).

Social Sciences/Community Development

• American Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, (accessed August 19, 2008).
• American Sociological Association, (accessed October 1, 2008).
• American Sociological Association, “Dwight Sanderson,” (accessed July 23, 2009).
• American Sociological Society, “Obituary of Carl C. Taylor” ASA Footnotes 3, no. 6 ( 1975): 21, (accessed June 18, 2008).
• Collins, Timothy, “Community Capitals, Human Agency, and Values for Sustainability: A Land Use Example,” North Central Regional Center for Rural Development, (accessed August 18, 2008).
• Collins, Timothy and Stephan Goetz, “A Systems Approach to Community Land Use Education, Planning, and Action.” Rural Development Papers from the Northeast Region, RDP 35, 2006 (accessed October 22, 2008).
• Community Development Society, (accessed October 15, 2008).
• Cornell University Library Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, “Guide to the Carl Cleveland Taylor Papers,1920-1969,” Cornell University Library, (accessed June 5, 2008).
• Galpin, Charles J. 1918.Rural Life. New York: The Century Company. (accessed October 7, 2008).
• Rural Sociological Society, (accessed October 14, 2008).
• Sanderson, Dwight, “Democracy and Community Organization,” in Papers and Proceedings, Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association: The Problem of Democracy (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press), (accessed October 8, 2008).
• Sanderson, Dwight, The Farmer and His Community, (New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Co.) (accessed October 8, 2008).
• Wisconsin Historical Society, “Charles Josiah Galpin,” (accessed June 12, 2008).