Personal Information
Hal S. Barron
Education
Ph.D., History, University of Pennsylvania, 1980
M.A., History, University of Pennsylvania, 1976
A.B., History, Oberlin College, 1973
Major Fields
U.S. Social and Cultural History
Rural History
Current Position
Professor of History, Harvey Mudd College
Graduate History Faculty
, The Claremont Graduate University
Current Research Projects
Images of rural life in the twentieth century
Ethnic cuisines and American conceptions of food and culture
The history of crossword puzzles
Selected Publications
Mixed Harvest: The Second Great Transformation in the Rural North, 1870-1930
(Chapel Hill, UNC Press, 1997, dual edition).
Those Who Stayed Behind: Rural Society in Nineteenth-Century New England
(N.Y., Cambridge University Press, 1984, paperback edition, 1987).
"Citriculture and Southern California: New Historical Perspectives," Introduction to special issue of
California History
, 74 (1995).
Courses Taught
Technology and U.S. Society
(Freshman Seminar)
Immigration and Ethnicity in America (
undergraduate
and
graduate
)
The Jewish Experience in America
Twentieth Century U.S. History (
undergraduate
and
graduate
)
California History (
undergraduate
and
graduate
)
Introduction to American Cultures
Other
President-Elect, Agricultural History Society, 2004-2005
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