When a Dream Dies: Iowa's Experience of the Farm Crisis of the 1980s
| Date/Time: | Tuesday, 26 Sep 2023 at 6:00 pm |
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| Location: | 2630 Memorial Union |
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| Phone: | 515-294-9934 |
| Channel: | Lecture Series |
| Categories: | Diversity Lectures Live Green |
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This lecture will be recorded, and the recording link will be added here within 36-48 hours after the lecture has finished.Pamela Riney-Kehrberg is Distinguished Professor of History at Iowa State University, and a Fellow of the Agricultural History Society. She has taught at Iowa State since 2000. She is the author or editor of seven books, including Rooted in Dust: Surviving Drought and Depression in Southwestern Kansas and Childhood on the Farm: Work, Play and Coming of Age in the Midwest. Her new book is When a Dream Dies: Agriculture, Iowa, and the Farm Crisis of the 1980s. Dr. Riney-Kehrberg's lecture will explore the trauma the people of Iowa faced in the 1980s when two-thirds of its farmers were in distress, and half of those were in imminent danger of foreclosure.The University Book Store will be onsite selling books at the event.