Agriculture Story Briefs

Before Cesar Chavez dedicated his life to helping farm workers get a decent wage, field workers - including children - toiled long hours for unbelieva...

During the 1930s, Dorothea Lange photographed ditch-bank housing - homes in which migrant farm workers lived in California’s Imperial Valley.

During the 1930s, Dorothea Lange photographed the types of homes in which migrant farm workers lived in California’s Imperial Valley.

During the 1930s, photographers like Russell Lee documented the living and working conditions of migrant farm workers in America, including the interi...

Marion Post Wolcott took thousands of pictures for the U.S. government’s Farm Security Administration. This image, made in 1939, depicts a migrant c...

Photograph of Limahuli Tropical Botanical Garden on Hawaiian Island of Kaua'i

Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin at the Mulberry Grove Plantation. The gin makes growing cotton much easier, on southern plantations, directly leadi...

With very little food and no money to buy provisions starving Irish families looked to the government for help.

President William Jefferson Clinton posthumously awarded Cesar Chavez a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994.

When Columbus arrived in the Bahamas, in 1492, he began an exchange of crops, animals and diseases which still impact the world. It is known as "The C...

Kilimanjaro, the tallest point in Africa, is a dormant volcano located in northern Tanzania. Every year, more than 25,000 people attempt to reach its ...