Farmers' Fight!

This is the second installment of our discussion of the American Yeoman. We give a historiography of the south's yeomanry and discuss some key features of this group.

We introduce and give a synopsis of the yeoman farmer. This episodes is part one of a two part installment on the American southern yeomanry.

A look at the origins of sharecropping and the free labor ideology.

In this episode, we introduce the Reconstruction Era and give a brief summation of Wartime Reconstruction.

We officially kick-off the series with an overview of populism. This episode covers the basics of populism and reviews some scholarship on the subject.

A brief introduction to the show and overview of what will be covered.