Summer jobs for teens are becoming a thing of the past, but considering these beet farm jobs, maybe we shouldn't romanticize them too much.

On June 25, 1867, Lucien B. Smith of Ohio received the first patent for barbed wire. Within a few decades, barbed wire transformed the American West.

We look at how gender affects the roles of men, women, and children on family farms in Appalachia.

While fewer farming family can be found today than many years ago, they still remain an important concept for any genealogist to understand.