Personal stories are key in telling the story of agricultural innovation
How many stories have been collected so far? The Agricultural Innovation and Heritage Archive has already collected about 40 stories …
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Crowdsourcing Agricultural History: Announcing the Agricultural Innovation and Heritage Archive
Today, March 19th, 2013, the National Museum of American History launched a new online initiative that aims to crowdsource the …
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Teens and Teena
I’ve never seen my career ambitions ending with a marriage or, as some of my friends call it, a “MRS …
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Pawning: the three balls lost and found
Late last winter, I was contacted by curator Nancy Davis, who wanted to talk about the history of pawning in …
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An industry “zAPPed”: the state of board games today
Last spring, I was given the most unique assignment in my graduate school education: visit the Hasbro board game factory …
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Playing the American dream: race, class, and opportunity in business board games
In the 1984 pilot episode of The Cosby Show, Bill Cosby’s Cliff Huxtable lectures his son Theo about his poor …
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Inventing the Game of Life
How do you become successful as a toy inventor? Reuben Klamer, who developed the 1960 Game of Life, suggests inspiration, …
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Soybeans and the Panama-Pacific International Exposition
“China sends tea and preserved ginger and funny nuts . . . [the Panama Pacific International Exposition] lets us know …
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Marketing Moments: The Gecko and GEICO
Ten years ago GEICO wasn’t nearly the household name it is today. In fact, many consumers had a hard time …
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“With a click and a flash”: Creating an advertisment for Butter Krust bread
Marlon Gardley remembers the photo shoot for Butter Krust Ad in 1963. My older brothers Bubba and Carl kidded …
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