Alabama Farmsteads: Our Changing Heartland
Alabama Humanities Foundation Program

A Selected Bibliography

The items in this bibliography are intended to provide an interested person an avenue for exploring the important components of the material culture of the American farmstead. It is not intended to be complete, and it is not necessarily focused on Alabama. Many of the aspects of the material culture of the American farmstead, whether in the South or other regions of the United States, owe their existence to European or Native American heritage and the blending of these cultures over time and space. Added to this is the innovative nature of humankind which leads to regional peculiarities of structures (houses, barns, churches), processes (milling, annual round of farm activities, food preparation), and other material features (fences, tools, furnishings).

Aiken, Charles. S. 1971. “An Examination of the Role of the Eli Whitney Cotton Gin in the Origin of the United States Cotton Regions.” Proceedings of the Association of American Geographers 3: 5-9.

_____. 1973. “The Evolution of Cotton Ginning in the Southeastern United States.” The Geographical Review 63: 196-224.

Butzer, Karl W. 1990. “The Indian Legacy in the American Landscape.” In The Making of the American Landscape. Michael P. Conzen, editor. Boston: Unwin Hyman. Pages 27-50.

Carney, George O. 1996. “Western North Carolina: Culture Hearth of Bluegrass Music.” Journal of Cultural Geography 16: 65-87.

Comeaux, Malcolm M. 1989. “The Cajun Barn.” Geographical Review 79: 47-62.

Durand, Loyal, Jr. 1956. “Mountain Moonshining in East Tennessee.” Geographical Review 46: 168-181.

Evans, E. Estyn. 1965. “The Scotch-Irish in the New World: An Atlantic Heritage.” Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 35: 39-49.

_____. 1969. “The Scotch-Irish: Their Cultural Adaptation and Heritage in the American Old West.” In E.E.R. Green, ed., Essays in Scotch-Irish History. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. Pages. 69-86.

Glassie, Henry. 1963. “The Appalachian Log Cabin.” Mountain Life and Work 39: 5-14.

_____. 1965. “The Old Barns of Appalachia.” Mountain Life and Worth 41 (2): 21-30.

_____. 1966. “The Pennsylvania Barn in the South.” Pennsylvania Folklife 15 (2): 8-19; 15 (4): 12-25.

_____. 1968a. “The Types of the Southern Mountain Cabin.” In Jan H. Brunvard, ed., The Study of American Folklore: AN Introduction. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. Pages. 338-370.

_____. 1968b. Pattern in the Material Folk Culture of the Eastern United States. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Hart, John Fraser. 1993. “Types of Barns in the Eastern United States.” Focus 43 (1): 8-17.

_____. 1994. “On the Classification of Barns.” Material Culture 26 (3): 37-46.

Hart, John Fraser, and Eugene Cotton Mather. 1961. “The Character of Tobacco Barns and Their Role in the Tobacco Economy of the United States.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 5: 274-293.

Hawley, Fred. 19878. “Cockfighting in the Piney Woods: Gameness in the New South.” Sport Place: An International Journal of Sports Geography 1: 18-26.

Hilliard, Sam Bowers. 1969. “Hog Meat and Cornpone: Food Habits in the Antebellum South.” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 113: 1-13.

_____. 1972. Hog Meat and Hoe Cake: Food Supply in the Old South, 1840-1860. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.

_____. 1984. Atlas of Antebellum Southern Agriculture. Baton Rouge: LSU Press

Hulan, Richard. 1975. “Middle Tennessee and the Dogtrot House.” Pioneer America 7 (2): 37-46.

_____. 1977. “The Dogtrot House and its Pennsylvania Associations.” Pennsylvania Folklife 26: 25-32.

Jeane, Donald Gregory. 1969. “The Traditional Upland South Cemetery.” Landscape 18: 39-41.

_____. 1978. “The Upland South Folk Cemetery: An American Type.” Journal of Popular Culture 6: 895-903.

_____. 1987. “Rural Southern Gravestones: Sacred Artifacts in the Upland South Folk Cemetery.” In Markers IV. David. Watters, ed. Lanham, Md.: University Press of North America, pp. 55-84

_____. 1989. “The Upland South Folk Cemetery Complex: Some Suggestions of Origin.” In Richard E. Meyer, ed., Cemeteries & Gravemarkers: Voices of American Culture. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press. Pages 107-136.

_____. 2000. “Southern Graveshelters and English Lych-gates: The Search for Culture Trait Origins.” Tributaries: Journal of the Alabama Folklife Association, Issue No. 3: 9-27.

Jordan, Terry G.  1985. American Log Buildings: An Old World Heritage. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Kniffen, Fred. B. 1936. “Louisiana House Types.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 26: 179-193.

_____. 1965. “Folk Housing: Key to Diffusion.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 55: 549-577.

_____. 1969. “On Corner Timbering.” Pioneer America 1: 1-8.

Kniffen, Fred. B., and Henry H. Glassie. 1966. “Building in Wood in the Eastern United States: A Time-Place Perspective.” Geographical Review 56: 40-66.

Kollmorgen, W. M. 1941a. “A Reconnaissance of Some Cultural-Agricultural Islands in the South.” Economic Geography 17: 409-430 and 19(1943): 109-117.

_____. 1941b. The German Settlement in Cullman County, Alabama: An Agricultural Island in the Cotton Belt. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Agriculture.

LeBon, J. W., Jr. 1971. “The Catahoula Hog Dog: A Folk Breed.” Pioneer America 3 (2): 35-45.

Marshall, Howard Wright. 1981. American Folk Architecture: A Selected Bibliography. Washington, D.C.: American Folklife Center.

Mather, Eugene Cotton, and John Fraser Hart. 1954. “Farms and Fences.” Geographical Review 44: 201-223.

Mitchell, R. 1966. “The Presbyterian Church as an Indicator of Westward Expansion in the 18^th Century.” Professional Geographer 18: 293-299.

Morgan, John. 1990. The Log House in East Tennessee. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.

Murray-Wooley, Carolyn, and Karl B. Raitz. 1992. Rock Fences of the Bluegrass. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press.

Newton, Milton B., Jr. 1970. “Route Geography and Routes of St. Helena Parish, Louisiana.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 60(1): 134-152.

_____. 1971. “The Annual Round in the Upland South: The Synchronization of Man and Nature Through Culture.”  Pioneer America 3 (2): 63-73.

_____. 1974a. “Cultural Preadaptation and the Upland South.” Geoscience and Man 5: 143-154.

_____. 1974b. “Settlement Patterns as Artifacts of Social Change.” In The Human Mirror: Material and Spatial Images of Man. Miles Richardson, ed. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, pp. 339-361.

Noble, Allen G. 1984. Wood, Brick, and Stone: The North American Settlement Landscape. 2 vols. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.

_____. 1992. To Build in a New Land: Ethnic Landscapes in North America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Noble, Allen G., and Richard K. Cleek. 1995. The Old Barn Book: A Field Guide to North American Barns and Other Farm Structures. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

O’Malley, James R., and John B. Rehder. 1978. “The Two-Story Log House in the Upland South.” Journal of Popular Culture 11 (4): 904-915.

Owsley, Frank. 1945. “The Pattern of Migration and Settlement on the Southern Frontier.” Journal of Southern History 11: 147-176.

Paullin, Charles Oscar, and John K. Wright. 1932. Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States. Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institute and the American Geographical Society.

Pillsbury, Richard. 1983. “The Europeanization of the Cherokee Settlement Landscape.” Geoscience and Man 23: 59-69.

Price, Edward T. 1960. “Root Digging in the Appalachians: The Geography of Botanical Drugs.” The Geographical Review 50: 1-20.

Rooney, John F., Jr., ed. al. 1982. This Remarkable Continent: An Atlas of United States and Canadian Society and Culture. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press.

Upton, Dell, and John Michael Vlach. 1986. Common Places: Readings in American Vernacular Architecture. Athens: University of Georgia Press.

Wilhelm, Eugene J., Jr. 1967. “Animal Drives – A Case Study in Historical Geography.” Journal of Geography 66: 327-334.

Wilms, Douglas C. 1977. “Agrarian Progress in the Cherokee Nation Prior to Removal.” Western Georgia College Studies in Social Science 16: 1-15.

Wilson, Eugene M. 1970. “The Single Pen Log House in the South.” Pioneer America 2 (1): 21-28.

Zelinsky, Wilbur. 1953. “The Log House in Georgia.” Geographical Review 43: 173-193.

Maintained by Dr. Gregory Jeane. Last updated: February 6, 2004