David B. Danbom

Template:Infobox person David B. Danbom (born 1947Template:Citation needed) is an American historian, author, and was a professor of agricultural history at North Dakota State University, for more than forty years. Danbom spent nine years on the Fargo Historic Preservation Commission. Danbom also served as president of the Agricultural History Society.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2" />

Danbom received his degree in history at Colorado State University in 1969, and graduated in 1974, with his Ph.D., from Stanford University. After graduation, he began his teaching career at North Dakota State University, until retiring in 2010.<ref name=":2" />

Danbom, participated in a discussion on the history of the North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station and its activities, in 1990, and answered questions during the event.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> He has authored numerous books and articles, focusing on agriculture and the history of agriculture in the rural west, and been the recipient of several teaching awards.

He was a frequent contributor to the Fargo Forum newspaper, writing more than 100 opinion editorial columns, until his retirement, when he and his wife, Karen, moved to Loveland, Colorado.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2" />

Selected works

Books

• Born in the Country: A History of Rural America, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Bridging the Distance: common issues of the rural West, co-authored with the Bill Lane Center for the American West, University of Utah, 2015.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Going it Alone: Fargo Grapples with the Great Depression, Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2005.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Fargo, North Dakota: 1870-1940, co-authored with Claire Strom, Arcadia Pub., 2002.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Our Purpose Is to Serve: The First Century of the North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station, North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, 1990.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• "The World of Hope": Progressives and the Struggle for an Ethical Public Life, Temple University Press, 1987.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• The Resisted Revolution: Urban America and the Industrialization of Agriculture, 1900-1930, Iowa State University Press, 1979.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Dissertation Thesis

The Industrialization of Agriculture, Ph.D. Department of History, Stanford University, 1974.<ref>Template:Cite thesis</ref>

Teaching awards

• 1985, 1990, 1997 Mortar Board Preferred Professor
• 1990 Burlington Northern Faculty Achievement Award<ref name=":0">Template:Cite webTemplate:Dead link</ref>
• 1990 Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) North Dakota Professor of the Year<ref name=":0" />
• 1998 North Dakota State University Faculty Lectureship Award.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2002 Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Outstanding Educator Award
• 2013 North Dakota State University College of Liberal Arts, Distinguished Alumnus Award<ref name=":2">Template:Cite web</ref>

See also

• Borish, Linda J. "Book Reviews." Technology and Culture, Vol. 38, No. 3 (Jul., 1997), pp. 799–801.
• Beltman, Brian W. The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 63, No. 1 (Feb., 1997), pp. 220–222.

References

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