Book Publications
Using Diverse Primary Resources to Research US History: Essays from the Agricultural History Society
Co-edited with Annabel Tudor.
Images of Modern America: Winter Park, 2015.
With Jim Norris, Danielle Johnson, and Sydney Marshall
Images of America: Winter Park, 2015
With Jim Norris, Danielle Johnson, and Sydney Marshall
Making Catfish Bait out of Government Boys
The Fight Against Cattle Ticks and the Transformation of the Yeoman South
Profiting from the Plains
The Great Northern Railway and Corporate Development of the American West
For an interview about James J. Hill and farming, click here.
Selected Articles
“ Idiosyncratic Reflections on Ninety Years of Agricultural History"
“Extraordinary Powers: Controlling Syphilis in Wartime Florida”
in Sex and Sexuality in Modern Southern Culture, ed. Trent Brown (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2017).
“A Perfect Storm: The Ocoee Riot of 1920”
With Carlee Hoffmann, Florida Historical Quarterly (Summer 2014). This article was republished in 2017 in Florida's Golden Age, 1880-1930: The Rollins College Colloquy, edited by Maurice O'Sullivan and Bruce Stephenson.
"Controlling Venereal Disease in Orlando During World War II”
“Editorials and Explosions”
“Editorials and Explosions: Insights into Grassroots Opposition to Tick Eradication in Georgia, 1915-1920,” Georgia Historical Quarterly (Summer 2004).
"Texas Fever and the Dispossession of the Southern Yeoman Farmer”
Journal of Southern History (February 2000).
Editor
Agricultural History
Claire Strom served as editor for Agricultural History from 2003 to 2016. During her tenure, she was instrumental in starting an annual conference, decreasing the article acceptance rate to 20 percent, and quadrupled the journal's revenue stream. She is currently heading the Society's Centennial Campaign. For her services, the Agricultural History Society made her a Fellow.
Currently, Claire serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Rural Social Sciences.