This special forum highlights innovative and diverse methods of teaching agricultural history. Yet agricultural history itself can also help inform how we teach difficult topics. Take, for instance, one of the most discussed intersections between the history of agriculture and the history of science: the 1900 “rediscovery” of Mendelian genetics and its application to early twentieth-century plant breeding.1 Despite its omnipresence in contemporary textbooks and classrooms, Mendelism can be hard to understand. A 2018 study of undergraduate students at Creighton University found no difference in test scores between biology students who had started their course with either Mendel or molecular genetics.2 Mendelian genetics lent no special insight, nor did it prove itself a “softer” subject. At the secondary school level, everything from card games to gummy bears has been deployed to assist students in tracking the movement of genes through the generations.3
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Cody Tyler Williams;
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Effects of Historical Story Telling on Student Understanding of NOS and Mendelian Genetics
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Charnley, Berris;
(2013)
Experiments in Empire-Building: Mendelian Genetics as a National, Imperial, and Global Agricultural Enterprise
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Volpone, Alessandro;
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Gli inizi della genetica in Italia (1903--1940). Una ricognizione
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Garland E. Allen;
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Mendelism and the Promise of A New Agriculture, 1900-1945
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Bonneuil, Christophe;
(2006)
Mendelism, Plant Breeding and Experimental Cultures: Agriculture and the Development of Genetics in France
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Rebecca Kaplan;
(2023)
Teaching US History through Land-Grant Universities and Agriculture Education
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Peter Braden;
(2023)
Crafting Rice Assignments
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Nicole Welk-Joerger;
David D. Vail;
(2023)
Introduction: “You Probably Teach Agricultural History, Even If You Don't Know It”
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Jeff Bremer;
(2023)
An Engaging and Popular Primary Source: Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm during the Great Depression
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Bernardino Fantini;
(2017)
“Treasure your exceptions!” (William Bateson, 1908): leggi e variazioni nella genetica mendeliana
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Johan Schioldann;
(2023)
Classic Text No. 135: ‘On inheritance of the insanities’, by Jens Chr. Smith (1924)
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Pereira Martins, Lilian Al-Chueyr;
(2012)
Um representante do estilo de pensamento científico “compreensivo,” William Bateson (1861--1926): ciência, política e arte
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Radick, Gregory;
(2013)
The Professor and the Pea: Lives and Afterlives of William Bateson's Campaign for the Utility of Mendelism
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Richmond, Marsha L.;
(2001)
Women in the Early History of Genetics: William Bateson and the Newnham College Mendelians, 1900--1910
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Porter, Theodore M.;
(2014)
The Curious Case of Blending Inheritance
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Sheldon, Myrna Perez;
(2014)
Review of "A Cultural History of Heredity"
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Gissis, Snait B.;
Jablonka, Eva;
(2011)
The Exclusion of Soft (“Lamarckian”) Inheritance from the Modern Synthesis
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Darden, Lindley;
(2005)
Relations among Fields: Mendelian, Cytological and Molecular Mechanisms
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Matsubara, Yoko;
(2004)
The Reception of Mendelism in Japan, 1900--1920
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Margaret Peacock;
(2015)
Mendel Lives: The Survival of Mendelian Genetics in the Lysenkoist Classroom, 1937–1964
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