Author Kathryn Beasley's recent presentation with the Alabama Department of Archives & History on her book The Proof is in the Dough explores how southern women applied their agricultural and domestic skills to improve their lives. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it91VZZuCxg

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Join Kathryn Beasley as she discusses her book The Proof Is in the Dough. Signed copies will be available for purchase after the talks. This tour is part of the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities at Pebble Hill's Draughon Seminar Series. https://loom.ly/zqwnupQ

Congratulations to OAH member Kathryn L. Beasley on her book, The Proof Is in the Dough. Grab your copy and read how rural white and African American women in Alabama & Florida used the Cooperative Extension Service’s home demonstration programming as a means to earn extra income.
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"A much-needed contribution to the field, Beasley’s knowledgeable work [The Proof is in the Dough] recreates the nature of homespun and small-scale economics in the southern countryside, indicating where gender, race, and economics collided in the rural South." —Library Journal Starred Review

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