PRESERVING THE HISTORY OF UNITED STATES AGRICULTURE AND RURAL LIFE : STATE AND LOCAL LITERATURE, 1820 1945 PHASE 2 A proposal submitted to the National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Preservation and Access on behalf of the United States Agricultural Information Network and the University of Arizona, the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, the University of California-Berkeley, the University of Florida, the University of Hawai'i-Manoa, Iowa State University, the University of Minnesota, Montana State University-Bozeman the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Texas A&M University, Submitted by the Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University July 1997