PRESERVING THE HISTORY OF UNITED STATES AGRICULTURE AND RURAL LIFE: STATE AND LOCAL LITERATURE, 1820 -1945 A proposal submitted to the National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Preservation and Access on behalf of the United States Agriculture Information Network and Auburn University, the University of California-Berkeley, the University of Connecticut, Cornell University, the University of Florida, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Pennsylvania State University, Texas A&M University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Submitted by the Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University July 1995