David B. Danbom (born 1947) is a

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, author, and was a professor of

agricultural history Agriculture began independently in different parts of the globe, and included a diverse range of taxa. At least eleven separate regions of the Old and New World were involved as independent centers of origin. The development of agriculture a ...

North Dakota State University North Dakota State University (NDSU, formally North Dakota State University of Agriculture and Applied Sciences) is a public land-grant research university in Fargo, North Dakota. It was founded as North Dakota Agricultural College in 1890 as t ...

, for more than forty years. Danbom spent nine years on the Fargo Historic Preservation Commission. Danbom also served as president of the Agricultural History Society. Danbom received his degree in history at Colorado State University in 1969, and graduated in 1974, with his Ph.D., from

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. After graduation, he began his teaching career at North Dakota State University, until retiring in 2010. Danbom, participated in a discussion on the history of the North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station and its activities, in 1990, and answered questions during the event. He has authored numerous books and articles, focusing on agriculture and the history of agriculture in the rural west, and been the recipient of several teaching awards. He was a frequent contributor to the ''

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'' newspaper, writing more than 100 opinion editorial columns, until his retirement, when he and his wife, Karen, moved to

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Selected works

Books

*''Born in the Country: A History of Rural America'', Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. *''Bridging the Distance: common issues of the rural West'', co-authored with the Bill Lane Center for the American West, University of Utah, 2015. *''Going it Alone: Fargo Grapples with the Great Depression'', Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2005. *''Fargo, North Dakota: 1870-1940'', co-authored with Claire Strom, Arcadia Pub., 2002. *''Our Purpose Is to Serve: The First Century of the North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station'', North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, 1990. *''"The World of Hope": Progressives and the Struggle for an Ethical Public Life'', Temple University Press, 1987. *''The Resisted Revolution: Urban America and the Industrialization of Agriculture, 1900-1930'', Iowa State University Press, 1979.

Dissertation Thesis

''The Industrialization of Agriculture'', Ph.D. Department of History, Stanford University, 1974.

Teaching awards

*1985, 1990, 1997

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Preferred Professor *1990 Burlington Northern Faculty Achievement Award *1990 Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) North Dakota Professor of the Year *1998 North Dakota State University Faculty Lectureship Award. *2002 Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Outstanding Educator Award *2013 North Dakota State University College of Liberal Arts, Distinguished Alumnus Award

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1947 births Living people 21st-century American historians American male non-fiction writers North Dakota State University faculty Writers from Fargo, North Dakota Journalists from North Dakota 20th-century American journalists American male journalists 21st-century American male writers {{US-journalist-1940s-stub

Selected works

Books

Dissertation Thesis

Teaching awards

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