1. Do I Stay or Do I Go: Evidence from Depression-Era Buyouts of Submarginal Farmland • Beryl Larson, University of California, Davis.

2. Building Modernity through War: World War II Mobilization and Uneven Economic Development in the American South • Leah Edwards, Georgia State University.

3. Learning from China: The National Union of Mineworkers and the South Wales Miners’ Federation Visits to Chinese Coal Mines in the 1950S. • Mark Crowley, University of Utah.