Credits and Resources

Heather Kuzma received her bachelor’s degree from Indiana University in 2011 and a master’s degree in Art and Museum Studies from Georgetown University. She has worked for museums and archives in the Midwest and Southeast. She currently lives in the Chicago area and conducts independent research while caring for her two daughters. Her most recent publication, "Lily Thompson and the Woman Suffrage Movement in Mississippi", was featured in The Journal of Mississippi History. 

Resources:

19th Century Horticulture Movement

  1. Penelope Hobhouse, “Expansion and Experiment in the 19th Century,” Gardening Through the Ages: An Illustrated History of Plants and their Influence on Garden Styles—From Ancient Egypt to the Present Day. United States: Simon & Schuster, 1992. 
  2. Tovah Martin, “Gardening Under Glass”, Keeping Eden: A History of Gardening in America. United States: Bulfinch, 1992, pp. 205-217.
  3. Tamara Plakins Thornton, “Horticulture and American Character”, Keeping Eden: A History of Gardening in America. United States: Bulfinch, 1992, pp. 189-203.

Women and Gardening

  1. Catherine Horwood, Women and Their Gardens: A History from the Elizabethan Era to Today. United States: Ball Publishing, 2010.
  1. Walter T. Punch, “The Garden Organized”, Keeping Eden: A History of Gardening in America. United States: Bulfinch, 1992, pp. 219-239. 
  2. Tamara Plakins Thornton, “Horticulture and American Character”, Keeping Eden: A History of Gardening in America. United States: Bulfinch, 1992. 

Indiana Horticultural Society

  1. W.H. Ragan. Transactions of the Indiana Horticultural Society for the Year 1891. United States: W.B. Burford, 1892.
  2. W.H. Ragan. Transactions of the Indiana Horticultural Society for the Year 1892. United States: W.B. Burford, 1893.
  3. W.H. Ragan. “The First Indiana Horticultural Society”. The Indiana Quarterly Magazine of History. Vol. 4, No. 2(June, 1908), pp. 71-79. 

Columbian Exposition

  1. Liberty Hyde Bailey. Annals of Horticulture in North America for the Year 1893: A Witness of Passing Events and a Record of Progress. United States: Rural Publishing Company, 1894, pp. 57. 
  2. Marta McDowell. All the Presidents' Gardens: Madison's Cabbages to Kennedy's Roses—How the White House Grounds Have Grown with America. United States: Timber Press, 2016, pp. 136-138.
  3. Frederick Whitford, Phyllis Mattheis, and Andrew G. Martin. Queen of American Agriculture: A Biography of Virginia Claypool Meredith . Purdue University Press: 2019, pp. 136-138.

Legacy 

  1. Catherine Horwood, Women and Their Gardens: A History from the Elizabethan Era to Today. United States: Ball Publishing, 2010, pp. 124.
  2. Andy Rose and Forrest Brown, CNN, “An Astounding Number of People Flocked to Yellowstone in August—Enough to Set a Record”, September 15, 2021, online. 
Credits and Resources