History Professor Gets Stipend to Finish Book

The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded Hal S. Barron, professor of history at Harvey Mudd College and The Claremont Graduate School, a summer stipend of $4,000 to support two months’ work on his book, “The Second Great Transformation in the Countryside: The Rural North and Organizational Society, 1880-1930.”

Barron specializes in U.S. social and economic history and the history of American agrarian society.