Illinois Humanities Virtual Lecture: HOW CORN CHANGED ITSELF AND THEN CHANGED THE WORLD

Cynthia Clampitt, Writer and Food Historian presents "How Corn Changed Itself and then Changed Everything Else"

Nurtured by early farmers in the Oaxaca region, this grain would transform the Americas even before First Contact.  After First Contact, it would span the globe, with mixed results, but for newcomers to North America, it expanded its influence from rescuing a few early settlers to creating the Midwest.  Today, it is more important than ever.  As Margaret Visser noted in her classic work Much Depends on Dinner, "Without corn, North America--and most particularly modern, technological North America--is inconceivable." 

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