Rebecca Sharpless
Professor of History at Texas Christian University and historian specializing in Texas and Southern food and gender history, author of People of the Wheat and several prior books on baking and agricultural history.
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Mar 7, 2026 • 1h 10min
Rebecca Sharpless, "People of the Wheat: Culture and Cultivation in North Texas" (U Texas Press, 2026)
Dr. Rebecca Sharpless, a historian of Texas food and agricultural life, digs into North Texas’s forgotten wheat belt. She traces why wheat thrived there, the rise of mills and bakers, mechanization from plows to combines, and how storage, milling, and industrial shifts remade towns and kitchens. Short, vivid stories reveal how grain shaped work, communities, and regional culture.
Mar 7, 2026 • 1h 10min
Rebecca Sharpless, "People of the Wheat: Culture and Cultivation in North Texas" (U Texas Press, 2026)
Dr. Rebecca Sharpless, a Texas Christian University historian of Texas and Southern food, explores 150 years of wheat cultivation, milling, and baking in North Texas. She tells how settlers grew wheat where others could not. She traces mills as community hubs, the rise of mechanization and industrial baking, storage and safety innovations, and the recent artisan revival in regional milling.
Mar 7, 2026 • 1h 10min
Rebecca Sharpless, "People of the Wheat: Culture and Cultivation in North Texas" (U Texas Press, 2026)
Rebecca Sharpless, a history professor at Texas Christian University who studies Texas social and agricultural history, discusses North Texas as a once-thriving wheat belt. She narrates how cultivation, mechanization, mills, and bakeries shaped towns and daily life. Topics include prairie breaking, milling and storage technologies, baking innovations, railroads, and the rise and decline of regional wheat industries.
