Author: Judith Sumner

Wild and cultivated plants have provided humans with cures for thousands of years. Aspirin, for example, the most widely used drug in the Western p...

In this fascinating book, a celebrated author rescues from the pages of history the practical experience and botanical wisdom of generations of Ame...

Slavery was at the heart of the South's agrarian economy before and during the Civil War. Agriculture provided products essential to the war eff...

As the first botanical history of World War II, Plants Go to War examines military history from the perspective of plant science. From victory g...