The Dust Bowl provides a wide range of interpretation, especially when answering the questions concerning the causes of the Dust Bowl. As\u00a0Gravity21<\/a>\u00a0explains, historians such as “Worster believe[d] the Dust Bowl was the creation of man and their belief in capitalism.” Worster supports this by arguing the farmers’ land was not naturally intended to grow wheat, but the desire for this high-value crop made the farmers force the crop into the soil. Worster’s belief that the Dust Bowl was man-made conflicts with another historian, Bonnifield, whom argued that the region’s soil was already subject to dust storms. Cunfer takes a quantitative approach to the disaster, using digital history to research the regions affected by the Dust Bowl. He comes to a similar conclusion as Bonnifield, in the sense that he disagrees with Worster’s thesis. Cunfer concludes that the Dust Bowl was of nature, not man-made, likely caused by a series of droughts within the area. As the previous Blevins piece stated, quantitative history is often not academic enough to make scholarly claims. While Cunfer’s research supports the claim that the Dust Bowl was not man-made, it does not fully prove it with evidence in the same way that Worster’s research does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Dust Bowl provides a wide range of interpretation, especially when answering the questions concerning the causes of the Dust Bowl. As\u00a0Gravity21\u00a0explains, historians such as “Worster believe[d] the Dust Bowl was the creation of man and their belief in capitalism.” Worster supports this by arguing the farmers’ land was not naturally intended to grow wheat, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-spring2017\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-spring2017\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-spring2017\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-spring2017\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-spring2017\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-spring2017\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1804,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-spring2017\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803\/revisions\/1804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-spring2017\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-spring2017\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-spring2017\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}