Hoosiers On The Home Front

Author : Dawn Bakken
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780253063472

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Hoosiers on the Home Front by Dawn Bakken Pdf

Wars are fought on the home front as well as the battlefront. Spouses, family, friends, and communities are called upon to sacrifice and persevere in the face of a changed reality. Hoosiers on the Home Front explores the lives and experiences of ordinary Hoosiers from around Indiana who were left to fight at home during wartimes. Drawn from the rich holdings of the Indiana Magazine of History, a journal of state and midwestern history published since 1905, this collection includes original diaries, letters and memoirs, and research essays—all focused on Hoosiers on the home front of the Civil War through the Vietnam War. Readers will meet, among others, Joshua Jones of the 19th Indiana Volunteer Regiment and his wife, Celia; Attia Porter, a young resident of Corydon, Indiana, writing to her cousin about Morgan's Raid; Civil War and World War I veterans who came into conflict over the Indianapolis 500 and Memorial Day observances; Virginia Mayberry, a wife and mother on the World War II home front; and university students and professors—including antiwar activist Howard Zinn and conservative writer R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.—clashing over the Vietnam War. Hoosiers on the Home Front offers a compelling glimpse of how war impacts everyone, even those who never saw the front line.

Author : Dawn Bakken
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780253056856

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Fighting Hoosiers by Dawn Bakken Pdf

Fighting Hoosiers: Indiana in Two World Wars tells the compelling, heartbreaking, and breathtaking stories of some of the hundreds of thousands of Hoosiers who served their country during the First and Second World Wars. Drawn from the rich holdings of the Indiana Magazine of History, a journal of state and midwestern history published since 1905, the collection includes original diaries, letters and memoirs, as well as research essays—all of them focused on Hoosiers in the two world wars. Readers will meet Alex Arch, a Hungarian-born immigrant who was the first American to fire a shot in World War I; Maude Essig, a nurse serving with the American Red Cross in wartime France; Kenneth Baker, a soldier in the Army Signal Corps, who crawled across French fields (sometimes over and around dead bodies) to lay phone lines for military communications; and Bernard Rice, a combat medic who witnessed the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp in 1945. Indiana's brave men and women like these have served with distinction in the armed forces since the earliest days of the Indiana Territory. Fighting Hoosiers offers a compelling glimpse at some of their remarkable stories.

Author : Madison, James H.,Sandweiss, Lee Ann
Publisher : Indiana Historical Society
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780871953636

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Hoosiers and the American Story by Madison, James H.,Sandweiss, Lee Ann Pdf

A supplemental textbook for middle and high school students, Hoosiers and the American Story provides intimate views of individuals and places in Indiana set within themes from American history. During the frontier days when Americans battled with and exiled native peoples from the East, Indiana was on the leading edge of America’s westward expansion. As waves of immigrants swept across the Appalachians and eastern waterways, Indiana became established as both a crossroads and as a vital part of Middle America. Indiana’s stories illuminate the history of American agriculture, wars, industrialization, ethnic conflicts, technological improvements, political battles, transportation networks, economic shifts, social welfare initiatives, and more. In so doing, they elucidate large national issues so that students can relate personally to the ideas and events that comprise American history. At the same time, the stories shed light on what it means to be a Hoosier, today and in the past.

Author : James H. Madison
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253013101

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Hoosiers by James H. Madison Pdf

The story of this Midwestern state and its people, past and present: “An entertaining and fast read.” ―Indianapolis Star Who are the people called Hoosiers? What are their stories? Two centuries ago, on the Indiana frontier, they were settlers who created a way of life they passed to later generations. They came to value individual freedom and distrusted government, even as they demanded that government remove Indians, sell them land, and bring democracy. Down to the present, Hoosiers have remained wary of government power and have taken care to guard their tax dollars and their personal independence. Yet the people of Indiana have always accommodated change, exchanging log cabins and spinning wheels for railroads, cities, and factories in the nineteenth century, automobiles, suburbs, and foreign investment in the twentieth. The present has brought new issues and challenges, as Indiana’s citizens respond to a rapidly changing world. James H. Madison’s sparkling new history tells the stories of these Hoosiers, offering an invigorating view of one of America’s distinctive states and the long and fascinating journey of its people.

Author : Ray E. Boomhower
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781439668900

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To Be Hoosiers by Ray E. Boomhower Pdf

Since Indiana joined the Union in 1816, residents and visitors alike have pondered the essential question: "What is a Hoosier?" The final answer may never be determined, but there are, at least, ways to understand the Hoosier character. It was African American pilots taking a stand for equal rights. It was a speech by a presidential candidate that helped keep peace on a tragic night. It was the triumph and near tragedy involving a Mercury Seven astronaut. And it was a sacrifice that ensured a crucial American victory in the Pacific during World War II. As Kurt Vonnegut once said, "I don't know what it is about Hoosiers, but wherever you go there is always a Hoosier doing something very important there." Award-winning biographer Ray E. Boomhower tells us why.

Author : Howard H. Peckham,Shirley A. Snyder
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253024602

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Letters from the Greatest Generation by Howard H. Peckham,Shirley A. Snyder Pdf

A collection of personal letters from overseas that reveal in day-to-day detail what it was like to serve in World War II. Recounting victory and defeat, love and loss, this is a remarkable and frank collection of World War II letters penned by American men and women serving overseas. Here, the hopes and dreams of the greatest generation fill each page, and their voices ring loud and clear. “It’s all part of the game but it’s bloody and rough,” writes one soldier to his wife. “Wearing two stripes now and as proud as an old cat with five kittens,” remarks another. Yet, as many countries rejoiced on V-E Day, this book reveals that soldiers were “too tired and sad to celebrate.” Filled with the everyday thoughts of these fighters, the letters are by turns heartbreaking and amusing, revealing and frightening. While visiting a German concentration camp, one man wrote, “I don’t like Army life but I’m glad we are here to stop these atrocities.” Meanwhile, in another letter a soldier quips, “I know lice don’t crawl so I figured they were fleas.” A fitting tribute to all veterans, this book brings the experience of war—its dramatic horrors, its dreary hardships, its desperate hope for a better future—to vivid life. “An intimate portrait of the mundane and remarkable, of heroism and terror, of friendship and loss . . . Timely, compelling, and important reading.”—Matthew L. Basso, author of Men at Work

Author : Alden Studebaker
Publisher : Author House
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781467843768

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Hoosieritis by Alden Studebaker Pdf

Is everyone in Indiana afflicted with an incurable disease? Thats what author, Alden Studebaker, would have you believe in his book Hoosieritis: The Contagious Condition that is Indiana. A native son of Indiana, Studebaker takes the reader on an anecdotal, farcical journey through the Hoosier State pointing out the distinctive ways the enigmatic disease of Hoosieritis impacts the lives of Indiana residents. The book is often irreverent, poking fun at Hoosier institutions, traditions, and peculiarities by presenting selected nonsensical facts about Indianas culture, history, people, and values. Its intent is to provoke robust conversations among Hoosiers about their home state, and spawn fresh, new observations of the concocted contagion. The book features twenty-four photos depicting Hoosieritis.

Author : Ralph D. Gray
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 025332629X

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Indiana History by Ralph D. Gray Pdf

These readings provide an overview of Indiana history based upon primary and secondary acounts of significant events and personalities. This treasure trove includes work by George Rogers Clark, Emma Lou Thornbrough, George Ade, Dan Wakefield, and many more.

Author : John J. Laukaitis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319966250

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Denominational Higher Education during World War II by John J. Laukaitis Pdf

This book examines how World War II affected denominational colleges who faced a national crisis in relationship to their Christian tenets and particular religious communities and student bodies. With denominational positions ranging from justifying the war in light of the existential threat that the United States faced to maintaining long-held beliefs of nonviolence, the multitude of institutional positions taken during World War II speaks to the scope of religious diversity within Christian higher education and the central issues of faith and service to God and country. Ultimately, Laukitis provides a particular lens to analyze the history of higher education during World War II through an examination of denominational institutions. The relationship between higher education, faith, and war offers depth to understanding the role of denominational colleges in articulating theological interpretations of war and their sense of responsibility as Christian liberal arts institutions in the United States.

Author : Jennifer St. John
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 919 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1989-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781681624433

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Posey Co, IN by Jennifer St. John Pdf

The history of Posey County, Indiana from 1913-1989, as well as Church, school, family history, clubs and organizations and business history.

Author : Lisa Schreibersdorf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89090317553

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Hyphens on the Home Front by Lisa Schreibersdorf Pdf

Author : Aaron Sheehan-Dean
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1223 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118802953

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A Companion to the U.S. Civil War by Aaron Sheehan-Dean Pdf

A Companion to the U.S. Civil War presents a comprehensive historiographical collection of essays covering all major military, political, social, and economic aspects of the American Civil War (1861-1865). Represents the most comprehensive coverage available relating to all aspects of the U.S. Civil War Features contributions from dozens of experts in Civil War scholarship Covers major campaigns and battles, and military and political figures, as well as non-military aspects of the conflict such as gender, emancipation, literature, ethnicity, slavery, and memory

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Indiana
ISBN : IND:30000129339879

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Hoosiers at Work by Anonim Pdf

Author : Randy Keith Mills
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114340123

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"Honoring Those who Paid the Price" by Randy Keith Mills Pdf

In December 1950 Donald Hamilton, a medic with the Eighth Army's Seventh Division, became trapped with the rest of his comrades under a fierce onslaught by Chinese troops at the Chosin Reservoir. As Hamilton prepared to escape to safety, he heard a fellow soldier scream for help. Disregarding a friend's plea not to return, Hamilton went back to offer aid. He was never seen again. Donald Hamilton is one of the 927 Hoosiers killed in the Korean War. The story of those who died, those who served, and the loved ones back home who struggled to understand the horrors of war are examined in this book. Randy K. Mills personally interviewed a number of Hoosier veterans of the war, reviewed letters from veterans to loved ones back home, perused local and national media accounts, and consulted definitive historical studies about the conflict.

Author : Steve Hardwick,Duane E. Hodgin
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781475966596

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WW II, Duty, Honor, Country by Steve Hardwick,Duane E. Hodgin Pdf

"This book was written to provide and preserve an oral history of the eighty-four men and women who were interviewed...sharing their memories of World War II. The stories include seventy-six veterans and eight women who served as USO volunteers, Red Cross service workers, a Holocaust survivor, and women who worked on the home front...All of the veterans and the women who served in various support roles have a connection to Indiana"--from the Preface.