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Author : R. Douglas Hurt Publisher : U of Nebraska Press Page : 524 pages File Size : 45,6 Mb Release : 2008-06-01 Category : History ISBN : 9780803224094
The Great Plains During World War II by R. Douglas Hurt Pdf
An in-depth examination of the effects of World War II on the Great Plains states brings to life the voices and experiences of the residents of the region in recounting the stories of the daily concerns of ordinary people.
Author : R. Douglas Hurt Publisher : University of Arizona Press Page : 337 pages File Size : 48,9 Mb Release : 2011-09 Category : History ISBN : 9780816529728
The Great Plains, known for grasslands that stretch to the horizon, is a difficult region to define. Some classify it as the region beginning in the east at the ninety-eighth or one-hundredth meridian. Others identify the eastern boundary with annual precipitation lines, soil composition, or length of the grass. In The Big Empty, leading historian R. Douglas Hurt defines this region using the towns and cities—Denver, Lincoln, and Fort Worth—that made a difference in the history of the environment, politics, and agriculture of the Great Plains. Using the voices of women homesteaders, agrarian socialists, Jewish farmers, Mexican meatpackers, New Dealers, and Native Americans, this book creates a sweeping survey of contested race relations, radical politics, and agricultural prosperity and decline during the twentieth century. This narrative shows that even though Great Plains history is fraught with personal and group tensions, violence, and distress, the twentieth century also brought about compelling social, economic, and political change. The only book of its kind, this account will be of interest to historians studying the region and to anyone inspired by the story of the men and women who found an opportunity for a better life in the Great Plains.
Author : David J. Wishart Publisher : U of Nebraska Press Page : 962 pages File Size : 43,9 Mb Release : 2004-01-01 Category : History ISBN : 0803247877
Encyclopedia of the Great Plains by David J. Wishart Pdf
"Wishart and the staff of the Center for Great Plains Studies have compiled a wide-ranging (pun intended) encyclopedia of this important region. Their objective was to 'give definition to a region that has traditionally been poorly defined,' and they have
The fight against the Axis required sacrifice and dedication, and Nebraskans proudly answered the call. Three ordnance plants and two naval munitions depots brought employment and economic opportunities but also housing shortages and racial disturbances. The U.S. Army Air Corps established eleven air bases here, leading to community engagement through USOs and war bond drives. In central Nebraska, the North Platte Canteen welcomed thousands of service members en route to war on troop trains. Henry Doorly's successful scrap campaign became a model for a nationwide operation. Local farmers fed the nation, K-9 war dogs trained at Fort Robinson and native sons Ben Kuroki and Andrew Higgins affected the war in very different ways. Through detailed archival research, author Melissa Amateis tells the remarkable story of the Cornhusker State's homefront.
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 : Ronald C. Naugle,James C. Olson,John J. Montag Publisher : U of Nebraska Press Page : 471 pages File Size : 46,9 Mb Release : 2014-11-30 Category : History ISBN : 9780803286306
History of Nebraska, Fourth Edition by Ronald C. Naugle,James C. Olson,John J. Montag Pdf
History of Nebraska was originally created to mark the territorial centennial of Nebraska and then revised to coincide with the statehood centennial. This one-volume history quickly became the standard text for the college student and reference for the general reader, unmatched for generations as the only comprehensive history of the state. This fourth edition, revised and updated, preserves the spirit and intelligence of the original. Incorporating the results of years of scholarship and research, this edition gives fuller attention to such topics as the Native American experience in Nebraska and the accomplishments and circumstances of the state’s women and minorities. It also provides a historical analysis of the state’s dramatic changes in the past two decades.
Colorado Women in World War II by Gail M. Beaton Pdf
Four months before the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Mildred McClellan Melville, a member of the Denver Woman’s Press Club, predicted that war would come for the United States and that its long arm would reach into the lives of all Americans. And reach it did. Colorado women from every corner of the state enlisted in the military, joined the workforce, and volunteered on the home front. As military women, they served as nurses and in hundreds of noncombat positions. In defense plants they riveted steel, made bullets, inspected bombs, operated cranes, and stored projectiles. They hosted USO canteens, nursed in civilian hospitals, donated blood, drove Red Cross vehicles, and led scrap drives; and they processed hundreds of thousands of forms and reports. Whether or not they worked outside the home, they wholeheartedly participated in a kaleidoscope of activities to support the war effort. In Colorado Women in World War II Gail M. Beaton interweaves nearly eighty oral histories—including interviews, historical studies, newspaper accounts, and organizational records—and historical photographs (many from the interviewees themselves) to shed light on women’s participation in the war, exploring the dangers and triumphs they felt, the nature of their work, and the lasting ways in which the war influenced their lives. Beaton offers a new perspective on World War II—views from field hospitals, small steel companies, ammunition plants, college classrooms, and sugar beet fields—giving a rare look at how the war profoundly transformed the women of this state and will be a compelling new resource for readers, scholars, and students interested in Colorado history and women’s roles in World War II.
The Great Plains, Second Edition by Walter Prescott Webb Pdf
Walter Prescott Webb identifies the revolver, barbed wire, and the windmill as technological adaptations that facilitated Anglo conquest of the arid, treeless region of the Great Plains.
National Bestseller Most travelers only fly over the Great Plains--but Ian Frazier, ever the intrepid and wide-eyed wanderer, is not your average traveler. A hilarious and fascinating look at the great middle of our nation. With his unique blend of intrepidity, tongue-in-cheek humor, and wide-eyed wonder, Ian Frazier takes us on a journey of more than 25,000 miles up and down and across the vast and myth-inspiring Great Plains. A travelogue, a work of scholarship, and a western adventure, Great Plains takes us from the site of Sitting Bull's cabin, to an abandoned house once terrorized by Bonnie and Clyde, to the scene of the murders chronicled in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. It is an expedition that reveals the heart of the American West.
Great Plains Conservation Program, Hearing Before ..., 84-2 on H.R. 11831 and H.R. 11833, June 28, 1956 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture Pdf
Richard Edwards,Jacob K. Friefeld,Rebecca S. Wingo
Author : Richard Edwards,Jacob K. Friefeld,Rebecca S. Wingo Publisher : U of Nebraska Press Page : 294 pages File Size : 55,8 Mb Release : 2017-09 Category : History ISBN : 9781496202291
Homesteading the Plains by Richard Edwards,Jacob K. Friefeld,Rebecca S. Wingo Pdf
"Homesteading the Plains offers a bold new look at the history of homesteading, overturning what for decades has been the orthodox scholarly view. The authors begin by noting the striking disparity between the public's perception of homesteading as a cherished part of our national narrative and most scholars' harshly negative and dismissive treatment. Homesteading the Plains reexamines old data and draws from newly available digitized records to reassess the current interpretation's four principal tenets: homesteading was a minor factor in farm formation, with most Western farmers purchasing their land; most homesteaders failed to prove up their claims; the homesteading process was rife with corruption and fraud; and homesteading caused Indian land dispossession. Using data instead of anecdotes and focusing mainly on the nineteenth century, Homesteading the Plainsdemonstrates that the first three tenets are wrong and the fourth only partially true. In short, the public's perception of homesteading is perhaps more accurate than the one scholars have constructed. Homesteading the Plainsprovides the basis for an understanding of homesteading that is startlingly different from current scholarly orthodoxy. "--
Mammoths of the Great Plains by Eleanor Arnason Pdf
When President Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark to explore the West, he told them to look especially for mammoths. Jefferson had seen bones and tusks of the great beasts in Virginia, and he suspected—he hoped!—that they might still roam the Great Plains. In Eleanor Arnason’s imaginative alternate history, they do: shaggy herds thunder over the grasslands, living symbols of the oncoming struggle between the Native peoples and the European invaders. And in an unforgettable saga that soars from the badlands of the Dakotas to the icy wastes of Siberia, from the Russian Revolution to the AIM protests of the 1960s, Arnason tells of a modern woman’s struggle to use the weapons of DNA science to fulfill the ancient promises of her Lakota heritage. PLUS: “Writing SF During World War III,” and an Outspoken Interview that takes you straight into the heart and mind of one of today’s edgiest and most uncompromising speculative authors.
August Ludwig Hormay,Claude Carl Wakeland,Erling Hole,Floyd E. Moeller,Frank D. Whisler,George A. Pearson,James X. King,Jesse Raymond Thomas,John Leo Schwendiman,John Milton Webber,Morris M. Lindsey,Orus L. Bennett,Warren Richards Bailey,Alvin Dearing Ayers,Donald S. Douglas,J. H. Zeller,James Vermeer,Ronald Owens Aines,Thomas James Army,Atlee Lawrence Hafenrichter,Edwin Lory Cox,Herbert Ottmar Hetzer
Author : August Ludwig Hormay,Claude Carl Wakeland,Erling Hole,Floyd E. Moeller,Frank D. Whisler,George A. Pearson,James X. King,Jesse Raymond Thomas,John Leo Schwendiman,John Milton Webber,Morris M. Lindsey,Orus L. Bennett,Warren Richards Bailey,Alvin Dearing Ayers,Donald S. Douglas,J. H. Zeller,James Vermeer,Ronald Owens Aines,Thomas James Army,Atlee Lawrence Hafenrichter,Edwin Lory Cox,Herbert Ottmar Hetzer Publisher : Unknown Page : 626 pages File Size : 45,5 Mb Release : 1960 Category : Acreage allotments ISBN : UIUC:30112003547913
Supplement to Farming in the Great Plains by August Ludwig Hormay,Claude Carl Wakeland,Erling Hole,Floyd E. Moeller,Frank D. Whisler,George A. Pearson,James X. King,Jesse Raymond Thomas,John Leo Schwendiman,John Milton Webber,Morris M. Lindsey,Orus L. Bennett,Warren Richards Bailey,Alvin Dearing Ayers,Donald S. Douglas,J. H. Zeller,James Vermeer,Ronald Owens Aines,Thomas James Army,Atlee Lawrence Hafenrichter,Edwin Lory Cox,Herbert Ottmar Hetzer Pdf