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Store Almost in Sight
The Economic Transformation of Missouri from the Louisiana Purchase to the Civil War
Av Jeff Bremer
Häftad, 2014
359 kr
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A Store Almost in Sight tells the story of commercial development in central Missouri from the early days of American settlement following the Louisiana Purchase to the Civil War. Focusing on those counties near or on the Missouri River, historian Jeff Bremer confirms that the history of the …
Transcendental Meditation in America
How a New Age Movement Remade a Small Town in Iowa
Av Joseph Weber
Häftad, 2014
161 kr
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The Indian spiritual entrepreneur Maharishi Mahesh Yogi took the West by storm in the 1960s and ’70s, charming Baby Boomers fed up with war and social upheaval with his message of meditation and peace. Heeding his call, two thousand followers moved to tiny Fairfield, Iowa, to set up their own …
Woman Suffrage and Citizenship in the Midwest, 1870-1920
Av Sara Egge
Häftad, 2018
756 kr
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Historian Sara Egge offers critical insights into the woman suffrage movement by exploring how it emerged in small Midwestern communities—in Clay County, Iowa; Lyon County, Minnesota; and Yankton County, South Dakota. Examining this grassroots activism offers a new approach that uncovers the …
Dakota in Exile
The Untold Stories of Captives in the Aftermath of the U.S.-Dakota War
Häftad, 2019
325 kr
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Robert Hopkins was a man caught between two worlds. As a member of the Dakota Nation, he was unfairly imprisoned, accused of taking up arms against U.S. soldiers when war broke out with the Dakota in 1862. However, as a Christian convert who was also a preacher, Hopkins's allegiance was often …
Atlas of Iowa
Av Robert C. Shepard, Patrick Bitterman m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
477 kr
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From Iowa Territory’s nail-bitingly close referenda for statehood to the rise and subsequent erasure of German language media, Atlas of Iowa examines the state’s geography, demographics, agriculture, and political/cultural patterns. Drawing upon archival materials and synthesizing little-known …
Imaging Animal Industry
American Meatpacking in Photography and Visual Culture
Häftad, 2024
712 kr
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Imaging Animal Industry focuses on the visual culture of the American meat industry between 1890 and 1960. It describes how, during that period, photographs and other images helped to shape public perceptions of industrial-scale meat production. Although the meat industry today bans most …
We Were Still Ladies
Gender and Industrial Unionism in the Midwest after World War II
Häftad, 2025
668 kr
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Following World War II, women living in small towns and on farms across the Midwest woke every morning, packed their lunches, and headed out for a long day of work in a nearby factory. Many of these women never envisioned themselves as industrial workers, but the political and economic changes …
What Happens Next?
Matters of Life and Death
Häftad, 2013
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What is life about but the continuous posing of the questions: what happens next, and what do we make of it when it arrives? In these highly evocative personal essays, Douglas Bauer weaves together the stories of his own and his parents’ lives, the meals they ate, the work and rewards and regrets …
Lost Region
Toward a Revival of Midwestern History
Av Jon K. Lauck
Häftad, 2013
315 kr
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The American Midwest is an orphan among regions. In comparison to the South, the far West, and New England, its history has been sadly neglected. To spark more attention to their region, midwestern historians will need to explain the Midwest’s crucial roles in the development of the entire country: …
Necessary Courage
Iowa's Underground Railroad in the Struggle against Slavery
Häftad, 2013
227 kr
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During the 1850s and early 1860s, Iowa, the westernmost free state bordering a slave state, stood as a bulwark of antislavery sentiment while the decades-long struggle over slavery shifted westward. On its southern border lay Missouri, the northernmost slaveholding state. To its west was the …
Drake Relays
America's Athletic Classic
Häftad, 2014
234 kr
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The Drake Relays are one of the iconic events of track and field in the United States. World and Olympic champions test their speed and stamina on the famed Blue Oval in Des Moines, Iowa, every April, and by spring 2013 they had set fourteen world records and fifty-one American records. But unlike …
Iowa State Fair
Av Kurt Ullrich
Häftad, 2014
238 kr
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Every year in early August, a breeze borne by silent messengers from another time blows through Iowa. It carries a whiff of something wonderful, something far off and a bit unclear, yet oddly familiar. It’s a reminder that an extraordinary annual event is about to take place, just as it has for …
Dubuque's Forgotten Cemetery
Excavating a Nineteenth-Century Burial Ground in a Twenty-first Century City
Häftad, 2015
249 kr
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Atop a scenic bluff overlooking the Mississippi River and downtown Dubuque there once lay a graveyard dating to the 1830s, the earliest days of American settlement in Iowa. Though many local residents knew the property had once been a Catholic burial ground, they believed the graves had been moved …
Equal Before the Law
How Iowa Led Americans to Marriage Equality
Av Tom Witosky
Häftad, 2015
163 kr
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“We’ve been together in sickness and in health, through the death of his mother, through the adoption of our children, through four long years of this legal battle,” Jason Morgan told reporters of himself and his partner, Chuck Swaggerty. “And if being together through all of that isn’t love and …
Carnival in the Countryside
The History of the Iowa State Fair
Häftad, 2015
249 kr
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More than a century and a half after its founding, the Iowa State Fair is the state’s central institution, event, and symbol. New Jersey has the Shore; Kentucky has the Derby; Iowa has the Fair. The humble Iowa State Fairground ranks alongside the Great Pyramidsat Giza and the Taj Mahal in the …
Jefferson Highway
Blazing the Way from Winnipeg to New Orleans
Häftad, 2016
271 kr
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Today American motorists can count on being able to drive to virtually any town or city in the continental United States on a hard surface. That was far from being true in the early twentieth century, when the automobile was new and railroads still dominated longdistance travel. Then, the roads …
Sacred Cause of Union
Häftad, 2016
257 kr
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The Sacred Cause of Union highlights Iowans’ important role in reuniting the nation when the battle over slavery tore it asunder. In this first-ever survey of the state’s Civil War history, Thomas Baker interweaves economics, politics, army recruitment, battlefield performance, and government …
From Warm Center to Ragged Edge
The Erosion of Midwestern Literary and Historical Regionalism, 1920-1965
Av Jon K. Lauck
Häftad, 2017
249 kr
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During the half-century after the Civil War, intellectuals and politicians assumed the Midwest to be the font and heart of American culture. Despite the persistence of strong currents of midwestern regionalism during the 1920s and 1930s, the region went into eclipse during the post–World War II …
Harvest of Hazards
Family Farming, Accidents, and Expertise in the Corn Belt, 1940-1975
Häftad, 2017
563 kr
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Farming has always been a dangerous occupation. In the middle of the twentieth century, as farmers adopted a wide array of new technologies, from tractors to pesticides and fertilizers, the dangers became more acute. The economic pressures that agriculture faced in this period compounded the perils …
Angel De Cora, Karen Thronson, and the Art of Place
How Two Midwestern Women Used Art to Negotiate Migration and Dispossession
Häftad, 2020
447 kr
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Angel De Cora (c. 1870-1919) was a Native Ho-Chunk artist who received relative acclaim during her lifetime. Karen Thronson (1850–1929) was a Norwegian settler housewife who created crafts and folk art in obscurity along with the other women of her small immigrant community. The immigration of …
Plea
The True Story of Young Wesley Elkins and His Struggle for Redemption
Av Patricia L. Bryan, Thomas Wolf
Häftad, 2022
189 kr
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On a moonlit night in 1889, Iowa farmer John Elkins and his young wife, Hattie, were brutally murdered in their bed. Eight days later, their son, eleven-year-old Wesley Elkins, was arrested and charged with murder. The community reeled with shock by both the gruesome details of the homicides and …
