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Book Synopsis The War Comes to Plum Street by : Bruce C. Smith
Download or read book The War Comes to Plum Street written by Bruce C. Smith and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2005-02-16 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How World War II changed New Castle, Indiana. “This is a unique look at the war, far from the front lines, but equally impacting life on the home front.” —Bookviews.com The War Comes to Plum Street brings to life the Second World War through the eyes of a small group of neighbors from a Midwestern town. Bruce C. Smith presents their stories just as they happened, without explanation or interpretation. To experience the war as they did, insofar as it is possible, we must understand how they perceived everyday events and recognize the incompleteness of their knowledge of what was taking place in Europe and the Pacific. The inhabitants of Plum Street in New Castle, Indiana, resemble many other average Americans of their day. As we discover how they experienced those fateful years, these Americans may have something to teach us about how we live in our own turbulent time. “This remains a superb story. Bruce C. Smith has a wonderful eye for detail and a compelling perspective and voice. We care about this place and the people who live here.” —James H. Madison, author of Hoosiers: A New History of Indiana “The book is worth reading for what it offers about the emotional life of the times. Smith recognizes that in a small community and, more particularly, on a single street, lives are enmeshed . . . Ultimately, this book is deeply personal, but it reminds us that life is lived at a deeply personal level.” —HistoryNet.com
Book Synopsis The Forgotten Generation by : Lisa L. Ossian
Download or read book The Forgotten Generation written by Lisa L. Ossian and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2011-05-23 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the effect of the challenges of World War II on American children and teenagers.
Download or read book Hoosiers written by James H. Madison and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Home Fronts of Iowa, 1939-1945 by : Lisa L. Ossian
Download or read book The Home Fronts of Iowa, 1939-1945 written by Lisa L. Ossian and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2009-10-16 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Americans geared up for World War II, each state responded according to its economy and circumstances—as well as the disposition of its citizens. This book considers the war years in Iowa by looking at activity on different home fronts and analyzing the resilience of Iowans in answering the call to support the war effort. With its location in the center of the country, far from potentially threatened coasts, Iowa was also the center of American isolationism—historically Republican and resistant to involvement in another European war. Yet Iowans were quick to step up, and Lisa Ossian draws on historical archives as well as on artifacts of popular culture to record the rhetoric and emotion of their support. Ossian shows how Iowans quickly moved from skepticism to overwhelming enthusiasm for the war and answered the call on four fronts: farms, factories, communities, and kitchens. Iowa’s farmers faced labor and machinery shortages, yet produced record amounts of crops and animals—even at the expense of valuable topsoil. Ordnance plants turned out bombs and machine gun bullets. Meanwhile, communities supported war bond and scrap drives, while housewives coped with rationing, raised Victory gardens, and turned to home canning. The Home Fronts of Iowa, 1939–1945 depicts real people and their concerns, showing the price paid in physical and mental exhaustion and notes the heavy toll exacted on Iowa’s sons who fell in battle. Ossian also considers the relevance of such issues as race, class, and gender—particularly the role of women on the home front and the recruitment of both women and blacks for factory work—taking into account a prevalent suspicion of ethnic groups by the state’s largely homogeneous population. The fact that Iowans could become loyal citizen soldiers—forming an Industrial and Defense Commission even before Pearl Harbor—speaks not only to the patriotism of these sturdy midwesterners but also to the overall resilience of Americans. In unraveling how Iowans could so overwhelmingly support the war, Ossian digs deep into history to show us the power of emotion—and to help us better understand why World War II is consistently remembered as “the Good War.”
Book Synopsis At Grandma's House by : H. Byron Earhart
Download or read book At Grandma's House written by H. Byron Earhart and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2020-08-21 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illinois State Historical Society Certificate of Excellence Winner, 2021 When H. Byron Earhart’s father enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1942, young Byron and his family moved into his grandparents' old-fashioned home with a coal-fired range and potbelly stove, and his mother took charge of the family business, a frozen food locker. Grandma was the undisputed head of the family. While his father served on the battleship USS Missouri, his grandparents and mother held the family and the business together. At Grandma’s House is a tribute to everyday Americans who provided the social glue for a country at war as they balanced fear and anxiety for loved ones with the challenges and pleasures of daily life. The experiences of the Earhart family and this Midwestern community, supplemented by contemporary documents, family photos, and professional illustrations, recount with vivid local color the drama that played out on the national and international stage.
Download or read book Annals of Iowa written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kiss Good Night written by Amy Hest and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An enchanting little story, with homey illustrations that add to its appeal." — School Library Journal(starred review) Features an audio read-along! Outside, the wind blows and the rain comes down. Inside, it is Sam’s bedtime. Mrs. Bear reads him a story, tucks him in, and brings him warm milk. "Are you ready now, Sam?" she asks. "I’m waiting," he says. What else does Sam need before going to sleep? Could Mrs. Bear have forgotten a kiss?
Download or read book Plum Street written by C G Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 2013-10-25 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plum Street is based upon a true story as it relates to the authors association with the street during the anti-war movement and the sexual, cultural revolution. Plum Street was a moment in time where both men and women could relax their inhibitions and find love, sex, and pleasure outside the confines of marriage and commitment. It was a playground for fun and excitement, for dropping-out and dropping-in if only for brief periods, and a place where meeting others was encouraged. It was a time of hippies, protesters, drop-outs, love-ins, free love, drugs, experimentation, and anything else that deviated from established norms. It was an escape from the restrictions of the rigid rules of our Victorian lifestyle. Plum Street was an exciting experience in a remarkable time in Detroit's history. It was a wonderful time to have lived. C.G. Mitchell owned a total of five different businesses on Plum Street and has first hand knowledge of events associated with the street and the times.
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Book Synopsis War Expenditures by : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Expenditures in the War Department
Download or read book War Expenditures written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Expenditures in the War Department and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book American Book Publishing Record written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis They Dragged Them Through the Streets by : Hilary Plum
Download or read book They Dragged Them Through the Streets written by Hilary Plum and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hilary Plum's grave and elegant novel They Dragged Them Through the Streets is a bold meditation on human suffering and the sorrowful challenges of men and women striving for collective change.
Book Synopsis Grandeur and Grace in the Ohio Country; Building America from the Ground Up, 1784-1860 by : William E. Firestone
Download or read book Grandeur and Grace in the Ohio Country; Building America from the Ground Up, 1784-1860 written by William E. Firestone and published by William Firestone. This book was released on with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis What We've Learned about World War II by : James H. Madison
Download or read book What We've Learned about World War II written by James H. Madison and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book War Expenditures written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Annual Report of the Secretary of War by : United States. War Department
Download or read book Annual Report of the Secretary of War written by United States. War Department and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Cincinnati in the Civil War: The Union's Queen City by : David L. Mowery
Download or read book Cincinnati in the Civil War: The Union's Queen City written by David L. Mowery and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Civil War, Cincinnati played a crucial role in preserving the United States. Not only was the city the North's most populous in the west, but it was also the nation's third-most productive manufacturing center. Instrumental in the Underground Railroad prior to the conflict, the city became a focal point for curbing Southern incursion into Union territory, and nearby Camp Dennison was Ohio's largest camp in the Civil War and one of the largest in the United States. Cincinnati historian David L. Mowery examines the many different facets of the Queen City during the war, from the enlistment of the city's area residents in more than 590 Federal regiments and artillery units to the city's production of seventy-eight U.S. Navy gunboats for the nation's rivers. As the Union's "Queen City," Cincinnati lived up to its name. --Back cover.
Book Synopsis Program of the ... Annual Meeting by : American Historical Association. Meeting
Download or read book Program of the ... Annual Meeting written by American Historical Association. Meeting and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
