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Book Synopsis The Heritage of the Middle West by : John Joseph Murray
Download or read book The Heritage of the Middle West written by John Joseph Murray and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Heritage of the Middle West by : John J. Murray
Download or read book The Heritage of the Middle West written by John J. Murray and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Heritage of the Middle West. Ed. by J.J. Murray. [With Contribs of R.A. Billington, P. Sharp, J.D. Hicks A.o.]. by : J. J. Murray
Download or read book The Heritage of the Middle West. Ed. by J.J. Murray. [With Contribs of R.A. Billington, P. Sharp, J.D. Hicks A.o.]. written by J. J. Murray and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis One-room Schools of the Middle West by : Wayne Edison Fuller
Download or read book One-room Schools of the Middle West written by Wayne Edison Fuller and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Midwest's one-room schools were, Fuller observes, the most democratic in the nation. Located in small, independent school districts, these schools virtually wiped out illiteracy, promoted democratic values, and opened up new vistas beyond the borders of their students' lives. Entire communities, Fuller shows, revolved around these schools. At various times they were used as churches, polling places, sites of political caucuses, and meeting halls for local organizations. But as America urbanized and the movement to consolidate took hold in rural counties, these little centers of learning were left at the margins of the educational system. Some were torn down, some left to weather away, some sold at auction, and still others transformed into museums. Despite its demise, Fuller argues, here was a school system that worked. His book offers a timely reminder of what schools can accomplish when communities work closely together to educate their children.
Book Synopsis The Minds of the West by : Jon Gjerde
Download or read book The Minds of the West written by Jon Gjerde and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the century preceding World War I, the American Middle West drew thousands of migrants both from Europe and from the northeastern United States. In the American mind, the region represented a place where social differences could be muted and a distinctly American culture created. Many of the European groups, however, viewed the Midwest as an area of opportunity because it allowed them to retain cultural and religious traditions from their homelands. Jon Gjerde examines the cultural patterns, or "minds," that those settling the Middle West carried with them. He argues that such cultural transplantation could occur because patterns of migration tended to reunite people of similar pasts and because the rural Midwest was a vast region where cultural groups could sequester themselves in tight-knit settlements built around familial and community institutions. Gjerde compares patterns of development and acculturation across immigrant groups, exploring the frictions and fissures experienced within and between communities. Finally, he examines the means by which individual ethnic groups built themselves a representative voice, joining the political and social debate on both a regional and national level.
Book Synopsis Painters of the Plains by : Eugene Kingman
Download or read book Painters of the Plains written by Eugene Kingman and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Middle West has put its stamp on many artists' work.
Book Synopsis The Heritage of the Middle West. [By Various Authors.] Edited by J.J. Murray. [With Plates.]. by : John Joseph MURRAY
Download or read book The Heritage of the Middle West. [By Various Authors.] Edited by J.J. Murray. [With Plates.]. written by John Joseph MURRAY and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Heroes of the Middle West by : Mary Hartwell Catherwood
Download or read book Heroes of the Middle West written by Mary Hartwell Catherwood and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Heroes of the Middle West: The French Let any one who thinks it an easy task attempt to cover the French discovery and occupation of the middle west, from Marquette and Jolliet to the pulling down of the French flag on Fort Chartres, vivifying men, and while condensing events, putting a moving picture before the eye. Let him prepare this picture for young minds accustomed only to the modern aspect of things and demanding a light, sure touch. Let him gather his material - as I have done - from Parkman, Shea, Joutel, Hennepin, St. Cosine, Monette, Winsor, Roosevelt - from state records, and local traditions richer and oftener more reliable than history; and let him hang over his theme with brooding affection, moulding and remoulding its forms. He will find the task he so lightly set himself a terribly hard and exhausting one, and will appreciate as he never before appreciated the labors of those who work in historic fields. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Heroes of the Middle West the French by : Mary Hartwell Catherwood
Download or read book Heroes of the Middle West the French written by Mary Hartwell Catherwood and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heroes of the Middle West The French by Mary Hartwell Catherwood Huron and Ottawa Indians, with the priest left in charge of them, stood on the beach to see Marquette embark, -the water running up to their feet and receding with the everlasting wash of the straits. Behind them the shore line of St. Ignace was bent like a long bow. Northward, beyond the end of the bow, a rock rose in the air as tall as a castle. But very humble was the small mission station which Father Marquette had founded when driven with his flock from his post on the Upper Lakes by the Iroquois. A chapel of strong cedar posts covered with bark, his own hut, and the lodges of his people were all surrounded by pointed palisades. Opposite St. Ignace, across a league or so of water, rose the turtle-shaped back of Michilimackinac Island, venerated by the tribes, in spite of their religious teaching, as a home of mysterious giant fairies who made gurgling noises in the rocks along the beach or floated vast and cloud-like through high pine forests. The evergreens on Michilimackinac showed as if newborn through the haze of undefined deciduous trees, for it was May weather, which means that the northern world had not yet leaped into sudden and glorious summer. Though the straits glittered under a cloudless sky, a chill lingered in the wind, and only the basking stone ledges reflected warmth. The clear elastic air was such a perfect medium of sight that it allowed the eye to distinguish open beach rims from massed forests two or three leagues away on the south shore, and seemed to bring within stone's throw those nearer islands now called Round and Bois Blanc. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Book Synopsis The Middle West - Its Heritage and Its Role ... by : Roscoe Carlyle Buley
Download or read book The Middle West - Its Heritage and Its Role ... written by Roscoe Carlyle Buley and published by . This book was released on 1944* with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Middle West in American History by : Dan Elbert Clark
Download or read book The Middle West in American History written by Dan Elbert Clark and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Heroes of the Middle West by : Mary Hartwell Catherwood
Download or read book Heroes of the Middle West written by Mary Hartwell Catherwood and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Middle West by : James R. Shortridge
Download or read book The Middle West written by James R. Shortridge and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortridge (cultural geography, U. of Kansas) examines the idea of the Middle West, relating the changing meaning of the term, regional identity, thepastoralism of the area. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Book Synopsis A Family of the Middle West by : John Alexander Hanna
Download or read book A Family of the Middle West written by John Alexander Hanna and published by . This book was released on 194? with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Shaping of America's Heartland by : Betty Flanders Thomson
Download or read book The Shaping of America's Heartland written by Betty Flanders Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomson presents a detailed history of the natural events that shaped the terrain of the Middle West and an interpretation of the dynamic forces which continue to change its landscapes. Drawing on the sciences of ecology, botany and geology, she describes a land of magnificent fertility and mineral wealth and traces man's influence on the land back to the Indians and the lives and efforts of the early settlers and farmers.
Book Synopsis Medieval Foundations of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 400-1400 by : Marcia L. Colish
Download or read book Medieval Foundations of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 400-1400 written by Marcia L. Colish and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This magisterial book is an analysis of the course of Western intellectual history between A.D. 400 and 1400. The book is arranged in two parts: the first surveys the comparative modes of thought and varying success of Byzantine, Latin-Christian, and Muslim cultures, and the second takes the reader from the eleventh-century revival of learning to the high Middle Ages and beyond, the period in which the vibrancy of Western intellectual culture enabled it to stamp its imprint well beyond the frontiers of Christendom. Marcia Colish argues that the foundations of the Western intellectual tradition were laid in the Middle Ages and not, as is commonly held, in the Judeo-Christian or classical periods. She contends that Western medieval thinkers produced a set of tolerances, tastes, concerns, and sensibilities that made the Middle Ages unlike other chapters of the Western intellectual experience. She provides astute descriptions of the vernacular and oral culture of each country of Europe; explores the nature of medieval culture and its transmission; profiles seminal thinkers (Augustine, Anselm, Gregory the Great, Aquinas, Ockham); studies heresy from Manichaeism to Huss and Wycliffe; and investigates the influence of Arab and Jewish writing on scholasticism and the resurrection of Greek studies. Colish concludes with an assessment of the modes of medieval thought that ended with the period and those that remained as bases for later ages of European intellectual history.
Book Synopsis A Life on the Middle West's Never-Ending Frontier by : Willard L. Boyd
Download or read book A Life on the Middle West's Never-Ending Frontier written by Willard L. Boyd and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: University of Iowa legend Willard L. “Sandy” Boyd is a proud middle westerner. His decades of service to the university began in 1954, when he arrived as a law professor. He later became president of the University of Iowa from 1969 to 1981, and led the school through times that were fraught not just for the university but for the country. During the intense polarization of the late sixties and early seventies, Sandy’s compassion and steady leadership ensured that dissent on campus would be honored and would not stop the university’s educational mission. He quickly became admired, not simply for his professional achievements but also for his personal integrity. His memoir, interspersed with personal wisdom gleaned over more than six decades of service and leadership, encapsulates Sandy’s shrewd yet optimistic view of the public university as an institution. At every stage in his life—in the U.S. Navy during World War II, while practicing law or teaching, and in leadership positions at Chicago’s Field Museum and the University of Iowa— Sandy relied on his principles of open disclosure, inclusiveness, and respect for differences to guide him on issues that matter. This chronicle of Sandy’s experiences throughout his life shows us the evolution both of the University of Iowa and of the nation writ large. More importantly, this book gives us a lens through which to examine our present situation, whether debating free speech on campus, the role of the arts and humanities in civil society, or the importance of funding for educational and cultural institutions.