Search Results - "Hoosier"
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Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy Gennett Records and the rise of America's musical grassroots /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…-- A new wind is blowing through Chicago -- Jazz hysteria in the Hoosier state? -- Old-time music in the new electronic era -- When Gennett Records gets the blues -- Yet the music lives on -- Suggested listening : fifty classics by Gennett Records.…”
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The last titan a life of Theodore Dreiser /
Published 2005Table of Contents: “…Hoosier hard times -- A very bard of a city -- This matter of reporting -- Survival of the fittest -- Editorial days -- The writer -- Sister Carrie -- Down hill and up -- Return of the novelist -- Life after the Titanic -- The genius himself -- Back to the future -- An American tragedy -- Celebrity -- Tragic America -- Facing West -- Selected works of Theodore Dreiser.…”
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“Cap” Cornish, Indiana Pilot : Navigating the Century of Flight /
Published 2014Table of Contents: “…Growing up Hoosier -- His head in the clouds -- Back to Earth -- The lure of the skies -- Fellowship forged through flight -- How to grow an airport -- A new Baer field and a struggling old -- Keeping the home skies safe -- Calming the turbulence -- Culmination of a life in flight -- Never call it quits -- "Cap's last flight" by Betty Nicholas.…”
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The filth of progress : immigrants, Americans, and the building of canals and railroads in the West /
Published 2016Table of Contents: “…"Bind the Republic together" : canals, railroads, and the paradox of American progress -- Immigrant labor and the American imagination : Irish ditchdiggers, the triumph of progress, and the contest of canal communities in the Hoosier State -- "Abuse of the labour and lives of men" : Irish construction workers and the violence of progress on the Illinois transportation frontier -- "Hell (and Heaven) on wheels" : Mormons, immigrants, and the reconstruction of American progress and masculinity on the transcontinental railroad -- "The greatest monument of human labor" : Chinese immigrants, the landscape of progress, and the work of building and celebrating the transcontinental railroad -- End-of-track : reflections on the history of immigrant labor and American progress.…”
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A century of eugenics in America from the Indiana experiment to the human genome era /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…The Indiana origins of eugenic sterilization: The hoosier connection : compulsory sterilization as moral hygiene / Elof Axel Carlson ; The Indiana way of eugenics : sterilization laws, 1907-74 / Jason S. …”
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