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Hoosiers : a new history of indiana / by Madison, James H.

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“Cap” Cornish, Indiana Pilot : Navigating the Century of Flight / by Ingraham, Ruth Ann

Table 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 / by Dearinger, Ryan, 1979-

Table 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 /

Table 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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