Search Results - "Hoosier"

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

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Hoosier public enemy : a life of John Dillinger / by Beineke, John A.

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19 stars of Indiana exceptional Hoosier women / by Maurer, Michael S.

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A year in place

Table of Contents: “…May : Racing in place : 33 Hoosier haiku /…”
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Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy Gennett Records and the rise of America's musical grassroots / by Kennedy, Rick, 1956-

Table 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 / by Loving, Jerome, 1941-

Table 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 / 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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A Force for Change : The Class of 1950 / by Norberg, John

Table of Contents: “…"We had a great wrestling team" : Hoosier hysteria goes to the mat -- Chapter 12. "I never did go home" : students from faraway places -- Chapter 13. …”
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