Author: J. R. Stewart
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
A Standard History of Champaign County Illinois
Author: J. R. Stewart
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
The Heartland
Author: Kristin L. Hoganson
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525561633
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
A history of a quintessentially American place--the rural and small town heartland--that uncovers deep yet hidden currents of connection with the world. When Kristin L. Hoganson arrived in Champaign, Illinois, after teaching at Harvard, studying at Yale, and living in the D.C. metro area with various stints overseas, she expected to find her new home, well, isolated. Even provincial. After all, she had landed in the American heartland, a place where the nation's identity exists in its pristine form. Or so we have been taught to believe. Struck by the gap between reputation and reality, she determined to get to the bottom of history and myth. The deeper she dug into the making of the modern heartland, the wider her story became as she realized that she'd uncovered an unheralded crossroads of people, commerce, and ideas. But the really interesting thing, Hoganson found, was that over the course of American history, even as the region's connections with the rest of the planet became increasingly dense and intricate, the idea of the rural Midwest as a steadfast heartland became a stronger and more stubbornly immovable myth. In enshrining a symbolic heart, the American people have repressed the kinds of stories that Hoganson tells, of sweeping breadth and depth and soul. In The Heartland, Kristin L. Hoganson drills deep into the center of the country, only to find a global story in the resulting core sample. Deftly navigating the disconnect between history and myth, she tracks both the backstory of this region and the evolution of the idea of an unalloyed heart at the center of the land. A provocative and highly original work of historical scholarship, The Heartland speaks volumes about pressing preoccupations, among them identity and community, immigration and trade, and security and global power. And food. To read it is to be inoculated against using the word "heartland" unironically ever again.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525561633
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
A history of a quintessentially American place--the rural and small town heartland--that uncovers deep yet hidden currents of connection with the world. When Kristin L. Hoganson arrived in Champaign, Illinois, after teaching at Harvard, studying at Yale, and living in the D.C. metro area with various stints overseas, she expected to find her new home, well, isolated. Even provincial. After all, she had landed in the American heartland, a place where the nation's identity exists in its pristine form. Or so we have been taught to believe. Struck by the gap between reputation and reality, she determined to get to the bottom of history and myth. The deeper she dug into the making of the modern heartland, the wider her story became as she realized that she'd uncovered an unheralded crossroads of people, commerce, and ideas. But the really interesting thing, Hoganson found, was that over the course of American history, even as the region's connections with the rest of the planet became increasingly dense and intricate, the idea of the rural Midwest as a steadfast heartland became a stronger and more stubbornly immovable myth. In enshrining a symbolic heart, the American people have repressed the kinds of stories that Hoganson tells, of sweeping breadth and depth and soul. In The Heartland, Kristin L. Hoganson drills deep into the center of the country, only to find a global story in the resulting core sample. Deftly navigating the disconnect between history and myth, she tracks both the backstory of this region and the evolution of the idea of an unalloyed heart at the center of the land. A provocative and highly original work of historical scholarship, The Heartland speaks volumes about pressing preoccupations, among them identity and community, immigration and trade, and security and global power. And food. To read it is to be inoculated against using the word "heartland" unironically ever again.
1861-1865
Author: United States. Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission
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Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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1861-1865. By C. Percy Powell
Author: United States. Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Genealogical & Local History Books in Print
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Subject Catalog; of the Library of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
Author: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Library
Publisher: Greenwood-Heinemann Publishing
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
Publisher: Greenwood-Heinemann Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
Genealogical & Local History Books in Print
Author: Netti Schreiner-Yantis
Publisher: Genealogical Books in Print
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Publisher: Genealogical Books in Print
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Prairie Defender
Author: George R. Dekle
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809335972
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
In this unprecedented study of Lincoln's criminal cases, George Dekle demonstrates, through careful examination of Lincoln's murder cases and evaluation of his legal skills and abilities, that Lincoln was a competent, diligent criminal trial lawyer who knew the law and could argue it effectively to both judge and jury.
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809335972
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
In this unprecedented study of Lincoln's criminal cases, George Dekle demonstrates, through careful examination of Lincoln's murder cases and evaluation of his legal skills and abilities, that Lincoln was a competent, diligent criminal trial lawyer who knew the law and could argue it effectively to both judge and jury.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Publisher:
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Illinois Libraries
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Includes proceedings of the Illinois Library Association.
Publisher:
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Includes proceedings of the Illinois Library Association.