Author: Martin Wendell Odland
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Category : Governors
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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The Life of Knute Nelson
Author: Martin Wendell Odland
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Category : Governors
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Category : Governors
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Senators of the United States
Author: Diane B. Boyle
Publisher: Government Printing Office
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
S. Doc. 103-34. Compiled by Jo Anne McCormick Quatannens, Diane B. Boyle, editorial assistant, prepared under the direction of Kelly D. Johnston, Secretary of the Senate. Lists scholarly works that profile the lives and legislative service of senators and their autobiographies and other published works.
Publisher: Government Printing Office
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
S. Doc. 103-34. Compiled by Jo Anne McCormick Quatannens, Diane B. Boyle, editorial assistant, prepared under the direction of Kelly D. Johnston, Secretary of the Senate. Lists scholarly works that profile the lives and legislative service of senators and their autobiographies and other published works.
Senators of the United States
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Category : Legislators
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Category : Legislators
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Labor Digest
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Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen's Magazine
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Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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Minnesota History
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Category : Minnesota
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Vol. 6 includes the 23d Biennial report of the Society, 1923/24, as an extra number.
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Category : Minnesota
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Vol. 6 includes the 23d Biennial report of the Society, 1923/24, as an extra number.
The Wisconsin Magazine
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Category : Tourism
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Category : Tourism
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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The American-Scandinavian Review
Author: Henry Goddard Leach
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Category : Scandinavia
Languages : en
Pages : 662
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Vol. 14, no. 5 (May 1926) is special issue devoted to John Ericsson.
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Category : Scandinavia
Languages : en
Pages : 662
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Vol. 14, no. 5 (May 1926) is special issue devoted to John Ericsson.
The New Success
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Category : Success
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
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Category : Success
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
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The Good Country
Author: Jon K. Lauck
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806191414
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
At the center of American history is a hole—a gap where some scholars’ indifference or disdain has too long stood in for the true story of the American Midwest. A first-ever chronicle of the Midwest’s formative century, The Good Country restores this American heartland to its central place in the nation’s history. Jon K. Lauck, the premier historian of the region, puts midwestern “squares” center stage—an unorthodox approach that leads to surprising conclusions. The American Midwest, in Lauck’s cogent account, was the most democratically advanced place in the world during the nineteenth century. The Good Country describes a rich civic culture that prized education, literature, libraries, and the arts; developed a stable social order grounded in Victorian norms, republican virtue, and Christian teachings; and generally put democratic ideals into practice to a greater extent than any nation to date. The outbreak of the Civil War and the fight against the slaveholding South only deepened the Midwest’s dedication to advancing a democratic culture and solidified its regional identity. The “good country” was, of course, not the “perfect country,” and Lauck devotes a chapter to the question of race in the Midwest, finding early examples of overt racism but also discovering a steady march toward racial progress. He also finds many instances of modest reforms enacted through the democratic process and designed to address particular social problems, as well as significant advances for women, who were active in civic affairs and took advantage of the Midwest’s openness to women in higher education. Lauck reaches his conclusions through a measured analysis that weighs historical achievements and injustices, rejects the acrimonious tones of the culture wars, and seeks a new historical discourse grounded in fair readings of the American past. In a trying time of contested politics and culture, his book locates a middle ground, fittingly, in the center of the country.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806191414
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
At the center of American history is a hole—a gap where some scholars’ indifference or disdain has too long stood in for the true story of the American Midwest. A first-ever chronicle of the Midwest’s formative century, The Good Country restores this American heartland to its central place in the nation’s history. Jon K. Lauck, the premier historian of the region, puts midwestern “squares” center stage—an unorthodox approach that leads to surprising conclusions. The American Midwest, in Lauck’s cogent account, was the most democratically advanced place in the world during the nineteenth century. The Good Country describes a rich civic culture that prized education, literature, libraries, and the arts; developed a stable social order grounded in Victorian norms, republican virtue, and Christian teachings; and generally put democratic ideals into practice to a greater extent than any nation to date. The outbreak of the Civil War and the fight against the slaveholding South only deepened the Midwest’s dedication to advancing a democratic culture and solidified its regional identity. The “good country” was, of course, not the “perfect country,” and Lauck devotes a chapter to the question of race in the Midwest, finding early examples of overt racism but also discovering a steady march toward racial progress. He also finds many instances of modest reforms enacted through the democratic process and designed to address particular social problems, as well as significant advances for women, who were active in civic affairs and took advantage of the Midwest’s openness to women in higher education. Lauck reaches his conclusions through a measured analysis that weighs historical achievements and injustices, rejects the acrimonious tones of the culture wars, and seeks a new historical discourse grounded in fair readings of the American past. In a trying time of contested politics and culture, his book locates a middle ground, fittingly, in the center of the country.