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Category : Indiana
Languages : en
Pages : 902
Book Description
Indiana Quarterly Magazine of History
Author: The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Indiana Magazine of History
Author: A Generation at War
Author: Nicole EtchesonPublisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700635157
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
For all that has been written about the Civil War's impact on the urban northeast and southern home fronts, we have until now lacked a detailed picture of how it affected specific communities in the Union's Midwestern heartland. Nicole Etcheson offers a deeply researched microhistory of one such community--Putnam County, Indiana, from the Compromise of 1850 to the end of Reconstruction-and shows how its citizens responded to and were affected by the war. Delving into the everyday life of a small town in one of the nineteenth century's bellwether states, A Generation at War considers the Civil War within a much broader chronological context than other accounts. It ranges across three decades to show how the issues of the day-particularly race and sectionalism-temporarily displaced economic and temperance concerns, how the racial attitudes of northern whites changed, and how a generation of young men and women coped with the transformative experience of war. Etcheson interrelates an impressively wide range of topics. Through temperance and alcohol she illustrates nativism and class consciousness, while through an account of a murder she probes ethnicity, politics, and gender. She reveals how some women wanted to "maintain dependence" and how the war gave independence to others, as pensions allowed them to survive without a male provider. And she chronicles the major shift in race relations as the most revolutionary change: blacks had been excluded from Indiana in the 1850s but were invited into Putnam County by 1880. Etcheson personalizes all of these issues through human stories, bringing to life people previously ignored by history, whether veterans demanding recognition of their sacrifice, women speaking out against liquor, or Copperheads parading against Republicans. The introduction of race with the North Carolina Exodusters marks a particularly effective lens for seeing how the idealism unleashed by Lincoln's war influenced the North. Etcheson also helps us understand how white Southerners tried to reunify the country on the basis of shared white racism. Drawing on personal papers, local newspapers, pension petitions, Exoduster pamphlets, and more, Etcheson demonstrates how microhistory helps give new meaning to larger events. A Generation at War opens a new window on the impact of the Civil War on the agrarian North.
The Descendants of Peter Egler
Author: Janet EglerPublisher: Higginson Books
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Peter Egeler was born 17 August 1801 in Urweiler, Germany. His parents were Johann Egeler (b. 1762) and Anna Elisabeth Maldener. He married Eva Schrass in 1828 in Kaiserslautern, Germany. They had eight children. They emigrated in about 1835. Peter died in 1860 in Bucks Township, Tuscarawas, Ohio. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Ohio.
History of Delaware County, Indiana
Author: Frank D. HaimbaughPublisher:
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Category : Delaware County (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Index to Supplemental Record, Marriage Applications, Parke County, 1850-1920 Inclusive
Author: United States. Works Progress Administration. IndianaPublisher:
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Category : Marriage records
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Hoosiers and the American Story
Author: Madison, James H.Publisher: Indiana Historical Society
ISBN: 0871953633
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
A supplemental textbook for middle and high school students, Hoosiers and the American Story provides intimate views of individuals and places in Indiana set within themes from American history. During the frontier days when Americans battled with and exiled native peoples from the East, Indiana was on the leading edge of America’s westward expansion. As waves of immigrants swept across the Appalachians and eastern waterways, Indiana became established as both a crossroads and as a vital part of Middle America. Indiana’s stories illuminate the history of American agriculture, wars, industrialization, ethnic conflicts, technological improvements, political battles, transportation networks, economic shifts, social welfare initiatives, and more. In so doing, they elucidate large national issues so that students can relate personally to the ideas and events that comprise American history. At the same time, the stories shed light on what it means to be a Hoosier, today and in the past.
Indiana Sources for Genealogical Research in the Indiana State Library
Author: Carolynne L. Wendel MillerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Counties of Clay and Owen, Indiana
Author: Charles BlanchardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clay County (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 982
Book Description