Author: Indiana Board of State Charities StaffPublisher:
ISBN: 9780722208380
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Indiana
Author: Indiana Board of State Charities StaffPublisher:
ISBN: 9780722208380
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
The 1933 Chicago World's Fair
Author: Cheryl GanzPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252078527
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Chicago's 1933 world's fair set a new direction for international expositions. Earlier fairs had exhibited technological advances, but Chicago's fair organizers used the very idea of progress to buoy national optimism during the Depression's darkest years. Orchestrated by business leaders and engineers, almost all former military men, the fair reflected a business-military-engineering model that envisioned a promising future through science and technology's application to everyday life. But not everyone at Chicago's 1933 exposition had abandoned notions of progress that entailed social justice and equality, recognition of ethnicity and gender, and personal freedom and expression. The fair's motto, "Science Finds, Industry Applies, Man Conforms," was challenged by iconoclasts such as Sally Rand, whose provocative fan dance became a persistent symbol of the fair, as well as a handful of other exceptional individuals, including African Americans, ethnic populations and foreign nationals, groups of working women, and even well-heeled socialites. Cheryl R. Ganz offers the stories of fair planners and participants who showcased education, industry, and entertainment to sell optimism during the depths of the Great Depression. This engaging history also features eighty-six photographs--nearly half of which are full color--of key locations, exhibits, and people, as well as authentic ticket stubs, postcards, pamphlets, posters, and other it
A Century of Progress
Author: Imogene DeBuskPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Market (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The Century of Women
Author: Maria BucurPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442257407
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This innovative text explores the unprecedented changes in the realms of politics, demography, economics, culture, knowledge, and kinship that women have brought about in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Global in reach, the book provides a comparative analysis of developments worldwide to show both progress as well as new tensions and forms of inequality that have emerged out of women’s entry into politics, wage employment, education, and the production of culture. Beginning with suffrage and moving to participation in international movements—such as anti-war, labor, and environmental rights activism—Maria Bucur explores how women have transformed the operation of states and international institutions. She focuses on the radical demographic shifts since 1900 through the prism of changing practices in women’s sexuality, from birth control practices to education. Examining the continuing economic gender gap around the world, Bucur highlights ways women have been both beneficiaries of new economic opportunities and participants in developing new forms of inequality. Considering the remarkable achievements of women in the areas of knowledge making and cultural production, the author shifts her gaze toward the future and what these changes mean in terms of gender norms and evolving kinship relations. She thus presents a new perspective on contemporary world history, centered on how women have become both the subjects and objects of seismic shifts in the political, social, and economic structures of societies across the globe.
A Century of Progress (Illustrated)
Author: Imogene DebuskPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781508937968
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
A Century of Progress was written by Imogene DeBusk and originally published in 1972. This Illustrated version Does not include original photos Does not include original advertisements Includes a 1972 photo of Imogene DeBusk Includes a photo of the original cover Includes photos of original Centennial souvenirs Includes a copy of the original 4-page Historical Pageant program In 1972, New Market, Indiana, turned 100 years old. The celebration was huge. New Market celebrated with a parade, a festival, and a historical pageant. New Market made centennial souvenirs - pitchers, trivets, key chains, wooden nickels, and a Centennial History Book. Imogene DeBusk, a teacher at New Market Elementary, wrote A Century of Progress, the definitive history of the town of New Market. Mrs. DeBusk thoroughly researched the beginning of New Market and the pioneers who helped build it. She interviewed several people for the book. In the beginning of the book she writes, To The Reader - A CENTURY OF PROGRESS is the history of the town of New Market, Indiana from 1872 to 1972. It is a compilation of stories and facts derived from many resources. To everyone who contributed in any way to this Centennial Book I wish to express my sincere thanks. Imogene DeBusk worked many long hours writing this book. I know because Imogene is my grandmother and I remember watching her work in her temporary office downtown. She typed the book by hand on her old typewriter. Suburban Press in Crawfordsville printed books for the Centennial celebration. At one time there were boxes and boxes of those tan-covered books but now it's difficult to find a copy. That's why I'm re-publishing this book, in order to preserve New Market's rich history. Unfortunately I don't have the photos my grandma compiled, so none of the photos from the original book are included. I know my grandma would be happy this history book is still available. May you enjoy reading all about New Market's early years!"
Indiana Blacks in the Twentieth Century
Author: Emma Lou ThornbroughPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253337993
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Indiana Blacks in the Twentieth Century Emma Lou Thornbrough Edited and with a final chapter by Lana Ruegamer Sequel to Thornbroug's early groundbreaking study of African Americans. Indiana Blacks in the Twentieth Century is the long-awaited sequel to Emma Lou Thornbrough's classic study The Negro in Indiana before 1900. In this posthumous volume, Thornbrough (1913-1994), the acknowledged dean of black history in Indiana, chronicles the growth, both in numbers and in power, of African Americans in a northern state that was notable for its antiblack tradition. She shows the effects of the Great Migration of African Americans to Indiana during World War I and World War II to work in war industries, linking the growth of the black community to the increased segregation of the 1920s and demonstrating how World War II marked a turning point in the movement in Indiana to expand the civil rights of African Americans. Indiana Blacks describes the impact of the national civil rights movement on Indiana, as young activists, both black and white, challenged segregation and racial injustice in many aspects of daily life, often in new organizations and with new leaders. The final chapter by Lana Ruegamer explores ways that black identity was affected by new access to education, work, and housing after 1970, demonstrating gains and losses from integration. Emma Lou Thornbrough (1913-1994), the acknowledged expert on Indiana black history, was author of The Negro in Indiana before 1900: A Study of a Minority (1957, reprinted 1993) and Since Emancipation: A Short History of Indiana Negroes, 1863-1963 (1964) and editor of This Far by Faith: Black Hoosier Heritage (1982). Professor of History at Butler University from 1946 to 1983, Thornbrough held the McGregor Chair in History and received the university's highest award, the Butler Medal. Born in Indianapolis, she was educated at Shortridge High School, Butler University, and the University of Michigan (Ph.D., 1946). Lana Ruegamer, editor for the Indiana Historical Society from 1975 to 1984, is author of A History of the Indiana Historical Society, 1830-1980. She taught at Indiana University from 1986 to 1998 and is presently associate editor of the Indiana Magazine of History. Ruegamer won the 1995 Thornbrough prize for best article published in that magazine. Contents Editor's Introduction The Age of Accommodation The Great Migration and the First World War The 1920s: Increased Segregation Depression and New Deal The Second World War Postwar Years: Beginnings of the Civil Rights Movement School Desegregation The Turbulent 1960s Since 1970--Advances and Retreats The Continuing Search for Identity
Hoosiers
Author: James H. MadisonPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253013100
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The story of this Midwestern state and its people, past and present: “An entertaining and fast read.” ―Indianapolis Star Who are the people called Hoosiers? What are their stories? Two centuries ago, on the Indiana frontier, they were settlers who created a way of life they passed to later generations. They came to value individual freedom and distrusted government, even as they demanded that government remove Indians, sell them land, and bring democracy. Down to the present, Hoosiers have remained wary of government power and have taken care to guard their tax dollars and their personal independence. Yet the people of Indiana have always accommodated change, exchanging log cabins and spinning wheels for railroads, cities, and factories in the nineteenth century, automobiles, suburbs, and foreign investment in the twentieth. The present has brought new issues and challenges, as Indiana’s citizens respond to a rapidly changing world. James H. Madison’s sparkling new history tells the stories of these Hoosiers, offering an invigorating view of one of America’s distinctive states and the long and fascinating journey of its people.
Men of Progress, Indiana
Author: William CumbackPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indiana
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Indiana, a Century of Negro Progress Exposition
Author: American Negro Emancipation Centennial Authority. Indiana DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
A Century of Indiana
Author: Edward E. MoorePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indiana
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description