Author: William FortunePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385457378
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Warrick and its Prominent People. A History of Warrick County, Indiana, from the Time of its Organization and Settlement, with Biographical Sketches of Some of its Prominent People of the Past and Present
Author: William FortunePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385457378
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Indiana Magazine of History
Author: Bulletin of the Indiana State Library
Author: Indiana State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Indiana Historical Collections
Author: Annual Report of the American Historical Association
Author: American Historical AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
Everybody's History
Author: Keith A. EreksonPublisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN: 1558499156
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
How a group of nonprofessional historians forced a reassessment of Abraham Lincolns life story
On Jordan's Banks
Author: Darrel E. BighamPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813188318
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 607
Book Description
The story of the Ohio River and its settlements are an integral part of American history, particularly during the country's westward expansion. The vibrant African American communities along the Ohio's banks, however, have rarely been studied in depth. Blacks have lived in the Ohio River Valley since the late eighteenth century, and since the river divided the free labor North and the slave labor South, black communities faced unique challenges. In On Jordan's Banks, Darrel E. Bigham examines the lives of African Americans in the counties along the northern and southern banks of the Ohio River both before and in the years directly following the Civil War. Gleaning material from biographies and primary sources written as early as the 1860s, as well as public records, Bigham separates historical truth from the legends that grew up surrounding these communities. The Ohio River may have separated freedom and slavery, but it was not a barrier to the racial prejudice in the region. Bigham compares early black communities on the northern shore with their southern counterparts, noting that many similarities existed despite the fact that the Roebling Suspension Bridge, constructed in 1866 at Cincinnati, was the first bridge to join the shores. Free blacks in the lower Midwest had difficulty finding employment and adequate housing. Education for their children was severely restricted if not completely forbidden, and blacks could neither vote nor testify against whites in court. Indiana and Illinois passed laws to prevent black migrants from settling within their borders, and blacks already living in those states were pressured to leave. Despite these challenges, black river communities continued to thrive during slavery, after emancipation, and throughout the Jim Crow era. Families were established despite forced separations and the lack of legally recognized marriages. Blacks were subjected to intimidation and violence on both shores and were denied even the most basic state-supported services. As a result, communities were left to devise their own strategies for preventing homelessness, disease, and unemployment. Bigham chronicles the lives of blacks in small river towns and urban centers alike and shows how family, community, and education were central to their development as free citizens. These local histories and life stories are an important part of understanding the evolution of race relations in a critical American region. On Jordan's Banks documents the developing patterns of employment, housing, education, and religious and cultural life that would later shape African American communities during the Jim Crow era and well into the twentieth century.
Kentuckians in Ohio and Indiana
Author: Stuart Seely SpraguePublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806311428
Category : Indiana
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Information abstracted from 200 rare county histories & atlases published between 1876 and 1916.
There I Grew Up
Author: William E. BarteltPublisher: Indiana Historical Society
ISBN: 0871954435
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
In 1859 Abraham Lincoln covered his Indiana years in one paragraph and two sentences of a written autobiographical statement that included the following: "We reached our new home about the time the State came into the union. It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals in the woods. There I grew up." William E. Bartelt uses annotation and primary source material to tell the history of Lincoln's Indiana years by those who were there. The book reveals, through the words of those who knew him, Lincoln's humor, compassion, oratorical skills and thirst for knowledge, and it provides an overview of Lincoln's Indiana experiences, his family, the community where the Lincolns settled and southern Indiana from 1816 to 1830.
Monthly Bulletin
Author: Indiana State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
Book Description