Fighting Hoosiers

Author : Dawn Bakken
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253056853
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fighting Hoosiers written by Dawn Bakken and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fighting Hoosiers: Indiana in Two World Wars tells the compelling, heartbreaking, and breathtaking stories of some of the hundreds of thousands of Hoosiers who served their country during the First and Second World Wars. Drawn from the rich holdings of the Indiana Magazine of History, a journal of state and midwestern history published since 1905, the collection includes original diaries, letters and memoirs, as well as research essays—all of them focused on Hoosiers in the two world wars. Readers will meet Alex Arch, a Hungarian-born immigrant who was the first American to fire a shot in World War I; Maude Essig, a nurse serving with the American Red Cross in wartime France; Kenneth Baker, a soldier in the Army Signal Corps, who crawled across French fields (sometimes over and around dead bodies) to lay phone lines for military communications; and Bernard Rice, a combat medic who witnessed the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp in 1945. Indiana's brave men and women like these have served with distinction in the armed forces since the earliest days of the Indiana Territory. Fighting Hoosiers offers a compelling glimpse at some of their remarkable stories.

Author : Howard Henry Peckham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letters from Fighting Hoosiers written by Howard Henry Peckham and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James H. Madison
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253013100
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hoosiers written by James H. Madison and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Howard H. Peckham
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253024609
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letters from the Greatest Generation written by Howard H. Peckham and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of personal letters from overseas that reveal in day-to-day detail what it was like to serve in World War II. Recounting victory and defeat, love and loss, this is a remarkable and frank collection of World War II letters penned by American men and women serving overseas. Here, the hopes and dreams of the greatest generation fill each page, and their voices ring loud and clear. “It’s all part of the game but it’s bloody and rough,” writes one soldier to his wife. “Wearing two stripes now and as proud as an old cat with five kittens,” remarks another. Yet, as many countries rejoiced on V-E Day, this book reveals that soldiers were “too tired and sad to celebrate.” Filled with the everyday thoughts of these fighters, the letters are by turns heartbreaking and amusing, revealing and frightening. While visiting a German concentration camp, one man wrote, “I don’t like Army life but I’m glad we are here to stop these atrocities.” Meanwhile, in another letter a soldier quips, “I know lice don’t crawl so I figured they were fleas.” A fitting tribute to all veterans, this book brings the experience of war—its dramatic horrors, its dreary hardships, its desperate hope for a better future—to vivid life. “An intimate portrait of the mundane and remarkable, of heroism and terror, of friendship and loss . . . Timely, compelling, and important reading.”—Matthew L. Basso, author of Men at Work

Author : Robert Houghtalen
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1491800852
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Hoosier in Andersonville written by Robert Houghtalen and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have no great actions to boast of, but I will endeavor in my way, which is a way of my own, to write you some anecdotes, give you some ideas of how we fared, what we did, what we seen, and how we seen it. I do not propose to give you a history of the war, or a history of the prisoners in the South. I was a prisoner. -Erastus Holmes-

Author : Michael Leo Donovan
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781589790346
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yankees to Fighting Irish written by Michael Leo Donovan and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating and insightful look at the legends, facts, and fiction behind your favorite sports teams' names.

Author : Madison, James H.
Publisher : Indiana Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0871953633
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hoosiers and the American Story written by Madison, James H. and published by Indiana Historical Society. This book was released on 2014-10 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Heber P. Walker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1362 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indiana at War written by Heber P. Walker and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 1362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ray E. Boomhower
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439668906
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Be Hoosiers written by Ray E. Boomhower and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Indiana joined the Union in 1816, residents and visitors alike have pondered the essential question: "What is a Hoosier?" The final answer may never be determined, but there are, at least, ways to understand the Hoosier character. It was African American pilots taking a stand for equal rights. It was a speech by a presidential candidate that helped keep peace on a tragic night. It was the triumph and near tragedy involving a Mercury Seven astronaut. And it was a sacrifice that ensured a crucial American victory in the Pacific during World War II. As Kurt Vonnegut once said, "I don't know what it is about Hoosiers, but wherever you go there is always a Hoosier doing something very important there." Award-winning biographer Ray E. Boomhower tells us why.

Author : James A. Goecker
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476692580
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hoosier Spies and Horse Marines written by James A. Goecker and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-08-21 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work traces the history of a remarkable troop of Hoosier horsemen--the East Wing of the Third Indiana Cavalry--during the Civil War. From the backwaters of the war in eastern Maryland to the epicenter of cavalry action in the eastern theater, they fought at Antietam, Brandy Station, Gettysburg and around Petersburg, and helped subdue Confederate forces in the Shenandoah Valley. Along the way they served as spies and fought in dozens of vicious skirmishes and battles. At Appomattox, they escorted one of the most famous generals to come out of the war.