Download or read book The Contribution of the Society of Friends to Education in Indiana written by Ethel Hittle McDaniel and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Yountsville written by Ronald V. Morris and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2020-01-31 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Yountsville: The Rise and Decline of an Indiana Mill Town , Ronald Morris and collaborators examine the history and context of a rural Midwestern town, including family labor, working women, immigrants, and competing visions of the future. Combing perspectives from history, economics, and archeology, this exploration of a pioneering Midwestern company town highlights how interdisciplinary approaches can help recover forgotten communities. The Yount Woolen Mill was founded during the pioneer period by immigrants from Germany who employed workers from the surrounding area and from Great Britain who were seeking to start a life with their families. For three generations the mill prospered until it and its workers were faced with changing global trade and aging technology that could not keep pace with the rest of the world. Deindustrialization compelled some residents to use education to adapt, while others held on to their traditional skills and were forced to relocate. Educators in the county seat offered Yountsville the opportunity to change to an education-based economy. Both the educators and the tradesmen associated with the mill believed their chosen paths gave children the best opportunities for the future. Present-day communities working through industrialization and deindustrialization still push for educational reform to improve the lives of their children. In the Midwest, many stories exist about German immigrants working in urban areas, but there are few stories of immigrants as capitalists in rural areas. The story of the Yount family is one of an immigrant family who built an industry with talent, labor, and advantage. Unfortunately, deindustrialization, dislocation, adaptation, and reuse were familiar problems in the Midwest. Archeologists, scholars, and students of state and local history and the Midwest will find much of interest in this book.

Download or read book The Transformation of American Quakerism written by Thomas D. Hamm and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hamm has simply produced the best book on Quaker history in recent years." -- Quaker History ..". will stand as one of the most important works in the field." -- American Historical Review

Download or read book Holy Nation written by Sarah Crabtree and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Early American Quakers transcended the idea of the nation-state during the turbulent Age of Revolution: “Provocative . . . important . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice Early American Quakers have long been perceived as retiring separatists, but in Holy Nation Sarah Crabtree transforms our historical understanding of the sect by drawing on the sermons, diaries, and correspondence of Quakers themselves. Situating Quakerism within the larger intellectual and religious undercurrents of the Atlantic world, Crabtree shows how Quakers forged a paradoxical sense of their place in the world as militant warriors fighting for peace. She argues that during the turbulent Age of Revolution and Reaction, the Religious Society of Friends forged a “holy nation,” a transnational community of like-minded believers committed first and foremost to divine law and to one another. Declaring themselves citizens of their own nation served to underscore the decidedly unholy nature of the nation-state, worldly governments, and profane laws. As a result, campaigns of persecution against the Friends escalated as those in power moved to declare Quakers aliens and traitors to their home countries. Holy Nation convincingly shows that ideals and actions were inseparable for the Society of Friends, yielding an account of Quakerism that is simultaneously a history of the faith and its adherents and a history of its confrontations with the wider world. Ultimately, Crabtree says, the conflicts between obligations of church and state that Quakers faced can illuminate similar contemporary struggles. “A significant and highly important contribution to the scholarship on the intersection of religion and nationalism during [these] critical decades. . . . carefully researched and elegantly written.” —Kirsten Fischer, University of Minnesota

Download or read book The WPA Guide to Indiana written by Federal Writers' Project and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors—many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures—were commissioned to write these important books. John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison are among the more than 6,000 writers, editors, historians, and researchers who documented this celebration of local histories. Photographs, drawings, driving tours, detailed descriptions of towns, and rich cultural details exhibit each state’s unique flavor. The WPA Guide to Indiana documents a region with a diverse group of people and backgrounds, appropriately known as “the Crossroads of America.” Bounded by Lake Michigan and the Ohio River, Indiana contains a wealth of natural resources—all carefully detailed in this guide. In addition to a great deal of interesting early 20th century history, the WPA guide to the Hoosier State also has one of the most richly documented Native American histories in the collection.

Download or read book Indiana written by Best Books on and published by Best Books on. This book was released on 1941 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Indiana in the Civil War Era 1850 1880 written by Emma Lou Thornbrough and published by Indiana Historical Society. This book was released on 1965 with total page 791 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Indiana in the Civil War Era, 1850–1880 (vol. 3, History of Indiana Series), author Emma Lou Thornbrough deals with the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Thornbrough utilized scholarly writing as well as examined basic source materials, both published and unpublished, to present a balanced account of life in Indiana during the Civil War era, with attention given to political, economic, social, and cultural developments. The book includes a bibliography, notes, and index.

Download or read book Indiana History Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Quakers on the American Frontier written by Errol T. Elliott and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Some Aspects of the Development of Educational Theory in Indiana from 1851 to 1920 written by Harold Carlton Mason and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book A Cox Family History written by Judith C. Whipple and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Cox (ca.1694-1762), a Quaker, immigrated in 1714 from Gloucester County, England to Philadelphia, and settled in Chester County, Penn- sylvania. He married twice, moved several times in Pennsylvgania, and in 1741 moved to Wayne County, North Carolina. Descendants and relatives also lived in Indiana, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Texas, California, Georgia and elsewhere.