David M. Krueger
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816696918
- eISBN:
- 9781452952444
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816696918.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
The introduction describes the origins of the Kensington Rune Stone and the culture that was built up around it by its defenders. It discusses broadly the class, racial, and religious distinctions ...
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The introduction describes the origins of the Kensington Rune Stone and the culture that was built up around it by its defenders. It discusses broadly the class, racial, and religious distinctions that influenced beliefs among Minnesotans regarding the rune stone.Less
The introduction describes the origins of the Kensington Rune Stone and the culture that was built up around it by its defenders. It discusses broadly the class, racial, and religious distinctions that influenced beliefs among Minnesotans regarding the rune stone.
Matthew E. Stanley
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252040733
- eISBN:
- 9780252099175
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252040733.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: Civil War
The Loyal West: Civil War and Reunion in Middle America examines identity and memory among Union soldiers and veterans in the Lower Middle West, a previously overlooked region. I use the phrase ...
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The Loyal West: Civil War and Reunion in Middle America examines identity and memory among Union soldiers and veterans in the Lower Middle West, a previously overlooked region. I use the phrase “Loyal West” as shorthand for both the physical region, the dominant identity of its inhabitants, and the multitude of ways in which residents from the lower free states (southern Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois) came to reject antebellum conceptions of westernness and grew to imagine themselves as distinct from both Confederates and their African American and “Yankee” allies. The basic elements of the Loyal West narrative were, among other things, that western soldiers were tougher (especially vis-a-vis the Army of the Potomac), were more successful on campaign, were more willing to engage in destructive war, were less reliant on blacks and foreigners and liberalizing war measures, and that the West was the origin source of the Union’s preeminent military and political leadership. Although the major themes of the Loyal West memory faded with time, I argue that the Lower Middle West’s mutuality between racial and political identity, cultural memory, and social policy—white space, white memory, and white power—had great implications for the political and racial patterns of the late nineteenth and twentieth-century Midwest.Less
The Loyal West: Civil War and Reunion in Middle America examines identity and memory among Union soldiers and veterans in the Lower Middle West, a previously overlooked region. I use the phrase “Loyal West” as shorthand for both the physical region, the dominant identity of its inhabitants, and the multitude of ways in which residents from the lower free states (southern Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois) came to reject antebellum conceptions of westernness and grew to imagine themselves as distinct from both Confederates and their African American and “Yankee” allies. The basic elements of the Loyal West narrative were, among other things, that western soldiers were tougher (especially vis-a-vis the Army of the Potomac), were more successful on campaign, were more willing to engage in destructive war, were less reliant on blacks and foreigners and liberalizing war measures, and that the West was the origin source of the Union’s preeminent military and political leadership. Although the major themes of the Loyal West memory faded with time, I argue that the Lower Middle West’s mutuality between racial and political identity, cultural memory, and social policy—white space, white memory, and white power—had great implications for the political and racial patterns of the late nineteenth and twentieth-century Midwest.
David M. Krueger
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816696918
- eISBN:
- 9781452952444
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816696918.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
Chapter Three describes how civic boosters fashioned the rune stone into a symbol to unify small-town residents in their defense from external cultural critiques. At several public events featuring ...
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Chapter Three describes how civic boosters fashioned the rune stone into a symbol to unify small-town residents in their defense from external cultural critiques. At several public events featuring the rune stone, locals projected Olof Ohman as the quintessential “real American,” whose virtues exemplified the best of Midwestern life.Less
Chapter Three describes how civic boosters fashioned the rune stone into a symbol to unify small-town residents in their defense from external cultural critiques. At several public events featuring the rune stone, locals projected Olof Ohman as the quintessential “real American,” whose virtues exemplified the best of Midwestern life.
David M. Krueger
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816696918
- eISBN:
- 9781452952444
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816696918.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
The conclusion considers the role of Viking origin myths for American culture in light of the revival of rune stone enthusiasm in the twenty-first century.
The conclusion considers the role of Viking origin myths for American culture in light of the revival of rune stone enthusiasm in the twenty-first century.
Jason Weems
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816677504
- eISBN:
- 9781452953533
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816677504.001.0001
- Subject:
- Art, Visual Culture
The history of the American Midwest is marked by stories of inhabitants’ struggles to envision the unbroken expanses of their home landscape. During the 1920s and 1930s these attempts to visualize ...
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The history of the American Midwest is marked by stories of inhabitants’ struggles to envision the unbroken expanses of their home landscape. During the 1920s and 1930s these attempts to visualize the landscape intersected with another narrative—that of the airplane. After World War I, aviation gained purpose as a means of linking together the vastness of American space. It also created a new visual sensibility, opening up new vantage points from which to see the world below. This book offers the first comprehensive examination of modern aerial vision and its impact on twentieth-century American life. In particular, the project centers on visualizations of the American Midwest, a region whose undifferentiated topography and Jeffersonian gridwork of farms and small towns were pictured from the air with striking frequency during the early twentieth century. Forging a new and synthetic approach to the study of American art and visual culture, this work analyzes an array of flight-based representation that includes maps, aerial survey photography, painting, cinema, animation, and suburban architecture. The book explores the perceptual and cognitive practices of aerial vision and emphasizes their formative role in re-symbolizing the Midwestern landscape. Weems argues that the new sightlines actualized by aviation composed a new episteme of vision that enabled Americans to conceptualize the region as something other than isolated and unchanging, and to see it instead as a dynamic space where people worked to harmonize the core traditions of America’s agrarian identity with the more abstract forms of twentieth-century modernity.Less
The history of the American Midwest is marked by stories of inhabitants’ struggles to envision the unbroken expanses of their home landscape. During the 1920s and 1930s these attempts to visualize the landscape intersected with another narrative—that of the airplane. After World War I, aviation gained purpose as a means of linking together the vastness of American space. It also created a new visual sensibility, opening up new vantage points from which to see the world below. This book offers the first comprehensive examination of modern aerial vision and its impact on twentieth-century American life. In particular, the project centers on visualizations of the American Midwest, a region whose undifferentiated topography and Jeffersonian gridwork of farms and small towns were pictured from the air with striking frequency during the early twentieth century. Forging a new and synthetic approach to the study of American art and visual culture, this work analyzes an array of flight-based representation that includes maps, aerial survey photography, painting, cinema, animation, and suburban architecture. The book explores the perceptual and cognitive practices of aerial vision and emphasizes their formative role in re-symbolizing the Midwestern landscape. Weems argues that the new sightlines actualized by aviation composed a new episteme of vision that enabled Americans to conceptualize the region as something other than isolated and unchanging, and to see it instead as a dynamic space where people worked to harmonize the core traditions of America’s agrarian identity with the more abstract forms of twentieth-century modernity.
Wendy Haight, Teresa Ostler, James Black, and Linda Kingery
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195326055
- eISBN:
- 9780199864461
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195326055.003.0006
- Subject:
- Social Work, Children and Families, Communities and Organizations
This chapter focuses on the perspectives and experiences of knowledgeable adults. Child welfare workers, other community professionals (educators, counselors, law enforcement personnel, and substance ...
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This chapter focuses on the perspectives and experiences of knowledgeable adults. Child welfare workers, other community professionals (educators, counselors, law enforcement personnel, and substance misuse treatment providers), and foster parents described their experiences with families involved with methamphetamine. They described children's exposure to environmental danger, chaos, neglect, abuse, loss, and isolation. They believe that children develop anti-social beliefs and practices such as lying and stealing, drug misuse and violence. They described children as displaying psychological, emotional, and social disturbances. They also described individual variation in functioning across children that they attributed, in part, to individual, familial, and community characteristics. They noted a need for effective child mental health services in rural areas, and substance misuse treatment for their parents.Less
This chapter focuses on the perspectives and experiences of knowledgeable adults. Child welfare workers, other community professionals (educators, counselors, law enforcement personnel, and substance misuse treatment providers), and foster parents described their experiences with families involved with methamphetamine. They described children's exposure to environmental danger, chaos, neglect, abuse, loss, and isolation. They believe that children develop anti-social beliefs and practices such as lying and stealing, drug misuse and violence. They described children as displaying psychological, emotional, and social disturbances. They also described individual variation in functioning across children that they attributed, in part, to individual, familial, and community characteristics. They noted a need for effective child mental health services in rural areas, and substance misuse treatment for their parents.
Wendy Haight, Teresa Ostler, James Black, and Linda Kingery
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195326055
- eISBN:
- 9780199864461
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195326055.003.0009
- Subject:
- Social Work, Children and Families, Communities and Organizations
This chapter discusses the rural methamphetamine crisis through the eyes of a Midwestern psychiatrist with over fifteen years experience working with diverse individuals affected by methamphetamine ...
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This chapter discusses the rural methamphetamine crisis through the eyes of a Midwestern psychiatrist with over fifteen years experience working with diverse individuals affected by methamphetamine misuse. The account provides a flavor of psychiatric practice in rural Illinois during the methamphetamine crisis of the 1990s and 2000s, and echoes the accounts of mothers, children, and other knowledgeable adults presented in earlier chapters.Less
This chapter discusses the rural methamphetamine crisis through the eyes of a Midwestern psychiatrist with over fifteen years experience working with diverse individuals affected by methamphetamine misuse. The account provides a flavor of psychiatric practice in rural Illinois during the methamphetamine crisis of the 1990s and 2000s, and echoes the accounts of mothers, children, and other knowledgeable adults presented in earlier chapters.
Omar Valerio-Jiménez, Santiago R. Vaquera-Vásquez, and Claire F. Fox (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780252041211
- eISBN:
- 9780252099809
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252041211.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
This anthology challenges the notion that Latinas/os are newcomers to the Midwest by emphasizing that Latinas/os have resided in the region for over a century, and have contributed to the social, ...
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This anthology challenges the notion that Latinas/os are newcomers to the Midwest by emphasizing that Latinas/os have resided in the region for over a century, and have contributed to the social, cultural, and economic dimensions of rural and urban Midwestern communities. Its eighteen interdisciplinary chapters and introduction essays explore issues of history, education, literature, art, and politics defining today’s Latina/o Midwest. Some contributors delve into the Latina/o revitalization of rural areas, where communities have launched bold experiments in dual-language immersion education while seeing integrated neighborhoods, churches, and sports teams become the norm. Others reveal metro areas as laboratories for emerging Latino subjectivities, places where for some, the term Latina/o itself corresponds to a new type of lived identity as different Latina/o groups interact in shared neighborhoods, schools, and workplace.Less
This anthology challenges the notion that Latinas/os are newcomers to the Midwest by emphasizing that Latinas/os have resided in the region for over a century, and have contributed to the social, cultural, and economic dimensions of rural and urban Midwestern communities. Its eighteen interdisciplinary chapters and introduction essays explore issues of history, education, literature, art, and politics defining today’s Latina/o Midwest. Some contributors delve into the Latina/o revitalization of rural areas, where communities have launched bold experiments in dual-language immersion education while seeing integrated neighborhoods, churches, and sports teams become the norm. Others reveal metro areas as laboratories for emerging Latino subjectivities, places where for some, the term Latina/o itself corresponds to a new type of lived identity as different Latina/o groups interact in shared neighborhoods, schools, and workplace.
David M. Krueger
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816696918
- eISBN:
- 9781452952444
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816696918.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
Myths of the Rune Stone tells the story of how white Midwesterners created, adapted, and propagated a myth that Viking missionaries had visited their region and were “massacred” by local Indians ...
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Myths of the Rune Stone tells the story of how white Midwesterners created, adapted, and propagated a myth that Viking missionaries had visited their region and were “massacred” by local Indians prior to the explorations of Christopher Columbus. Popular enthusiasm for this story developed as a local expression of American exceptionalism that both affirmed and challenged status quo assumptions about the formation of the United States as a nation and what it means to be a “real American.” The narrative of a primordial, white, Christian sacrifice staked an exclusive claim to the landscape, shaped collective identities, and generated social power for groups that viewed themselves as “under attack.” In the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, locals persisted in their belief in this Viking origin myth, using it advance their ethnic, racial, civic and religious goals. Although such myths are often thought to be the exclusive provenance of Scandinavian immigrants, Myths of the Rune Stone demonstrates their appeal to a diverse cross-section of residents, including Catholics and the descendants of Yankee pioneer settlers.Less
Myths of the Rune Stone tells the story of how white Midwesterners created, adapted, and propagated a myth that Viking missionaries had visited their region and were “massacred” by local Indians prior to the explorations of Christopher Columbus. Popular enthusiasm for this story developed as a local expression of American exceptionalism that both affirmed and challenged status quo assumptions about the formation of the United States as a nation and what it means to be a “real American.” The narrative of a primordial, white, Christian sacrifice staked an exclusive claim to the landscape, shaped collective identities, and generated social power for groups that viewed themselves as “under attack.” In the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, locals persisted in their belief in this Viking origin myth, using it advance their ethnic, racial, civic and religious goals. Although such myths are often thought to be the exclusive provenance of Scandinavian immigrants, Myths of the Rune Stone demonstrates their appeal to a diverse cross-section of residents, including Catholics and the descendants of Yankee pioneer settlers.
James Belich
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199297276
- eISBN:
- 9780191700842
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199297276.003.0013
- Subject:
- History, World Modern History
As early as the 1830s, the Old Northwest began to expand and blur into that elusive region known as the Midwest. The post-war Midwest centred on a tier of four states, Kansas, Nebraska, and the ...
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As early as the 1830s, the Old Northwest began to expand and blur into that elusive region known as the Midwest. The post-war Midwest centred on a tier of four states, Kansas, Nebraska, and the Dakotas, but was divided into two distinct ecological zones, eastern prairie and western plains, each of which encompassed parts of the states bordering the central tier — Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana to the west, and Minnesota, Iowa, and Missouri to the east. The rough dividing line between Plains and Prairies was the 100th meridian, which ran through the middle of the four core states. Plains and Prairies shared one major obstacle to settlement: the local Indians. They were not numerous, but their adoption of the horse and the gun had turned them into extremely formidable light cavalry.Less
As early as the 1830s, the Old Northwest began to expand and blur into that elusive region known as the Midwest. The post-war Midwest centred on a tier of four states, Kansas, Nebraska, and the Dakotas, but was divided into two distinct ecological zones, eastern prairie and western plains, each of which encompassed parts of the states bordering the central tier — Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana to the west, and Minnesota, Iowa, and Missouri to the east. The rough dividing line between Plains and Prairies was the 100th meridian, which ran through the middle of the four core states. Plains and Prairies shared one major obstacle to settlement: the local Indians. They were not numerous, but their adoption of the horse and the gun had turned them into extremely formidable light cavalry.
Jason Stacy
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9780252043833
- eISBN:
- 9780252052736
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252043833.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
Edgar Lee Masters’s best-selling Spoon River Anthology (1915) captured a regional conception of Midwestern rural life, packaged it in verse by fictional dead people, and disseminated it so widely ...
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Edgar Lee Masters’s best-selling Spoon River Anthology (1915) captured a regional conception of Midwestern rural life, packaged it in verse by fictional dead people, and disseminated it so widely that the book helped shift the popular conception of the representative American municipality from the New England village to the Midwestern small town. Spoon River America: Edgar Lee Masters and the Myth of the American Small Town explores the atmosphere into which Masters’s book was born and the environments in which it thrived, even beyond the life and legacy of its author. Masters’s book aroused interest among modernists like Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell, and Carl Van Doren and popular writers like William Allen White. Its legacy resonated in popular culture through films like It’s a Wonderful Life and Rebel without a Cause, amusement parks like Disneyland, and The Rolling Stones’ album Exile on Main Street. One hundred years after its publication, signs of Spoon River could still be found in films like Fargo; Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri; television series like Twin Peaks, Stranger Things, and Ozark; and the radio program A Prairie Home Companion. While this book uncovers the milieu in which Spoon River Anthology was created, it also traces the ways in which Americans embraced, debated, and transformed Masters’s portrayal of Spoon River and made it part of the mythology of small-town life in the United States.Less
Edgar Lee Masters’s best-selling Spoon River Anthology (1915) captured a regional conception of Midwestern rural life, packaged it in verse by fictional dead people, and disseminated it so widely that the book helped shift the popular conception of the representative American municipality from the New England village to the Midwestern small town. Spoon River America: Edgar Lee Masters and the Myth of the American Small Town explores the atmosphere into which Masters’s book was born and the environments in which it thrived, even beyond the life and legacy of its author. Masters’s book aroused interest among modernists like Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell, and Carl Van Doren and popular writers like William Allen White. Its legacy resonated in popular culture through films like It’s a Wonderful Life and Rebel without a Cause, amusement parks like Disneyland, and The Rolling Stones’ album Exile on Main Street. One hundred years after its publication, signs of Spoon River could still be found in films like Fargo; Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri; television series like Twin Peaks, Stranger Things, and Ozark; and the radio program A Prairie Home Companion. While this book uncovers the milieu in which Spoon River Anthology was created, it also traces the ways in which Americans embraced, debated, and transformed Masters’s portrayal of Spoon River and made it part of the mythology of small-town life in the United States.
Brent M. S. Campney
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780252042492
- eISBN:
- 9780252051333
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252042492.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
Hostile Heartland examines racial violence—or, more aptly, racist violence—against blacks (African Americans) in the Midwest, emphasizing lynching, whipping, and violence by police (or police ...
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Hostile Heartland examines racial violence—or, more aptly, racist violence—against blacks (African Americans) in the Midwest, emphasizing lynching, whipping, and violence by police (or police brutality). It also focuses on black responses, including acts of armed resistance, the development of local and regional civil rights organizations, and the work of individual activists. Within that broad framework the book considers patterns of institutionalized violence in studies of individual states, like Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas over a number of decades; it also targets specific incidents of such violence or resistance in case studies representative of changes in these patterns like the lynching of Joseph Spencer in Cairo, Illinois, in 1854 and the lynching of Luke Murray in South Point, Ohio, in 1932. Significantly, Hostile Heartland not only addresses the years from the Civil War to World War I, which are the typical focus of such studies, but also incorporates the twenty-five years that precede the Civil War and the additional twenty-five that follow World War I. It pioneers new research methodologies, as exemplified by Chapter 4’s analysis of the relations between and among racist violence, family history, and the black freedom struggle. Finally, Hostile Heartland situates its findings within the historiography more broadly.Less
Hostile Heartland examines racial violence—or, more aptly, racist violence—against blacks (African Americans) in the Midwest, emphasizing lynching, whipping, and violence by police (or police brutality). It also focuses on black responses, including acts of armed resistance, the development of local and regional civil rights organizations, and the work of individual activists. Within that broad framework the book considers patterns of institutionalized violence in studies of individual states, like Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas over a number of decades; it also targets specific incidents of such violence or resistance in case studies representative of changes in these patterns like the lynching of Joseph Spencer in Cairo, Illinois, in 1854 and the lynching of Luke Murray in South Point, Ohio, in 1932. Significantly, Hostile Heartland not only addresses the years from the Civil War to World War I, which are the typical focus of such studies, but also incorporates the twenty-five years that precede the Civil War and the additional twenty-five that follow World War I. It pioneers new research methodologies, as exemplified by Chapter 4’s analysis of the relations between and among racist violence, family history, and the black freedom struggle. Finally, Hostile Heartland situates its findings within the historiography more broadly.
Larry A. Witham
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195315936
- eISBN:
- 9780199851089
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195315936.003.0008
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter examines the emergence of spirit-filled religious movement in the United States during the 1960s and the 1970s. This movement significantly shaped modern ministry on several fronts for ...
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This chapter examines the emergence of spirit-filled religious movement in the United States during the 1960s and the 1970s. This movement significantly shaped modern ministry on several fronts for the next few decades. The impact of this movement in the West is seen with the Jesus people movement and in the South and in the Midwest with the new currents and developments in classical Pentecostalism and faith healing. This movement has not been welcomed the clergy of mainline churches who considered this change more like counterculture than religion.Less
This chapter examines the emergence of spirit-filled religious movement in the United States during the 1960s and the 1970s. This movement significantly shaped modern ministry on several fronts for the next few decades. The impact of this movement in the West is seen with the Jesus people movement and in the South and in the Midwest with the new currents and developments in classical Pentecostalism and faith healing. This movement has not been welcomed the clergy of mainline churches who considered this change more like counterculture than religion.
Jonathan Wright and Dawson Barrett
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9780252043802
- eISBN:
- 9780252052705
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252043802.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, Popular
Peoria, Illinois has long been a benchmark for the cautious and the conservative, a popular American test market for ideas, entertainment acts, and products. Beginning in the 1980s, hardcore punk ...
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Peoria, Illinois has long been a benchmark for the cautious and the conservative, a popular American test market for ideas, entertainment acts, and products. Beginning in the 1980s, hardcore punk rock bands “played in Peoria,” right alongside Reagan Republicanism and a series of factory closings. Spanning two decades and many waves of youth, this book explores how various misfits and outcasts repurposed elements of their deindustrializing city to promote local and touring bands, build social networks, and grapple with the possibilities and shortcomings of subcultural and countercultural politics. The vast majority of books about subcultures, and punk rock in particular, focus on bands, music scenes, and youth in vibrant, world-class metropolitan areas such as London, New York, and Los Angeles. In contrast, this book examines the efforts of young people to create an alternative music scene, from scratch, in Peoria – a typical, conservative, mid-sized city in the American Midwest.Less
Peoria, Illinois has long been a benchmark for the cautious and the conservative, a popular American test market for ideas, entertainment acts, and products. Beginning in the 1980s, hardcore punk rock bands “played in Peoria,” right alongside Reagan Republicanism and a series of factory closings. Spanning two decades and many waves of youth, this book explores how various misfits and outcasts repurposed elements of their deindustrializing city to promote local and touring bands, build social networks, and grapple with the possibilities and shortcomings of subcultural and countercultural politics. The vast majority of books about subcultures, and punk rock in particular, focus on bands, music scenes, and youth in vibrant, world-class metropolitan areas such as London, New York, and Los Angeles. In contrast, this book examines the efforts of young people to create an alternative music scene, from scratch, in Peoria – a typical, conservative, mid-sized city in the American Midwest.
Bradley J. Birzer
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780813166186
- eISBN:
- 9780813166643
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813166186.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
This chapter examines Kirk’s friendships with Robert Nisbet, Leo Strauss, Flannery O’Connor, Eric Voegelin, and Ray Bradbury. It also tells the disastrous story of Kirk’s creation and editing of a ...
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This chapter examines Kirk’s friendships with Robert Nisbet, Leo Strauss, Flannery O’Connor, Eric Voegelin, and Ray Bradbury. It also tells the disastrous story of Kirk’s creation and editing of a nonideological journal of thought and scholarship, Modern Age, only to be thwarted by bigotry and editorial disagreements with the publisher.Less
This chapter examines Kirk’s friendships with Robert Nisbet, Leo Strauss, Flannery O’Connor, Eric Voegelin, and Ray Bradbury. It also tells the disastrous story of Kirk’s creation and editing of a nonideological journal of thought and scholarship, Modern Age, only to be thwarted by bigotry and editorial disagreements with the publisher.
Sabine N. Meyer
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252039355
- eISBN:
- 9780252097409
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252039355.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Movements and Social Change
This book eschews the generalities of other temperance histories to provide a close-grained story about the connections between alcohol consumption and identity in the upper Midwest. The book ...
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This book eschews the generalities of other temperance histories to provide a close-grained story about the connections between alcohol consumption and identity in the upper Midwest. The book examines the ever-shifting ways that ethnicity, gender, class, religion, and place interacted with each other during the long temperance battle in Minnesota. The book's deconstruction of Irish and German ethnic positioning with respect to temperance activism provides a rare interethnic history of the movement. At the same time, it shows how women engaged in temperance work as a way to form public identities and reforges the largely neglected, yet vital link between female temperance and suffrage activism. Relatedly, the book reflects on the continuities and changes between how the movement functioned to construct identity in the heartland versus the movement's more often studied roles in the East. It also gives a nuanced portrait of the culture clash between a comparatively reform-minded Minneapolis and dynamic anti-temperance forces in whiskey-soaked St. Paul—forces supported by government, community, and business institutions heavily invested in keeping the city wet.Less
This book eschews the generalities of other temperance histories to provide a close-grained story about the connections between alcohol consumption and identity in the upper Midwest. The book examines the ever-shifting ways that ethnicity, gender, class, religion, and place interacted with each other during the long temperance battle in Minnesota. The book's deconstruction of Irish and German ethnic positioning with respect to temperance activism provides a rare interethnic history of the movement. At the same time, it shows how women engaged in temperance work as a way to form public identities and reforges the largely neglected, yet vital link between female temperance and suffrage activism. Relatedly, the book reflects on the continuities and changes between how the movement functioned to construct identity in the heartland versus the movement's more often studied roles in the East. It also gives a nuanced portrait of the culture clash between a comparatively reform-minded Minneapolis and dynamic anti-temperance forces in whiskey-soaked St. Paul—forces supported by government, community, and business institutions heavily invested in keeping the city wet.
Ellen F. Steinberg and Jack H. Prost
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252036200
- eISBN:
- 9780252093159
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252036200.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Jewish Studies
This book reveals the distinctive flavor of Jewish foods in the Midwest and tracks regional culinary changes through time. Exploring Jewish culinary innovation in America's heartland from the 1800s ...
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This book reveals the distinctive flavor of Jewish foods in the Midwest and tracks regional culinary changes through time. Exploring Jewish culinary innovation in America's heartland from the 1800s to today, the book examines recipes from numerous midwestern sources, both kosher and nonkosher, including Jewish homemakers' handwritten manuscripts and notebooks, published journals and newspaper columns, and interviews with Jewish cooks, bakers, and delicatessen owners. Settling into the cities, towns, and farm communities of Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, and Minnesota, Jewish immigrants incorporated local fruits, vegetables, and other comestibles into traditional recipes. Such incomparable gustatory delights include Tzizel bagels and rye breads coated in midwestern cornmeal, baklava studded with locally grown cranberries, tangy ketchup concocted from wild sour grapes, rich Chicago cheesecakes, and savory gefilte fish from Minnesota northern pike. The book also considers the effect of improved preservation and transportation on rural and urban Jewish foodways and the efforts of social and culinary reformers to modify traditional Jewish food preparation and ingredients. Including dozens of sample recipes and ample illustrations, the book takes readers on a memorable and unique tour of midwestern Jewish cooking and culture.Less
This book reveals the distinctive flavor of Jewish foods in the Midwest and tracks regional culinary changes through time. Exploring Jewish culinary innovation in America's heartland from the 1800s to today, the book examines recipes from numerous midwestern sources, both kosher and nonkosher, including Jewish homemakers' handwritten manuscripts and notebooks, published journals and newspaper columns, and interviews with Jewish cooks, bakers, and delicatessen owners. Settling into the cities, towns, and farm communities of Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, and Minnesota, Jewish immigrants incorporated local fruits, vegetables, and other comestibles into traditional recipes. Such incomparable gustatory delights include Tzizel bagels and rye breads coated in midwestern cornmeal, baklava studded with locally grown cranberries, tangy ketchup concocted from wild sour grapes, rich Chicago cheesecakes, and savory gefilte fish from Minnesota northern pike. The book also considers the effect of improved preservation and transportation on rural and urban Jewish foodways and the efforts of social and culinary reformers to modify traditional Jewish food preparation and ingredients. Including dozens of sample recipes and ample illustrations, the book takes readers on a memorable and unique tour of midwestern Jewish cooking and culture.
James R. Pennell
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252040740
- eISBN:
- 9780252099199
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252040740.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Sport and Leisure
The art and craft of winemaking has put down roots in the Midwest, where enterprising vintners coax reds and whites from the prairie earth while their businesses stand at the hub of a new tradition ...
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The art and craft of winemaking has put down roots in the Midwest, where enterprising vintners coax reds and whites from the prairie earth while their businesses stand at the hub of a new tradition of community and conviviality. This book tracks among the hardy vines and heartland terroir of wineries across Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, and Ohio. Blending history and observation, it gives us a top-down view of the business from cuttings and cultivation to sales and marketing. It also invites entrepreneurs to share stories of their ambitions, hard work, and strategies. The book's discussion is divided into three parts. It looks at wineries as places that bring people together to informally socialize with others. It then considers the wineries as having an inspiration, doing good work, and being rewarded for that effort. It also considers local wineries in the larger institutional contexts and actors. The book traces the hows and whys of progress toward that noblest of goals: a great vintage that puts their winery on the map.Less
The art and craft of winemaking has put down roots in the Midwest, where enterprising vintners coax reds and whites from the prairie earth while their businesses stand at the hub of a new tradition of community and conviviality. This book tracks among the hardy vines and heartland terroir of wineries across Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, and Ohio. Blending history and observation, it gives us a top-down view of the business from cuttings and cultivation to sales and marketing. It also invites entrepreneurs to share stories of their ambitions, hard work, and strategies. The book's discussion is divided into three parts. It looks at wineries as places that bring people together to informally socialize with others. It then considers the wineries as having an inspiration, doing good work, and being rewarded for that effort. It also considers local wineries in the larger institutional contexts and actors. The book traces the hows and whys of progress toward that noblest of goals: a great vintage that puts their winery on the map.
Grant Hayter-Menzies
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789888083008
- eISBN:
- 9789882207554
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888083008.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This is the story of two women from worlds that could not seem farther apart — imperial China and the American Midwest — who found common ground before and after one of the greatest clashes between ...
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This is the story of two women from worlds that could not seem farther apart — imperial China and the American Midwest — who found common ground before and after one of the greatest clashes between East and West, the fifty-five day siege of the Beijing foreign legations known as the Boxer Uprising. Using diaries, letters, and other sources, this book traces the parallel lives of Empress Dowager Cixi and American ambassador's wife Sarah Pike Conger, which converged to alter their perspectives of each other and each other's worlds.Less
This is the story of two women from worlds that could not seem farther apart — imperial China and the American Midwest — who found common ground before and after one of the greatest clashes between East and West, the fifty-five day siege of the Beijing foreign legations known as the Boxer Uprising. Using diaries, letters, and other sources, this book traces the parallel lives of Empress Dowager Cixi and American ambassador's wife Sarah Pike Conger, which converged to alter their perspectives of each other and each other's worlds.
David M. Krueger
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816696918
- eISBN:
- 9781452952444
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816696918.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
Chapter Two demonstrates the appeal of Viking myths to Minnesotans who embraced the artifact as proof that the conquest of the American West was blessed by God. The rune stone is examined in light of ...
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Chapter Two demonstrates the appeal of Viking myths to Minnesotans who embraced the artifact as proof that the conquest of the American West was blessed by God. The rune stone is examined in light of efforts to publicly memorialize deceased settlers following the Dakota War of 1862.Less
Chapter Two demonstrates the appeal of Viking myths to Minnesotans who embraced the artifact as proof that the conquest of the American West was blessed by God. The rune stone is examined in light of efforts to publicly memorialize deceased settlers following the Dakota War of 1862.
