ORPP logo
Image from Google Jackets

Fighting Hoosiers : Indiana in Two World Wars.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (200 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780253056856
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Fighting HoosiersDDC classification:
  • 940.412730922772
LOC classification:
  • D570.85.I6 F544 2021
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction / Dawn E. Bakken -- 1. Pride, Patriotism, and the Press: The Evolving True Story of the First American Shot of World War I / Greta A. Fisher and Lauren E. Kuntzman -- 2. On Convoy Duty in World War I: The Diary of Hoosier Guy Connor / Edited by Jeffrey L. Patrick -- 3. A Hoosier Nurse in France: The World War I Diary of MaudeFrances Essig / Alma S. Woolley -- 4. "Oatmeal and Coffee": Memoirs of a Hoosier Soldier in World War I / Kenneth Gearhart Baker, edited and introduced by Robert H. Ferrell, transcription and postscript by Betty Baker Rinker -- 5. Recollections of a World War II Combat Medic / Bernard L. Rice -- 6. A Hoosier Soldier in the British Isles / Lawrence B. McFaddin -- 7. "A Fair Chance To Do My Part of Work": Black Women, War Work, and Rights Claims at the Kingsbury Ordnance Plant / Katherine Turk -- About the Author.
Summary: -Carefully selected collection of articles from the Indiana Magazine of History, that details ordinary Hoosiers' involvement in the two world wars. Focuses on the personal stories of these brave men and women, and features their diaries, letters and memiors as source material. -Trade crossover that should appeal to general history readers and scholars alike.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
No physical items for this record

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction / Dawn E. Bakken -- 1. Pride, Patriotism, and the Press: The Evolving True Story of the First American Shot of World War I / Greta A. Fisher and Lauren E. Kuntzman -- 2. On Convoy Duty in World War I: The Diary of Hoosier Guy Connor / Edited by Jeffrey L. Patrick -- 3. A Hoosier Nurse in France: The World War I Diary of MaudeFrances Essig / Alma S. Woolley -- 4. "Oatmeal and Coffee": Memoirs of a Hoosier Soldier in World War I / Kenneth Gearhart Baker, edited and introduced by Robert H. Ferrell, transcription and postscript by Betty Baker Rinker -- 5. Recollections of a World War II Combat Medic / Bernard L. Rice -- 6. A Hoosier Soldier in the British Isles / Lawrence B. McFaddin -- 7. "A Fair Chance To Do My Part of Work": Black Women, War Work, and Rights Claims at the Kingsbury Ordnance Plant / Katherine Turk -- About the Author.

-Carefully selected collection of articles from the Indiana Magazine of History, that details ordinary Hoosiers' involvement in the two world wars. Focuses on the personal stories of these brave men and women, and features their diaries, letters and memiors as source material. -Trade crossover that should appeal to general history readers and scholars alike.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

© 2024 Resource Centre. All rights reserved.