Hardship and Hope

Hardship and Hope
Author: Carla Waal
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Total Pages: 334
Release: 1997
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780826211200

Provides the journal entries, diaries, memoirs, and letters of over twenty women living in Missouri from the years 1820 to 1920. Also includes a brief history and background of each woman and her work.

United States Jewry, 1776-1985

United States Jewry, 1776-1985
Author: Jacob Rader Marcus
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 1002
Release: 2018-02-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 0814344682

Marcus follows the movement of these "GermanJews into all regions west of the Hudson River.

A Time for Building

A Time for Building
Author: Gerald Sorin
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 692
Release: 1995-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780801851223

A Time for Building describes the experiences of Jews who stayed in the large cities of the Northeast and Midwest as well as those who moved to smaller towns in the deep South and the West.

The American Midwest

The American Midwest
Author: Andrew R. L. Cayton
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 1918
Release: 2006-11-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0253003490

This first-ever encyclopedia of the Midwest seeks to embrace this large and diverse area, to give it voice, and help define its distinctive character. Organized by topic, it encourages readers to reflect upon the region as a whole. Each section moves from the general to the specific, covering broad themes in longer introductory essays, filling in the details in the shorter entries that follow. There are portraits of each of the region's twelve states, followed by entries on society and culture, community and social life, economy and technology, and public life. The book offers a wealth of information about the region's surprising ethnic diversity -- a vast array of foods, languages, styles, religions, and customs -- plus well-informed essays on the region's history, culture and values, and conflicts. A site of ideas and innovations, reforms and revivals, and social and physical extremes, the Midwest emerges as a place of great complexity, signal importance, and continual fascination.

The Ozarks

The Ozarks
Author: Milton D. Rafferty
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2001-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781610753029

The Ozark Mountains reach into Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Kansas, forming a region with great natural beauty and a distinctive cultural and historical landscape. This comprehensive volume, a fully updated edition of a beloved classic, reaches into history, anthropology, economics, and geography to explore the complex relationships between the Ozarks' people and land through times of profound change. Drawing on more than thirty years of research, field observations, and interviews, Rafferty examines this subject matter through a range of topics: the settlement patterns and material cultures of Native Americans, French, Scotch-Irish, Germans, Italians, African Americans, Hispanics, and Asians in the region; population growth; the guerrilla warfare and battles of the Civil War; the cultural transformations wrought by railroads, roads, mass media, and modern communication systems; the discovery, development, and decline of the great mining districts; the various forms of agriculture and the felling of the region's vast forests; and the built landscape, from log cabins to Victorian mansions to strip malls. This new edition also explores the new and potent forces which have reshaped the region over the last twenty years: tourism and the growing service industry, suburbanization, rapid population growth and retirement living, and agribusiness. Lavishly illustrated with historic and contemporary photographs, maps, and charts.