Hoosier Tall Stories
Author: Federal Writers' Project (Ind.)
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Published: 1939
Total Pages: 48
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Federal Writers' Project (Ind.)
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Published: 1939
Total Pages: 48
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: George T. Blakey
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2005-04-20
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 0253023548
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The story of the New Deal program that helped to preserve the history and cultural heritage of Indiana during the Great Depression. From 1935 to 1942, the Indiana office of the Federal Writers’ Program hired unemployed writers as “field workers” to create a portrait in words of the land, the people, and the culture of the Hoosier state. This book tells the story of the project and its valuable legacy. Beginning work under the guidance of Ross Lockridge, whose son would later burst onto the American literary scene with his novel Raintree County, the group would eventually produce Indiana: A Guide to the Hoosier State, Hoosier Tall Stories, and other publications. Though many projects were never brought to completion, the Program’s work remains a useful and rarely tapped storehouse of information on the history and culture of the state. “An important history of the Indiana state Federal Writers’ Project . . . straightforward . . . persuasive . . . impassioned. This is an important social history of Depression-era Indiana and a guide for future research.” —A. B. Audant, CUNY Kingsborough Community College
Author: Madison, James H.
Publisher: Indiana Historical Society
Published: 2014-10
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 0871953633
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Al Spiers
Publisher:
Published: 2011-04-22
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780983467007
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ernest W. Baughman
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2012-01-19
Total Pages: 685
ISBN-13: 3111402770
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Linda Dégh
Publisher:
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780253109866
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Discusses old crafts and folk skills, from covered bridge building to quiltmaking, as well as the legends and lore of Indiana.
Author: Ronald L. Baker
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1986-09-22
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780253204066
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →" . . . extremely valuable . . . enthusiastically recommend[ed] . . . " —Western Folklore These hilarious and slightly off-color stories, although gathered in Indiana, reflect the ancient origin and universality of the joke. The chuckle, the grin, the uncontrolled belly-laugh evoked by Jokelore attest to the popularity of this ancient form of folk literature.
Author: B.A. Botkin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-02-13
Total Pages: 566
ISBN-13: 1000679470
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This stimulating anthology, prepared by the great folklorist, B.A. Botkin, is comprised of the traditional songs, stories, customs, and beliefs which have been handed down, by word of mouth, for so long that they seem to have a life of their own. For Botkin, they are at the core of peoplehood. When one thinks of American folklore one thinks not only of the folklore of American life, the traditions that have sprung up on American soil, but also of the literature of folklore, the migratory traditions that have found a home in the New World.
Author: Terry Pluto
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2000-10-01
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780803287662
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