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Author: John Laskowski
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Published: 2012-03
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1613210167
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Covers over a century of Indiana University (IU) basketball. This title explains the excitement, the disappointment, the laughter, and the celebration that has turned IU basketball into a statewide religion. It reveals the history of the Indiana program through the memories of the school's hundreds of lettermen.
Author: Gayle L. Johnson
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2016-08-12
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781536968491
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This expanded and updated second edition contains new stories, details, and images from behind the scenes of the beloved film Hoosiers. Inspired by the smallest school ever to win Indiana's one-class basketball tournament, Hoosiers interweaves themes of redemption and second chances, of family and small-town life, of having faith and living your dream. It's been called one of the most inspiring motion pictures of all time. But the story of the movie's creation is just as inspiring. The first-time filmmakers' goal was to create an entertaining, authentic, and emotionally resonant movie--within the confines of a small budget and a short schedule. In attempting to portray the intense devotion to basketball known as Hoosier Hysteria, the movie's creators took on an immense challenge. With the help and support of thousands of Indiana residents, both during and after production, the filmmakers saw Hoosiers succeed well beyond their expectations. This book takes you on the journey that was the making of Hoosiers, as experienced by the filmmakers, actors, crew members, and extras. The book concludes by examining why the movie still scores with audiences young and old so many years after its release.
Author: James H. Madison
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2014-08-05
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 0253013100
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The story of this Midwestern state and its people, past and present: “An entertaining and fast read.” ―Indianapolis Star Who are the people called Hoosiers? What are their stories? Two centuries ago, on the Indiana frontier, they were settlers who created a way of life they passed to later generations. They came to value individual freedom and distrusted government, even as they demanded that government remove Indians, sell them land, and bring democracy. Down to the present, Hoosiers have remained wary of government power and have taken care to guard their tax dollars and their personal independence. Yet the people of Indiana have always accommodated change, exchanging log cabins and spinning wheels for railroads, cities, and factories in the nineteenth century, automobiles, suburbs, and foreign investment in the twentieth. The present has brought new issues and challenges, as Indiana’s citizens respond to a rapidly changing world. James H. Madison’s sparkling new history tells the stories of these Hoosiers, offering an invigorating view of one of America’s distinctive states and the long and fascinating journey of its people.
Author: Phillip M. Hoose
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2016-08-29
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 0253021685
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Named by The New York Times as "a knowing, respectful and caring look at heartland America" and containing a new foreword by legendary player Bob Plump, this is a book every basketball lover should own. The best of Phillip Hoose's classic writings are included here with a fresh look on Indiana's favorite and most beloved sport. A new edition of a well-known Indiana classic, Hoosiers profiles some of the world's most famous basketball players and coaches—Larry Bird, Bobby Plump, Damon Bailey, Steve Alford, Stephanie White, and Bob Knight among them—along with Indiana towns, schools, and programs. The ultimate book for the diehard fan, Hoosiers: The Fabulous Basketball Life of Indiana explores Hoosier hysteria in all its glory.
Author: Dawn Bakken
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2021-09-07
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 0253056853
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Fighting Hoosiers: Indiana in Two World Wars tells the compelling, heartbreaking, and breathtaking stories of some of the hundreds of thousands of Hoosiers who served their country during the First and Second World Wars. Drawn from the rich holdings of the Indiana Magazine of History, a journal of state and midwestern history published since 1905, the collection includes original diaries, letters and memoirs, as well as research essays—all of them focused on Hoosiers in the two world wars. Readers will meet Alex Arch, a Hungarian-born immigrant who was the first American to fire a shot in World War I; Maude Essig, a nurse serving with the American Red Cross in wartime France; Kenneth Baker, a soldier in the Army Signal Corps, who crawled across French fields (sometimes over and around dead bodies) to lay phone lines for military communications; and Bernard Rice, a combat medic who witnessed the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp in 1945. Indiana's brave men and women like these have served with distinction in the armed forces since the earliest days of the Indiana Territory. Fighting Hoosiers offers a compelling glimpse at some of their remarkable stories.
Author: Landon Turner
Publisher: Sports Publishing LLC
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 1582611971
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The famous Hoosiers coach relates the basketball team's hard-won 1981 championship victory and his own battle back from tragedy after being paralyzed in a car wreck. 25 photos.
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: Kathryn L. Knapp
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780253217417
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Celebrates Indiana University's 2003 National Men's Soccer Championship and profiles the team and its celebrated coach.
Author: Gary Loderhose
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 144
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"In 1863 and?64 a group of rough and fairly tough Florida frontiersmen who has hacked homesteads out of the swamps? actively patrolled the Florida coast for the Confederacy? Some of the Florida rebels were as young as fourteen; the oldest was seventy-two. And among them were a conscripted father and son, W.A. and Young Hunter. Their story, and the stories of others like them who found themselves brought together eventually as the Ninth Florida Regiment, are the backbone of [this book]? This is the story of raw Floridians in the trenches, attacks, and battles around Petersburg, fighting disease and the declining morale which marked the last days of the Confederacy in Virginia"--Jacket.
