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Murderous Acts
While the Midwest may be known for salt-of-the-earth
folks, it's also home to murder and mayhem.
In Murderous Acts: 100 Years of Crime in the Midwest ,
Keven McQueen explores a century of true crimes committed in 10
Midwestern states, from the 1840s to the 1940s. With a touch of
gallows humor, McQueen relies on original research to recount
infamous transgressions-including Michigan's Robert Irving Latimer
case, the serial murders of Nebraskan Jake Bird, and the bloody
deeds of Kansas's Bender family-as well as gruesome tales that are
less well known, such as the Wisconsin man with a penchant for
swinging an axe at the necks of men he didn't care for, the Hoosier
who killed his sweetheart in the midst of a Halloween ball, and the
French nobleman who wreaked havoc in a St. Louis hotel.
Murderous Acts will intrigue and delight fans of true crime and
will send a shiver down the spine of any reader fascinated by the
dark history of America's Heartland.
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Corn kings and one-horse thieves : a plain-spoken history of mid-Illinois
\"In Corn Kings and One-Horse Thieves, James Krohe Jr. presents an engaging history of an often overlooked region, filled with fascinating stories and surprising facts about Illinois's midsection. Krohe describes in lively prose the history of mid-Illinois from the Woodland period of prehistory up until roughly 1960, covering the settlement of the region by peoples of disparate races and religions; the exploitation by Euro-Americans of forest, fish, and waterfowl; the transformation of farming into a high-tech industry; and the founding and deaths of towns. The economic, cultural, and racial factors that led to antagonism and accommodation between various people of different backgrounds are explored, as are the roles of education and religion in this part of the state. The book examines remarkable Utopian experiments, social and moral reform movements, and innovations in transportation and food processing. It also offers fresh accounts of labor union warfare and social violence directed against Native Americans, immigrants, and African Americans and profiles three generations of political and government leaders, sometimes extraordinary and sometimes corrupt (the \"one-horse thieves\" of the title). A concluding chapter examines history's roles as product, recreation, and civic bond in today's mid-Illinois. A general history of mid-Illinois for the curious nonacademic reader, Corn Kings and One-Horse Thieves draws on a wide range of sources to explore a surprisingly diverse region whose history is America in microcosm\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Chinese Americans in the Heartland
The term \"Heartland\" in American cultural context conventionally tends to provoke imageries of corn-fields, flat landscape, hog farms, and rural communities, along with ideas of conservatism, homogeneity, and isolation. But as the Midwestern and Southern states experienced more rapid population growth than that in California, Hawaii, and New York in the recent decades, the Heartland region has emerged as a growing interest of Asian American studies. Focused on the Heartland cities of Chicago, Illinois and St. Louis, Missouri, this book draws rich evidences from various government records, personal stories and interviews, and media reports, and sheds light on the commonalities and uniqueness of the region, as compared to the Asian American communities on the East and West Coast and Hawaii. Some of the poignant stories such as \"the Three Moy Brothers,\" \"Alla Lee,\" and \"Save Sam Wah Laundry\" told in the book are powerful reflections of Asian American history.
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American carnage : Wounded Knee, 1890
\"American Carnage--the first comprehensive account of Wounded Knee to appear in more than fifty years--explores the complex events preceding the tragedy, the killings, and their troubled legacy\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Fighting Invisibility
In Fighting Invisibility , Monica Mong Trieu argues that we
must consider the role of physical and symbolic space to fully
understand the nuances of Asian American racialization. By doing
this, we face questions such as, historically, who has represented
Asian America? Who gets to represent Asian America? This book
shifts the primary focus to Midwest Asian America to disrupt-and
expand beyond-the existing privileged narratives in United States
and Asian American history. Drawing from in-depth interviews,
census data, and cultural productions from Asian Americans in Ohio,
Wisconsin, Nebraska, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, and
Michigan, this interdisciplinary research examines how post-1950s
Midwest Asian Americans navigate identity and belonging, racism,
educational settings, resources within co-ethnic communities, and
pan-ethnic cultural community. Their experiences and life
narratives are heavily framed by three pervasive themes of
spatially defined isolation, invisibility, and racialized
visibility. Fighting Invisibility makes an important
contribution to racialization literature, while also highlighting
the necessity to further expand the scope of Asian American
history-telling and knowledge production.
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The rabbit hutch
\"A debut novel about an odd assortment of residents living in a crumbling apartment building in the post-industrial Midwest\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Folklore of Lake Erie
Welcome to a very different Lake Erie-where ghost ships sail
silently, a Black Dog brings doom to sailors who see it, and sea
monsters swirl in the murky depths above a UFO base. In
Folklore of Lake Erie , Judith S. Neulander presents these
captivating tales and many more from the smallest, yet arguably the
most peculiar, of the Great Lakes in North America.
Whether you are embarking on a discovery of the vampire crypt
that lurks in the shadows while Lincoln's ghost train speeds past
on its eternal journey or reminiscing about the tall tales your
grandfather used to share, this delightful treasure trove of
folklore and local traditions from the Lake Erie region contains
legends and stories that are both astonishing and entertaining.
Endlessly captivating and easily accessible, Folklore of
Lake Erie is a distinctive compilation of eerie and enchanting
narratives from across the years that will surprise and delight
readers. Just be sure to keep an eye out for any peculiar Black
Dogs that may cross your path along the way.
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Shopping town : designing the city in suburban America
\"Victor Gruen was one of the twentieth century's most influential architects and is regarded as the father of the U.S. shopping mall. In spring 1979, less than a year before his death, he began reconstructing his life story. Now available in English for the first time, Shopping Town is the long overdue account of a man whose work fundamentally altered the course of city development. Shopping Town opens in Vienna in 1938 with the Anschluss--the turning point in Gruen's life--as he narrowly escaped the Nazi regime. A few years later, in the suburbs of postwar America, the Jewish refugee sought to reproduce the vitality of Vienna's city center and invented the commercial apparatus now known as the shopping mall. Gruen's Southdale Mall in Edina, Minnesota, was the first fully enclosed shopping center in America. He then translated the concept to economically neglected city centers, setting the path for pedestrian zones and fighting passionately for an urban ideal without compromise. Highlighting Gruen's sense of humor as well as reflections on the complex forces that sustained the postwar transformation of American cities, Shopping Town embeds Gruen's experiences and perspectives in a wider social and political context while helping us understand his problematic place in American architectural culture. With afterwords by his son and daughter, Shopping Town closes with Anette Baldauf's richly insightful essay on the legacy of Victor Gruen\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Midwestern Pastoral
The midwestern pastoral is a literary tradition of place and rural experience that celebrates an attachment to land that is mystical as well as practical, based on historical and scientific knowledge as well as personal experience. It is exemplified in the poetry, fiction, and essays of writers who express an informed love of the nature and regional landscapes of the Midwest.Drawing on recent studies in cultural geography, environmental history, and mythology, as well as literary criticism,The Midwestern Pastoral: Place and Landscape in Literature of the American Heartlandrelates Midwestern pastoral writers to their local geographies and explains their approaches. William Barillas treats five important Midwestern pastoralists-Willa Cather, Aldo Leopold, Theodore Roethke, James Wright, and Jim Harrison-in separate chapters. He also discusses Jane Smiley, U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser, Paul Gruchow, and others.For these writers, the aim of writing is not merely intellectual and aesthetic, but democratic and ecological. In depicting and promoting commitment to local communities, human and natural, they express their love for, their understanding of, and their sense of place in the American Midwest. Students and serious readers, as well as scholars in the growing field of literature and the environment, will appreciate this study of writers who counter alienation and materialism in modern society.
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