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“We Are Now Americans”: Henry Hospers, Sioux County, Iowa, And Dutch Settler Acculturation, Douglas Firth Anderson
“We Are Now Americans”: Henry Hospers, Sioux County, Iowa, And Dutch Settler Acculturation, Douglas Firth Anderson
Northwestern Review
Henry Hospers (1830-1901) was the leader of the Dutch kolonie (colony) of Sioux County, Iowa. When Hospers named and platted Orange City in 1870, Hendrik P. Scholte of the Pella, Iowa colony was dead and Albertus C. Van Raalte of the Holland, Michigan colony was nearing the end of his life. Compared to the more famous Scholte and Van Raalte (who settled their respective Midwestern colonies in 1847), Hospers has received little critical attention as a significant Dutch American immigrant leader. Hospers’ relative historical obscurity is understandable. Scholte and Van Raalte were clergy, while Hospers was a layman. Moreover, he …
Roosevelt, Naturally, Duane G. Jundt
Roosevelt, Naturally, Duane G. Jundt
Northwestern Review
This essay examines the outpouring of works on Theodore Roosevelt the conservationist and hunter since the publication of Douglas Brinkley’s The Wilderness Warrior in 2009. It provides brief reviews of several books, including children’s books, and an episode of a television documentary series. It also looks at two museum exhibitions and a play that deal with Roosevelt and conservation. The essay emphasizes the centrality that many of the works give to the connection between Roosevelt’s environmental ethos and his hunting. Under review are Douglas Brinkley, The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America; R.L. Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt: …
Finding Custer: A Review, Douglas Firth Anderson
Finding Custer: A Review, Douglas Firth Anderson
Northwestern Review
This essay reviews T.J. Stiles, Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America.
Evangelist For A Religion Of Nature, Douglas Firth Anderson
Evangelist For A Religion Of Nature, Douglas Firth Anderson
Northwestern Review
Donald Worster’s A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir is a magisterial biography. It is the place to begin for understanding John Muir (1838-1914), the Scottish immigrant and popular U.S. Gilded Age and Progressive Era naturalist most famous as the self-appointed spokesperson for Yosemite Valley, the founder of the Sierra Club, and the most outspoken opponent of the damming of Hetch Hetchy Valley by the City of San Francisco. Worster explores Muir’s tensions and contradictions. He also astutely analyzes Muir’s religiously-inflected “passion for nature.” He clarifies that Muir was not a neo-Transcendentalist, let alone a Buddhist, but rather …
A Rural Nebraska Boy’S Comic Strip Narrative Of World War Ii, Mike Kugler
A Rural Nebraska Boy’S Comic Strip Narrative Of World War Ii, Mike Kugler
Northwestern Review
The comics drawn by James “Jimmy” Kugler (the author’s father) when he was 13 in 1945 and living in Lexington, Nebraska provide a microhistorical perspective on at least four things. First, they offer a glimpse of an adolescent boy’s life in small town America during the mid-twentieth century. The strips took local buildings and situations and turned them into something strange, reflecting some of Jimmy’s loneliness and alienation. Further, they “back talked” the adults in charge of school and town. Second, they manifest the power of a dynamic American popular culture at the time. Jimmy’s war comic strips depict fairly …
Reconfiguring Protestantism And Minorities: A Review Essay, Douglas Firth Anderson
Reconfiguring Protestantism And Minorities: A Review Essay, Douglas Firth Anderson
Faculty Publications
This review article discusses 3 recent volumes on things happening in Protestantism that will become more significant in Iowa if current demographic trends continue. Two of the books concern Pentecostalism and the other Mennonite Anabaptism.
Reading (About Roosevelt) Is Fundamental, Duane G. Jundt
Reading (About Roosevelt) Is Fundamental, Duane G. Jundt
Faculty Publications
Review of Michael Burgan, Who Was Theodore Roosevelt, Meg Chorlian, "Theodore Roosevelt: Larger Than Life," in Cobblestone, Doreen Rappaport, To Dare Mighty Things: The Life of Theodore Roosevelt, Barb Rosenstock, The Camping Trip That Changed America: Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, and Our National Parks.
William Vandever: Presbyterian, Congressman, General, Douglas Firth Anderson
William Vandever: Presbyterian, Congressman, General, Douglas Firth Anderson
Faculty Publications
What happens to Dutch ethnic identity after several generations in America? William Vandever (1817-1893) illustrates at least one path of acculturation. He was a Congressman twice--first from Iowa, later from California. During the Civil War, he raised a Union regiment from Iowa and was a general by the time the war ended. In the 1870s he was a U.S. Indian Inspector. His Dutchness, though, persisted through his self-identification as a devout Presbyterian--in the greater Reformed tradition of his Dutch ancestors of the 17th century.
Fourth Down And Ted, Duane G. Jundt
Fourth Down And Ted, Duane G. Jundt
Faculty Publications
A review of John J. Miller's The Big Scrum: How Teddy Roosevelt Saved Football.
"Never Draw Unless You Mean To Shoot": Theodore Roosevelt's Frontier Diplomacy, Duane G. Jundt
"Never Draw Unless You Mean To Shoot": Theodore Roosevelt's Frontier Diplomacy, Duane G. Jundt
Faculty Publications
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