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Historical Sketch Of The Northern Great Plains History Conference, 1966-2015, William E. Lass May 2018

Historical Sketch Of The Northern Great Plains History Conference, 1966-2015, William E. Lass

Studies in Midwestern History

The Northern Great Plains History Conference, which recently held its 50th conference, was conceived by D. Jerome Tweton of the University of North Dakota’s Department of History. After attending the Missouri Valley History Conference in Omaha, Tweton thought the concept of a regional history conference should be duplicated on the Northern Great Plains. But, his attendance at the American Historical Association’s 1965 meeting in New York City caused him to act. The conference was crowded, costly, and only attended by two North Dakota historians. While flying back to Grand Forks, Tweton decided to give historians of the North Central region …

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‘[It] Made Me Want To Rush Out And Take An Antiseptic Bath’: Frances Cochran And The Dilemmas Of Social Work In Progressive Era Cincinnati, Douglas Slaybaugh May 2018

‘[It] Made Me Want To Rush Out And Take An Antiseptic Bath’: Frances Cochran And The Dilemmas Of Social Work In Progressive Era Cincinnati, Douglas Slaybaugh

Studies in Midwestern History

Social work in the Progressive Era was influenced by two contradictory visions of the profession. One called for an empathetic connection between the social worker and the poor that could transform both. The other focused on the dangers the poor posed to middle-class values and sought to use new knowledge in the social and natural sciences to control and protect society from the poor. The case of Frances Cochran, a young Cincinnati social worker from 1912-1916, first at the House of Refuge and then the Juvenile Protective Association, exemplifies the tensions between the two visions of the profession and shows …

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Where The Midwest Ends And The Great Plains Begin, Brad Tennant May 2018

Where The Midwest Ends And The Great Plains Begin, Brad Tennant

Studies in Midwestern History

There are a number of historical perspectives and events that justify the Great Plains as the end of the Midwest and the beginning of the American West. The most noticeable differences begin at approximately the 100th meridian as changes with climatic conditions, vegetation, and animal life become more readily apparent. In addition, historical events, such as the last major United States-Indian confrontation at Wounded Knee and the non-Indian settlement of the Northern Great Plains in the late nineteenth century, coincided with the proclaimed end of the frontier experience in United States history.

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Wisconsin’S Disaggregated Development And The Study Of The Midwest, Lawrence H. Larsen, Barbara Cottrell Larsen May 2018

Wisconsin’S Disaggregated Development And The Study Of The Midwest, Lawrence H. Larsen, Barbara Cottrell Larsen

Studies in Midwestern History

Understanding Wisconsin’s decentralized and greatly localized early development offers important clues for historians of later eras who are attempting to come to terms with the history of the Midwest as a region. The Fox River Valley is but one example of the divisions – economic and otherwise – that make the Midwestern states a patchwork of regions centered on places that might have little bearing to other locations within even their own state. This is both a challenge and an opportunity for historians of the Midwest, typically accustomed to state-based histories, to consider both the global and the intensely local …

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Our Midwests, Mark Vinz May 2018

Our Midwests, Mark Vinz

Studies in Midwestern History

When I was teaching American Studies and Literature courses in “The Midwest,” I’d always began with a survey, asking students to indicate where they thought the Midwest was located on the map, what its main characteristics were, what its people were like, etc. I was always amazed at how little my students knew about the questions, or about the differences between such things as urban and rural. Their home area was indeed what Eric Sevareid once called “a blank on the nation’s mind.” It’s indeed time for all of us to escape the stereotypes and know more about the places …

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The Perils And Promise Of Midwestern Studies, Frederick E. Witzig May 2018

The Perils And Promise Of Midwestern Studies, Frederick E. Witzig

Studies in Midwestern History

As I reflect on the eight-year history of Midwest Studies (renamed the Midwest Initiative, then Midwest Matters; here I will use the term MSI, for Midwest Studies Initiative) at Monmouth College in west-central Illinois, two relevant news pieces from the community of small, private, liberal arts colleges circulate around me. The first, that of Iowa Wesleyan College throwing overboard faculty, staff, and academic programs in an effort to stay afloat, is actually more than a year old, but it was refreshed on our campus by a recent IWC visitor who explained its painful repercussions. The second, the startling announcement of …

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Centrifugal And Centripetal Forces Shaping The American Midwest, John E. Miller May 2018

Centrifugal And Centripetal Forces Shaping The American Midwest, John E. Miller

Studies in Midwestern History

Efforts to identify the essential identity or the defining features of the Midwest are interesting and valuable, but they are ultimately doomed to failure because the Midwest is many different things. It is necessarily complex, conflicted, and contradictory, in much the same way that America as a whole was depicted by historian Michael Kammen in The Contrapuntal Civilization. Citing examples from his 2014 book, Small-Town Dreams: Stories of Midwestern Boys Who Shaped America, John Miller describes the powerful impulses that led young men to leave their midwestern farms and hometowns to pursue their destinies in distant places, while …

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Lanthorn, Vol. 52, No. 60, April 23, 2018, Grand Valley State University Apr 2018

Lanthorn, Vol. 52, No. 60, April 23, 2018, Grand Valley State University

Volume 52, July 10, 2017 - April 23, 2018

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

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Grand Valley Forum, Volume 042, Number 17, April 23, 2018, Grand Valley State University Apr 2018

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 042, Number 17, April 23, 2018, Grand Valley State University

2017-2018, Volume 42

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

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Lanthorn, Vol. 52, No. 59, April 19, 2018, Grand Valley State University Apr 2018

Lanthorn, Vol. 52, No. 59, April 19, 2018, Grand Valley State University

Volume 52, July 10, 2017 - April 23, 2018

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

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Lanthorn, Vol. 52, No. 58, April 16, 2018, Grand Valley State University Apr 2018

Lanthorn, Vol. 52, No. 58, April 16, 2018, Grand Valley State University

Volume 52, July 10, 2017 - April 23, 2018

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

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Lanthorn, Vol. 52, No. 57, April 12, 2018, Grand Valley State University Apr 2018

Lanthorn, Vol. 52, No. 57, April 12, 2018, Grand Valley State University

Volume 52, July 10, 2017 - April 23, 2018

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

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Grand Valley Forum, Volume 042, Number 16, April 9, 2018, Grand Valley State University Apr 2018

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 042, Number 16, April 9, 2018, Grand Valley State University

2017-2018, Volume 42

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

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Lanthorn, Vol. 52, No. 56, April 9, 2018, Grand Valley State University Apr 2018

Lanthorn, Vol. 52, No. 56, April 9, 2018, Grand Valley State University

Volume 52, July 10, 2017 - April 23, 2018

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

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Lanthorn, Vol. 52, No. 55, April 5, 2018, Grand Valley State University Apr 2018

Lanthorn, Vol. 52, No. 55, April 5, 2018, Grand Valley State University

Volume 52, July 10, 2017 - April 23, 2018

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

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Lanthorn, Vol. 52, No. 54, April 2, 2018, Grand Valley State University Apr 2018

Lanthorn, Vol. 52, No. 54, April 2, 2018, Grand Valley State University

Volume 52, July 10, 2017 - April 23, 2018

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

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Grand Valley Magazine, Vol. 17, No. 4 Spring 2018, Grand Valley State University Apr 2018

Grand Valley Magazine, Vol. 17, No. 4 Spring 2018, Grand Valley State University

Grand Valley Magazine

Grand Valley Magazine is a quarterly publication about Grand Valley State University produced by University Communications since 2001.

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One Peninsula, Many Spains: An Inquiry On Memory, Historiography, And The Legacy Of The Spanish Civil War From 1930 To The Present, Adrian Rios Apr 2018

One Peninsula, Many Spains: An Inquiry On Memory, Historiography, And The Legacy Of The Spanish Civil War From 1930 To The Present, Adrian Rios

Honors Projects

In this essay, I analyze the events of the Spanish Civil War and their ramifications through the lens of cultural memory and historiography. I argue that ideas of memory are crucial to how societies and individuals understand history and that the Spanish Civil War had a tremendous impact on the Spanish people and significantly affected the memory not only of witnesses of the conflict, but to their descendants. This essay utilizes primary and secondary sources to understand the function of memory and varied responses to the Spanish Civil War. The essay begins with a brief historical overview of the conflict …

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Tatyana Markus: Hero Of Ukraine, Ariana L. Martineau Apr 2018

Tatyana Markus: Hero Of Ukraine, Ariana L. Martineau

Honors Projects

A dramatized telling of the story of Tatyana Markus, a young Jewish resistance fighter from Kiev, Ukraine. Under a false identity, she personally killed dozens of Nazis during WWII. Along the way she lost many people she cared about until she was captured herself. Tatyana has gone on virtually unknown throughout the world, so this play is an effort to spread word about this brave, amazing girl who was only in her early 20s. I think the themes are very relatable to today's society with the struggle of whether to stand up to injustice, or stand by. Especially since she …

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Lanthorn, Vol. 52, No. 53, March 29, 2018, Grand Valley State University Mar 2018

Lanthorn, Vol. 52, No. 53, March 29, 2018, Grand Valley State University

Volume 52, July 10, 2017 - April 23, 2018

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

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Not Written In Letters Of Blood: The Forgotten Legacy Of The Army Of The Cumberland, Andrew R. Perkins Mar 2018

Not Written In Letters Of Blood: The Forgotten Legacy Of The Army Of The Cumberland, Andrew R. Perkins

Grand Valley Journal of History

While the Army of the Potomac and the Army of the Tennessee have each rightly earned their spots in the annals of Civil War history, the Army of the Cumberland has fallen through the cracks into unfortunate neglect and undue malice, despite the large number of successes and triumphs achieved by its men. This paper advances four theories explaining why this has happened, including the timing of battles, conflict between Union generals, the failures of the army's commanders, and the unfortunate influence of Southern romanticism.

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Lanthorn, Vol. 52, No. 52, March 26, 2018, Grand Valley State University Mar 2018

Lanthorn, Vol. 52, No. 52, March 26, 2018, Grand Valley State University

Volume 52, July 10, 2017 - April 23, 2018

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

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Grand Valley Forum, Volume 042, Number 15, March 26, 2018, Grand Valley State University Mar 2018

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 042, Number 15, March 26, 2018, Grand Valley State University

2017-2018, Volume 42

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

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Lanthorn, Vol. 52, No. 51, March 22, 2018, Grand Valley State University Mar 2018

Lanthorn, Vol. 52, No. 51, March 22, 2018, Grand Valley State University

Volume 52, July 10, 2017 - April 23, 2018

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

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Lanthorn, Vol. 52, No. 50, March 19, 2018, Grand Valley State University Mar 2018

Lanthorn, Vol. 52, No. 50, March 19, 2018, Grand Valley State University

Volume 52, July 10, 2017 - April 23, 2018

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

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Lanthorn, Vol. 52, No. 49, March 15, 2018, Grand Valley State University Mar 2018

Lanthorn, Vol. 52, No. 49, March 15, 2018, Grand Valley State University

Volume 52, July 10, 2017 - April 23, 2018

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

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Grand Valley Forum, Volume 042, Number 14, March 12, 2018, Grand Valley State University Mar 2018

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 042, Number 14, March 12, 2018, Grand Valley State University

2017-2018, Volume 42

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

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Lanthorn, Vol. 52, No. 48, March 12, 2018, Grand Valley State University Mar 2018

Lanthorn, Vol. 52, No. 48, March 12, 2018, Grand Valley State University

Volume 52, July 10, 2017 - April 23, 2018

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

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Lanthorn, Vol. 52, No. 47, March 1, 2018, Grand Valley State University Mar 2018

Lanthorn, Vol. 52, No. 47, March 1, 2018, Grand Valley State University

Volume 52, July 10, 2017 - April 23, 2018

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

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Grand Valley Forum, Volume 042, Number 13, February 26, 2018, Grand Valley State University Feb 2018

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 042, Number 13, February 26, 2018, Grand Valley State University

2017-2018, Volume 42

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

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