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  • Grand Old Man of Purdue University and Indiana Agriculture

    A Biography of William Carol Latta

    by Frederick Whitford, Andrew G. Martin ...
    Series series The Founders Series
    William Carol Latta was the 13th member of the Purdue faculty. He became the driving force behind Purdue's world-famous School of Agriculture and initiated extension services that have lasted for more than a century. In 1890, he laid out the first permanent soil fertility field experiments, inaugurating a system of research considered one of the best in the country at that time. He administered ... Read more

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  • Scattering the Seeds of Knowledge

    The Words and Works of Indiana's Pioneer County Extension Agents

    by Frederick Whitford ...
    Series series The Founders Series
    Today, Purdue Extension delivers practical, research-based information that transforms lives and livelihoods. Tailored to the needs of Indiana, its current programs include Agriculture and Natural Resources, Health and Human Sciences, Economic and Community Development, and 4-H Youth Development. However, today's success is built on over a century of visionary hard work and outreach. Scattering ... Read more

    $41.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • For the Good of the Farmer

    A Biography of John Harrison Skinner, Dean of Purdue Agriculture

    by Frederick Whitford ...
    Series series The Founders Series
    The key role that farming plays in the economy of Indiana today owes much to the work of John Harrison Skinner (1874-1942). Skinner was a pioneering educator and administrator who transformed the study of agriculture at Purdue University during the first decades of the twentieth century. From humble origins, occupying one building and 150 acres at the start of his career, the agriculture program ... Read more

    $38.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Queen of American Agriculture

    A Biography of Virginia Claypool Meredith

    by Frederick Whitford, Andrew G. Martin, Phyllis Mattheis ...
    Series series The Founders Series
    Virginia Claypool Meredith's role in directly managing the affairs of a large and prosperous farm in east-central Indiana opened doors that were often closed to women in late nineteenth century America. Her status allowed her to campaign for the education of women, in general, and rural women, in particular. While striving to change society's expectations for women, she also gave voice to the ... Read more

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    The Making of Our Chemically Altered Environment

    by Benjamin Ross, Steven Amter ...
    The chemical pollution that irrevocably damages today's environment is, although many would like us to believe otherwise, the legacy of conscious choices made long ago. During the years before and just after World War II, discoveries like leaded gasoline and DDT came to market, creating new hazards even as the expansion and mechanization of industry exacerbated old ones. Dangers still felt today- ... Read more

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  • Dust Bowl

    The Southern Plains in the 1930s

    by Donald Worster ...
    In the mid 1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history. Donald Worster's classic chronicle of the devastating years between 1929 and 1939 tells the story of the Dust Bowl in ecological as well as human terms. Now, twenty-five years after his book helped to define the new field of environmental history, Worster shares his more recent ... Read more

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  • Who Was Coretta Scott King?

    by Gail Herman, Who HQ ...
    Illustrated by Gregory Copeland ...
    Series series Who Was?
    The wife of Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King was a civil rights leader in her own right, playing a prominent role in the African American struggle for racial equality in the 1960s.Here's a gripping portrait of a smart, remarkable woman. Growing up in Alabama, Coretta Scott King graduated valedictorian from her high school before becoming one of the first African American students at ... Read more

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  • The Fall of Wisconsin

    The Conservative Conquest of a Progressive Bastion and the Future of American Politics

    by Dan Kaufman ...
    **National bestseller"Masterful." —Jane Mayer, best-selling author of Dark Money**The Fall of Wisconsin is a deeply reported, searing account of how the state’s progressive tradition was undone and Wisconsin itself turned into a laboratory for national conservatives bent on remaking the country. Neither sentimental nor despairing, the book tells the story of the systematic dismantling of laws ... Read more

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  • The Company Town

    The Industrial Eden's and Satanic Mills That Shaped the American Economy

    by Hardy Green ...
    Company town: The very phrase sounds un-American. Yet company towns are the essence of America. Hershey bars, Corning glassware, Kohler bathroom fixtures, Maytag washers, Spam -- each is the signature product of a company town in which one business, for better or worse, exercises a grip over the population. In The Company Town, Hardy Green, who has covered American business for over a decade, ... Read more

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  • Killing for Coal

    America’s Deadliest Labor War

    by Thomas G. Andrews ...
    On a spring morning in 1914, in the stark foothills of southern Colorado, members of the United Mine Workers of America clashed with guards employed by the Rockefeller family, and a state militia beholden to Colorado’s industrial barons. When the dust settled, nineteen men, women, and children among the miners’ families lay dead. The strikers had killed at least thirty men, destroyed six mines, ... Read more

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  • The Farm Press, Reform and Rural Change, 1895-1920

    by John J. Fry ...
    Series series Studies in American Popular History and Culture
    This project contributes to our understanding of rural Midwesterners and farm newspapers at the turn of the century. While cultural historians have mainly focused on readers in town and cities, it examines Midwestern farmers. It also contributes to the "new rural history" by exploring the ideas of Hal Barron and others that country people selectively adapted the advice given to them by reformers. ... Read more

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  • Slaughterhouse

    Chicago's Union Stock Yard and the World It Made

    by Dominic A. Pacyga ...
    From the minute it opened—on Christmas Day in 1865—it was Chicago's must-see tourist attraction, drawing more than half a million visitors each year. Families, visiting dignitaries, even school groups all made trips to the South Side to tour the Union Stock Yard. There they got a firsthand look at the city's industrial prowess as they witnessed cattle, hogs, and sheep disassembled with ... Read more

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