The American Midwest
The American Midwest

Author: Andrew R. L. Cayton

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2006-11-08

Total Pages: 1918

ISBN-13: 0253003490

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This first-ever encyclopedia of the Midwest seeks to embrace this large and diverse area, to give it voice, and help define its distinctive character. Organized by topic, it encourages readers to reflect upon the region as a whole. Each section moves from the general to the specific, covering broad themes in longer introductory essays, filling in the details in the shorter entries that follow. There are portraits of each of the region's twelve states, followed by entries on society and culture, community and social life, economy and technology, and public life. The book offers a wealth of information about the region's surprising ethnic diversity -- a vast array of foods, languages, styles, religions, and customs -- plus well-informed essays on the region's history, culture and values, and conflicts. A site of ideas and innovations, reforms and revivals, and social and physical extremes, the Midwest emerges as a place of great complexity, signal importance, and continual fascination.

Female Gladiators
Female Gladiators

Author: Sarah K. Fields

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2008-06-25

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 0252075846

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How school-aged girls used the legal system to gain access to contact sports

Playing for Equality
Playing for Equality

Author: Diane LeBlanc

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2016-10-18

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1476663009

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The right to participate in sports and competitive athletics is more than an issue of fair play--it's a matter of human rights. In 1972, Title IX of the Education Amendments became law, transforming sports opportunities for girls and women in the U.S. Based on oral histories, this book chronicles Title IX's impact through the stories of eight women physical educators, coaches, Olympic athletes and administrators. They recall the experience of being female in the mid-20th century, their influential teachers and mentors, and their work to create opportunities. The eight narratives reveal gender, race and class inequity in higher education and athletics and describe how women leaders worked through sports to make women's rights human rights. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

The Rise of American High School Sports and the Search for Control
The Rise of American High School Sports and the Search for Control

Author: Robert Pruter

Publisher: Syracuse University Press

Published: 2013-08-29

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 0815652194

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Nearly half of all American high school students participate in sports teams. With a total of 7.6 million participants as of 2008, this makes the high school sports program in America the largest organized sports program in the world. Pruter’s work traces the history of high school sports from the student-led athletic clubs of the 1800s through to the establishment of educator control of high school sports under a national federation by the 1930s. Pruter’s research serves not only to highlight this rich history but also to provide new perspectives on how high school sports became the arena by which Americans fought for some of the most contentious issues in society, such as race, immigration and Americanization, gender roles, religious conflict, the role of the military in democracy, and the commercial exploitation of our youth.

Lady Marshals
Lady Marshals

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Publisher: Turner Publishing Company

Published: 1991-06-15

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13: 9781563110160

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History of the Marshall County High School basketball team.

Finding a New Midwestern History
Finding a New Midwestern History

Author: Jon K. Lauck

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press

Published: 2018-11-01

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 1496208811

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In comparison to such regions as the South, the far West, and New England, the Midwest and its culture have been neglected both by scholars and by the popular press. Historians as well as literary and art critics tend not to examine the Midwest in depth in their academic work. And in the popular imagination, the Midwest has never really ascended to the level of the proud, literary South; the cultured, democratic Northeast; or the hip, innovative West Coast. Finding a New Midwestern History revives and identifies anew the Midwest as a field of study by promoting a diversity of viewpoints and lending legitimacy to a more in-depth, rigorous scholarly assessment of a large region of the United States that has largely been overlooked by scholars. The essays discuss facets of midwestern life worth examining more deeply, including history, religion, geography, art, race, culture, and politics, and are written by well-known scholars in the field such as Michael Allen, Jon Butler, and Nicole Etcheson.

The Failed Century of the Child
The Failed Century of the Child

Author: Judith Sealander

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-11-03

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780521535687

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Charts the effort to use state regulation to guarantee health and security for America's children.