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“winton u solberg”

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  • Arctic Mirage

    The 1913-1920 Expedition in Search of Crocker Land

    by Winton U. Solberg ...
    In 1913, an expedition was sent to the Arctic, funded by the American Museum of Natural History, the American Geographical Society and the University of Illinois. Its purpose was twofold: to discover whether an archipelago called Crocker Land--reportedly spotted by an earlier explorer in 1906--actually existed; and to engage in scientific research in the Arctic.When explorers discovered that ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Edmund J. James and the Making of the Modern University of Illinois, 1904-1920

    by Winton U Solberg, J. David Hoeveler ...
    In 1904, Edmund J. James inherited the leadership of an educational institution in search of an identity. His sixteen-year tenure transformed the University of Illinois from an industrial college to a major state university that fulfilled his vision of a center for scientific investigation.Winton U. Solberg and J. David Hoeveler provide an account of a pivotal time in the university’s evolution. A ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Creating the Big Ten

    Courage, Corruption, and Commercialization

    by Winton U Solberg ...
    Big Ten football fans pack gridiron cathedrals that hold up to 100,000 spectators. The conference's fourteen member schools share a broadcast network and a 2016 media deal worth $2.64 billion. This cultural and financial colossus grew out of a modest 1895 meeting that focused on football's brutality and encroaching professionalism in the game.Winton U. Solberg explores the relationship between ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The University of Illinois

    Engine of Innovation

    by James R. Barrett, George O Batzli, Claire Benjamin, Jeffrey D Brawn, Jimena Canales, Stephanie A Dick, Poshek Fu, Marcelo H Garcia, Lillian Hoddeson, Harry Liebersohn, Claudia Lutz, Kathleen Mapes, Vicki McKinney, Elisa Miller, Robert Michael Morrissey, Bryan E Norwood, Elizabeth Pleck, Leslie J Reagan, Susan M Rigdon, David Rosenboom, Katherine Skwarczek, Winton U Solberg, Carol Spindel, William F Tracy, Joy Ann Williamson-Lott ...
    The founding of the university in 1867 created a unique community in what had been a prairie. Within a few years, this creative mix of teachers and scholars produced innovations in agriculture, engineering and the arts that challenged old ideas and stimulated dynamic new industries. Projects ranging from the Mosaic web browser to the discovery of Archaea and pioneering triumphs in women's ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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  • Making Whiteness

    The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940

    by Grace Elizabeth Hale ...
    Making Whiteness is a profoundly important work that explains how and why whiteness came to be such a crucial, embattled--and distorting--component of twentieth-century American identity. In intricately textured detail and with passionately mastered analysis, Grace Elizabeth Hale shows how, when faced with the active citizenship of their ex-slaves after the Civil War, white southerners re ... Read more

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  • A Fierce Discontent

    The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920

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  • Baseball in the Garden of Eden

    The Secret History of the Early Game

    by John Thorn ...
    Think you know how the game of baseball began? Think again.Forget Abner Doubleday and Cooperstown. Forget Alexander Joy Cartwright and the New York Knickerbockers. Instead, meet Daniel Lucius Adams, William Rufus Wheaton, and Louis Fenn Wadsworth, each of whom has a stronger claim to baseball paternity than Doubleday or Cartwright.But did baseball even have a father—or did it just evolve from ... Read more

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  • Raising Racists

    The Socialization of White Children in the Jim Crow South

    by Kristina DuRocher ...
    Series series New Directions in Southern History
    White southerners recognized that the perpetuation of segregation required whites of all ages to uphold a strict social order—especially the young members of the next generation. White children rested at the core of the system of segregation between 1890 and 1939 because their participation was crucial to ensuring the future of white supremacy. Their socialization in the segregated South offers an ... Read more

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  • Black Wall Street

    From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa's Historic Greenwood District

    by Hannibal B Johnson ...
    Early in the twentieth century, the black community in Tulsa- the "Greenwood District"- became a nationally renowned entrepreneurial center. Frequently referred to as "The Black Wall Street of America," the Greenwood District attracted pioneers from all over America who sought new opportunities and fresh challenges. Legal segregation forced blacks to do business among themselves. The Greenwood ... Read more

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  • Behind the Mask of Chivalry

    The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan

    by Nancy K. MacLean ...
    On Thanksgiving night, 1915, a small band of hooded men gathered atop Stone Mountain, an imposing granite butte just outside Atlanta. With a flag fluttering in the wind beside them, a Bible open to the twelfth chapter of Romans, and a flaming cross to light the night sky above, William Joseph Simmons and his disciples proclaimed themselves the new Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, named for the ... Read more

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