Farm at Holstein Dip : Memoir of an Iowa Boyhood
ISBN: 9781609381172 | 1609381173
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Univ of Iowa Pr
Pub. Date: 8/15/2012
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Carroll Engelhardt's parents grew up in homes without electricity on farms without tractors and began farming in the same way. As a farm boy in northeastern Iowa, he thought that history happened only to important people in earlier times and more exotic places. After decades of teaching, he at last perceived that history happens to us all, and he began writing this book. Set within the thoughtfully presented contexts of the technological revolution in American agriculture, the Second World War, the Cold War, and the emerging culture of affluenc... MORE
| Preface and Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Home | p. 15 |
| Farm | p. 57 |
| Town | p. 89 |
| Church | p. 125 |
| School | p. 145 |
| Conclusion | p. 185 |
| Family Trees | p. 193 |
| Notes | p. 195 |
| Bibliography | p. 213 |
| Index | p. 223 |
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Professor of history emeritus at Concordia College, in Moorhead, Minnesota, Carroll Engelhardt is the author of Gateway to the Northern Plains: Railroads and the Birth of Far go and Moorhead and "On Firm Foundation Grounded": The First Century of Concordia College (18911991).
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