James H. Madison
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Hoosiers: A New History of Indiana
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published
2014
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6 editions
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A Lynching in the Heartland: Race and Memory in America
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2001
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5 editions
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The Ku Klux Klan in the Heartland
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The Indiana Way: A State History
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1990
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6 editions
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Slinging Doughnuts for the Boys: An American Woman in World War II
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published
2007
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5 editions
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Eli Lilly: A Life, 1885-1977
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published
1989
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4 editions
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World War II: A History in Documents
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published
2009
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4 editions
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Hoosiers and the American Story
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Heartland: Comparative Histories of the Midwestern States
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published
1988
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3 editions
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Wendell Willkie: Hoosier Internationalist
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published
1992
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4 editions
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“Wells attempted to lead the small, besieged civilian and military garrison from Fort Dearborn to safety at Fort Wayne. A large party of Potawatomis overwhelmed and killed most of the whites. Anticipating the attack, Wells died that day dressed and painted as a Miami warrior – a white Indian at the end. Indian raiding parties struck far into southern Indiana, killing twenty-four men, women, and children in September 1812 at the settlement of Pigeon Roost in present-day Scott County.17 Settlers elsewhere fled to their blockhouses and across the Ohio River. Fort Harrison and Fort Wayne came under attack and siege.”
― Hoosiers: A New History of Indiana
― Hoosiers: A New History of Indiana
“One of the most important intermediaries was William Wells, who became, in the frontier term, a “white Indian.” Wells was born in 1770, and at the age of nine moved with his family to Kentucky. In 1784 a party of Miamis captured him. For the next eight years he lived as a Miami warrior, joining in”
― Hoosiers: A New History of Indiana
― Hoosiers: A New History of Indiana
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