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Author | : Keven McQueen |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2017-06-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0253029120 |
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A spooky history of the American Midwest—from grave robbers to ghost sightings and more—by the author of Creepy California. Most people think of the American Midwest as a place of wheat fields and family farms; cozy small towns and wholesome communities. But there’s more to the story of America’s Heartland—a dark history of strange tales and unsettling facts hidden just beneath its quaint pastoral image. In Horror in the Heartland, historian Keven McQueen offers a guided tour of terrible crimes and eccentric characters; haunted houses and murder-suicides; mad doctors, body snatchers, and pranks gone comically—and tragically—wrong. From tales of the booming grave-robbing industry of late 19th-century Indiana to the story of a Michigan physician who left his estate to his pet monkeys, McQueen investigates a spooky and twisted side of Indiana, Ohio, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan. Exploring burial customs, unexplained deaths, ghost stories, premature burials, bizarre murders, peculiar wills and much more, this creepy collection reveals the region’s untold stories and offers intriguing, if sometimes macabre, insights into human nature.
Author | : Victoria McCollum |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2016-06-23 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317077539 |
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This book explores the resurgence of rural horror following the events of 9/11, as a number of filmmakers, inspired by the films of the 1970s, moved away from the characteristic industrial and urban settings of apocalyptic horror, to return to American heartland horror. Examining the revival of rural horror in an era of city fear and urban terrorism, the author analyses the relationship of the genre with fears surrounding the Global War on Terror, exploring the films’ engagement with the political repercussions of 9/11 and the ways in which traces of traumatic events leave their mark on cultures. Arranged around the themes of dissent, patriotism, myth, anger and memorial, and with attention to both text and socio-cultural context in its interpretation of the films’ themes, Post-9/11 Heartland Horror offers a series of case studies covering a ten-year period to shed light on the manner in which the Post-9/11 Heartland Horror films scrutinize and unravel the events, aspirations, anxieties, discourses, dogmas, and socio-political conflicts of the post-9/11 era. As such, it will appeal to scholars and students of film studies, cultural studies and media studies, and those with interests in the relationship between popular culture and politics.
Author | : John Hamilton |
Publisher | : Heinemann/Raintree |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781562395247 |
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Surveys events surrounding the bombing of the Oklahoma City Federal Building including the rescue effort and the investigation by federal authorities.
Author | : Wendy S. Painting |
Publisher | : TrineDay |
Total Pages | : 1153 |
Release | : 2016-04-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1634240049 |
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Presenting startling new biographical details about Timothy McVeigh and exposing stark contradictions and errors contained in previous depictions of the "All-American Terrorist," this book traces McVeigh's life from childhood to the Army, throughout the plot to bomb the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building and the period after his 1995 arrest until his 2001 execution. McVeigh's life, as Dr. Wendy Painting describes it, offers a backdrop for her discussion of not only several intimate and previously unknown details about him, but a number of episodes and circumstances in American History as well. In Aberration in the Heartland, Painting explores Cold War popular culture, all-American apocalyptic fervor, organized racism, contentious politics, militarism, warfare, conspiracy theories, bioethical controversies, mind control, the media's construction of villains and demons, and institutional secrecy and cover-ups. All these stories are examined, compared, and tested in Aberration in the Heartland of the Real, making this book a much closer examination into the personality and life of Timothy McVeigh than has been provided by any other biographical work about him
Author | : Dick Lehr |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 429 |
Release | : 2021-11-30 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 0358359961 |
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For fans of I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, the thrilling true story of a would-be terrorist attack against a Kansas farming town’s immigrant community, and the FBI informant who exposed it. In the spring of 2016, as immigration debates rocked the United States, three men in a militia group known as the Crusaders grew aggravated over one Kansas town’s growing Somali community. They decided that complaining about their new neighbors and threatening them directly wasn’t enough. The men plotted to bomb a mosque, aiming to kill hundreds and inspire other attacks against Muslims in America. But they would wait until after the presidential election, so that their actions wouldn’t hurt Donald Trump’s chances of winning. An FBI informant befriended the three men, acting as law enforcement’s eyes and ears for eight months. His secretly taped conversations with the militia were pivotal in obstructing their plans and were a lynchpin in the resulting trial and convictions for conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction. White Hot Hate will tell the riveting true story of an averted case of domestic terrorism in one of the most remote towns in the US, not far from the infamous town where Capote’s In Cold Blood was set. In the gripping details of this foiled scheme, we see in intimate focus the chilling, immediate threat of domestic terrorism—and racist anxiety in America writ large.
Author | : Victoria Sherrow |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780766010611 |
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Disaster struck the American heartland when a devastating explosion rocked the nine-story Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. Stories of survivors who lost loved ones give the reader a sense of the enormous human tragedy that was caused by this explosion.
Author | : James H. Madison |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2020-10-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0253052203 |
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"Who is an American?" asked the Ku Klux Klan. It is a question that echoes as loudly today as it did in the early twentieth century. But who really joined the Klan? Were they "hillbillies, the Great Unteachables" as one journalist put it? It would be comforting to think so, but how then did they become one of the most powerful political forces in our nation's history? In The Ku Klux Klan in the Heartland, renowned historian James H. Madison details the creation and reign of the infamous organization. Through the prism of their operations in Indiana and the Midwest, Madison explores the Klan's roots in respectable white protestant society. Convinced that America was heading in the wrong direction because of undesirable "un-American" elements, Klan members did not see themselves as bigoted racist extremists but as good Christian patriots joining proudly together in a righteous moral crusade. The Ku Klux Klan in the Heartland offers a detailed history of this powerful organization and examines how, through its use of intimidation, religious belief, and the ballot box, the ideals of Klan in the 1920s have on-going implications for America today.
Author | : James H. Madison |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780312239022 |
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After being accused of killing a young white man and sexually abusing his girlfriend, three black teenagers were dragged from the jail by an angry mob, who lynched two of the teens, in a powerful true account that delves into race, justice, and history in America.
Author | : Stephen G. Bloom |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780156013369 |
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A portrait of cultural conflict in action visits a small Iowa community where Lubavitcher Jews opened a successful slaughterhouse and found themselves in conflict with gentile neighbors.
Author | : Nathan Filer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Schizophrenia |
ISBN | : 9780571345953 |
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A powerful work of non-fiction and the natural sequel to his Costa Book of the Year Award-winning The Shock of the Fall.