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The story of the New Deal program that helped to preserve the history and cultural heritage of Indiana during the Great Depression.
From 1935 to 1942, the Indiana office of the Federal Writers’ Program hired unemployed writers as “field workers” to create a portrait in words of the land, the people, and the culture of the Hoosier state. This book tells the story of the project and its valuable legacy. Beginning work under the guidance of Ross Lockridge, whose son would later burst onto the American literary scene with his novel Raintree County, the group would eventually produce Indiana: A Guide to the Hoosier State, Hoosier Tall Stories, and other publications. Though many projects were never brought to completion, the Program’s work remains a useful and rarely tapped storehouse of information on the history and culture of the state.
“An important history of the Indiana state Federal Writers’ Project . . . straightforward . . . persuasive . . . impassioned. This is an important social history of Depression-era Indiana and a guide for future research.” —A. B. Audant, CUNY Kingsborough Community College
From 1935 to 1942, the Indiana office of the Federal Writers’ Program hired unemployed writers as “field workers” to create a portrait in words of the land, the people, and the culture of the Hoosier state. This book tells the story of the project and its valuable legacy. Beginning work under the guidance of Ross Lockridge, whose son would later burst onto the American literary scene with his novel Raintree County, the group would eventually produce Indiana: A Guide to the Hoosier State, Hoosier Tall Stories, and other publications. Though many projects were never brought to completion, the Program’s work remains a useful and rarely tapped storehouse of information on the history and culture of the state.
“An important history of the Indiana state Federal Writers’ Project . . . straightforward . . . persuasive . . . impassioned. This is an important social history of Depression-era Indiana and a guide for future research.” —A. B. Audant, CUNY Kingsborough Community College
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Reviews for Creating A Hoosier Self-Portrait
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Because my mother's family has lived in Indiana for 200 years, a lot of my family history research centers on the state and its history. I picked up this book hoping to learn more about the state during a challenging era in the nation's history, and to learn about resources that might help me put my family's life in context. This book met, but did not exceed, my expectations. Its tone is dry and academic. It is suited for readers seeking information rather than entertainment.The most useful chapters for me are those that describe the unpublished material housed in various archives. I'm curious to see what research inventories are available for the counties where my ancestors lived, and if they passed down any of the antiques inventoried, had an unusual epitaph inscribed on a gravestone, lived or worked in a historic building, or if my abolitionist ancestors had an association with the Underground Railroad. I marked things throughout the text to explore if and when I'm able to visit the archival repositories.I wasn't as interested in the research and editorial processes of the completed publications of the Indiana Federal Writers Project. It seems like the Washington bureaucracy did a lot of micromanaging, which probably explains why so few of the projects reached publication. Indiana's experience was probably typical to that of other states, so this book would be useful as a case study for someone doing extensive research on the Federal Writers Project.
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