A narrative and interpretive history of a major institution of higher education. The authors tell an interesting story, focusing on the people who inhabited the institution, from powerful presidents like John R. Emens to boisterous students like David Letterman, whose fame as a late-night talk show host makes his name a household word. And they trace the history of the institution and its people from the local business people who pushed to establish higher education in a small Midwestern city in the late-19th century to a 21st-century president who spent most of his life in the South.

Ball State University: An Interpretive History

Education & Teaching

Geelhoed, E. Bruce

Edmonds, Anthony O.

Higher & Continuing Education

Indiana University Press

It was the publication of research conducted by Robert S. Lynd and his wife Helen Merrell Lynd in 1929 that transformed Muncie, Indiana into the barometer of social attitudes, customs, beliefs, and behavior in the American Hartland. Recognized as the most widely studied mid-sized community in America, Muncie has attracted researchers and historians for nearly a century. A town which prospered in the 1920s, and survived the economic hardships of the Great Depression, Muncie has grown to become a prospering business community with a strong link to its rich past. Muncie: The Middletown of America explores the evolution of Muncie in a series of over two hundred black and white images. Spectacular photographs unveil Muncie's past, from the Ball Brothers, whose glass-making company gave the city its reputation in the 1880s, to exciting high school basketball and volleyball contests in the 1980s and 1990s. Striking imagery enables the reader to connect to the past and visualize how Muncie developed to where it stands today.

Muncie: The Middletown of America (Images of America)

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Arcadia Publishing

Under the leadership of head coach Bump Elliott, the 1964 Wolverines won Michigan's first Big Ten championship since 1950 and their first Rose Bowl since 1951, and finished fourth in the national college football polls. They defeated four top-ten ranked teams: Navy, Michigan State, Ohio State, and Oregon State, their Rose Bowl opponent. The Wolverines also defeated Minnesota for the first time since 1960, and reclaimed the prized Little Brown Jug. 
 Despite its impressive record, the 1964 team failed to attract the national attention it deserved. At the beginning of the season, few football observers expected Michigan to contend for the Big Ten championship. But by the end of the season it was clear that the Wolverines were one of America's elite teams--perhaps the best in the country. 
 This book chronicles for the first time the exploits of Michigan's 1964 team and gives them long-overdue recognition.

Bump Elliott, the Michigan Wolverines and Their 1964 Championship Football Season

History

Americas

McFarland

The history of the Cold War is littered with what-ifs, and in Diplomacy Shot Down, E. Bruce Geelhoed explores one of the most intriguing: What if the Soviets had not shot down the American U-2 spy plane and President Dwight D. Eisenhower had visited the Soviet Union in 1960 as planned? In August 1959, with his second term nearing its end, Eisenhower made the surprise announcement that he and Soviet premier Nikita S. Khrushchev would visit each other's countries as a means of "thawing some of the ice" of the Cold War. Khrushchev's trip to the United States in September 1959 resulted in plans for a four-power summit involving Great Britain and France, and for Eisenhower's visit to Russia in early summer 1960. Then, in May 1960, the Soviet Union shot down an American U-2 surveillance plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers. The downing of Powers's plane was, in Geelhoed's recounting of this episode in Cold War history, not just a diplomatic crisis. The ensuing collapse of the summit and the subsequent cancelation of Eisenhower's trip to the Soviet Union amounted to a critical missed opportunity for improved US-Soviet relations at a crucial juncture in the Cold War. In a blow-by-blow description of the diplomatic overtures, the U-2 incident, and the aftermath, Diplomacy Shot Down draws upon Eisenhower's projected itinerary and unmade speeches and statements, as well as the American and international press corps' preparations for covering the aborted visit, to give readers a sense of what might have been. Eisenhower's prestige within the Soviet Union was so great, Geelhoed observes, that the trip, if it had happened, could well have led to a détente in the increasingly dangerous US-Soviet relationship. Instead, the cancelation of Ike's visit led to an escalation in hostilities that played out around the globe and nearly guaranteed that the "missile gap" would reemerge as an issue in the 1960 presidential campaign. A detailed account of an episode that defined the Cold War for a generation, Diplomacy Shot Down is, in its insights and revelations, something rarer still--a behind-the-scenes look at history in the unmaking. &nbsp;

Diplomacy Shot Down: The U-2 Crisis and Eisenhower's Aborted Mission to Moscow, 1959–1960

University of Oklahoma Press

The United States Liaison Office (USLO) served as the diplomatic contact for Sino-American relations between the time of the Nixon-Kissinger opening of China in 1971-1972 and the achievement of full normalization in 1979. This book presents the importance of the USLO to American foreign policy in the 1970s.

The Dragon and the Snake: An American Account of the Turmoil in China, 1976-1977

Gates, Millicent Anne

Asia

University of Pennsylvania Press

CHARLES E. WILSON And Controversy at the Pentagon 1953-1957 By E. BRUCE GEELHOED. Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 1979. Hardcover with Dustjacket. ISBN # 0814316352. Charles E. Wilson in 1953 left a successful career as a businessman and administrator at General Motors to assume the post of secretary of defense under Dwight D. Eisenhower. The next years were turbulent for Wilson, who repeatedly found himself embroiled in controversies over issues ranging from conflict of interest to interservice rivalry to Senator Joseph McCarthy's investigation of the Army to the havoc created by his own sometimes tactless public statements. The volume, the first full-length study of Wilson as secretary of defense, makes extensive use of his personal papers. Focusing on his performance at the Pentagon, it clarifies Wilson's relationship with Eisenhower and his attempt to apply the skills he brought from his business world to a politically and militarily sensitive office. Grounding his analysis in contemporary press reports, memoirs, papers held by the Wilson Archives, and recent work by historians of the Eisenhower administration, Geelhoed presents the evidence to support his belief that Wilson was one of the shapers of defense policy as well as an administrator and public spokesman for the administration. This book makes a significant contribution toward defining more sharply the personalities and issues of the mid-1950s. Hardcover.

Charles E. Wilson and Controversy at the Pentagon, 1953-1957

Wayne State University Press

Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, celebrates its centennial anniversary in 2018. Begun in 1918 as the Eastern Division of the Indiana State Normal School, Ball State remained a branch campus of Indiana State until 1929 when it became Ball State Teachers College, Indiana's fourth public institution of higher education. In 1965, the teachers college became Ball State University. Throughout its history, Ball State's distinguishing characteristic has been the positive interactions between students, faculty, and members of the community. This book will show how these interactions have worked out at Ball State: in the classroom; on the athletic field; in social organizations, such as student government; fraternities, sororities, and clubs; and throughout the region. The book will also show how the members of the Ball family have played a major role in the growth and development of the university.

Ball State University (Campus History)

Szajewski, Michael G.

Pieczko, Brandon T.

Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, celebrates its centennial anniversary in 2018. Begun in 1918 as the Eastern Division of the Indiana State Normal School, Ball State remained a branch campus of Indiana State until 1929 when it became Ball State Teachers College, Indianaa (TM)s fourth public institution of higher education. In 1965, the teachers college became Ball State University. Throughout its history, Ball Statea (TM)s distinguishing characteristic has been the positive interactions between students, faculty, and members of the community. This book will show how these interactions have worked out at Ball State: in the classroom; on the athletic field; in social organizations, such as student government; fraternities, sororities, and clubs; and throughout the region. The book will also show how the members of the Ball family have played a major role in the growth and development of the university.

Ball State University

Arcadia Publishing Library Editions

The Rotary Club of Indianapolis 1913-1998: A Club, a Community, and a Century

Guild Press of Indiana

The Pull: Hope College's Legendary Tug-of-War, 1898-2023

Sports & Outdoors

Miscellaneous

Van Raalte Press

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