Hoosiers on the Home Front

Dawn Bakken is Associate Editor of the Indiana Magazine of History, a scholarly journal of state and midwestern history. She is the author of On This Day in Indianapolis History.

• Introduction"Absent So long from those I love": The Civil War Letters of Joshua JonesDemocratic Attitudes in Johnson County during the Civil War Era: A Look at the Demaree PapersRecollections of Morgan's RaidThe Battle of Corydon"This Just Hope of Ultimate Payment": The Indiana Morgan's Raid Claims Commission and Harrison County, Indiana, 1863–1887The Grand Army of the Republic, the Indianapolis 500, and the Struggle for Memorial Day in Indiana, 1868–1923The War against German-American Culture: The Removal of German-Language Instruction from the Indianapolis Schools, 1917–1919Draftee's Wife: A Memoir of World War IIEducation Denied: Indiana University's Japanese American Ban, 1942 to 1945"Patriotism May Require Opposing the Government at Certain Times": Howard Zinn's Antiwar Speech at Indiana University, December 1, 1967The Other Side of Campus Indiana University's Student Right and the Rise of National Conservatism

"Hoosiers on the Home Front is a timely reminder of the nuanced dilemmas we face in defining "patriotism" in times of crisis.  The spectrum of Indiana voices from the Civil War to Vietnam speaks loudly to all Americans grappling with the complex political and social challenges posed by war."—Tracy Campbell, E. Vernon Smith and Eloise C. Smith Professor, University of Kentucky