Bibliography

Listed articles and books used to develop the historical context for the narrative of my college life.

 

Bailey, Beth L. From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth Century America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988.

Baldwin, James and Bender, Ida C. Reading with Expression: A Reader for Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Years. New York: American Book Company, 1911.

Engelhardt, Carroll. By the Sweat of His Brow: The R. M. Probstfield Family at Oakport Farm. Altona, MB Canada: Friesen Press, 2022.

_______. “The Common School and the Ideal Citizen: Iowa, 1876-1921.” PhD Dissertation, University of Iowa, 1969.

_______. “Citizenship Training and Community Civics in Iowa Schools: Modern Methods for Traditional Ends, 1876-1928.” Mid-America 65(April-July 1983): 55-69.

_______. “Compulsory Education in Iowa, 1872-1919.” Annals of Iowa, 49(Summer/Fall 1987): 58-76.

_______. Concordia Fair Doth Stand: The College Begins Its Second Century, 1991-2016. Moorhead: Concordia College, 2016.

_______. “Concordia Goes to War.” In Cobbers in WW II: Memoirs from the Greatest Generation, edited by James B. Hofrenning, 17-34. Minneapolis: Lutheran University Press, 2010.

_______. The Farm at Holstein Dip: An Iowa Boyhood. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2012.

_______. Gateway to the Northern Plains: Railroads and the Birth of Fargo and Moorhead. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007.

_______. “Henry A. Bruns: Failed Frontier Entrepreneur.” Minnesota History 58(Summer 2002): 92-104.

_______. “Henry Sabin (1829-1918): ‘The Aristocracy of Character’ and Educational Leadership in Iowa.” Annals of Iowa 48(Winter/Spring 1987): 388-412.

_______. “The Ideology and Politics of Iowa Common School Reform, 1854-1860.” Annals of Iowa 56(Summer 1997): 201-232.

_______. “The Incorporation of America: The Northern Pacific, the Lake Superior and Puget Sound Company, and Fargo-Moorhead.” North Dakota History 68, No. 4(2001): 26-38.

_______. “Man in the Middle: Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. and Postwar American Liberalism.” South Atlantic Quarterly 80(Spring 1981): 119-138.

_______. “Modernity Confronts Tradition: Concordia College and the Turbulent Twenties.” Minnesota History 64(Fall 2014), 92-103.

_______. On Firm Foundation Grounded: The First Century of Concordia College, 1891-1991. Moorhead: Concordia College, 1991.

_______. “Religion, Morality, and Citizenship in the Public Schools: Iowa, 1858-1930.” In Ideas in America’s Cultures: From Republic to Mass Society, edited by Hamilton Cravens, 45-57. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1982.

_______. “Schools and Character: Educational Reform and Industrial Virtue in Iowa Schools, 1890-1930.” Annals of Iowa 47(Winter 1985): 618-636.

_______. “Travel Journals.” Seven volumes. Concordia College Archives.

_______. “William Robert Boyd,” “Henry Sabin,” and “Homer Horatio Seerley.” In The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa, ed. Marvin Bergman, 56-57, 431-432, 448-449. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2008.

Finch, Taylor. “‘Powerless with Guitar’: Music and Student Protest at the University of Iowa: 1965-1971.” Iowa Historical Review, 6:1(2016): 7-64.

Freeman, Joshua B. American Empire: The Rise of a Global Power, the Democratic Revolution at Home, 1945-2000. New York: Viking Press, 2012.

Freeman, Susan K. Sex Goes to School: Girls and Sex Education before the 1960s. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2008.

Goldman, Eric. The Crucial Decade—And After, 1945-1960. New York: Vintage Books, 1960.

Graebner, William. The Age of Doubt: American Thought and Culture in the 1940s. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1991.

Graff, Gerald. Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.

Hartman, Andrew. Education and the Cold War: The Battle for the American School. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Jacoby, Susan. The Age of American Unreason. New York: Pantheon Books, 2008.

Lang, William and Pendergraft, Daryl. A Century of Leadership and Service: A Centennial  History of the University of Northern Iowa, Vol. 2, 1928-1976. Cedar Falls: University of Northern Iowa, 1995.

Levine, Susan. School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of American’s Favorite Welfare Program. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008.

Morris, Charles. Pictorial History of the United States. Chicago: The John C. Winston Company, 1901.

Patterson, James. Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Perry, Arthur C. and Price, Gertrude A. American History; Second Book (1763 to Present). New York: American Book Company, 1914.

Persons, Stow. “History at Iowa: The Modern Era.” (1992). University of Iowa Archives.

_______. “Thirty Years at the University of Iowa: A Memoir.” (April 1982) University of Iowa Archives.

_______. University of Iowa in the Twentieth Century: An Institutional History. Iowa City: University of Iowa, 1990.

O’ Neill, William L. Coming Apart: An Informal History of America in the 1960’s. New York: Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Company, 1971.

Ravitch, Diane. The Troubled Crusade: American Education, 1945-1980. New York: Basic Books, 1983.

Thelin, John R. Going to College in the Sixties. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.

Whitfield, Stephen J. The Culture of the Cold War. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.

Wilentz, Sean. The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974-2008. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2008.