Springfield's urban histories
By: Stephen L. McIntyre, editor
Publisher: Moon City Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Springfield, MO
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780913785409
Subjects: Social conditions; City and town life; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Searching for Reuben Wood Avenue / Stephen L. McIntyre; title: Part One. The Civil War Era; title: Part One Introduction / Stephen L. McIntyre; title: Quinine and Courage : The Battle of Springfield, January 8, 1863 / William Garrett Piston and John C. Rutherford; title: Wild Bill Hickok, the Springfield Shootout, and the Development of the No-Duty-to-Retreat Doctrine in the Law of the "Wild West" / F. Thornton Miller; title: Part Two. The Age of Industry, 1870-1945; title: Part Two Introduction / Stephen L. McIntyre; title: Retail Rivals : Springfield's Commercial Street versus the Public Square, 1870-1945 / Angela Wingo Miller; title: Memories of Walter Majors : Searching for African American History in Springfield / Richard L. Schur; title: Unrestricted Warfare : Labor and Community in the 1916-1917 Springfield Streetcar Strike / Erin M. Smither; title: "Considerable Bad Feeling in this City" : Cross-Class Solidarity and Federal Power in the 1922 Springfield Frisco Shopmen's Strike / Stephen L. McIntyre; title: Part Three. Postwar Springfield, 1945-2010; title: Part Three Introduction / Stephen L. McIntyre; title: From Zenith to Nadir : The Story of Springfield's Largest Manufacturing Plant / Tim Knapp; title: Like a Family : Kinship Perceptions of Ozarks Radio Entertainers and the Spread of Consumer Culture, 1934-1959 / Edgar D. McKinney; title: "Sketchy, Vague and, to a Great Extent, Uninformed" : The Debate over Progressive Education in Springfield, 1947-1948 / Tom Dicke; title: The Demise of O'Reilly Hospital and the Beginning of Evangel College, 1946-1955 / Lawrence J. Nelson; title: The Creation of a Community : A History of Gay and Lesbian Springfield, 1945-2010 / Holly A. Baggett.