Hoosiers on the Home Front

<p>Wars are fought on the home front as well as the battlefront. Spouses family friends and communities are called upon to sacrifice and persevere in the face of a changed reality. <i>Hoosiers on the Home Front</i> explores the lives and experiences of ordinary Hoosiers from around Indiana who were left to fight at home during wartimes. <br /><br />Drawn from the rich holdings of the <i>Indiana Magazine of History</i> a journal of state and midwestern history published since 1905 this collection includes original diaries letters and memoirs and research essays--all focused on Hoosiers on the home front of the Civil War through the Vietnam War. <br /><br />Readers will meet among others Joshua Jones of the 19th Indiana Volunteer Regiment and his wife Celia; Attia Porter a young resident of Corydon Indiana writing to her cousin about Morgan's Raid; Civil War and World War I veterans who came into conflict over the Indianapolis 500 and Memorial Day observances; Virginia Mayberry a wife and mother on the World War II home front; and university students and professors--including antiwar activist Howard Zinn and conservative writer R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.--clashing over the Vietnam War.<br /><br /><i>Hoosiers on the Home Front </i>offers a compelling glimpse of how war impacts everyone even those who never saw the front line.</p>