Document Type
Article
Abstract
This essay describes how someone from the UK, and with a poor academic background, became interested in the history of the Middle West. In the 1980s when the federal government was flush for funds, it was possible to do historical research on soft money. The author survived for fifteen years writing and researching rural topics with grants from agencies like the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Institutes of Health. Eventually after publishing the results of these explorations, he secured an academic teaching job.
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Recommended Citation
Friedberger, Mark
(2016)
"From Sandhurst to Rural Iowa: The Education of a Prairie Historian,"
Studies in Midwestern History: Vol. 2
, No. 7.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/midwesternhistory/vol2/iss1/7
