{"id":62,"date":"2021-03-16T22:45:59","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T02:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bsu.edu\/middletownstudies\/?page_id=62"},"modified":"2025-01-22T16:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T21:56:10","slug":"middletown100","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bsu.edu\/middletownstudies\/home\/research-and-reports\/middletown100\/","title":{"rendered":"Middletown@100"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Middletown@100<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63\" src=\"https:\/\/bsu-wpe-sites.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2021\/03\/16224532\/Middletown%40100-image-CMS-wordpress-300x239.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bsu-wpe-sites.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2021\/03\/16224532\/Middletown%40100-image-CMS-wordpress-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-sites.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2021\/03\/16224532\/Middletown%40100-image-CMS-wordpress.jpg 499w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Robert and Helen Lynd published <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Middletown<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">: A Study in Modern American Culture<\/span><\/i> in <span data-contrast=\"auto\">1929.\u00a0 They based their arguments in the book on historical, participant observation, and survey research conducted in Muncie, Indiana, between January, 1924 and June, 1925.\u00a0 Their success inaugurated a tradition of studying Muncie to assess broader patterns in American culture and society. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The Center for Middletown Studies is marking<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> the centennial anniversary of both the original research and the publication of the Lynds groundbreaking Middletown investigation<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> with several initiatives.\u00a0 Some are designed to highlight the extensive archive generated by the Lynds and their successors. Others examine some of the key questions about American <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">society and culture originally raised by the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Lynds.\u00a0 In all of these efforts, we aim to give the local community a role in shaping how Muncie&#8211;as Middletown&#8211;is portrayed.\u00a0 <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">While nominally focused on <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Muncie,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> the Middletown@100 <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">initiatives help us understand broad<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> changes that have taken place across American society and particularly in the American Midwest over the past century.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Middletown@100 Initiative includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A set of ethnographic investigations of contemporary Muncie<\/li>\n<li>A pair of community-centered projects that enable local residents to offer their own visions of \u201cMiddletown\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Publication of a book describing everyday life in Middletown<\/li>\n<li>The use of digital tools to make the extensive archive of Middletown research more accessible and usable<\/li>\n<li>A conference to mark the centennial of the publication of the Lynds book<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Check back in the coming months for more details on these efforts.<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Photo by Edward Strother, Ball State Digital Media <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Repository<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Updated January, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Middletown@100\u00a0 Robert and Helen Lynd published Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture in 1929.\u00a0 They based their arguments in the book on historical, participant observation, and survey research conducted in Muncie, Indiana, between January, 1924 and June, 1925.\u00a0 Their success inaugurated a tradition of studying Muncie to assess broader patterns in American culture and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":934,"featured_media":0,"parent":15,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-62","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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