In this Issue

Table of Contents

Articles

Mapping the Ozarks as a Cultural Region by County Boundaries

Benjamin G. Rader, Roger F. Kirby
pp. 1-22
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2017.0039
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Symposium on the Midwest and American Regional Studies

Finding the American Midwest in the World of Regional Studies

Jon K. Lauck
p. 23
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2017.0040
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The State of New England Studies

Dona Brown
pp. 25-31
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2017.0041
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Notes from the West to the Midwest

William Deverell
pp. 33-40
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2017.0042
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“On the Edge of Extinction?”: Region, Identity, and the Pliable Contours of Southern History

Henry Kamerling
pp. 41-49
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2017.0043
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Always Relative to Somewhere: Regional Studies in (Not So) Unique Alaska

Ross Coen
pp. 51-54
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2017.0044
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From the Mountains to the Midwest: Observations on Appalachia, Regionalism, and Regional Studies

Phillip J. Obermiller
pp. 55-61
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2017.0045
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Sunbelt Identities: The Pursuit of Place, Process, and Political Sensibilities

Sean P. Cunningham
pp. 63-70
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2017.0046
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The Great Plains and Middle West in “Middle America”: Historiographic Reflections

Molly P. Rozum
pp. 71-84
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2017.0047
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In Search of a Mid-Atlantic Region

Randall M. Miller
pp. 85-91
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2017.0048
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Reflections on Pacific Northwest Regionalism on an Edge of Empire1

Katrine Barber
pp. 93-100
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2017.0049
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Musings on the Southwest as a Region by a Southwesterner

David Yetman
pp. 101-109
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2017.0050
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Book Reviews

Knock at the Door of Opportunity: Black Migration to Chicago, 1900–1919 by Christopher Robert Reed (review)

Roger Biles
pp. 111-113
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2017.0051
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The Once and Future Great Lakes Country: An Ecological History by John L. Riley (review)

Theodore J. Karamanski
pp. 113-115
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2017.0052
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Crossing the Driftless: A Canoe Trip through a Midwestern Landscape by Lynne Diebel (review)

Joe Schiller
pp. 115-117
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2017.0053
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Red Dreams, White Nightmares: Pan-Indian Alliances in the Anglo-American Mind, 1763–1815 by Robert M. Owens (review)

Adam Jortner
pp. 118-120
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2017.0054
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From Main Street to Mall: The Rise and Fall of the American Department Store by Vicki Howard (review)

Ellis W. Hawley
pp. 120-122
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2017.0055
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Cold War in a Cold Land: Fighting Communism on the Northern Plains by David W. Mills (review)

Mark S. Joy
pp. 122-124
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2017.0056
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Corrupt Illinois: Patronage, Cronyism, and Criminality by Thomas J. Gradel and Dick Simpson (review)

David Schultz
pp. 124-127
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2017.0057
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Redeeming Time: Protestantism and Chicago’s Eight-Hour Movement, 1866–1912 by William Mirola (review)

Sam Mitrani
pp. 127-129
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2017.0058
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Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous & Atlantic Slaveries in New France by Brett Rushforth (review)

Michael Hughes
pp. 129-132
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2017.0059
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Prairie Visions: Writings by Hamlin Garland ed. by Keith Newlin (review)

Derek Driedger
pp. 132-134
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2017.0060
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The Last Days of the Rainbelt by David J. Wishart (review)

Brad Tennant
pp. 134-136
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2017.0061
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Boom, Bust, Exodus: The Rust Belt, the Maquilas, and a Tale of Two Cities by Chad Broughton (review)

Barbara Floyd
pp. 136-138
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2017.0062
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The Conversion of Senator Arthur Vandenberg: From Isolation to International Engagement by Lawrence S. Kaplan (review)

Gregory L. Schneider
pp. 139-141
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2017.0063
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Winesburg, Indiana: A Fork River Anthology ed. by Michael Martone and Bryan Furuness (review)

John E. Hallwas
pp. 141-142
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2017.0064
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Chicago’s Greatest Year, 1893: The White City and the Birth of a Modern Metropolis by Joseph Gustaitis (review)

Jeff Nichols
pp. 143-145
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2017.0065
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Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography by Laura Ingalls Wilder (review)

John E. Miller
pp. 145-147
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2017.0066
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What Happens by John Herrmann (review)

Frederic Svoboda
pp. 147-150
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2017.0067
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Coffins of the Brave: Lake Shipwrecks of the War of 1812 ed. by Kevin J. Crisman (review)

John B. Hattendorf
pp. 150-152
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2017.0068
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Beautiful Terrible Ruins: Detroit and the Anxiety of Decline by Dora Apel (review)

Donna M. DeBlasio
pp. 153-155
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2017.0069
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Empire by Collaboration: Indians, Colonists, and Governments in Colonial Illinois Country by Robert Michael Morrissey (review)

Linda Clemmons
pp. 155-157
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2017.0070
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Oberlin, Hotbed of Abolitionism: College, Community, and the Fight for Freedom and Equality in Antebellum America by J. Brent Morris (review)

Dana Elizabeth Weiner
pp. 157-160
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2017.0071
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Black Print with a White Carnation: Mildred Brown and the Omaha Star Newspaper, 1938–1989 by Amy Helene Forss (review)

Geitner Simmons
pp. 160-162
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2017.0072
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South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration by Marcia Chatelain (review)

Jeffrey Helgeson
pp. 162-165
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2017.0073
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Minnesota Modern: Architecture and Life at Midcentury by Larry Millett (review)

Victoria Young
pp. 165-167
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2017.0074
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Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story by David Maraniss (review)

Jason K. Duncan
pp. 167-169
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2017.0075
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Book Review Essay

The Voices of the Rust Belt

Jon C. Teaford
pp. 171-176
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2017.0076
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Craft Beer in the Heartland

Josh Sopiarz
pp. 177-180
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2017.0077
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The Evolving Family in Contemporary Midwestern Fiction

Marcia Noe
pp. 181-186
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2017.0078
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Putting Lincoln into Perspective: Place, Thought, and History in Recent Lincoln Scholarship

Jon Schaff
pp. 187-192
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2017.0079
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Midwesterners Swallow the World: Lardner, Shirer, Terkel, and American Journalism

Paul V. Murphy
pp. 193-198
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2017.0080
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Media Reviews

Cedar Rapids by Miguel Arteta (review)

Sarah Dennis
pp. 199-201
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2017.0081
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It Follows by David Robert Mitchell (review)

Andrew Ball
pp. 201-204
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2017.0082
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Northern Light by Nick Bentgen (review)

Stephen Carl Arch
pp. 205-207
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2017.0083
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Media Review Essay

Judy Garland and MGM’s Nostalgic Midwestern Home

Patricia Oman
pp. 209-229
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2017.0084
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