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Articles

  1. Prince and the Making of the Minneapolis Mystique
  2. Kirsten Delegard, Michael J. Lansing
  3. pp. 1-24
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2018.0040
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  1. The Politicization of Union Soldiers in the Midwest
  2. Keith Altavilla
  3. pp. 25-50
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2018.0041
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Book Reviews

  1. Loren Eiseley: Collected Essays on Evolution, Nature, and the Cosmos ed. by William Cronon (review)
  2. Scott Russell Sanders
  3. pp. 51-53
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2018.0042
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  1. Side by Side: Alice and Staughton Lynd, the Ohio Years by Mark W. Weber and Stephen H. Paschen (review)
  2. David Brown
  3. pp. 53-55
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2018.0043
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  1. Black Chicago's First Century: 1833–1900 by Christopher Robert Reed (review)
  2. Brian McCammack
  3. pp. 56-58
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2018.0044
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  1. St. Louis & Empire: 250 Years of Imperial Quest & Urban Crisis by Henry W. Berger (review)
  2. John Reda
  3. pp. 58-61
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2018.0045
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  1. In Cold Storage: Sex and Murder on the Plains by James W. Hewitt (review)
  2. Peter Longo
  3. pp. 61-63
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2018.0046
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  1. Milwaukee Mayhem: Murder and Mystery in the Cream City's First Century by Matthew J. Prigge (review)
  2. Lawrence H. Larsen
  3. pp. 63-65
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2018.0047
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  1. A City Called Heaven: Chicago and the Birth of Gospel Music by Robert M. Marovich (review)
  2. Amy Absher
  3. pp. 65-66
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2018.0048
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  1. Frank Lloyd Wright and His Manner of Thought by Jerome Klinkowitz (review)
  2. Jessica Garcia Fritz
  3. pp. 66-68
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2018.0049
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  1. The Black Musician and the White City: Race and Music in Chicago, 1900–1967 by Amy Absher (review)
  2. Robert M. Marovich
  3. pp. 68-70
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2018.0050
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  1. Redemption Songs: Suing for Freedom before Dred Scott by Lea VanderVelde (review)
  2. William D. Green
  3. pp. 71-74
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2018.0051
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  1. James A. Rhodes: Ohio Colossus by Tom Diemer, Lee Leonard, and Richard G. Zimmerman (review)
  2. Herb Asher
  3. pp. 74-76
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2018.0052
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  1. Race, Religion, and the Pulpit: Rev. Robert L. Bradby and the Making of Urban Detroit by Julie Marie Robinson (review)
  2. Robert Martin
  3. pp. 76-78
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2018.0053
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  1. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance (review)
  2. Thomas E. Wagner
  3. pp. 79-81
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2018.0054
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  1. Car Bombs to Cookie Tables: The Youngstown Anthology eds. by Jacqueline Marino and Will Miller (review)
  2. James J. Connolly
  3. pp. 81-83
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2018.0055
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  1. Young Orson: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane by Patrick McGilligan (review)
  2. Alyssa L. Reil
  3. pp. 83-85
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2018.0056
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  1. At Home with Ernie Pyle ed. by Ernie Pyle (review)
  2. Melissa A. Amateis
  3. pp. 85-86
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2018.0057
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  1. The King of Skid Row: John Bacich and the Twilight Years of Old Minneapolis by James Eli Shiffer (review)
  2. Kevin Ehrman-Solberg
  3. pp. 87-89
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2018.0058
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  1. Bridging the Distance: Common Issues of the Rural West ed. by David B. Danbom (review)
  2. J. L. Anderson
  3. pp. 89-90
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2018.0059
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  1. Planning Democracy: Agrarian Intellectuals and the Intended New Deal by Jess Gilbert (review)
  2. Catherine McNicol Stock
  3. pp. 90-92
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2018.0060
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  1. American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street by Paula Rabinowitz (review)
  2. Rachael Price
  3. pp. 93-96
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2018.0061
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  1. Rock Island Requiem: The Collapse of a Mighty Fine Line by Gregory L. Schneider (review)
  2. Simon Cordery
  3. pp. 96-98
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2018.0062
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  1. My Life in the Service: The World War II Diary of George McGovern by George S. McGovern (review)
  2. John E. Miller
  3. pp. 99-100
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2018.0063
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  1. Polka Heartland: Why the Midwest Loves to Polka by Dick Blau and Rick March (review)
  2. Kari Veblen
  3. pp. 100-103
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2018.0064
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  1. Necessary Courage: Iowa's Underground Railroad in the Struggle Against Slavery by Lowell J. Soike (review)
  2. Paul Finkelman
  3. pp. 103-106
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2018.0065
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  1. John Bascom and the Origins of the Wisconsin Idea by J. David Hoeveler (review)
  2. Tim Lacy
  3. pp. 106-109
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2018.0066
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  1. The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream by Thmas Dyja (review)
  2. Elaine Lewinnek
  3. pp. 109-111
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2018.0067
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  1. Arthur Vandenberg: The Man in the Middle of the American Century by Hendrik Meijer (review)
  2. John J. Miller
  3. pp. 111-114
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2018.0068
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  1. Writing Blue Highways: The Story of How a Book Happened by William Least Heat-Moon (review)
  2. Nels H. Granholm
  3. pp. 114-116
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2018.0069
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Book Review Essays

  1. Unruly IntimaciesThe Body and the Midwest in the Works of Roxane Gay
  2. Freda L. Fair
  3. pp. 117-124
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2018.0070
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  1. Higher Learning, Social ChurningMidwestern Universities in the 1960s
  2. Matthew Pehl
  3. pp. 125-134
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2018.0071
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  1. F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Midwest
  2. Dave Page
  3. pp. 135-141
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2018.0072
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  1. The American Midwest and the Early Cold War
  2. Bernard Lemelin
  3. pp. 142-150
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2018.0073
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  1. Indigenous Adaptations to Settler Colonialism
  2. Akim Reinhardt
  3. pp. 151-157
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2018.0074
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