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  1. Midwestern History: Today and Tomorrow
  2. John E. Miller
  3. pp. 1-7
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0000
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  1. “A People of Persistence”: The Evolving Historiography of Indigenous Midwests
  2. Linda M. Clemmons
  3. pp. 9-15
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0001
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  1. Expanding Our Confines: State History Journals and Midwestern History
  2. Dawn E. Bakken
  3. pp. 17-22
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0002
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  1. Legacy of Dissent: The Civil War’s Contested Meaning in the Midwest
  2. Christopher Phillips
  3. pp. 23-31
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0003
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  1. Thoughts on a Critical Regional History of the Midwest: Examining the Legacies of the Dream of a White Yeoman’s Republic
  2. Jeffrey Helgeson
  3. pp. 33-39
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0004
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  1. Neighbors: A Foundation of Civic Order in the Rural Midwest
  2. Paula M. Nelson
  3. pp. 41-50
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0005
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  1. When the Metadata Doesn’t Help: Constructing Frameworks for an Ambiguous Region
  2. Jenny Barker-Devine
  3. pp. 51-56
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0006
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  1. Mapping the History of America’s Heartland
  2. Kristin Hoganson
  3. pp. 57-64
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0007
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  1. Introduction
  2. Adam Ochonicky
  3. pp. 65-70
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0008
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  1. Visual Language and Evoking Emotion in the Midwest: The Employment of the Split-Screen in Season Two of Fargo
  2. Ryan Twomey
  3. pp. 71-79
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0009
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  1. Salesman of the Year: The Confidence Artist in Sinclair Lewis and Season One of Fargo
  2. Paul Gagliardi
  3. pp. 95-103
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0011
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  1. Pregnancy Is Not the Point: Fargo’s Marge, Fargo Season One’s Molly, and Midwestern Feminisms
  2. Laura L. Beadling
  3. pp. 105-113
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0012
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  1. Fargo North: Calgary’s Turn toward Postnational Regionality in FX’s Fargo
  2. Rusty Hatchell
  3. pp. 115-126
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0013
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  1. The Use of Quilt Imagery in Fargo’s Advertising: Embracing and Subverting a Midwestern Cultural Symbol
  2. Catherine Kelly
  3. pp. 127-135
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0014
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  1. “Building an Empire State”: From Skyscraper Modernity to the American Midwest
  2. Hyo-Jeong Lee, Walter Metz
  3. pp. 137-145
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0015
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  1. Telling Stories in This “Our Great American Experiment”
  2. Allen H. Redmon
  3. pp. 147-154
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0016
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  1. Making an Antislavery Nation: Lincoln, Douglas and the Battle over Freedom by Graham A. Peck (review)
  2. Michael Burlingame
  3. pp. 155-157
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0017
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  1. The University of Chicago: A History by John W. Boyer (review)
  2. Kenneth H. Wheeler
  3. pp. 160-163
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0019
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  1. Waiting for Buddy Guy: Chicago Blues at the Crossroads by Alan Harper (review)
  2. Dennis H. Cremin
  3. pp. 163-165
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0020
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  1. Hearts Beating for Liberty: Women Abolitionists in the Old Northwest by Stacey M. Robertson (review)
  2. Lowell J. Soike
  3. pp. 165-167
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0021
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  1. This Place, These People: Life and Shadow on the Great Plains by Nancy Warner and David Stark (review)
  2. Molly P. Rozum
  3. pp. 168-169
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0022
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  1. Stassen Again by Steve Werle (review)
  2. Jeffrey Kolnick
  3. pp. 169-171
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0023
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  1. Richard John Neuhaus: A Life in the Public Square by Randy Boyagoda (review)
  2. D. G. Hart
  3. pp. 171-173
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0024
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  1. Union Heartland: The Midwestern Home Front During the Civil War ed. by Ginette Aley and J. L. Anderson (review)
  2. Tim Roberts
  3. pp. 173-175
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0025
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  1. Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri: The Long Civil War on the Border ed. by Jonathan Earle and Diane Mutti Burke (review)
  2. Brie Swenson Arnold
  3. pp. 177-180
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0027
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  1. History of Nebraska by Ronald C. Naugle, John J. Montag, and James C. Olson (review)
  2. Mark R. Ellis
  3. pp. 181-183
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0028
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  1. Frontier Manhattan: Yankee Settlement to Kansas Town, 1854– 1894 by Kevin G. W. Olson (review)
  2. Charles Delgadillo
  3. pp. 183-184
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0029
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  1. The Nature of Childhood: An Environmental History of Growing Up in America since 1865 by Pamela Riney-Kehrberg (review)
  2. Jason Heppler
  3. pp. 185-186
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0030
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  1. The Suburban Church: Modernism and Community in Postwar America by Gretchen Buggeln (review)
  2. Jeffrey Hubers
  3. pp. 187-189
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0031
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  1. Glory Days by Melissa Fraterrigo (review)
  2. Keith Lesmeister
  3. pp. 189-191
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0032
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  1. We Could’ve Been Happy Here by Keith Lesmeister (review)
  2. Melissa Fraterrigo
  3. pp. 191-193
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0033
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  1. Homesteading the Plains: Toward a New History ed. by Richard Edwards, Jacob K. Friefeld, and Rebecca S. Wingo (review)
  2. Thomas D. Isern
  3. pp. 193-195
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0034
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  1. On a Clear Night: Essays from the Heartland by Marnie O. Mamminga (review)
  2. Paula M. Nelson
  3. pp. 195-197
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0035
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  1. George Szell’s Reign by Marcia Hansen Kraus (review)
  2. Michael J. Pfeifer
  3. pp. 197-199
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0036
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  1. The Election of 1860: “A Campaign Fraught with Consequences” by Michael F. Holt (review)
  2. Matthew E. Stanley
  3. pp. 199-202
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0037
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  1. Wisconsin Agriculture: A History by Jerry Apps (review)
  2. Kelly Wenig
  3. pp. 202-204
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0038
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  1. Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times by Kenneth Whyte (review)
  2. Ellis W. Hawley
  3. pp. 204-206
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0039
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  1. Hillbilly Hellraisers: Federal Power and Populist Defiance in the Ozarks by J. Blake Perkins (review)
  2. R. Douglas Hurt
  3. pp. 206-208
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0040
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  1. A Nice Place to Visit: Tourism and Urban Revitalization in the Postwar Rustbelt by Aaron Cowan (review)
  2. Jon C. Teaford
  3. pp. 208-210
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0041
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  1. Oliver P. Morton and the Politics of Civil War and Reconstruction by James Fuller (review)
  2. Bruce Bigelow
  3. pp. 210-213
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0042
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  1. Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser (review)
  2. John E. Miller
  3. pp. 216-217
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0044
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  1. From West to Midwest: Regional Identity and the Civil War
  2. Tom Baker
  3. pp. 219-223
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0045
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  1. Re-Working the Iowa Writers’ Workshop
  2. Zachary Michael Jack
  3. pp. 224-229
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0046
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  1. “Depend on Interior Journeys Taken Anywhere”: Space, Place, and John Berryman’s Minneapolis
  2. Joshua Preston
  3. pp. 230-239
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0047
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  1. The Lives of Midwestern Rivers
  2. Michael Allen
  3. pp. 240-244
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0048
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