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Introduction: A New Era at Middle West Review

Jon K. Lauck
pp. ix-x
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0080
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Midwestern Dreams or Nightmares? An Appreciation and Critique of Caroline Fraser's Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

John E. Miller
pp. 1-36
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0049
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Ideological Origins of a Radical Democrat: The Early Political Thought of Tom L. Johnson, 1888–1895

Michael Megery
pp. 37-61
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0050
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Soft, Democratic, and Universalist: In Search of the Main Currents of Traditional Midwestern Identity and a Grand Historiographic Synthesis

Jon K. Lauck
pp. 63-133
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0051
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Land Too Good for Indians: Northern Indian Removal by John P. Bowes (review)

John R. Wunder
pp. 135-137
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0052
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American Niceness: A Cultural History by Carrie Tirado Bramen (review)

Wayne Anderson
pp. 138-140
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0053
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Creating the Land of Lincoln: The History and Constitutions of Illinois, 1778–1870 by Frank Cicero Jr. (review)

Nathan E. Perz Esq.
pp. 140-142
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0054
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The Small-Town Midwest: Resilience and Hope in the Twenty-First Century by Julianne Couch (review)

Emily Prifogle
pp. 142-145
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0055
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Survival Schools: The American Indian Movement and Community Education in the Twin Cities by Julie L. Davis (review)

Linda Clemmons
pp. 145-147
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0056
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Wild, Wild Erie: Poems Inspired by Works of Art in the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio by Paul Durcan (review)

Ryan Schnurr
pp. 147-149
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0057
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Foreign Born by John Herrmann (review)

Frederic Svoboda
pp. 149-151
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0058
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Framing the Solid South: The State Constitutional Conventions of Secession, Reconstruction, and Redemption, 1860–1902 by Paul E. Herron (review)

Silvana R. Siddali
pp. 151-154
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0059
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Civil War Chicago: Eyewitness to History by Theodore J. Karamanski and Eileen M. McMahon (review)

Christopher R. Reed
pp. 154-156
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0060
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The Great Cowboy Strike: Bullets, Ballots, and Class Conflicts in the American West by Mark A. Lause (review)

Jeff Wells
pp. 156-159
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0061
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The Cincinnati Human Relations Commission: A History, 1943–2013 by Phillip J. Obermiller and Thomas E. Wagner (review)

Charles F. Casey-Leininger
pp. 159-161
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0062
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Harvest of Hazards: Family Farming, Accidents, and Expertise in the Corn Belt, 1940–1975 by Derek S. Oden (review)

Jeff Bremer
pp. 161-163
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0063
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Chicago Renaissance: Literature and Art in the Midwest Metropolis by Liesl Olson (review)

John E. Hallwas
pp. 163-166
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0064
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Rebels and Underdogs: The Story of Ohio Rock and Roll by Garin Pirnia (review)

Ray Schuck
pp. 166-168
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0065
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James R. Hopkins: Faces of the Heartland by Mark B. Pohlad (review)

Marissa Vigneault
pp. 168-171
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0066
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Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America by Shari Rabin (review)

Mara W. Cohen Ioannides
pp. 171-173
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0067
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Michigan: A History of Explorers, Entrepreneurs, and Everyday People by Roger L. Rosentreter (review)

Matthew Lawrence Daley
pp. 174-177
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0068
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Creating the Big Ten: Courage, Corruption, and Commercialization by Winton U. Solberg (review)

Peter A. Coclanis
pp. 177-179
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0069
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Iconoclast in Ink: The Political Cartoons of Jay N. "Ding" Darling by Richard Samuel West (review)

Paul V. Murphy
pp. 179-182
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0070
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The Capital Times: A Proudly Radical Newspaper's Century-Long Fight for Justice and for Peace by Dave Zweifel and John Nichols (review)

Jonathan Kasparek
pp. 182-184
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0071
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Midwestern Soldiers in the Civil War

L. Bao Bui
pp. 185-189
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0072
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Midwestern History Is Out of the Closet

Matthew Pehl
pp. 190-196
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0073
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Recent Developments in Midwestern Labor History

Nathan Tye
pp. 197-204
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0074
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Hispanics in the Middle West

Roger Davis
pp. 205-213
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0075
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Traversing the Class Boundary: Gone Girl (2014) as Failed Remake

Anthony Ballas
pp. 215-221
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0076
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"A Riot is the Language of the Unheard": The Grassroots Activism of Whose Streets? (2017)

Julia Alekseyeva
pp. 222-224
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0077
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) dir. by Martin McDonagh

Caroline Fernelius
pp. 225-227
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0078
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Alec MacGillis, "Left Behind America," Frontline, PBS, 2018

Lisa Tyler
pp. 228-231
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2019.0079
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