In this Issue

Table of Contents

Introduction: Middle West Review and the Middle Ground

Jon K. Lauck
pp. ix-xv
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2020.0000
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Midwestern Regionalism: Place, Time, and Perspective

Terry A. Barnhart
pp. 1-8
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2020.0001
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The Midwest and the Rise of American Regionalism, 1890–1915

Michael C. Steiner
pp. 9-30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2020.0002
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The Imagined Midwest

June Howard
pp. 21-30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2020.0003
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Making Midwestern Art History: Oskar Hagen and James Watrous

Lauren Kroiz
pp. 31-39
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2020.0004
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"The Brightest Star under the Blue Dome of Heaven": Civil Rights and Midwestern Black Identity in Iowa, 1839–1900

David Brodnax Sr.
pp. 41-56
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2020.0005
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African American, African Indian, and Midwestern

Jennifer Kirsten Stinson
pp. 57-67
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2020.0006
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Reading Regionalism in the Midwest: Evidence from "What Middletown Read" Data

James J. Connolly
pp. 69-76
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2020.0007
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It is Time to Rethink Regionalism in Midwestern Life: How Two National Magazines Caricatured a Midwestern Art Movement and Hid Its Critical and Community-Engaged Edge

Travis E. Nygard
pp. 77-84
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2020.0008
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"Splendid and Remarkable Progress" in the Midwest: Assessing the Emergence and Social Impact of Regional Art Museums, 1875–1925

Christa Adams
pp. 85-92
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2020.0009
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Regional Identity, Immigration, and Religious Community in the Nineteenth Century: Dutch Colonies, Church Conflicts, and Religious Influences on Regional Consciousness

Andrew Klumpp
pp. 93-101
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2020.0010
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Charlotte Ouisconsin Van Cleve and Telling Midwestern Regional Stories

Sara Egge
pp. 103-110
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2020.0011
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The Monolith: Thoughts on Growing up Jewtheran in the Rural Midwest

Geoff Herbach
pp. 111-115
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2020.0012
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If You Believe You Exist: On Bon Iver, Midwestern Literature and Art, and a Tradition, of Sorts

Nickolas Butler
pp. 117-124
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2020.0013
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Holding the Soil: A Note on the Conservation of Midwesternness

Jason Weems
pp. 125-135
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2020.0014
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Symposium on David Mccullough’s the Pioneers

Were They Really Pioneers?

Susan Sleeper Smith
pp. 137-142
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2020.0015
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The Wrong History for Our Time: An Analysis of David McCullough's The Pioneers

Stephen Warren
pp. 143-147
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2020.0016
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The Public's Historian

Michael Allen
pp. 149-152
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2020.0017
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McCullough's Critics Offer a Narrow View of History

John Bicknell
pp. 153-158
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2020.0018
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A Gentle Remembering: David McCullough's The Pioneers

Mary Stockwell
pp. 159-163
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2020.0019
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America's Republican Refounding: David McCullough's Paean to Pioneers in the Old Northwest

Gleaves Whitney
pp. 165-172
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2020.0020
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"From Such Beginnings, Much May Be Expected"

Brandon C. Downing
pp. 173-177
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2020.0021
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Book Reviews

Mid-Michigan Modern: From Frank Lloyd Wright to Googie by Susan J. Bandes (review)

Dale Allen Gyure
pp. 179-182
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2020.0022
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The American Farmer in the Eighteenth Century: A Social and Cultural History by Richard Lyman Bushman (review)

Jacob Bruggeman
pp. 182-185
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2020.0023
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Crusader for Democracy: The Political Life of William Allen White by Charles Delgadillo (review)

Walter Nugent
pp. 185-188
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2020.0024
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Hairs vs. Squares: The Mustache Gang, the Big Red Machine, and the Tumultuous Summer of '72 by Ed Gruver (review)

Brian E. Campbell
pp. 188-190
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2020.0025
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Benevolence, Moral Reform, Equality: Women's Activism in Kansas City, 1870 to 1940 by K. David Hanzlick (review)

Sara Egge
pp. 190-192
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2020.0026
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Unsettling the West: Violence and State Building in the Ohio Valley by Rob Harper (review)

William Heath
pp. 192-195
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2020.0027
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The Heartland: An American History by Kristin L. Hoganson (review)

Jeff Bremer
pp. 195-197
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2020.0028
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The Fall of Wisconsin: The Conservative Conquest of a Progressive Bastion and the Future of American Politics by Dan Kaufman (review)

John E. Miller
pp. 197-199
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2020.0029
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Flames of Discontent: The 1916 Minnesota Iron Ore Strike by Gary Kaunonen (review)

John Baeten
pp. 199-200
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2020.0030
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Big Sister: Feminism, Conservatism, and Conspiracy in the Heartland by Erin M. Kempker (review)

Carey Kelley
pp. 200-203
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2020.0031
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Reimagining Environmental History: Ecological Memory in the Wake of Landscape Change by Christian Knoeller (review)

Richard F. Nation
pp. 203-205
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2020.0032
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Publisher for the Masses: Emanuel Haldeman-Julius by R. Alton Lee (review)

James J. Connolly
pp. 205-207
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2020.0033
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From Hometown to Battlefield in the Civil War Era: Middle Class Life in Midwest America by Timothy R. Mahoney (review)

Christopher Phillips
pp. 208-210
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2020.0034
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The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits by Tiya Miles (review)

Dana Elizabeth Weiner
pp. 210-213
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2020.0035
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Hinterland: America's New Landscape of Class and Conflict by Phil A. Neel (review)

Andy Oler
pp. 213-215
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2020.0036
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The Latina/o Midwest Reader by Omar S. Valerio-Jiménez (review)

Delia Fernández
pp. 215-217
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2020.0037
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Remembrance

Remembering a Son of the Midwest: Ellis Hawley, 1929–2020

Jon K. Lauck
pp. 219-228
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2020.0038
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