In this Issue

Table of Contents

Introduction: Finding the Boundaries of the American Midwest

Jon K. Lauck
pp. xi-xx
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2024.a925143
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The Roots of Midwestern Order

Dedra McDonald Birzer
pp. 1-7
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2024.a925134
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"History Happens Here": The Midwest and Its State and Regional History

Jeff Bremer
pp. 9-16
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2024.a925135
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"A profitable investment for every one": The Present and Future of Black Midwestern Historical Scholarship

David Brodnax Sr.
pp. 17-26
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2024.a925136
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Modernizing the Old Midwest

Jon Butler
pp. 27-35
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2024.a925137
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Race-Based Slavery and People of African Descent on the Midwestern Frontier

Christy Clark-Pujura
pp. 37-43
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2024.a925138
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The State of Midwestern History: The View From Ohio

Donna M. DeBlasio
pp. 45-50
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2024.a925139
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From Pioneers to Settler Colonists: The Frontier in Midwestern History

Nicole Etcheson
pp. 51-57
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2024.a925140
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Indians and Empires in the Early Midwest

John Faragher
pp. 59-68
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2024.a925141
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"A Ghost Among Regions": Considering a Spectral History of the Midwest

Amy Laurel Fluker
pp. 69-75
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2024.a925142
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Teaching the Midwest in an Era of Precarity

Anna Thompson Hajdik
pp. 77-83
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2024.a925144
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One Hundred Years of Secularization and Pluralization in the Midwest

Daniel G. Hummel
pp. 85-91
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2024.a925145
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Midwest History: Will The Past Be Prologue?

Theodore J. Karamanski
pp. 92-97
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2024.a925146
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Indigenous Agency and Resilience in the Midwest: Reclaiming the Narrative

Doug Kiel
pp. 99-111
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2024.a925147
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Not a Revival. A Convention.

Andrew Klumpp
pp. 113-125
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2024.a925148
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Upper Midwestern Music, Maps, and Memory: Mainstream Absence, Grassroots Emergence

James P. Leary
pp. 127-134
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2024.a925149
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Regionalism in a Global Age

Timothy R. Mahoney
pp. 135-141
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2024.a925150
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The Humanities Model Is in Trouble—Let's Rethink It

Patricia Oman
pp. 143-149
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2024.a925151
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Recent Scholarship on Midwestern Contributions to Popular Music: Trends and Opportunities

Barton Price
pp. 151-157
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2024.a925152
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The Future of Midwestern History: A Gloomy View from the Middle Land

Pamela Riney-Kehrberg
pp. 159-164
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2024.a925153
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Race, Freedom, and Belonging in a Relational Midwest

Jennifer Kirsten Stinson
pp. 165-171
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2024.a925154
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Everybody Took Part: A Regional Vision of Populism's Participatory Culture Within Late Nineteenth-Century Midwestern Reform

Ann Vlock
pp. 173-181
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2024.a925155
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The Prairie's Ever-present Heartaches: EcoGothic and the Great Plains

Adam Nemmers
pp. 183-203
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2024.a925156
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Filling the Unforgiving Minute with Sixty Seconds' Worth of Effort: Barbara Fassbinder, Nursing, and AIDS in the US, 1986–91

Karissa A. Haugeberg
pp. 205-225
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2024.a925157
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Pioneer Mother Monuments: Constructing Cultural Memory by Cynthia Culver Prescott (review)

Andrea G. Radke Moss
pp. 227-229
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2024.a925158
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The Farmer's Lawyer: The North Dakota Nine and the Fight to Save the Family Farm by Sarah Vogel (review)

Cory Haala
pp. 229-231
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2024.a925159
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Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land by Taylor Brorby (review)

Clare Forstie
pp. 232-234
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2024.a925160
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Do Everything: The Biography of Frances Willard by Christopher H. Evans (review)

William Kostlevy
pp. 234-236
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2024.a925161
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Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights by Samuel G. Freedman (review)

Zachary Clary
pp. 237-239
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2024.a925162
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Dream Town: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity by Laura Meckler (review)

Mark Friedberger
pp. 239-241
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2024.a925163
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The Lies of the Land: Seeing Rural America for What It Is—and Isn't by Steven Conn (review)

R. Douglas Hurt
pp. 241-243
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2024.a925164
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Jolliet and Marquette: A New History of the 1673 Expedition by Mark Walczynski (review)

Patrick J. Jung
pp. 244-245
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2024.a925165
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A Brave and Lovely Woman: Mamah Borthwick and Frank Lloyd Wright by Mark Borthwick (review)

Geoffrey Lokke
pp. 246-248
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2024.a925166
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Impermanence: Life and Loss on Superior's South Shore by Sue Leaf (review)

Anthony Bukoski
pp. 248-250
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2024.a925167
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America Fantastica by Tim O'Brien (review)

Patrick Hicks
pp. 250-252
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2024.a925168
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Returning to God's Country (PBS, 1985): Louis Malle's Forgotten Encounter with the Midwest

Jodie Childers
pp. 253-258
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2024.a925169
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Fishes Out of Water: Aliens in America (CW, 2007–2008) and the Depiction of Islam in the Midwest

Mehdi Achouche
pp. 259-262
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2024.a925170
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A Midwestern Storyteller of the Inland Seas: A Tribute to Walter Havighurst

Jacqueline Johnson, John Kropf
pp. 263-269
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2024.a925171
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Union Victory: The Midwest's Decisive Role in the Civil War

Jack Dempsey
pp. 270-276
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2024.a925172
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The Rise and Fall of "The Clevelander": The Voice of Northeast Ohio's Optimism

Vince Guerrieri
pp. 277-283
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2024.a925173
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Whistling in the Dark: Garrison Keillor's Emersonian Good Cheer

Meghan O'Gieblyn
pp. 284-288
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2024.a925174
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The Midwestern Tradition at Bay: Richard Weaver's The Southern Tradition at Bay

Miles Smith IV
pp. 289-293
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2024.a925175
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An Economics Nobel Rooted in the Middle West

Louis D. Johnston
pp. 294-299
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2024.a925176
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An Interview with Patricia Nelson Limerick

Jon K. Lauck
pp. 301-368
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2024.a925177
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