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Contents
Articles
Battle of the Bookstores and Gay Sexual Liberation in Minneapolis
Kevin Ehrman-Solberg
Centropolis: William Gilpin, Nature, and the City of the Future
John Herron
“Iowa Excelled Them All”: Iowa Local Ladies’ Aid Societies on the Civil War Frontier, 1861–1865
Lindsey R. Peterson
Grant Wood and the Politics of Regionalism
Michael C. Steiner
The Midwest and the Evolution of “Flyover Country”
Anthony Harkins
Book Reviews
Anna Clark, ed., A Detroit Anthology
Christine Borne
Ethel Alice Hurn, Wisconsin Women in the War between the States
Ruth Page Jones
Vincent L. Michael, The Architecture of Barry Byrne: Taking the Prairie School to Europe
Patrick Allan Pospisek
J. F. Powers, Suitable Accommodations: An Autobiographical Story of Family Life—The Letters of J. F. Powers, 1942–1963, edited by Katherine A. Powers
Jon Schaff
George F. Kennan, The Kennan Diaries, edited by Frank Costigliola
Richard Gamble
Brian Craig Miller, ed., A Punishment on the Nation: An Iowa Soldier Endures the Civil War
Joseph W. Danielson
Jim Harrison, The Big Seven: A Faux Mystery
Marcia Noe
Paul Schneider, Old Man River: The Mississippi River in North American History.
Michael Allen
Kurt Ullrich, The Iowa State Fair
Robert Leonard
Ladette Randolph, Leaving the Pink House
Karen Gettert Shoemaker
James Cannon, Gerald R. Ford: An Honorable Life
Jim Kratsas
Victoria M. Young, Saint John’s Abbey Church: Marcel Breuer and the Creation of a Modern Sacred Space
Harry Hagan
Michael R. Federspiel, Little Traverse Bay: Past and Present
Aaron Shapiro
James G. Morgan, Into New Territory: American Historians and the Concept of U.S. Imperialism
Jeremi Suri
Frans De Bruyn and Shaun Regan, eds., The Culture of the Seven Years’ War: Empire, Identity, and the Arts in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Timothy J. Shannon
Michael J. Douma, How Dutch Americans Stayed Dutch: An Historical Perspective on Ethnic Studies
Robert Schoone-Jongen
John Bicknell, America 1844: Religious Fervor, Westward Expansion, and the Presidential Election that Transformed the Nation
John C. Pinheiro
Martha Bergland and Paul G. Hayes, Studying Wisconsin: The Life of Increase Lapham, Early Chronicler of Plants, Rocks, Rivers, Mounds, and All Things Wisconsin
Robert Michael Morrissey
A. James Fuller, ed., The Election of 1860 Reconsidered
Thomas J. Balcerski
Stephen E. Towne, Surveillance and Spies in the Civil War: Exposing Confederate Conspiracies in America’s Heartland
Thomas J. Ryan
Colin G. Calloway, The Victory with No Name: The Native American Defeat of the First American Army
John M. Rhea
Brent M. S. Campney, This is Not Dixie: Racist Violence in Kansas, 1861–1927
Robert R. Dykstra
Nancy L. Bunge, The Midwestern Novel: Literary Populism from Huckleberry Finn to the Present
Ronald Weber
Larry Lockridge, Shade of the Raintree: The Life and Death of Ross Lockridge, Jr., Author of Raintree County
Donald Gray
Adam Criblez, Parading Patriotism: Independence Day Celebrations in the Urban Midwest, 1826–1876
Ginette Aley
Media Reviews
As Goes Janesville, dir. Brad Lichtenstein (2012)
Jesse Gant
Bridesmaids, dir. Paul Feig (2011)
Simone Becque
Hoop Dreams, dirs. Steve James, Peter Gilbert, and Frederick Marx (1994)
Matthew E. Stanley
Ride with the Devil, dir. Ang Lee (1999)
Michael W. Harris
Winter’s Bone, dir. Debra Granik (2010)
Matthew Reeves