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Contents
Articles
Mapping the Ozarks as a Cultural Region by County Boundaries
Benjamin G. Rader and Roger D. Kirby
Symposium on the Midwest and American Regional Studies
Finding the American Midwest in the World of Regional Studies
Jon K. Lauck
The State of New England Studies
Dona Brown
Notes from the West to the Midwest
William Deverell
“On the Edge of Extinction?” Region, Identity, and the Pliable Contours of Southern History
Henry Kamerling
Always Relative to Somewhere: Regional Studies in (Not So) Unique Alaska
Ross Coen
From the Mountains to the Midwest: Observations on Appalachia, Regionalism, and Regional Studies
Phillip J. Obermiller
Sunbelt Identities: The Pursuit of Place, Process, and Political Sensibilities
Sean P. Cunningham
The Great Plains and Middle West in “Middle America”: Historiographical Reflections
Molly P. Rozum
In Search of a Mid-Atlantic Region
Randall M. Miller
Reflections on Pacific Northwest Regionalism on an Edge of Empire
Katrine Barber
Musings on the Southwest by a Southwesterner
David Yetman
Book Reviews
Christopher Robert Reed, Knock at the Door of Opportunity: Black Migration to Chicago, 1900–1919
Roger Biles
John L. Riley, The Once and Future Great Lakes Country: An Ecological History
Theodore J. Karamanski
Lynne Diebel, Crossing the Driftless: A Canoe Trip through a Midwestern Landscape
Joe Schiller
Robert M. Owens, Red Dreams, White Nightmares: Pan-Indian Alliances in the Anglo-American Mind, 1763–1815
Adam Jortner
Vicki Howard, From Main Street to Mall: The Rise and Fall of the American Department Store
Ellis W. Hawley
David W. Mills, Cold War in a Cold Land: Fighting Communism on the Northern Plains
Mark S. Joy
Thomas J. Gradel and Dick Simpson, Corrupt Illinois: Patronage, Cronyism, and Criminality
David Schultz
William Mirola, Redeeming Time: Protestantism and Chicago’s Eight-Hour Movement, 1866–1912
Sam Mitrani
Brett Rushforth, Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous & Atlantic Slaveries in New France
Michael Hughes
Keith Newlin, ed., Prairie Visions: Writings by Hamlin Garland
Derek Driedger
David J. Wishart, The Last Days of the Rainbelt
Brad Tennant
Chad Broughton, Boom, Bust, Exodus: The Rust Belt, the Maquilas, and a Tale of Two Cities
Barbara Floyd
Lawrence S. Kaplan, The Conversion of Senator Arthur Vandenberg: From Isolation to International Engagement
Gregory L. Schneider
Michael Martone and Bryan Furuness, eds., Winesburg, Indiana: A Fork River Anthology
John E. Hallwas
Joseph Gustaitis, Chicago’s Greatest Year, 1893: The White City and the Birth of a Modern Metropolis
Jeff Nichols
Laura Ingalls Wilder, Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography, ed. Pamela Smith Hill
John E. Miller
John Herrmann, What Happens, introduction by Sara Kosiba
Frederic Svoboda
Kevin J. Crisman, ed., Coffins of the Brave: Lake Shipwrecks of the War of 1812
John B. Hattendorf
Dora Apel, Beautiful Terrible Ruins: Detroit and the Anxiety of Decline
Donna M. DeBlasio
Robert Michael Morrissey, Empire by Collaboration: Indians, Colonists, and Governments in Colonial Illinois Country
Linda Clemmons
J. Brent Morris, Oberlin, Hotbed of Abolitionism: College, Community, and the Fight for Freedom and Equality in Antebellum America
Dana Elizabeth Weiner
Amy Helene Forss, Black Print with a White Carnation: Mildred Brown and the Omaha Star Newspaper, 1938–1989
Geitner Simmons
Marcia Chatelain, South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration
Jeffrey Helgeson
Larry Millett, Minnesota Modern: Architecture and Life at Midcentury
Victoria Young
David Maraniss, Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story
Jason K. Duncan
Book Review Essays
The Voices of the Rust Belt
Jon C. Teaford
Craft Beer in the Heartland
Josh Sopiarz
The Evolving Family in Contemporary Midwestern Fiction
Marcia Noe
Putting Lincoln into Perspective: Place, Thought, and History in Recent Lincoln Scholarship
Jon Schaff
Midwesterners Swallow the World: Lardner, Shirer, Terkel, and American Journalism
Paul V. Murphy
Media Reviews
Cedar Rapids, dir. Miguel Arteta (2011)
Sarah Dennis
It Follows, dir. David Robert Mitchell (2015)
Andrew Ball
Northern Light, dir. Nick Bentgen (2013)
Stephen Carl Arch
Media Review Essay
Judy Garland and MGM’s Nostalgic Midwestern Home
Patricia Oman
