Volume 5, Issue 2 (Spring 2019)
ContentsMaking Midwests: Symposium on Midwestern History, Commemorating Five Years of the Middle West Review Midwestern History: Today and Tomorrow
John E. Miller
“A People of Persistence”: The Evolving Historiography of Indigenous Midwests
Linda M. Clemmons
Expanding Our Confines: State History Journals and Midwestern History
Dawn E. Bakken
Legacy of Dissent: The Civil War’s Contested Meaning in the Midwest
Christopher Phillips
Thoughts on a Critical Regional History of the Midwest: Examining the Legacies of the Dream of a White Yeoman’s Republic
Jeffrey Helgeson
Neighbors: A Foundation of Civic Order in the Rural Midwest
Paula M. Nelson
When the Metadata Doesn’t Help: Constructing Frameworks for an Ambiguous Region
Jenny Barker-Devine
Mapping the History of America’s Heartland
Kristin Hoganson
Special Dossier on Fargo (FX, 2014–) Introduction
Adam Ochonicky
Visual Language and Evoking Emotion in the Midwest: The Employment of the Split-Screen in Season Two of
Fargo Ryan Twomey
“People of This World Are Less Inclined to Shoot a Hostess”: The Moral Authority of
Fargo’s Midwestern Girlhood
Maggie E. Morris Davis and William L. Morris
Salesman of the Year: The Confidence Artist in Sinclair Lewis and Season One of
Fargo Paul Gagliardi
Pregnancy Is Not the Point:
Fargo’s Marge, Fargo Season One’s Molly, and Midwestern Feminisms
Laura L. Beadling
Fargo North: Calgary’s Turn toward Postnational Regionality in FX’s
Fargo Rusty Hatchell
The Use of Quilt Imagery in
Fargo’s Advertising: Embracing and Subverting a Midwestern Cultural Symbol
Catherine Kelly
“Building an Empire State”: From Skyscraper Modernity to the American Midwest
Hyo-Jeong Lee and Walter Metz
Telling Stories in This “Our Great American Experiment”
Allen H. Redmon
Book Reviews Graham A. Peck,
Making an Antislavery Nation: Lincoln, Douglas and the Battle over Freedom Michael Burlingame
Thomas Bahde,
The Life and Death of Gus Reed: A Story of Race and Justice in Illinois during the Civil War and Reconstruction Jennifer Harbour
John W. Boyer,
The University of Chicago: A History Kenneth H. Wheeler
Alan Harper,
Waiting for Buddy Guy: Chicago Blues at the Crossroads Dennis H. Cremin
Stacey M. Robertson,
Hearts Beating for Liberty: Women Abolitionists in the Old Northwest Lowell J. Soike
Nancy Warner and David Stark,
This Place, These People: Life and Shadow on the Great Plains Molly P. Rozum
Steve Werle,
Stassen Again Jeffrey Kolnick
Randy Boyagoda,
Richard John Neuhaus: A Life in the Public Square D. G. Hart
Ginette Aley and J. L. Anderson, eds.,
Union Heartland: The Midwestern Home Front During the Civil War Tim Roberts
Cheryl Unruh,
Waiting on the Sky: More Flyover People Essays and
Flyover People: Life on the Ground in a Rectangular State Julie Courtwright
Jonathan Earle and Diane Mutti Burke, eds.,
Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri: The Long Civil War on the Border Brie Swenson Arnold
Ronald C. Naugle, John J. Montag, and James C. Olson,
History of Nebraska Mark R. Ellis
Kevin G. W. Olson,
Frontier Manhattan: Yankee Settlement to Kansas Town, 1854–1894 Charles Delgadillo
Pamela Riney-Kehrberg,
The Nature of Childhood: An Environmental History of Growing Up in America since 1865 Jason Heppler
Gretchen Buggeln,
The Suburban Church: Modernism and Community in Postwar America Jeffrey Hubers
Melissa Fraterrigo,
Glory Days Keith Lesmeister
Keith Lesmeister,
We Could’ve Been Happy Here Melissa Fraterrigo
Richard Edwards, Jacob K. Friefeld, and Rebecca S. Wingo, eds.,
Homesteading the Plains: Toward a New History Thomas D. Isern
Marnie O. Mamminga,
On a Clear Night: Essays from the Heartland Paula M. Nelson
Marcia Hansen Kraus,
George Szell’s Reign Michael J. Pfeifer
Michael F. Holt,
The Election of 1860: “A Campaign Fraught with Consequences” Matthew E. Stanley
Jerry Apps,
Wisconsin Agriculture: A History Kelley Wenig
Kenneth Whyte,
Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times Ellis W. Hawley
J. Blake Perkins,
Hillbilly Hellraisers: Federal Power and Populist Defiance in the Ozarks R. Douglas Hurt
Aaron Cowan,
A Nice Place to Visit: Tourism and Urban Revitalization in the Postwar Rustbelt Jon C. Teaford
James Fuller,
Oliver P. Morton and the Politics of Civil War and Reconstruction Bruce Bigelow
Jon K. Lauck, ed.,
The Midwestern Moment: The Forgotten World of Early-Twentieth-Century Midwestern Regionalism, 1880–1940 Richard W. Etulain
Caroline Fraser,
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder John E. Miller
Book Review Essays From West to Midwest: Regional Identity and the Civil War
Tom Baker
Re-Working the Iowa Writers’ Workshop
Zachary Michael Jack
“Depend on Interior Journeys Taken Anywhere”: Space, Place, and John Berryman’s Minneapolis
Joshua Preston
The Lives of Midwestern Rivers
Michael Allen
