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Volume 6, Issues 1–2 (Fall–Spring 2019–20)
Midwestern Dreams or Nightmares? An Appreciation and Critique of Caroline Fraser’s Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
John E. Miller
Ideological Origins of a Radical Democrat: The Early Political Thought of Tom L. Johnson, 1888–1895
Michael Megery
Soft, Democratic, and Universalist: In Search of the Main Currents of Traditional Midwestern Identity and a Grand Historiographic Synthesis
Jon K. Lauck
Book Reviews
John P. Bowes, Land Too Good for Indians: Northern Indian Removal
John R. Wunder
Carrie Tirado Bramen, American Niceness: A Cultural History
Wayne Anderson
Frank Cicero Jr., Creating the Land of Lincoln: The History and Constitutions of Illinois, 1778–1870
Nathan E. Perz, Esq.
Julianne Couch, The Small-Town Midwest: Resilience and Hope in the Twenty-First Century
Emily Prifogle
Julie L. Davis, Survival Schools: The American Indian Movement and Community Education in the Twin Cities
Linda Clemmons
Paul Durcan, Wild, Wild Erie: Poems Inspired by Works of Art in the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio
Ryan Schnurr
John Herrmann, Foreign Born
Frederic Svoboda
Paul E. Herron, Framing the Solid South: The State Constitutional Conventions of Secession, Reconstruction, and Redemption, 1860–1902
Silvana R. Siddali
Theodore J. Karamanski and Eileen M. McMahon, Civil War Chicago: Eyewitness to History
Christopher R. Reed
Mark A. Lause, The Great Cowboy Strike: Bullets, Ballots, and Class Conflicts in the American West
Jeff Wells
Phillip J. Obermiller and Thomas E. Wagner, The Cincinnati Human Relations Commission: A History, 1943–2013
Charles F. Casey-Leininger
Derek S. Oden, Harvest of Hazards: Family Farming, Accidents, and Expertise in the Corn Belt, 1940–1975
Jeff Bremer
Liesl Olson, Chicago Renaissance: Literature and Art in the Midwest Metropolis
John E. Hallwas
Garin Pirnia, Rebels and Underdogs: The Story of Ohio Rock and Roll
Ray Schuck
Mark B. Pohlad, James R. Hopkins: Faces of the Heartland
Marissa Vigneault
Shari Rabin, Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America
Mara W. Cohen Ioannides
Roger L. Rosentreter, Michigan: A History of Explorers, Entrepreneurs, and Everyday People
Matthew Lawrence Daley
Winton U. Solberg, Creating the Big Ten: Courage, Corruption, and Commercialization
Peter A. Coclanis
Richard Samuel West, Iconoclast in Ink: The Political Cartoons of Jay N. “Ding” Darling
Paul V. Murphy
Dave Zweifel and John Nichols, The Capital Times: A Proudly Radical Newspaper’s Century-Long Fight for Justice and for Peace
Jonathan Kasparek
Book Review Essays
Midwestern Soldiers in the Civil War
L. Bao Bui
Midwestern History is Out of the Closet
Matthew Pehl
Recent Developments in Midwestern Labor History
Nathan Tye
Hispanics in the Middle West
Roger Davis
Media Reviews
Traversing the Class Boundary: Gone Girl (2014) as Failed Remake
Anthony Ballas
“A Riot is the Language of the Unheard”: The Grassroots Activism of Whose Streets? (2017)
Julia Alekseyeva
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), directed by Martin McDonagh
Caroline Fernelius
Alec MacGillis, “Left Behind America,” Frontline, PBS, 2018
Lisa Tyler