Volume 31, Number 2 (Fall 2021) Special Issue: Exploring the Politics and Policy of the Great Plains
Edited by Joe Blankenau and Brian Hanson
Contents Guest Editors’ Introduction: Exploring the Politics and Policy of the Great Plains
Joe Blankenau and Brian Hanson
Invited Essay Leading In the Skin You’re In: A Conversation with Dr. Tawana Grover and Dr. Steve Joel
Ryan Teten
Articles Staying Home on the Range: Social Capital and Social Distancing in the Great Plains during COVID-19
Alexandra T. Middlewood and Mark R. Joslyn
Has the Sleeping Giant Awakened in Kansas?: An Overview of Latino Voting Behavior in the Sunflower State
Robert G. Rodriguez
A Silver Bullet: Gun Ownership and Political Participation in Rural America
Alexandra T. Middlewood
Rural Language by Law: Why Rural Towns Pass English-Only Laws
Juan Urbano and Ryan Daugherty
Responding to the Court: Diffusion of Religious Freedom Restoration Acts
Bronson P. Herrera
Comparing Health and Health Care from a Subnational Perspective: Saskatchewan and Nebraska
Joe Blankenau
Book Reviews Bruce A. Glasrud and Cary D. Wintz, editors.
Black Americans and the Civil Rights Movement in the West Nanosh Lucas
Daniel L. Wuebben.
Power-Lined: Electricity, Landscape, and the American Mind Melissa Bollman
David R. M. Beck.
Unfair Labor?: American Indians and the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago Julie Guard
Michael John Haddock and Craig C. Freeman.
Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines in Kansas: Revised and Expanded Brad Guhr
Susan Nance.
Rodeo: An Animal History Elyssa Ford
Devon A. Mihesuah and Elizabeth Hoover, editors.
Indigenous Food Sovereignty in the United States: Restoring Cultural Knowledge, Protecting Environments, and Regaining Health Letitia M. McCune