Volume 8, Number 1 (Fall 2021)Contents Introduction
Jon K. Lauck
Articles “Let Us Not Look Regretfully on the Past”: Clara Bewick Colby and Midwestern Women’s Early Coeducation at the University of Wisconsin
Kristin Mapel Bloomberg
The Midwest: Cradle of Vocational Education
Steve Grineski
Invisible Childhoods: Dependent African American Children in the Urban Midwest
John D. Ramsbottom
A “splendid flying field” in Indianapolis: Aviation and Speedway Spectacles in the Great War Era
Brian M. Ingrassia
Symposium on Russel B. Nye’s Midwestern Progressive Politics Nye’s
Midwestern Progressive Politics After Sixty Years
Walter Nugent
A Good Reason to Read an Old Book: A Critical Appreciation of
Midwestern Progressive Politics Robert D. Johnston
Russel Nye and the Unending Struggle to Keep Government Representative
Nancy C. Unger
The Missing Conservatives? Reflections on Nye’s
Midwestern Progressive Politics Thomas Tacoma
Progressive Insurgency in the Heartland
Christopher W. Shaw
Midwestern Progressives Were Radicals
Sara Egge
Book Reviews Amber R. Clifford-Napoleone,
Queering Kansas City Jazz: Gender, Performance, and the History of a Scene Robin C. Henry
Richard Edwards, Jacob K. Friefeld, and Rebecca S. Wingo,
Homesteading the Plains: Toward a New History Cynthia C. Prescott
Berkeley Franz and Daniel Skinner, eds.,
Not Far from Me: Stories of Opioids and Ohio Patricia McCourt
Jennifer R. Harbour,
Organizing Freedom: Black Emancipation Activism in the Civil War Midwest Jazma Sutton
Martha Louise Hipp,
Sovereign Schools: How Shoshones and Arapahos Created a High School on the Wind River Reservation Cynthia Landrum
Tadeusz Lewandowski,
Ojibwe, Activist, Priest: The Life of Father Philip Bergin Gordon, Tibishkogijik Brandon Dean
Timothy J. Lombardo,
Blue-Collar Conservatism: Frank Rizzo’s Philadelphia and Populist Politics Ian Toller-Clark
Bobbie Malone,
Striding Lines: The Unique Story Quilts of Rumi O’Brien Lynne Swanson
Adam R. Ochonicky,
The American Midwest in Film and Literature: Nostalgia, Violence, and Regionalism Christopher D. Stone
Andrea Friederici Ross,
Edith: The Rogue Rockefeller McCormick C.A. Norling
Media Reviews Audiovisual Solitude:
Only Lovers Left Alive, dir. Jim Jarmusch, 2013
Dong Yang
Midwest Malaise in
About Schmidt, dir. Alexander Payne, 2002
Douglas C. MacLeod, Jr.
Conversation An Interview with Larry Woiwode
