Volume 9, Number 1 (Fall 2022)
Contents
Introduction
Jon K. Lauck
Articles
“Ho! My boys, this is the place!”: The Manx in the Midwest and the Emigration of the Faragher Brothers
John Mack Faragher
Politicized Refuge: The Rise of the Sanctuary Movement in Chicago
Nathan Ellstrand
How the Germans Beat Bates: Gustav Koerner, Carl Schurz, and the Republican National Convention of 1860
Cormac Henry Broeg
Aging, Retirement, and Community Building in a Middle West Suburb
Mark Friedberger
Book Reviews
Christopher P. Lehman, Slavery’s Reach: Southern Slaveholders in the North Star State
Nicole Etcheson
Jon K. Lauck and Catherine McNicol Stock, eds., The Conservative Heartland: A Political History of the Postwar American Midwest
Linda Van Ingen
Marc C. Johnson, Tuesday Night Massacre: Four Senate Elections and the Radicalization of the Republican Party
Bernard von Bothmer
Stephen T. Kissel, America’s Religious Crossroads: Faith and Community in the Emerging Midwest
Jon Butler
Mark Kruger, The St. Louis Commune of 1877: Communism in the Heartland
Matt Corpolongo
Kristy Nabhan-Warren, Meatpacking America: How Migration, Work, and Faith Unite and Divide the Heartland
Kevin D. Smith
Chuy Renteria, We Heard it When We Were Young
Jessica Tebo
Ryan Rodgers, Winter’s Children: A Celebration of Nordic Skiing
Mette Flynt
Harry F. Thompson, “Bright, Clear Sky Over a Plain So Wide”: The Center for Western Studies, 1964–2020
David Pichaske
Theresa L. Weller, The Founding Mothers of Mackinac Island: The Agatha Biddle Band of 1870
David A. Nichols
Book Review Essays
The Spirit of Innovation in Ohio Cities
John W. Kropf
Midwestern Studies Meets Critical Race Theory: Notes on Imagining the Heartland
Jon K. Lauck
Media Review
Road to Perdition (dir. Sir Samuel Alexander Mendes, 2002)
Mark Brians
Conversation
An Interview with Britt Halvorson and Joshua Reno