Volume 9, Number 2, Spring 2023
Introduction
The Shredding of Midwestern Newspapers
Jon K. Lauck
Symposium on Midwestern Women’s History
Introduction
Katherine Jellison
Sustenance, Social Bonds, and Politics: A Food History of the South Dakota Suffrage Movement
Liz Almlie
“The Light of Science and Religion”: Women’s Education, the Language of Conquest, and Emerging Midwestern Identities on the Illinois Frontier, 1830–1850
Jenny Barker-Devine
“For Women Only!”: A Radical Message of the Black Middle Class in Kansas City
Elyssa Ford
Monuments to Midwestern Pioneer Mothers and Native Women
Cynthia C. Prescott
Female Hucksters and Produce Markets in the Great Lakes Region, 1830s-1890s
Debra A. Reid
Symposium on Halvorson and Reno’s Imagining the Heartland
Inventing a Heartland
Eric Arnesen
Agrarian Mythologies
Debra Bricker Balken
Whose Midwest?
Paul Finkelman
What to the “Other” is the Midwest?
Ashley Howard
No, the Heartland isn’t a Race, and the Social Sciences are a Mess
Robert Leonard
Does “White” Equal “White Supremacy”?
Marcia Noe
Wrong Ideas About Wrong Ideas
David Pichaske
Recognizing the Authentic, Documented Middle West
Christopher Reed
Imagining Supremacy
Wilfred Reilley
Settler Colonialism and Imagining the Nation’s Center as its Right
David Roediger
Whitewashing the Heartland
Michael Steiner
Symposium on the History Jobs Crisis
U.S. History as Part of a Core Curriculum
Megan Birk
Surveying the Ongoing History Crisis: Quantitative and Qualitative Evidence from Across the Midwest
Kevin Mason
Reframing History: A Response
Andrew Offenburger
Book Reviews
Jenny Tone-Pah-Hote,
Crafting an Indigenous Nation: Kiowa Expressive Culture in the Progressive Era
Benjamin R. Kracht
Kristin L. Hoganson,
The Heartland: An American History
Michelle Martindale
Elizabeth Sutton,
Angel De Cora, Karen Thronson, and the Art of Place: How Two Midwestern Women Used Art to Negotiate Migration and Dispossession
Emily C. Burns
Michael E. Brooks and Bob Fitrakis,
A History of Hate in Ohio: Then and Now
Britt Halvorson
Simon M. Evans,
A Geography of the Hutterites in North America
Devin C. Manzullo-Thomas
Benjamin Moore,
The Names of John Gergen: Immigrant Identities in Early Twentieth-Century St. Louis
Andrew Klumpp
Jason Stacy,
Spoon River America: Edgar Lee Masters and the Myth of the American Small Town
Gregory Brown
Katherine Wiltenburg Todrys,
Black Snake: Standing Rock, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and Environmental Justice
Claire Patton
Neil D. Hamilton,
The Land Remains: A Midwestern Perspective On Our Past and Future
Jim Feldman
Book Review Essays
They Have All Gone Away: Farms, Families, and Change
Paula Nelson
Ruin, Revival, and Something in Between: Memoirs of the Rust Belt
John Kropf
Media Review
Revisiting a Debut at a Career’s End: Lakeboat (David Mamet, 1970; dir. Joe Mantegna)
Matthew Sorrento
Reflection
I’m Your Boy: Dan Fogelberg and Peoria, Illinois
Ray E. Boomhower
Conversation
An Interview with David R. Roediger
Jon K. Lauck