Volume 10, Number 2, Spring 2024
Contents
Introduction: Finding the Boundaries of the American Midwest
Jon K. Lauck
A Special Symposium on the Tenth Anniversary of Middle West Review
The Roots of Midwestern Order
Dedra McDonald Birzer
“History Happens Here”: The Midwest and Its State and Regional History
Jeff Bremer
“A profitable investment for every one”: The Present and Future of Black Midwestern Historical Scholarship
David Brodnax, Sr.
Modernizing the Old Midwest
Jon Butler
Race-Based Slavery and People of African Descent on the Midwestern Frontier
Christy Clark-Pujara
The State of Midwestern History: The View from Ohio
Donna M. Deblasio
From Pioneers to Settler Colonists: The Frontier in Midwestern History
Nicole Etcheson
Indians and Empires in the Early Midwest
John Faragher
“A Ghost Among Regions”: Considering a Spectral History of the Midwest
Amy Laurel Fluker
Teaching the Midwest in an Era of Precarity
Anna Thompson Hajdik
One Hundred Years of Secularization and Pluralization in the Midwest
Daniel G. Hummel
Midwest History: Will the Past Be Prologue?
Theodore j. karamanski
Indigenous Agency and Resilience in the Midwest: Reclaiming the Narrative
Doug Kiel
Not a Revival. A Convention.
Andrew Klumpp
Upper Midwestern Music, Maps, and Memory: Mainstream Absence, Grassroots Emergence
James P. Leary
Regionalism in a Global Age
Timothy R. Mahoney
The Humanities Model is in Trouble—Let’s Rethink It
Patricia Oman
Recent Scholarship on Midwestern Contributions to Popular Music: Trends and Opportunities
Barton Price
The Future of Midwestern History: A Gloomy View from the Middle Land
Pamela Riney-Kehrberg
Race, Freedom, and Belonging in a Relational Midwest
Jennifer Kirsten Stinson
Everybody Took Part: A Regional Vision of Populism’s Participatory Culture Within Lake Nineteenth-Century Midwestern Reform
Ann Vlock
Articles
The Prairie’s Ever-present Heartaches: EcoGothic and the Great Plains
Adam Nemmers
Filling the Unforgiving Minute with Sixty Seconds’ Worth of Effort: Barbara Fassbinder, Nursing, and AIDS in the US, 1986-91
Karissa A. Haugeberg
Book Reviews
Cynthia Culver Prescott,
Pioneer Mother Monuments: Constructing Cultural Memory
Andrea G. Radke Moss
Sarah Vogel,
The Farmer’s Lawyer: The North Dakota Nine and the Fight to Save the Family Farm
cory Haala
Taylor Brorby,
Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land
Clare Forstie
Christopher Evans,
Do Everything: The Biography of Frances Willard
William Kostlevy
Samuel Freedman,
Into the Bright Sunlight: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights
Zachary Clary
Laura Meckler,
Dream Town: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equality
Mark Friedberger
Steven Cohen,
The Lies of the Land: Seeing Rural America for What It Is—and Isn’t
R. Douglas Hurt
Mark Walczynski,
Jolliet and Marquette: A New History of the 1673 Expedition
Patrick J. Jung
Mark Borthwick
, A Brave and Lovely Woman: Mamah Borthwick and Frank Lloyd Wright
Geoffrey Jokke
Sue Leaf,
Impermanence: Life and Loss on Superior’s South Shore
Anthony Bukowski
Tim O’Brien,
America Fantastica
Patrick Hicks
Media Reviews
Returning to
God’s Country (1985): Louis Malle’s Forgotten Encounter with the Midwest
Jodie Childers
Fishes Out of Water:
Aliens in America (CW, 2007-2008) and the Depiction of Islam in the Midwest
Mehdi Achouche
Reflections
A Midwestern Story Teller of the Inland Seas: A Tribute to Walter Havighurst
Jacqueline Johnson and John Kropf
Union Victory: The Midwest’s Decisive Role in the Civil War
Jack Dempsey
The Rise and Fall of The Clevelander: The Voice of Northeast
Ohio’s Optimism
Vince Guerrieri
Whistling in the Dark: Garrison Keillor’s Emersonian Good Cheer
Meghan O’Gieblyn
The Midwestern Tradition at Bay: Richard Weaver’s
The Southern Tradition at Bay
Miles Smith IV
An Economics Nobel Rooted in the Middle West
Louis D. Johnston
Conversation
An Interview with Patrick Nelson Limerick
Jon. K. Lauck
