Volume 11, No. 1 (Fall 2024)
Contents
Introduction: The Contraction of History PhD Programs in the Midwest
Jon K. Lauck
Regional Geography Special Issue
The Geography of a Midwestern Geographer
Christopher R. Laingen
There and Back Again: Regional Geography in the U.S.
Darrell Napton
“Where Have All the Region’s Gone?”
Gregory S. Rose
Regional Geography in a Globalized World
Andrew Husa
The Middle West as a Study in Migration
John C. Hudson
The Tyranny of Nostalgia: Landscape, Place, and Memory in a Midwestern Town
Timothy G. Anderson
The Midwest: Land of the Squares
D.B.H. Lehman
Smoke from Their Fires: Or, Environment and Region in Canada and the Upper Midwest
Hayden L. Nelson
Manufacturing the Motoring Midwest: Automobile Supplier Networks, 1930–1960
Kevin Moskowitz
THE LINE in Midwest USA: Proposing the Linear Spatial Device for Studies of Region
Mary Dahlman Begley
Symposium on Rural Rage
Try That in a Bougie Bookstore: White Rural Rage and the Scapegoating of Rural America
Jeffrey H. Bloodworth
The Fallacy of Rural Rage
Elizabeth Currid-Halkett
Thin Evidence, More Polarization
George Hawley
Existential Threat or a Convenient Scapegoat? Why
White Rural Rage Misses the Mark on Rural America
Alee Lockman
Be Very Quiet, We’re Hunting Strawmen
Jon D. Schaff
Hide Your Constitutions, the Rural Whites Are Coming!
Catherine McNicol Stock
Articles
How Much Dutch? Ideological Borderlands of Place and Belonging in Holland, Michigan
Kathryn A. Remlinger, Tristan Kittle, and Alice Pozzobon
“Soldiers are continually advised by letter to desert”: Finding Democratic Voices in the 1863 Campaign to Discourage Civil War Soldiers
Stephen E. Towne
Book Reviews
William C. Pratt,
After Populism: The Agrarian Left on the Northern Plains, 1900–1960
Cory Haala
Elizabeth Grennan Browning,
Nature’s Laboratory: Environmental Thought and Labor Radicalism in Chicago, 1886–1937
Rosemary Feurer
Marcia Noe,
Three Midwestern Playwrights: How Floyd Dell, George Cram Cook, and Susan Glaspell Transformed American Theatre
Rachael Price
Molly P. Rozum,
Grasslands Grown: Creating Place on the U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian Prairies
Thomas Richards, Jr.
D. Scott Hartwig,
I Dread the Thought of the Place: The Battle of Antietam and the End of the Maryland Campaign
David M. Grabitske
Jon K. Lauck and Gleaves Whitney, eds.,
North Country: Essays on the Upper Midwest and Regional Identity
Hayden L. Nelson
B. J. Hollars,
Wisconsin for Kennedy: The Primary that Launched a Candidate and Changed the Course of History
Jason K. Duncan
Media Reviews
Revisiting
Drop Dead Gorgeous (dir. Michael Patrick Jann, 1999): Mockery, Escape, and the Perils of Pageant Politics
Jon Heggestad
Erasing Chicago: A Comparative Analysis of
Child’s Play (dir. Tom Holland, 1988) and
Child’s Play (dir. Lars Klevberg, 2019)
Alice Tremea
Facades and Smiling Faces in
Ordinary People (dir. Robert Redford, 1980)
Michael Young
Reflections
“Plein Air” Imagination on the Middle Border
Noelle Canty
The Crossroads of America: Missourians’ Midwestern Identity
Dianne Mutti Burke
In Search of the Viking Midwest
Alice C. M. Kwok
Artistic Reflections on the Midwest: Julie Blackmon
Anna Cowley, and Elyssa Ford
Reconsidering Nostalgia
Susan J. Matt
T.S. Eliot, Midwesterner
James Matthew Wilson
Population Doldrums and Some Dynamism: The Urban Midwest, 1960–2020
Jon C. Teaford
Lincoln and Grant: Citizens of the Middle West
Andrew Lang
How a Steel Company’s Magazine Covered the Midwest
Robert Loerzel
Seeking “A Much Better Way of Life Out Here”: Opportunity, Community, and the Black Oral Histories of South Dakota
Sam Herley
Counterfactual Communities: Revised Visions of the Midwest in Recent Historical Fiction
Mark Athitakis
Appalachia Nice
Jeff Bilbro
A New Group of Comedians is Reviving “Midwest Comedy”
Christian Schneider
Looking Back Over the Shoulder of Memory: The Fate of Midwestern Regional Literature Over the Past Four Decades
David Pichaske
The American League Centrals’ (Finally) Having a Midwestern Moment
Christopher Vondracek
The Youngstown Sheet & Tube Bulletin: From Company Newsletter to Voice of Doom
Vince Guerrieri
Ohio, the Heart of It All
Daniel R. Birdsong
Pop or Soda: The Roots of My Midwestern Identity
John Kropf
The Midwest and the Roots of Conservatism: A Retrospective Review of Michael Bowen’s
The Roots of Modern Conservativism: Dewey, Taft, and the Battle for the Soul of the Republican Party
Sean J. Flynn
Another Shade of Red: A Report from the 2024 Communist Party National Convention
Taylor Dorrell
Reflections on Settler Colonialism
Mary Stockwell
By the Numbers:
The New York Times Best Book Ratings
Anesa Miller
Beyond Binaries: The Complexity of Populist Politics in Historical and Contemporary Contexts
Andrew Varsanyi
