The Oxford Handbook of Midwestern History

Introduction: Mapping the Contours of the New Midwestern History: Jon K. Lauck, University of South Dakota The Formative Age 1) Native Middle Worlds to 1850: Gregory Dowd, University of Michigan 2) The French Midwest: Robert Michael Morrissey, University of Illinois-Champaign 3) The Northwest Ordinance and the Making of the Midwest: R. Douglas Hurt, Purdue University 4) U.S. Expansion and the Creation of the Middle West in the Nineteenth Century: Andrew Offenburger, Miami University Foundations 5) The Unique Constitutional Development of the Midwest: Patrick Garry, University of South Dakota 6) Evangelism, Organization, and the Union: A Brief History of Christianity in the Antebellum Midwest: Douglas Montagna, Grand Valley State University 7) The Midwest as a Rural Region, in Reality and in the American Mind: David Danbom, North Dakota State University 8) Civic Engagement and Social Capital in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest: Adam Criblez, Southeast Missouri State University 9) Women of the Rural Midwest: Paula Nelson, University of Wisconsin-Platteville The Midwest and the Civil War 10) Negotiating the Middle: The Coming of the Civil War in the Midwest: Diane Mutti-Burke, University of Missouri-Kansas City 11) How the Midwest Won the Civil War: Nicole Etcheson, Ball State University 12) The Civil War and Reconstruction as an Interpretative Problem in Midwestern History: Christopher Phillips, University of Cincinnati The Midwest and African Americans 13) By Law or Custom: Race and the Law in the Midwest before the Great Migration: Kathryn Schumaker, University of Sydney 14) Lynching in the Midwest: Michael J. Pfeifer, City University of New York 15) 'Meet force with force and law with law': Black Self-Defense in Nineteenth-Century Iowa: David Brodnax, Sr., Trinity Christian College The Ethnic Midwest 16) The German Midwest: Samantha Litty, Europa-Universität Flensburg 17) The Irish, Ireland, and the Midwest: Eileen McMahon, Lewis University 18) The Dutch Midwest: Robert P. Swierenga, Hope College, and Andrew Klumpp, editor, Annals of Iowa 19) Latinos in the Midwest: Omar Valerio-Jimenez, University of Texas at San Antonio Midwestern Economic Life 20) Our Inland Seas: The Great Lakes in American History: Theodore Karamanski, Loyola University-Chicago 21) The Rise and Remarkable Decline of Organized Labor in the Midwest: Daniel Nelson, University of Akron The Fin de Siecle Midwest 22) The Coming of the Urban Midwest: Jon Teaford, Purdue University 23) The Rise of Realism and Regionalism in the Midwest: Marcia Noe, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga 24) Print Culture in the Midwest: James Connolly, Ball State University 25) The Boundaries of the Midwestern Environment: Peter Simons, Hamilton College The Political Midwest 26) The Midwest and the Development of the Republican Party: Greg Schneider, Emporia State University 27) Midwestern Populism: Jeff Wells, Dickinson State University 28) Isolationist Sentiment in the Midwest, 1919-1945: Bernard Lemelin, Laval University 29) The New Right in the Midwest: Sean Flynn, Dakota Wesleyan University The Twentieth-Century Midwest 30) Opera or Opry: Midwest Radio Wars of the 1920s: Kim Porter, University of North Dakota 31) Architecture of the Midwest: Gretchen Buggeln, Valparaiso University 32) Being Native in the Midwestern City?: Deborah Davis Jackson, Earlham College 33) The Women's Movement in the Midwest?: Matthew Pehl, Texas Tech University The Cultural Midwest 34) 'Oh, God, we must win': The Midwest and the Integration of Religion and Sport: Paul Putz, Baylor University 35) The Visual Culture of the 1980s Farm Crisis: Wayne Anderson, University of Iowa 36) The Midwest in the Contemporary Cultural Imagination: Zachary Michael Jack, North Central College 37) Midwestern Nostalgia: John E. Miller, South Dakota State University Index