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-Universitaet 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