The Oxford Handbook of Midwestern History

Jon Lauck is Professor of History and Political Science at the University of South Dakota. He is the author of several books, including The Lost Region: Toward a Revival of Midwestern History; From Warm Center to Ragged Edge: The Erosion of Midwestern Regionalism, 1920-1965; and The Good Country: A History of the American Midwest. He is editor-in-chief of Middle West Review and president of the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature

• 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 University4) 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 University7) The Midwest as a Rural Region, in Reality and in the American Mind: David Danbom, North Dakota State University8) 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 Sydney14) 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 Flensburg17) The Irish, Ireland, and the Midwest: Eileen McMahon, Lewis University18) 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 University32) 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 College37) Midwestern Nostalgia: John E. Miller, South Dakota State University Index