Contents
Introduction
1. Indigenous Intellectuals and the Colonization of the Midwest: Copway, Warren, Blackbird, and Pokagon-Edward Watts
2. “Education for the head, heart, and hands”: Populism, Progressive Reform, and Rural School Consolidation-Kerry Alcorn
3. “A stamp of femininity”: The Sorosis Literary Society, Women’s Intellectual Discourse, and Regional Identity in Jacksonville, Illinois, 1865–1900-Jenny Barker Devine
4. Charles G. Finney and the Creation of the Midwestern Evangelical Mind-William Kostlevy
5. He Flirted with Euterpe before He Settled Down with Clio: The Education of Frederick Jackson Turner-Marcia Noe
6. “Invitation to the Dance”: Robert Ingersoll, Dwight Moody, and the Iconoclastic Gilded Age-Justin Clark
7. An Easterner in the Hinterland: Horace Meyer Kallen, the University of Wisconsin, and the Regional Roots of Cultural Pluralism, 1911–1918-Michael C. Steiner
8. Modeling “Civic Effectiveness” in the Midwest: Charles Mulford Robinson’s Progressive Era Urban Planning, 1907–1915-Brian M. Ingrassia
9. Agrarian “Naturism”: Liberty Hyde Bailey and the Michigan Frontier-John Linstrom and Daniel Rinn
10. “The mind and the soil”: An Iowa Town That Grows Writers-Cherie Dargan
11. John C. Rawe and Midwestern Agrarianism-Allan C. Carlson
12. Mari Sandoz: Regional Writer Never at Home-William C. Pratt
13. How the Midwest Encountered Mass Consumer Culture-Kenneth H. Wheeler
14. “No Place for Artistes”: James Jones’s Quest for Authenticity in the Postwar Midwest-Aaron George
15. Newton Minow, John Bartlow Martin, and the “Vast Wasteland” Speech-Ray E. Boomhower
16. Cleveland’s Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards and Midwestern Racial Liberalism-Andrew Seal
17. How the Midwestern GOP Encountered Modernity: Robert Taft, Mobility, and Individualism-William Russell Coil
18. The Fusionist Mind of Stephen Tonsor-Gleaves Whitney
19. The Rise and Demise of Rural and Regional Studies at Southwest Minnesota State University, 1977–2010-David Pichaske and Emily Williamson
20. Midwestern Literature and the Literary Canon: Where, When, and How?-Sara Kosiba
21. The Stars Had Become My Stars: Leslie C. Peltier, Starlight Nights, and Amateur Astronomy-Robert L. Dorman
22. George McGovern: An Intellectual in Politics-John E. Miller
Contributors
Index