Contributors. Jason Stacy -- An emerging voice: the origins of regional identity and mission in the old Northwest / Terry A. Barnhart -- Forging God's country: The Northwest Territorial Ordinance, the second great awakening, and the Midwestern vision for America / Jason S. Lantzer -- The innnocent Midwest and the new Midwestern pastoral / Marcia Noe -- Travel literature and Midwestern past identity: The case of Illinois / Wayne Duerkes -- Place-making in the Midwest: Pioneer memoirs in early Illinois history / Michael J. Sherfy -- The Protestant imagination and the making of the Midwest as America's heartland / Barton E. Price -- Walt Whitman's heartland romance / Kenyon Gradert -- A copperhead construction: The Northwestern Confederacy and the making of the Midwest during the War of the Rebellion / A. James Fuller -- When the Midwest controlled the presidency, 1860-1930 / Edward O. Frantz -- On the path toward national eminence: Economic development in the old Northwest, 1850-1860 / Gregory S. Rose -- Homesteading and the making of the Midwest / Jacob K. Friefeld -- The emergence of Midwestern political culture in the Northwest Iowa / Sara Egge -- The "I too" temperance movement: A reevaluation of Midwestern women's political action at the turn of the last century / Lisa Payne Ossian -- "To imporve the musical taste, capacity and voices of our people": the rise and public art-music interests amidst the rise and fall of the Iowa State Normal Academy of Music, 1867-1871 / C.A. Norling -- Creating a site of Midwestern cosmopolitanism: Heterotopia East Asian art, and the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1914-1916 / Crista Adams -- Colonizing the Indigenous past: Settler-Colonial place making and the anciant landscape of the early Midwest, 1775-1840 / Joshua Jeffers -- Isaac Walker and the complexities of Midwestern Native American identity / Michael Leonard Cox -- Midwestern "Mobocracy": The emergence of labor politics and racial exclusion in Cincinnati and the lower old Northwest, 1829-1836 / Eric Michael Rhodes -- African American migration to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and the making of the Midwest, 1860-1900 / Brie Swenson Arnold -- "Blood and iron" and the formation of German American identity in the Midwest: Recollections of a union veteran -- David C. Miller -- Popucrats: Producerist populism and the formation of Midwestern political identity in the 1890s / Jason Stacy -- Contributors.
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