Midwest American History – alle Bücher, Blu-ray Discs und DVDs

The Liberal Heartland

Over the last two decades, the political narrative of the "liberal coasts" and the "conservative heartland" has become something of a truism, leading many Democrats to write off much o…

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Between Loving and Leaving

Long neglected by historians, the American Midwest has come to be known as the " Lost Region." But in the last decade a cadre of dedicated scholars has worked to remedy this oversight, launching…

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Mary I Unger
Reading the Renaissance

From 1932 to 1953, during the Black Chicago Renaissance, numerous literary events were held within and for the city's Black community. In book clubs, public forums, print reviews, little magazines, local …

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Audrey Thayer
Weaving Community

A compelling history of the often overlooked work of contemporary Native American women who took action to strengthen the bonds within and among their urban communities.From the 1960s through the 1990s in…

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Michelle Adams
The Containment

Winner of the MAAH Stone Prize "Splendid . . . Adams's book explores class as well as race, with a richness and sophistication that recall J. Anthony Lukas's 1985 masterpiece, Common Ground ." -…

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Lingering Inland

Vignettes by writers engaging with prominent and obscure Midwestern locales How do the stories we tell about Midwestern places influence or reflect our experiences? How is the literature of a place or a r…

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Ashley Howard
Midwest Unrest

Explores those rebellions in US cities during the 1960s, paying particular attention to the ways that region, race, class, and gender all played critical and often overlapping roles in shaping Black peopl…

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Don Zminda
Justice Batted Last

"On May 1, 1951, Orestes "Minnie" Minoso took the field for the Chicago White Sox and broke the color line for Chicago major league baseball. Ernie Banks integrated the Chicago Cubs two yea…

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Samantha Ege
South Side Impresarios

"Between the world wars, Chicago Race women nurtured a local yet widely resonant Black classical music community entwined with Black civic life. Samantha Ege tells the stories of the Black women whos…

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Ka F Wong
Enmity and Empathy

The experiences of Japanese Americans and their allies fighting discrimination in wartime Minnesota demonstrate how diverse groups stood together amidst the turmoil--a legacy relevant in today's divisive …

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Robert Bowling
Hoosier Vigilantes

The story of the intersection between vigilantism and law enforcementIn frontier Indiana, vigilantism was a grim necessity. Beginning with the vigilance committees of the 1860s that lynched the Reno Gang …

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Michelle Adams
The Containment

Winner of the MAAH Stone Prize "Splendid . . . Adams's book explores class as well as race, with a richness and sophistication that recall J. Anthony Lukas's 1985 masterpiece, Common Ground ." -…

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Maurine Watkins,
Chicago

In 1924, the murder trials of Beulah Annan and Belva Gaertner shocked the world, providing the real-life inspiration for Maurine Watkins's unforgettable characters, Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly. Now, a cent…

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Ross Benes
Rural Rebellion

After Ross Benes left Nebraska for New York, he witnessed his polite home state become synonymous with "Trump country." Long dismissed as "flyover" land, the area where he was born and…

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Nebraska Government and Politics

Nebraska Government and Politics offers an in-depth examination of the connection between governmental institutions and the enduring political culture, traditions, and heritage of Nebraska.

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Rebecca Jo Kinney
Mapping Asiatown Cleveland

Forthcoming Spring 2025This book examines the tensions that emerged between Asian American racial identity formation and the establishment of organized urban community in Cleveland. Moving from 1943 to th…

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Rebecca Jo Kinney
Mapping AsiaTown Cleveland

Forthcoming Spring 2025This book examines the tensions that emerged between Asian American racial identity formation and the establishment of organized urban community in Cleveland. Moving from 1943 to th…

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William Walter Scott III, William Walter Scott
Hurt, Baby, Hurt

The 1967 Detroit Rebellion was the bloodiest of the urban riots in the United States during the "Long hot summer of 1967." Hurt, Baby, Hurttakes a personal look at the Rebellion from the perspec…

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Ric S Sheffield
False Promises

Grounded in primary sources, this book uses critical fabulation to envision how men of color fought against Ohio's racist nineteenth-century voting restrictions. It reveals how contemporary voter-suppress…

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Katie Batza
AIDS in the Heartland

"Histories of AIDS in the United States typically consider San Francisco and New York the epicenters of the crisis. The Midwest, if considered at all, appears as a footnote to the social, medical, an…

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