{"title":"The Spires Still Point to Heaven: Cincinnati's Religious Landscape, 1788–1873 by Matthew Smith (review)","authors":"Jon Butler","doi":"10.1353/mwr.2023.a912194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2023.a912194","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":417700,"journal":{"name":"Middle West Review","volume":"28 1","pages":"176 - 179"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139343930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Germans in America: A Concise History by Walter D. Kamphoefner (review)","authors":"Samuel Boucher","doi":"10.1353/mwr.2023.a912187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2023.a912187","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":417700,"journal":{"name":"Middle West Review","volume":"45 1","pages":"159 - 161"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139344526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"They Have All Gone Away: Farms, Families, and Change","authors":"P. Nelson","doi":"10.1353/mwr.2023.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2023.0026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":417700,"journal":{"name":"Middle West Review","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124957145","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Angel De Cora, Karen Thronson, and the Art of Place: How Two Midwestern Women Used Art to Negotiate Migration and Dispossession by Elizabeth Sutton (review)","authors":"Emily C. Burns","doi":"10.1353/mwr.2023.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2023.0019","url":null,"abstract":"through multiple removals by the U.S. government and encroaching newcomers. In her last chapter, we find the Kickapoo in their most recent forced relocation, situated on the U.S.Mexican border. Here they battled for access to basic human rights, including the ability to move freely across their territory that straddles the Rio Grande River. With these bookends, Hoganson underscores two major currents of imperialism: invasion of a foreign land and the injustices imposed on its inhabitants. With these twin threads, she simultaneously dispels ideas that midwestern “settlers” earned their right to the land through settlement and that the largest threat to American ideals came from foreigners. While the analytical framework of the book is strong, chapter five lacks the tight structure of preceding chapters. Seeking to address popular theoretical analyses of the environment through meteorology and ornithology, this piece seems forced and works against the arguments’ overall effectiveness. Nevertheless, The Heartland offers a cohesive and systematic dismantling of the popular myths that situate the Midwest as the cultural heart of the nation. Though Hoganson is far from the first historian to make claims of a globally linked Midwest, her concentration on the topic over multiple cultural and economic settings dispels many of the lingering myths tied to midwestern exceptionalism. The book’s structure and lively writing is targeted to a popular audience, though the heavy use of theory and the intricate framework may be appreciated more by academics. Michelle Martindale University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Edinburg, Texas","PeriodicalId":417700,"journal":{"name":"Middle West Review","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129613329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Heartland: An American History by Kristin L. Hoganson (review)","authors":"Michelle M Martindale","doi":"10.1353/mwr.2023.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2023.0018","url":null,"abstract":"In early twentieth century Anadarko— the agency town— there was little commercial interest in Native art beyond pawn shops. Beginning in 1930, the Kiowa Six attended the annual Gallup Intertribal Ceremonial, where they performed war dances for the burgeoning tourist trade. They also showcased their paintings in museums and art exhibitions. Although tourists perceived art and dancing through the lens of primitivism and otherness, the Kiowa Six nevertheless “connected Native art, culture, and social history . . . [and] created a contemporary image of war dancers that linked Kiowas to the emergence of powwows” (60– 61). Kiowa women also went to Gallup and other intercultural venues where they could express tribal and family identity through beadwork, buckskin dresses, and dance regalia. Beadwork designs, the intellectual property of mothers and daughters, represent networks of kinship and allow Kiowas to demonstrate their uniqueness in relation to other tribes. As TonePahHote demonstrates, visual art is the blueprint for change, and for Kiowas, it wasn’t “merely decorative; it was also strategic” (99). Benjamin R. Kracht Northeastern State University Tahlequah, Oklahoma","PeriodicalId":417700,"journal":{"name":"Middle West Review","volume":"134 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123447393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Land Remains: A Midwestern Perspective On Our Past and Future by Neil D. Hamilton (review)","authors":"J. Feldman","doi":"10.1353/mwr.2023.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2023.0025","url":null,"abstract":"continuing struggle of Indigenous peoples. Todrys is a human rights lawyer rather than a historian, and so the book lacks the intellectual rigor one might expect. Nonetheless, since the book is aimed at a popular audience, it will likely have a farreaching effect on midwestern people and policy makers. In the end, hope is not dead because the past is not yet past. Claire Patton Oklahoma State University Stillwater, Oklahoma","PeriodicalId":417700,"journal":{"name":"Middle West Review","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124831802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Black Snake: Standing Rock, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and Environmental Justice by Katherine Wiltenburg Todrys (review)","authors":"C. Patton","doi":"10.1353/mwr.2023.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2023.0024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":417700,"journal":{"name":"Middle West Review","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129843865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Revisiting a Debut at a Career's End: David Mamet's Lakeboat (1970/1980)","authors":"M. Sorrento","doi":"10.1353/mwr.2023.0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2023.0028","url":null,"abstract":"On April 13, 2022, I received notice that ReFocus: The Films of David Mamet, a planned anthology in Edinburgh University Press’s film studies series, had been cancelled. Coeditors Michelle E. Moore and Brian Brems decided they could no longer in good conscience go forward with the project after Mamet’s April 2022 comments to Fox News. Mamet— who won the 1984 Pulitzer for Glengarry Glen Ross (1983)— had made claims about the previous presidential election being stolen and, even more bizarre, that teachers are “inclined” to be sexual groomers of children.1 While in the middle of writing a chapter on Mamet’s lessregarded 1997 film, The Spanish Prisoner, for the collection, I could understand Moore and Brems’s decision. This cancellation signals an end of extended scholarly commentary of Mamet as an artist, now that he has recently embraced polemical writings for profit. Mamet’s rightwing conversion began with his less coherent 2008 piece for The Village Voice, entitled “Why I Am No Longer a ‘BrainDead Liberal,’” Here, he writes:","PeriodicalId":417700,"journal":{"name":"Middle West Review","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128484660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What to the \"Other\" Is the Midwest?","authors":"A. Howard","doi":"10.1353/mwr.2023.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2023.0006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":417700,"journal":{"name":"Middle West Review","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123257610","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Monuments to Midwestern Pioneer Mothers and Native Women","authors":"C. Prescott","doi":"10.1353/mwr.2023.0033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2023.0033","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":417700,"journal":{"name":"Middle West Review","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122631333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}