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A visual feast of the Midwest's homegrown bountyIn this splendidly illustrated book, food writer and self-described farm groupie Janine MacLachlan embarks on a tour of seasonal …
Muncie, Indiana, remains the epitome of an American town. Yet scholars built the image of so-called typical communities across the United States on an illusion. Their decades of …
The standard story of St. Louis's founding tells of fur traders Pierre Laclede and Auguste Chouteau hacking a city out of wilderness. St. Louis Rising overturns such gauzy myths …
The American picture postcard debuted around the start of the twentieth century, creating an enthusiasm for sending and collecting postcard art that continued for decades. As a …
Class turmoil, labor, and law and order in ChicagoIn this book, Sam Mitrani cogently examines the making of the police department in Chicago, which by the late 1800s had grown into …
Winner of the Russell P. Strange Memorial Book AwardThis sweeping narrative presents an original and compelling explanation for the triumph of the antislavery movement in the …
Winner of the Missouri History Book Award, from the State Historical Society of MissouriWinner of the Arkansiana Award, from the Arkansas Library AssociationGeologic forces raised …
How do we speak about jazz? In this provocative study based on the author's deep immersion in the New York City jazz scene, Tom Greenland turns from the usual emphasis on artists …
Between the world wars, America embraced an image of the Ozarks as a remote land of hills and hollers. The popular imagination stereotyped Ozarkers as ridge runners, hillbillies, …
A free region deeply influenced by southern mores, the Lower Middle West represented a true cultural and political median in Civil War-era America. Here grew a Unionism steeped in …