The Midwest

CREDIT: Susan Y. Clawson

Midwest living

• Midwest Living Magazine http://www.midwestliving.com/
• The Encyclopedia of the Midwest (American Regional Encyclopaedia) (Hardcover)
  by Allan Carpenter (Facts on File; 400 pp.) click here
  
• Midwest in Wikipedia
  
• What are the regions of the Midwest? I need to learn to include Kansas and Nebraska in the midwest. Here is a nice discussion:
  http://www.city-data.com/forum/general-u-s/194642-what-different-sub-regions-midwest.html
  
• Books about the Midwest http://www.statelib.lib.in.us/www/ihb/publications/midwhistin.html
  1. The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia,
     ed. Richard Sisson, Christian Zacher, and Andrew Cayton click here
     Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2007.

     Table of Contents
     I. Introduction
     II. Landscapes and People
     III. Society and Culture
     IV. Community and Social Life
     V. Economy and Technology

  2. Stories, Community, and Place: Narratives from Middle America, by Barbara Johnstone.
     (Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1990).148pp.
     How a white middle-class population of a Midwest city uses narrative to create, perpetuate, and manipulate social roles and relations. Here is a quote, taken from a review of the book: The cultural identity of midwesterners should be treated as as distinctive as any other group, not "as a monotone background against which minority populations are foregrounded" (4). (rev. by Barbara Allen, U of Notre Dame, Journal of American Folklore 104 [1991]: 535-36. Accessed via JSTOR.)
     
     
  3. Calling the Midwest Home, by Carolyn Lieberg (Wildcat Canyon Press,1996)
     http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1885171129/eccentricamer-20
     
     
  4. The Identity of the American Midwest: Essays on Regional History
     by Andrew R. L. Cayton (Editor), Susan E. Gray. (Editor) Bloomington: IU Press, 2007
     Here is a review, readily available online:
     http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/90.1/br_141.html
     From The Journal of American History Vol. 90, Issue 1 (June 2003).
     Viewed March 6, 2008 11:49 EST
     Presented online in association with the History Cooperative. http://www.historycooperative.org
     
     
  5. The Midwestern Ascendancy in American Writing
     by Ronald Weber (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992).
     http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=19721
     "From the 1870s to the 1920s, Midwestern writers were at the center of American literature. Here Weber illuminates the sense of lost promise that gives rise to the elegiac note struck in many Midwestern works; he also addresses the deeply divided feeling about the region revealed in the contrary desires to abandon and to celebrate."

Midwest architect: Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright Monument http://chicagoarchitecture.info/Building/1194/Frank_Lloyd_Wright_Monument.php

Unity Temple http://unitytemple.org/whoweare/building.htm

Frank Lloyd Wright in Oak Park http://oprf.com/flw/index.html

Samara, Lafayette, IN http://www.hort.purdue.edu/arch/samara/samara.htm

 

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