Description: Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsAndrew L. Cayton and Susan E. Gray, "The Story of the Midwest: An Introduction"Mary Neth, "Seeing the Midwest with Peripheral Vision: Identities, Narratives, and Region"Eric Hinderaker, "Liberating Contrivances: Narrative and Identity in Ohio Valley Histories"John Lauritz Larson, "Pigs in Space, or What Shapes American Regional Cultures?"Nicole Etcheson, "Barbecued Kentuckians and Six-Foot Texas Rangers: The Construction of Midwestern Identity"Kathleen N. Conzen, "Piing the Type: Jane Grey Swisshelm and the Contest of Midwestern Regionality"Kenneth Winkle, "'The Great Body of the Republic': Abraham Lincoln and the Idea of a Middle West"Susan E. Gray, "Stories Written in the Blood: Race, Identity, and the Middle West"Andrew R. L. Cayton, "The Anti-region: Place and identity in the History of the American Middle West"R. Douglas Hurt, "Midwestern Distinctiveness"Jon Gjerde, "Middleness and the Middle West"

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