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Edward E. Curtis IV, Muslims of the Heartland: How Syrian Immigrants Made a Home in the American Midwest
Lucius S. Moseley, Sara De Luca, Ed., Heavy Marching: The Civil War Letters of Lute Moseley, 22nd Wisconsin
Native Women in the Illinois Indian Nation: An Exercise in Gender Analysis
RAYMOND HAUSER examines the role of females in Native Illinois society and how a deeper understanding of how females contributed to life in the Illinois Country might inform major scholarly work from the last two decades. In particular, he draws on primary and secondary accounts of Illinois life to illustrate how females functioned in Illinois society in a way that was distinct not only from males but also from the men and women they enslaved
John William Nelson, Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago's Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent
Kinship, Commerce & Conservative Unionism: The Iowa-Missouri Border Region Prior to the Civil War
THOMAS R. BAKER examines the unique history the southern-most tier of Iowa counties prior to the Civil War, in particular considering how they formed a shared culture with the northern-most tier of counties in Missouri. This work argues that the prevailing cultural norms on the Iowa side of the border region resembled the norms on the Missouri side much more than they did the norms in northern Iowa