The sower and the seer [electronic resource] : perspectives on the intellectual history of the American Midwest / edited by Joseph Hogan, Jon K. Lauck, Paul Murphy, Andrew Seal and Gleaves Whitney.
"The Midwest has been characterized as an excellent seedbed for the germination of great thinkers, but a wasteland for their further growth. This collection reveals that representation to be false. More than just a springboard for the careers of future expatriates, the region has cultivated extraord...
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[Madison, Wisconsin] :
Wisconsin Historical Society Press,
[2020]
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The Sower and the Seer: Perspectives on the Intellectual History of the American Midwest |
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Contents:
- Indigenous intellectuals and the colonization of the Midwest : Warren, Copway, Blackbird, and Pokagon / Edward Watts
- "Education for the head, heart, and hands" : populism, progressive reform, and rural school consolidation / Kerry Alcorn
- "A stamp of femininity" : the Sorosis Literary Society, women's intellectual discourse, and regional identity in Jacksonville, Illinois, 1865-1900 / Jenny Barker Devine
- Charles G. Finney and the creation of the Midwestern evangelical mind / William Kostlevy
- He flirted with Euterpe before he settled down with Clio : the education of Frederick Jackson Turner / Marcia Noe
- "Invitation to the dance" : Robert Ingersoll, Dwight Moody, and the iconoclastic Gilded Age / Justin Clark
- An easterner in the hinterland : Horace Meyer Kallen, the University of Wisconsin, and regional roots of cultural pluralism, 1911-1918 / Michael C. Steiner
- Modeling "civic effectiveness" in the Midwest : Charles Mulford Robinson's Progressive Era urban planning, 1907-1915 / Brian M. Ingrassia
- Agrarian "naturism" : Liberty Hyde Bailey and the Michigan frontier / John Linstrom and Daniel Rinn
- "The mind and the soil" : an Iowa town that grows writers / Cherie Dargan
- John C. Rawe and Midwestern agrarianism / Allan C. Carlson
- Mari Sandoz : regional writer never at home / William C. Pratt
- How the Midwest encountered mass consumer culture / Kenneth H. Wheeler
- "No place for artistes" : James Jones's quest for authenticity in the postwar Midwest / Aaron George
- Newton Minow, John Bartlow Martin, and the "vast wasteland" speech / Ray E. Boomhower
- Cleveland's Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards and Midwestern racial liberalism / Andrew Seal
- How the Midwestern GOP encountered modernity : Robert Taft, mobility, and individualism / William Russell Coil
- The fusionist mind of Stephen Tonsor / Gleaves Whitney
- The rise and demise of rural and regional studies at Southwest Minnesota State University, 1977-2010 / David Pichaske and Emily Williamson
- Midwestern literature and the literary canon : where, when, and how? / Sara Kosiba
- The stars had become my stars : Leslie C. Peltier, Starlight nights, and amateur astronomy / Robert L. Dorman
- George McGovern : an intellectual in politics / John Miller.