« The Midwest at the centre (of settler colonialism): David Roediger, ‘Settler Colonialism and Imagining the Nation’s Center as its Right’, Middle West Review, 9, 2, 2023, pp. 165-168
The structure underpinning the (settler colonial) structure: Nathan Etherington, ‘The Architecture of Territory: The Lands Building and State Expansion in New South Wales’, Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, 2023 »

Monumental settlers: Cynthia C. Prescott, ‘Monuments to Midwestern Pioneer Mothers and Native Women’, Middle West Review, 9, 2, 2023, pp. 21-36

28Feb23

Excerpt: This essay will argue that in contrast to better-known monuments in the Far West, which largely featured “cowboys and Indians” memories of the Old West or solo pioneer mothers embodying Euro-American civilization, most midwestern monuments erected between the 1890s and 1930s emphasized the process of U.S. westward expansion or White homemaking.1 Midwestern pioneer monuments, which outnumbered those in the Far West, celebrated the family values long associated in popular memory with America’s supposed rural heartland. 


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