History of the Midwest
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The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650 - 1815
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Richard White
4.10 avg rating — 1,277 ratings 
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
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Erik Larson
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 739,923 ratings 
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The Ohio Frontier: Crucible of the Old Northwest, 1720-1830
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R. Douglas Hurt
3.79 avg rating — 108 ratings 
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Kalamazoo Gals: A Story of extraordinary Women and Gibson's "Banner" Guitars of WWII
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John Thomas
3.86 avg rating — 93 ratings 
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Nameless Indignities: Unraveling the Mystery of One of Illinois's Most Infamous Crimes
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Susan Elmore
3.88 avg rating — 94 ratings 9. 
President Washington's Indian War: The Struggle for the Old Northwest, 1790–1795
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Wiley Sword
3.92 avg rating — 38 ratings 9. 
Empire by Collaboration: Indians, Colonists, and Governments in Colonial Illinois Country 4.17 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The Impostor Heiress: Cassie Chadwick, the Greatest Grifter of the Gilded Age
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Annie Reed
3.80 avg rating — 293 ratings 19. 
Johnny Appleseed and the American Orchard: A Cultural History
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William Kerrigan
3.82 avg rating — 51 ratings 19. 
Bushwhackers and Broken Hearts: Letters from Missouri during the Civil War
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P.J. Sullivan
3.70 avg rating — 23 ratings 19. 
The Worlds the Shawnees Made: Migration and Violence in Early America
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Stephen Warren
3.86 avg rating — 70 ratings 
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The Longest Raid of the Civil War: Little-Known & Untold Stories of Morgan's Raid into Kentucky, Indiana & Ohio 3.92 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Narrative of the march of Morgan's Mounted Volunteers from Fort Atkinson, Iowa to Long Prairies, Minnesota, Guarding Removal of the Winnebago Indians
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William E. Reed
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 25. 
Hearts Beating for Liberty: Women Abolitionists in the Old Northwest 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History (Volume 174) (The Civilization of the American Indian Series) 4.03 avg rating — 36 ratings
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The Shawnees and the War for America: The Penguin Library of American Indian History series 3.81 avg rating — 260 ratings
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Lion of the Valley: St. Louis, Missouri, 1764-1980 (Volume 1)
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James Neal Primm
3.82 avg rating — 67 ratings 29. 
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Why the Garden Club Couldn't Save Youngstown: The Transformation of the Rust Belt
by:
Sean Safford
3.40 avg rating — 42 ratings 32.
The Story of a Border City During the Civil War
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Galusha Anderson
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 32. 
Rising Up from Indian Country: The Battle of Fort Dearborn and the Birth of Chicago 3.91 avg rating — 102 ratings
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Chicago River-And-Harbor Convention - An Account Of Its Origin And Proceedings it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Ohio Frontier: An Anthology of Early Writings (Ohio River Valley Series)
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Emily Foster
4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings 
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The Paradox of Progress: Economic Change, Individual Enterprise, and Politic Culture in Michigan, 1837-1878 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Blackcoats Among The Delaware: David Zeisberger on the Ohio Frontier
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Earl P. Olmstead
3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings 48. 
Building the Past: Prehistoric Wooden Post Architecture in the Ohio Valley Great Lakes
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Brian G. Redmond
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 50. 
Trans-Appalachian Frontier: People, Societies, and Institutions, 1775-1850 3.84 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Our Common Country : Family Farming, Culture, and Community in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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A Country Between: The Upper Ohio Valley and Its Peoples, 1724-1774 3.11 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Flames of Discontent: The 1916 Minnesota Iron Ore Strike
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Gary Kaunonen
4.24 avg rating — 25 ratings 
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How the West Was Lost: The Transformation of Kentucky From Daniel Boone to Henry Clay
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Stephen Aron
4.06 avg rating — 47 ratings 57. 
Ceding Contempt: Minnesota’s Most Significant Historical Event
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Colin Mustful
3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings 59. 
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Down to the Last Pitch: How the 1991 Minnesota Twins and Atlanta Braves Gave Us the Best World Series of All Time
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Tim Wendel
3.81 avg rating — 193 ratings 61. 
The Gods of Prophetstown: The Battle of Tippecanoe and the Holy War for the American Frontier
by:
Adam Jortner
3.69 avg rating — 84 ratings 
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The Fall of Wisconsin: The Conservative Conquest of a Progressive Bastion and the Future of American Politics
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Dan Kaufman
4.12 avg rating — 769 ratings 65. 
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The La Follettes of Wisconsin: Love and Politics in Progressive America 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Wisconsin on the Air: 100 Years of Public Broadcasting in the State That Invented It
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Jack Mitchell
4.22 avg rating — 27 ratings 68. 
Picturing Indians: Photographic Encounters and Tourist Fantasies in H. H. Bennett's Wisconsin Dells 4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings
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More than They Bargained For: Scott Walker, Unions, and the Fight for Wisconsin
by:
Jason Stein
3.84 avg rating — 64 ratings 
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Al Capone's Beer Wars: A Complete History of Organized Crime in Chicago During Prohibition
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John J. Binder
3.48 avg rating — 200 ratings 75. 
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The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation
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Natalie Y. Moore
4.03 avg rating — 2,071 ratings 77. 
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Blood Runs Green: The Murder That Transfixed Gilded Age Chicago
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Gillian O'Brien
3.24 avg rating — 134 ratings 80. 
Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America
by:
James R. Green
4.06 avg rating — 1,190 ratings 81. 
The Gangs of Chicago: An Informal History of the Chicago Underworld
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Herbert Asbury
3.65 avg rating — 454 ratings 82. 
The Beast of Chicago: An Account of the Life and Crimes of Herman W. Mudgett, Known to the World As H.H. Holmes
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Rick Geary
3.83 avg rating — 753 ratings 83. 
AlabamaNorth: African-American Migrants, Community, and Working-Class Activism in Cleveland, 1915-1945 3.53 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Emergence of the Moundbuilders: The Archaeology Of Tribal Societies In Southeastern Ohio
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Elliot M. Abrams
3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings 86. 
Western Rivermen, 1763–1861: Ohio and Mississippi Boatmen and the Myth of the Alligator Horse
by:
Michael Allen
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings 87. 
The Untried Life: The Twenty-Ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War
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James T. Fritsch
4.88 avg rating — 8 ratings 88. 
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway in West Virginia: Photos 1940-1960 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Dividing Lines: Canals, Railroads and Urban Rivalry in Ohio's Hocking Valley, 1825-1875
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David H. Mould
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating 91. 
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Hang on Sloopy: The History of Rock & Roll in Ohio
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Nick Talevski
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 6 ratings 
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Terror in the City of Champions: Murder, Baseball, and the Secret Society that Shocked Depression-era Detroit
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Tom Stanton
3.75 avg rating — 1,038 ratings 98. 
Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution (Updated Edition) (South End Press Classics Series)
by:
Dan Georgakas
4.24 avg rating — 1,080 ratings 99. 
Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis
by:
Mark Binelli
3.84 avg rating — 2,074 ratings 100. 
Mississippi River Gunboats of the American Civil War 1861–65 (Osprey New Vanguard #49)
by:
Angus Konstam
3.54 avg rating — 26 ratings