Iowa : the middle land / Dorothy Schwieder -- "We dance in opposite directions" : Mesquakie (Fox) separatism from the Sac and Fox Tribe / Michael D. Green -- The frontier in process : Iowa's trail women as a paradigm / Glenda Riley -- Farming in the Prairie Peninsula, 1830/1890 / Allan G. Bogue -- The political culture of antebellum Iowa : an overview / Robert Cook -- "Men did not take to the musket more commonly than women to the needle" : Annie Wittenmyer and soldiers' aid / Elizabeth D. Leonard -- Iowans and the politics of race in America, 1857/1880 / Robert R. Dykstra -- Town development, social structure, and industrial conflict / Shelton Stromquist -- Iowa's struggle for state railroad control / John Lauritz Larson -- Why the Populist Party was strong in Kansas and Nebraska but weak in Iowa / Jeffrey Ostler -- Iowa, wet or dry? Prohibition and the fall of the GOP / Richard Jensen -- To whom much is given : the social identity of an Iowa small town in the early twentieth century / Thomas J. Morain -- Rural Iowa in the 1920s and 1930s / Dorothy Schwieder and Joseph Frazier Wall -- World War II and rural women / Deborah Fink -- The modernization of Iowa's agricultural structure in the twentieth century / Mark Friedberger -- The evolution of the Iowa precinct caucuses / Hugh Winebrenner -- Iowa's abortion battles of the late 1960s and early 1970s : long-term perspectives and short-term analyses / James C. Mohr.