The Triumph of the Egg, Sherwood Anderson's 1921 collection of poems and short stories, focuses o...

Lizzie Holmes's 1893 novel Hagar Lyndon was way ahead of its time. Radical, even. The novel tells...

Ernst Weiman is a resourceful German immigrant who lives the American Dream by becoming a success...

Although representations of the Midwest in the twentieth century often draw on the tropes of empt...

This edition of Madge Vertner was produced with the assistance of Accessible Archives.Mattie Grif...

Willa Cather's One of Ours (1922) may have won a Pulitzer Prize, but it remains one of her most c...

Amarilly Jenkins may be a scrub-girl, but she has ambitions. Through hard work, determination, an...

Nostalgic scenes and quaint characters. That's what Theodore Dreiser expects to find when he sets...

Harold W. Foght's 1906 book The Trail of the Loup is a gem of Nebraska history. In addition to ch...

Irvin S. Cobb was a beloved celebrity and jack-of-all-trades in early 20th-century America. Journ...

When poor orphan Pollyanna is sent to live with her wealthy Aunt Polly, she shocks the small town...

The American Midwest wasn't always 'fly-over country.' In the early twentieth century it experien...