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...

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

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

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

In the early twentieth century, Kate Bates is an anomaly-an independent 'new woman' who rejects t...

Bartley Alexander is slowly being buried alive, unable to bridge the gap between his successful l...

Before it was a Pulitzer Prize-winning play and a successful silent film, Zona Gale's Miss Lulu B...

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...

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