Alexander Finkelstein teaches at Western Colorado University. He has published articles with the Journal of Gilded Age and Progressive Era and Southern California Quarterly. Anne F. Hyde teaches at the University of Oklahoma. She is the author of Empires, Nations, and Families: A New History of the North American West, 1800–1860 (Nebraska, 2011), winner of the Bancroft Prize in American History and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History.

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction: Why RegionsAnne F. Hyde and Alexander FinkelsteinPart I: CultureChapter 1: Many Southerners, Many Souths: The New Beginnings of a Regional HistoryJennifer RitterhouseChapter 2: Get Farther East Than You AreFlannery BurkeChapter 3: Where in the World is Hawai‘i? Shifting Geographies of the 50th StateSarah Miller-DavenportChapter 4: Sounds of Black Internationalism: Reimagining Regions through Anti-ApartheidMickell Carter  Part II: SpaceChapter 5: The Significance of Climate in American History: Inventing, Imagining, and Erasing RegionsLawrence CulverChapter 6: ‘The United States Gains Nothing by the Proposed Guarantee to Mexico’: The Water Treaty of 1944, the International Boundary and Water Commission, and Regional Planning in the Rio Grande BorderlandsSean HarveyChapter 7: The Formation of Midwestern Regional IdentityJon K. LauckChapter 8: Spatial Survivance: Haudenosaunee Active Presence in the U.S.-Canadian BorderlandsTaylor Spence  Part III: InstitutionsChapter 9: Growing up American: The Children’s Aid Society and the American WestCourtney E. BuchkoskiChapter 10: Where the East Peters Out: Dallas, Fort Worth, and Regional Branding in the Great SouthwestJimmy L. Bryan, Jr.Chapter 11: Local Identities and National Highways: How Roads Deepened and Diluted Historical RegionalismAlexander FinkelsteinContributorsNotesIndex

“The meaning and significance of region and regionalism is momentous in these times of factionalism; this investigation gives us new insights into regionalism and its importance, and it does so with some especially innovative approaches and prisms. . . . This volume is distinguished by the uniform strength of the research and source bases for each piece.”-William F. Deverell, director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West