This volume challenges ideas about both national belonging and local association to emphasize how regional analysis deepens understanding of migration, race, borders, infrastructure, climate, and Native sovereignty.

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 Illustrations
Introduction: Why Regions
Anne F. Hyde and Alexander Finkelstein
Part I: Culture
Chapter 1: Many Southerners, Many Souths: The New Beginnings of a Regional History
Jennifer Ritterhouse
Chapter 2: Get Farther East Than You Are
Flannery Burke
Chapter 3: Where in the World is Hawai‘i? Shifting Geographies of the 50th State
Sarah Miller-Davenport
Chapter 4: Sounds of Black Internationalism: Reimagining Regions through Anti-Apartheid
Mickell Carter
 
Part II: Space
Chapter 5: The Significance of Climate in American History: Inventing, Imagining, and Erasing Regions
Lawrence Culver
Chapter 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 Borderlands
Sean Harvey
Chapter 7: The Formation of Midwestern Regional Identity
Jon K. Lauck
Chapter 8: Spatial Survivance: Haudenosaunee Active Presence in the U.S.-Canadian Borderlands
Taylor Spence
 
Part III: Institutions
Chapter 9: Growing up American: The Children’s Aid Society and the American West
Courtney E. Buchkoski
Chapter 10: Where the East Peters Out: Dallas, Fort Worth, and Regional Branding in the Great Southwest
Jimmy L. Bryan, Jr.
Chapter 11: Local Identities and National Highways: How Roads Deepened and Diluted Historical Regionalism
Alexander Finkelstein
Contributors
Notes
Index