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- ↑ Boomhower, Ray E. "BOOK REVIEW: 'The Ku Klux Klan in the Heartland'". The Times-Mail.
- ↑ "Book Review: James H. Madison, The Ku Klux Klan in the Heartland. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2020". The North Meridian Review.
- ↑ Wooten, Taylor (June 3, 2022). "Hoosiers see lasting effects from time KKK dominated state politics". The Statehouse File.
- ↑ Andrew r. l. Cayton; Ann Durkin Keating; Richard f. Nation (2014). "James H. Madison's Hoosiers: A New History of Indiana: An IMH Roundtable". Indiana Magazine of History. 110 (4): 367. doi:10.5378/indimagahist.110.4.0367. JSTOR 10.5378/indimagahist.110.4.0367.
- ↑ "James H. Madison honored with Lifetime Achievement Award". August 23, 2022.
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