PREVIEW: BUXTON: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in Turn-of-the-20th-Century Iowa from The African American Midwest on Vimeo. TO READERS: An earlier version of this essay gave the wrong date for Nikole ...

History Prof. Doug Kiel, a citizen of the Oneida Nation, discussed the Midwest as a distinct region with its own unique history at the Dittmar Memorial Gallery in Norris University Center Thursday ...

In the wake of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s primary victory in New York in June, Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) launched a furious online debate about the political heart of the Midwest when she ...

If you’ve seriously studied or written about the Midwest in the last, say, decade, you owe something to Jon K. Lauck. Starting in 2013 with The Lost Region—not a history of the region but of its ...

Cover photo of "The Good Country: A History of the American West 1800-1900" by Jon K. Lauck. It was December 24, and historian Jon K. Lauck and his family were stuck at the Omaha Airport. Their rental ...

As the Iowa Department of Education considers new standards for social studies curriculum in K-12 schools, an advisory council has called on colleges and universities in the state to offer more ...

ST. LOUIS — As the year’s near-historic flooding would suggest, 2019 left a soggy spot in the regional record books. The St. Louis area had its fifth-wettest year on record, and its greatest number of ...

Christy Clark-Pujara, Ashley Howard, and Erik S. McDuffie are producers of the forthcoming public television documentary "The African American Midwest: A 500 Year Fight for Freedom," being developed w ...