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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was December 24, and historian Jon K. Lauck and his family were stuck at the Omaha Airport. Their rental car reservation was canceled. They needed to get to his mother's home in Sioux Falls for ...

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 ...