Midwestern History Association
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Official account for the Midwestern History Association, studying the history of the Heartland since 2014. Learn more and join us: https://www.midwesternhistory.com/
New Book Release: "Between Loving and Leaving: Essays on the New Midwestern History" edited by Jon K. Lauck was published by the University of Oklahoma Press on September 30. www.oupress.com/978080619602...
October 2, 2025 at 2:15 PM
New Book Release: "Between Loving and Leaving: Essays on the New Midwestern History" edited by Jon K. Lauck was published by the University of Oklahoma Press on September 30. www.oupress.com/978080619602...
The Labor and Working Class History Association (LAWCHA) and the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) will be hosting our first event of the fall on Wednesday, September 17th at 7.00pm EST.
September 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The Labor and Working Class History Association (LAWCHA) and the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) will be hosting our first event of the fall on Wednesday, September 17th at 7.00pm EST.
Our next book talk is scheduled for Wednesday, October 1 @ 5PM EST/4PM CST. Coreen Derifield will discuss her new book "We Were Still Ladies: Gender and Industrial Unionism in the Midwest After WWII."
To register, scan the QR code below or go to bit.ly/mha-oct25
To register, scan the QR code below or go to bit.ly/mha-oct25
September 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Our next book talk is scheduled for Wednesday, October 1 @ 5PM EST/4PM CST. Coreen Derifield will discuss her new book "We Were Still Ladies: Gender and Industrial Unionism in the Midwest After WWII."
To register, scan the QR code below or go to bit.ly/mha-oct25
To register, scan the QR code below or go to bit.ly/mha-oct25
🚨Check out this CFP from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Center for Digital and Public Humanities and the Kansas City Public Library on articles examining myriad social justice movements in Kansas City from the post-World War II era to the end of the 20th century.
Deadline: June 15, 2025
Deadline: June 15, 2025
June 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
🚨Check out this CFP from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Center for Digital and Public Humanities and the Kansas City Public Library on articles examining myriad social justice movements in Kansas City from the post-World War II era to the end of the 20th century.
Deadline: June 15, 2025
Deadline: June 15, 2025
Midwestern Politics on the National Stage
@rboomhower.bsky.social
@rboomhower.bsky.social
May 16, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Midwestern Politics on the National Stage
@rboomhower.bsky.social
@rboomhower.bsky.social
Nature, Water, and Land Management in the West. Chaired by @joshuanygren.bsky.social
May 16, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Nature, Water, and Land Management in the West. Chaired by @joshuanygren.bsky.social
Responses to the Political/Economic Malaise in the Late 20th Century.
May 16, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Responses to the Political/Economic Malaise in the Late 20th Century.
The Civil War. Covering topics ranging from the expansion of higher education during the conflict to abolitionist activism in Michigan.
May 16, 2025 at 8:20 PM
The Civil War. Covering topics ranging from the expansion of higher education during the conflict to abolitionist activism in Michigan.
#MHA2025 Session 4 (Sorry I missed session three while chairing a different panel. Next up, panels on the Civil War; Nature, Water, and Land Management; Responses to the Malaise in the 20th Century; and Midwestern Politics on the National Stage.
May 16, 2025 at 8:05 PM
#MHA2025 Session 4 (Sorry I missed session three while chairing a different panel. Next up, panels on the Civil War; Nature, Water, and Land Management; Responses to the Malaise in the 20th Century; and Midwestern Politics on the National Stage.
The Progressive Era.
May 16, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The Progressive Era.
Thank you for @coryhaala.bsky.social for organizing such an important panel about the archival lifeblood that makes out research possible
May 16, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Thank you for @coryhaala.bsky.social for organizing such an important panel about the archival lifeblood that makes out research possible
Latinx History. Covering the variety of Latinx stories from Kansas to Detroit as well as Welfare Rights groups in Milwaukee.
May 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Latinx History. Covering the variety of Latinx stories from Kansas to Detroit as well as Welfare Rights groups in Milwaukee.
Archives in the Midwest: Political History and Collections, a State of the Field. Be sure to thank your archivist and tap into the resources they can help you find. @coryhaala.bsky.social @hopebibens.bsky.social
May 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Archives in the Midwest: Political History and Collections, a State of the Field. Be sure to thank your archivist and tap into the resources they can help you find. @coryhaala.bsky.social @hopebibens.bsky.social
#MHA2025 Session 2. Topics include: Latino History; Archives in the Midwest; Black Freedom in Illinois; Art and Midwestern Intellectual Life; and Progressive Era
May 16, 2025 at 3:16 PM
#MHA2025 Session 2. Topics include: Latino History; Archives in the Midwest; Black Freedom in Illinois; Art and Midwestern Intellectual Life; and Progressive Era
A History of Lynching in the Midwest: Three Approaches. Important discussions on the reverberations of lynchings on Black communities across the Midwest including states like Illinois, and how we should view the lynching of Joseph Smith in the broader Midwestern legal context.
May 16, 2025 at 2:19 PM
A History of Lynching in the Midwest: Three Approaches. Important discussions on the reverberations of lynchings on Black communities across the Midwest including states like Illinois, and how we should view the lynching of Joseph Smith in the broader Midwestern legal context.
Histories of Injustice, Activism, and Education in the 20th Century Midwest. A panel that spans the gamut of Chinese, Black, Mexican, and Indigenous activism and the struggles against injustice in the Midwest.
May 16, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Histories of Injustice, Activism, and Education in the 20th Century Midwest. A panel that spans the gamut of Chinese, Black, Mexican, and Indigenous activism and the struggles against injustice in the Midwest.
Race, Early Migration, and Settlement Panel. A series of presentations that touch on the myriad of black and indigenous stories that enrich our understandings of settlement in the Midwest.
May 16, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Race, Early Migration, and Settlement Panel. A series of presentations that touch on the myriad of black and indigenous stories that enrich our understandings of settlement in the Midwest.
Day two of #MHA2025 and first up for session one are panels on Race, Early Migration, and settlement; Histories of Injustice; Shifting Boundaries of Science, Nature, and Race; and Transportation and Industrial Transformation.
May 16, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Day two of #MHA2025 and first up for session one are panels on Race, Early Migration, and settlement; Histories of Injustice; Shifting Boundaries of Science, Nature, and Race; and Transportation and Industrial Transformation.
Special congratulations to Dominic Pacyga, winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner Lifetime Achievement award, for his many contributions to the field of Midwestern history.
May 15, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Special congratulations to Dominic Pacyga, winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner Lifetime Achievement award, for his many contributions to the field of Midwestern history.
Congrats to Jenny Barker Devine, winner of the Dorothy Schwieder Prize, for her article “USING MINES, CAVES, AND MISSOURI'S UNDERGROUND SPACES AS FALLOUT SHELTERS DURING THE COLD WAR.”
May 15, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Congrats to Jenny Barker Devine, winner of the Dorothy Schwieder Prize, for her article “USING MINES, CAVES, AND MISSOURI'S UNDERGROUND SPACES AS FALLOUT SHELTERS DURING THE COLD WAR.”
Congrats to Erik McDuffie, winner of the Gjerde award for his book The Second Battle for Africa:
Garveyism, the US Heartland, and Global Black Freedom.
read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/3...
Garveyism, the US Heartland, and Global Black Freedom.
read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/3...
May 15, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Congrats to Erik McDuffie, winner of the Gjerde award for his book The Second Battle for Africa:
Garveyism, the US Heartland, and Global Black Freedom.
read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/3...
Garveyism, the US Heartland, and Global Black Freedom.
read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/3...
Extent of farm loss during the crisis.
May 15, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Extent of farm loss during the crisis.
Plenary Session is underway. Pamela Riney-Kehrberg (Iowa State University) is presenting “The Farm Crisis and Fallout: The Rural Midwest in the 1980s and After” #MHA2025
May 15, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Plenary Session is underway. Pamela Riney-Kehrberg (Iowa State University) is presenting “The Farm Crisis and Fallout: The Rural Midwest in the 1980s and After” #MHA2025
New Directions Yet Long Legacies: a Roundtable on BIPOC Histories of the Midwest
May 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
New Directions Yet Long Legacies: a Roundtable on BIPOC Histories of the Midwest
Responses and Engagement with 20th Century Wars @kamoskowitz.bsky.social
May 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Responses and Engagement with 20th Century Wars @kamoskowitz.bsky.social