Our new issue has been sent to the printer! Journals | University of Nebraska Press Univ Nebraska Press Midwestern History Association The New Territory Midwest Museums Cleveland Review of Books U of MN Press Nebraska State Historical Society Kent State U Press Indiana Historical Society Indiana University Press U of Iowa Press Iowa City of Lit Western History Association Journal of Southern History GreatPlainsQuarterly #twitterstorians

I hear some of the best writers in America wrote for this edition!

Not to put her on blast, but our Director Caryl Pagel recently gave a talk on Lorine Niedecker for PBS Wisconsin and you can watch the whole thing on the internet. youtube.com/watch?v=IMdt8I…

"People really care about the places they're from and the history that's close to them." Join Kevin Mason, professor at Waldorf University and creator of Notes on Iowa on October 8 in Des Moines for Community Conversations With Iowa Life. Register for free: bit.ly/47vfWBN

Next week is the Northern Great Plains History Conference in Sioux Falls--the historian Bill Lass of Minnesota State Mankato wrote a history of the conference which is available here: scholarworks.gvsu.edu/midwesternhist… GreatPlainsQuarterly Western History Association Ctr Western Studies American Historical Association Organization of American Historians #twitterstorians

Pretty sure I have something in this...

#OnThisDay The steamboat Western Engineer, carrying the first U.S. government team of scientists and artists, arrived at the Council Bluffs north of present-day Omaha, where they would spend the winter. history.nebraska.gov/what-is-engine…

Politico's Kathy Gilsinan dives into complicated matters of Midwestern identity and history politico.com/news/magazine/… POLITICO Midwestern History Association The Midwest Newsroom Midwest Museums #twitterstorians

🍁anticipation!🍁Peak color at the Grand Island East Channel Lighthouse

Spoon River House Festival Gets Inside Edgar Lee Masters’ Old Home Read our blog by Michael Antman about his experience at the show! 📝Read more: chicagoliteraryhof.org/blog/entry/spo…

Returning from a book festival this early morning in western Minnesota and caught a John Rogers Cox “Gray and Gold.”

This volume is the first full-length book in over a century to describe and analyze Illinois’s admission to the Union. Edstrom’s wit and prose weave a lively narrative of political ambition and human failure. siupress.com/9780809338764/… #History #Illinois #Politics #Statehood

Downtown Minneapolis skyline: 1970 vs 2015

The Emancipation Proclamation took effect on Jan. 1, 1863, but #AbrahamLincoln announced his historic plan #OnThisDay in 1862. He gave the Confederacy a last chance to surrender, then pursued freedom for enslaved people throughout the South. #Slavery

All sky view of the northern lights at the moment they covered the entire sky the night of 9.16.2024. - filmed in Marquette, Michigan over Lake Superior - - #aurora from #michigan Enlarge to see more clearly Big Dipper bottom left of frame pointing to Polaris in bottom center of

A measure of rootedness

Our new issue is out! Here's a free/open article about the decline of history doctoral programs in the region: "The Contraction of History PhD Programs in the Midwest" muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/article… Kevin Mason The Chronicle of Higher Education Western History Association History News Network Simon Schama Organization of American Historians #twitterstorians