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 ...

This cover image released by University of Oklahoma Press shows "The Good Country: A History of the American Midwest 1800-1900" by Jon K Lauck. (University of Oklahoma Press via AP) “The Good Country: ...

Can Jon Lauck put the Midwest back on the map as a field of academic study? Lauck, a historian and former professor at South Dakota State University, made a persuasive case for Midwestern history, a ...

The Midwest has come to be synonymous with certain aspects of America's cultural history. From waves of grain to hoedowns to Grant Wood's classic pitchfork-toting couple in "American Gothic." A group ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A group of historians has formed an organization whose goal is to increase the study of the Midwest. The Midwestern History Association was launched recently at a conference ...

OMAHA, Neb. — A quick glance of the history departments of universities in the Midwest will reveal courses of study ranging from the American South to Asian, European and African cultures — even ...

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 ...