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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

In this video, I explore the definition of the most Midwestern state through maps, data, and history. I analyze classic ...

"Tinkertown: A Wheatfield, an Airbase, and Us: The Story of Midwest City & Tinker AFB" by Jim Willis (ArtStrings, LLC, 457 pages, in stores) At an early age, author Jim Willis demonstrated remarkable ...

Midwest, Wyo. - Thousands of travelers pass through the crossroads of the Midwest region each year, unaware of the deep historical significance they are traveling through. The new set of interpretive ...

Bland. No culture. Flyover. Boring. Aside from Chicago and Detroit, these four words are often how people describe the Midwest. It’s often portrayed as a homogeneous region of the country that lacks ...

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 ...

“The Good Country: A History of the American Midwest 1800-1900” by Jon K. Lauck (The University of Oklahoma Press) Dismissed as Flyover Country. Romanticized as the Heartland. Now, historian Jon K.