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Heartland History

by Midwestern History Association

A scholarly association devoted to Midwestern historyThe Midwestern History Association, created in the fall of 2014, is dedicated to rebuilding the field of Midwestern history, which has suffered from decades of neglect and inattention. The MHA will advocate for greater attention to Midwestern history among professional historians, seek to rebuild the infrastructure necessary for the study of the American Midwest, promote greater academic discourse relating to Midwestern history, support the work of the new journal Middle West Review and other journals which promote the study of the Midwest, and offer prizes to scholars who excel in the study of the Midwest.

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  1. Sasha Maria Suarez - An Ojibwe Home in the City: White Earth Women and Community Organizing in Minneapolis

    Sasha Maria Suarez - An Ojibwe Home in the City: White Earth Women and Community Organizing in Minneapolis Heartland History is the official podcast of the Midwestern History Association www.midwesternhistory.com Hosts: Josh Kluever, Kevin Mason Follow us on: Facebook @HeartlandHistory Bluesky...

  2. Michael Staudenmaier - White Black Brown: Becoming Puerto Rican in Chicago

    Michael Staudenmaier - White Black Brown: Becoming Puerto Rican in Chicago Heartland History is the official podcast of the Midwestern History Association www.midwesternhistory.com Hosts: Josh Kluever, Kevin Mason Follow us on: Facebook @HeartlandHistory Bluesky @HeartlandHistory X…

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  3. Joanna Dee Das - Faith Family and Flag: Branson Entertainment and the Idea of America

    Joanna Dee Das - Faith Family and Flag: Branson Entertainment and the Idea of America Heartland History is the official podcast of the Midwestern History Association Hosts: Josh Kluever, Kevin Mason

  4. Cory Haala - When Democrats Won the Heartland: Progressive Populism in the Age of Reagan, 1978-1992

    Cory Haala - When Democrats Won the Heartland: Progressive Populism in the Age of Reagan, 1978-1992 Heartland History is the official podcast of the Midwestern History Association Hosts: Josh Kluever, Kevin Mason

  5. Robert M. Frame III - Making Mill City: Flour and Fortune in Minneapolis

    Robert M. Frame III - Making Mill City: Flour and Fortune in Minneapolis Heartland History is the official podcast of the Midwestern History Association Hosts: Josh Kluever, Kevin Mason

  6. Kevin Mason - Retracing the Dragoon Trail in Iowa

    Kevin Mason - Retracing the Dragoon Trail in Iowa: Environmental Transformation Along the Des Moines River Heartland History is the official podcast of the Midwestern History Association Hosts: Josh Kluever, Kevin Mason

  7. Jameson Sweet - Mixed-Blood Histories: Race, Law, and Dakota Indians in the 19th-Century Midwest

    Jameson Sweet - Mixed-Blood Histories: Race, Law, and Dakota Indians in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest Heartland History is the official podcast of the Midwestern History Association Hosts: Josh Kluever, Kevin Mason

  8. Sid Shroyer - When Once Destroyed: A Historical Memoir of the Life and Death of a Small Town

    Sid Shroyer - When Once Destroyed: A Historical Memoir of the Life and Death of a Small Town Heartland History is the official podcast of the Midwestern History Association Hosts: Josh Kluever, Kevin Mason

  9. Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America's First Opioid Crisis

    Jonathan Jones - Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America's First Opioid Crisis Heartland History is the official podcast of the Midwestern History Association Hosts: Josh Kluever, Kevin Mason

  10. Katie Batza and René Esparza - AIDS in the Midwest Roundtable

    Katie Batza - AIDS in the Heartland How Unlikely Coalitions Created a Blueprint for LGBTQ Politics René Esparza - From Vice to Nice: Midwestern Politics and the Gentrification of AIDS Heartland History is the official podcast of the Midwestern History Association Hosts: Josh Kluever, Kevin Mason

  11. (BONUS) - Derifield - We Were Still Ladies - MHA Book Talk

    Coreen Derifield - We Were Still Ladies: Gender and Industrial Unionism in the Midwest After World War II Heartland History is the official podcast of the Midwestern History Association Hosts: Josh Kluever, Kevin Mason

  12. Daniel Clark - Listening to Workers: Oral Histories of Metro Detroit Autoworkers in the 1950s

    Daniel Clark - Listening to Workers: Oral Histories of Metro Detroit Autoworkers in the 1950s Heartland History is the official podcast of the Midwestern History Association Hosts: Josh Kluever, Kevin Mason

  13. Thomas M. Nelson, Jerald Podair - Wrecked: The Edmund Fitzgerald and the Sinking of the American Economy

    Thomas M. Nelson, Jerald Podair - Wrecked: The Edmund Fitzgerald and the Sinking of the American Economy Heartland History is the official podcast of the Midwestern History Association Hosts: Josh Kluever, Kevin Mason

  14. David Hakensen - Her Place in the Woods: The Life of Helen Hoover

    David Hakensen - Her Place in the Woods: The Life of Helen Hoover Heartland History is the official podcast of the Midwestern History Association Hosts: Josh Kluever, Kevin Mason Hosts Emeritus: Camden Burd, Ramya Swayamprakash, Jon Lauck

  15. Tim Mulherin-This Magnetic North: Candid Conversations on a changing Northern Michigan

    Tim Mulherin-This Magnetic North: Candid Conversations on a changing Northern Michigan by Midwestern History Association

  16. Erik S. McDuffie - The Second Battle for Africa: Garveyism, the US Heartland, and Global Freedom

    Erik S. McDuffie - The Second Battle for Africa: Garveyism, the US Heartland, and Global Freedom by Midwestern History Association

  17. Willa Hammit Brown - Gentlemen of the Woods: Manhood, Myth, and the American Lumberjack

    Willa Hammit Brown - Gentlemen of the Woods: Manhood, Myth, and the American Lumberjack by Midwestern History Association

  18. Josh Nygren - The State of Conservation: Rural America and the Conservation-Industrial Complex since 1920

    Josh Nygren - The State of Conservation: Rural America and the Conservation-Industrial Complex since 1920 by Midwestern History Association

  19. Stephanie Ternullo - How the Heartland Went Red

    Stephanie Ternullo discusses her new book, How the Heartland Went Red: Why Local Forces Matter in an Age of Nationalized Politics (Princeton University Press, 2024).

  20. Reflections on Midwestern History

    A group of scholars discuss the history and future of Midwestern History.

  21. Paul Renfro - The Life and Death of Ryan White: AIDS and Inequality in America

    Paul Renfro discusses his new book, The Life and Death of Ryan White: AIDS and Inequality in America (UNC Press, 2024).

  22. Dr. Casey Huegel - Cleaning Up The Bomb Factory

    Casey Huegel discusses his book, Cleaning Up the Bomb Factory: Grassroots Activism and Nuclear Waste in the Midwest

  23. Dr. Sergio Gonzalez - Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin

    Dr. Carolina Ortega leads a discussion on Dr. Sergio Gonzalez's book, Stangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin, published by the University of Illinois Press.

  24. When a Dream Dies - Pamela Riney-Kehrberg

    Dr. Pamela Riney-Kehrberg discusses her new book, When a Dream Dies: Agriculture, Iowa, and the Farm Crisis of the 1980s.

  25. Josiah Rector - Toxic Debt: An Environmental Justice History of Detroit

    Dr. Josiah Rector joins the podcast to talk about his recent book, Toxic Debt: An Environmental Justice History of Detroit.

  26. Steven Conn - Lies of the Land

    Steven Conn discusses his new book, Lies of the Land: Seeing Rural America for What It Is - and Isn't.

  27. Max Fraser - Hillbilly Highway

    Max Fraser discussers migration, labor, and culture in the Midwest by examining the experiences of migrant white workers in the region. The full book, Hillbilly Highway: The Transappalachian Migration and the Making of a White Working Class, can be purchased at the Princeton University Press...

  28. Crystal Marie Moten - Continually Working

    Crystal Marie Moten - Continually Working by Midwestern History Association

  29. John Nelson - Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago's Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent

    John Nelson - Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago's Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent by Midwestern History Association

  30. Melissa Ford - A Brick and a Bible

    Dr. Melissa Ford joins us to discuss her new book A Brick and a Bible: Black Women's Activism in the Midwest During the Great Depression, published by Southern Illinois University Press.

  31. Ashley Howard - What to the "Other" is the Midwest?

    Ashley Howard - What to the "Other" is the Midwest? by Midwestern History Association

  32. The Good Country with Jon Lauck

    Jon Lauck discussed his most recent book, The Good Country: A History of the American Midwest, 1800-1900.

  33. Dr. Alonzo Ward and African American Hybrid Labor Activism

    Dr. Alonzo Ward is an assistant professor of history at Eastern Illinois University. He focuses on African American history in the Midwest during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as well as the general history of race and ethnicity in the United States. Specifically, he researches...

  34. Steven Moore - The Distance from Slaughter County

    Writer Steven Moore discusses his recent collection essays, The Distance from Slaughter County: Lessons from Flyover Country, recently published at the University of North Carolina Press.

  35. Dr. Christopher Ali - Farm Fresh Broadband

    Dr. Christopher Ali is the Pioneers Chair in Telecommunications and Professor of Telecommunications in the Bellisario College of Communications at Penn State. His research interests include media and telecommunications policy and regulation, broadband policy, critical political economy, critical...

  36. Dr. Fernandez-Jones, MexiRican Placemaking in Grand Rapids, Michigan

    Dr. Fernández-Jones discusses her research which appeared in an edited collection titled, Building Sustainable Worlds: Latinx Placemaking in the Midwest. She also discusses her forthcoming book, Making the MexiRican City: Migration, Placemaking, and Activism in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Both…

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  37. Pipeline Populism with Dr. Kai Bosworth

    Dr. Kai Bosworth discusses his book, Pipeline Populism: Grassroots Environmentalism in the Twenty-First Century which was recently published by the University of Minnesota Press.

  38. Dr. Sasha Maria Suarez, Assistant Professor of History at UW-Madison

    Dr. Sasha Maria Suarez, an assistant professor of history at UW-Madison talks about her latest essay "Indigenizing Minneapolis: Building American Indian Community Infrastructure in the Mid-Twentieth Century,” which appears in Indian Cities: Histories of Indigenous Urbanism, published by the...

  39. Drs. Andrew Klumpp, Pamela-Riney Kehrberg, and Rebecca Conard on Regionalism & Local History

    Camden joins Drs. Andrew Klumpp, Pamela-Riney Kehrberg, and Rebecca Conard for a wide-ranging conversation about regionalism, state and local history, and a recent issue of The Annals of Iowa. If you are interested in learning more about The Annals of Iowa, previous issues are available here:...

  40. Phil Christman, author of Midwest Futures and Instructor of English at the University of Michigan

    Camden and Phil have a wide-ranging conversation about the Midwest as a place and as an idea, focusing particuarly on Phil's lastest book Midwest Futures available from Belt Publishing (https://beltpublishing.com/products/midwest-futures). From the Publisher: The Midwest: Is it middle? Or is it...

  41. Dr. Benjamin E. Park Assistant Professor of American Religion at Sam Houston State University

    Camden and Dr. Benjamin Park discuss Dr. Park's book "Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier." From the Publisher: In Kingdom of Nauvoo, Benjamin E. Park draws on newly available sources to re-create the founding and destruction of the Mormon city of...

  42. Dr. Brandon Ward, History Lecturer, Perimeter College at Georgia State University

    Guest, Dr. Brandon Ward who is the author of the recent study "Living Detroit Environmental Activism in an Age of Urban Crisis" (Routledge 2021) has a wide-ranging conversation with Camden about the ways environmental concerns were inseparable from issues related to housing, civil rights,...

  43. Edward E. Curtis IV, the William M. and Gail M. Plater Chair of Liberal Arts at IUPUI

    This episode, Camden sits down with Edward E. Curtis IV who is the William M. and Gail M. Plater Chair of Liberal Arts & Professor of Religious Studies at IUPUI. Dr. Curtis discusses his most recent book, Muslims of the Heartland: How Syrian Immigrants Made a Home in the American Midwest (New…

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  44. Dr. Molly Rozum, Ronald R. Nelson Chair of Great Plains and South Dakota History

    On this edition of Heartland History, Camden is joined by Dr. Molly Rozum of the University of South Dakota to discuss her new book Grasslands Grown: Creating Place on the U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian Prairies. From the University of Nebraska Press: "In Grasslands Grown Molly P. Rozum…

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  45. Lynne Heasley, Professor of Environment and Sustainability at Western Michigan University

    This episode, Camden sits down with Dr. Lynne Heasley, Professor of Environment and Sustainability at WMU to discuss her new book "The Accidental Reef and Other Ecological Odysseys in the Great Lakes" (2021). Dr. Heasley's book is available through Michigan State University Press...

  46. Professor Kristy Nabhan-Warren, author of "Meat Packing America" (2021)

    In this episode, Camden has a conversation with Professor Kristy Nabhan-Warren, who is the V.O. and Elizabeth Kahl Figge Chair in Catholic Studies Departments of Religious Studies and Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies at the University of Iowa, about her latest published research, "Meat…

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  47. Dana Caldemeyer, Associate Professor of History at South Georgia State College

    Heartland History is back! We are thrilled to host a conversation with guest Dr. Dana Caldemeyer, Associate Professor of History at South Georgia State College. Dr. Caldemeyer talks with our new host Dr. Camden Burd about her new book "Union Renegades: Miners, Capitalism, and Organizing in the...

  48. Sergio González, Assistant Professor of Latinx Studies at Marquette University

    Jillian Marie Jacklin of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of History interviews Sergio González who is the Assistant Professor of Latinx Studies in the Departments of History and of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Marquette University. Jacklin and González discuss his 2017...

  49. Kathryn Remlinger, Professor of English & Linguistics at Grand Valley State University

    Guest contributor Professor Katie Day Good of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio interviews Professor Kathryn Remlinger, author of Yooper Talk: Dialect as Identity in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, published by the University of Wisconsin Press (2017). Professor Remlinger — in addition to helpfully...

  50. Liesl Olson, Director of Chicago Studies at the Newberry Library

    For the 40th episode of the podcast, Jon talks with Liesl Olson about her new book published by Yale University Press, titled "Chicago Renaissance: Literature and Art in the Midwest Metropolis" (2017). Olson is the Director of Chicago Studies at the Newberry library and has taught at the…

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A scholarly association devoted to Midwestern historyThe Midwestern History Association, created in the fall of 2014, is dedicated to rebuilding the field of Midwestern history, which has suffered from decades of neglect and inattention. The MHA will advocate for greater attention to Midwestern history among professional historians, seek to rebuild the infrastructure necessary for the study of the American Midwest, promote greater academic discourse relating to Midwestern history, support the work of the new journal Middle West Review and other journals which promote the study of the Midwest, and offer prizes to scholars who excel in the study of the Midwest.

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