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📢🎉Call for proposals!🎉📢 MiddleWestReview American Historical Association American Association for State and Local History Journal of American History MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing American Studies Association BAAS (British Association for American Studies) Cultural Studies Association WHA Grad Caucus Midwestern History Association @the_oah #twitterstorians

New Univ Nebraska Press book explores the continuing power of regions

Writing letters on US Army stationery to the winners of the Goodreads giveaway for Playing Army! #5amWritersClub

Rust Belt Studies is seeking editorial board members to peer review articles. If you would like to join please send us an e-mail. Learn more about the journal at rustbeltstudies.org Valentino Luca Zullo Katie Trostel

Get yourself a Rip-It, tear open your favorite MRE, and enjoy a great book about idiots at war! Kilroy Was Here a.co/d/3i9ZFUP

This book by Mark Athitakis is incredible. I’ve never thought of contemporary Midwest literature like this. I’m only two chapters in and my TBR list has greatly expanded. Jon Lauck give this one a look, if you haven’t. Pub’d by Belt Publishing.

Midwestern culture, 2000-2025, a call-for-proposals: "From Fargo to Hawkins: Exploring 21st Century Midwestern Culture" networks.h-net.org/group/announce… American Studies Association Cultural Studies Association SCMS Gender and Feminisms Film and Media (UCT) Midwestern History Association Midwest Museums AfricanAmericanMidwest.com ACLA #twitterstorians

It's our favorite question! What is the Midwest anyway? Now that the veepstakes is Vance-OH v. Walz-MN, our friend and expert on this great land Jon Lauck talks it over with Ayesha Rascoe on Weekend Edition. 1/2 npr.org/2024/08/11/nx-…

Earth is littered with the ruins of empires that believed themselves to be endless

We're two weeks away from the next installment in our book talk series. You won't wanna miss it! Registration link is in the post below.

Nebraska has been catapulted into the national spotlight as news outlets profile the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, Tim Walz, who was born and raised in West Point, NE. We’ve assembled a reading list to help you understand the Cornhusker State: bit.ly/4dBb2Wf

New Approaches to Midwestern Studies series coeditor, Jon Lauck, tells Midstory, “[If] you don’t understand your own history...then someone else is going to tell you who you are & they’re going to do it using stereotypes and cliches.” #Midwest midstory.org/studying-the-m…

WrathBearingTee in the wild!

👀 Keep an eye out for our billboard on Chicago Avenue at Franklin, next to the Brown Line 'L' stop. Our new exhibition opens two weeks from today.

"Stormy Skies and Sandhills Blowouts." 📷: Jon Farrar | Cherry County, Aug., 2004

Thank you to Grace Black and C.W. Bryan of Ink In Thirds for this review and interview for 'Letters from Conflict' (Middle West Press).

Omg this beast comes out Thursday! & it’s got ROBOT WIVES Alien Buddha Press (open for submissions)

Breaking News! CFP Available for the Eleventh Annual Midwestern History Conference. It will be held from May 15-16, 2025, and we're excited to partner with the State Historical Society of Iowa and the University of Iowa. Link: docs.google.com/document/d/1wU…

Now that the Line of Advance Col Wright Prize submission period is open, I can use it as a reminder that I’ve had work appear in LOA for years…including excerpts of my novel HAVE SNAKES, NEED BIRDS.