While we’re on the subject, The Onion reported on the discovery of the Midwest in 1997. How much knowledge could we have lost since then? theonion.com/midwest-disc...

Happy Festive Gourd Season, y’all

Galatians 6

🚨CFP🚨 The Midwestern History Association invites proposals for the 12th Midwestern History Conference, Thursday, April 30–Friday, May 1, 2026, hosted by Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in conjunction with its annual Altman Symposium in the humanities. Submission Deadline: Monday, December 8, 2025.

I'm taking the mining history show on the road again this spring. Check out the Midwest History Association conference in Des Moines this May. Additional appearances to be announced soon. 🤘 www.midwesternhistory.com/2025-confere...

Empire had the better ending....

Telling your humanities professor that you generally avoid reading is kind of like telling your pastor how you've been thinking this Satan guy isn't all bad.

I think the alewives/witches story is like the IPA/India story in that they're more appropriately understood as stories told to tourists at American craft breweries.

I've met these people. I like them. Go listen to them talk with words about things that are important.

Hey, Gen X profs pissed no one gets your Simpsons references: remember that there's a Ned Flanders themed metal band whose music not only kicks ass, but will also challenge your early '90s recollections. youtu.be/8lnfOvc_jGg?...

Cool Lego build and all but, ahem, pumpkins are native to the New World, not the Medieval fantasy world portrayed here. See, after 1492, the "Columbian Exchange" fueled the the movement of various foodstuffs from North and South America to the continents of Europe, Africa, and Asia...

I know of a local cider bar that probably has this image framed in the pub already.

Man, these things stink

Well this looks fun!

@midwesternhistory.bsky.social Can we help him out? I want to go to this panel.

Hey y'all! Look at this new thing I scholared: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...

The irony of reaching this point by light rail is not lost on me.