Call for Nominations - 2025 Midwestern History Awards The Midwestern History Association calls for nominations for its annual awards. All submissions must be either postmarked or emailed by Jan. 15, 2026 for consideration. Prizes will be awarded in 2026 for work completed or published in 2025.

🚨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.

New Book Release: "Between Loving and Leaving: Essays on the New Midwestern History" edited by Jon K. Lauck was published by the University of Oklahoma Press on September 30. www.oupress.com/978080619602...

The Labor and Working Class History Association (LAWCHA) and the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) will be hosting our first event of the fall on Wednesday, September 17th at 7.00pm EST.

Our next book talk is scheduled for Wednesday, October 1 @ 5PM EST/4PM CST. Coreen Derifield will discuss her new book "We Were Still Ladies: Gender and Industrial Unionism in the Midwest After WWII." To register, scan the QR code below or go to bit.ly/mha-oct25

Attention scholars of the Midwest: anyone wanna write about the Edmund Fitzgerald and what its wreck can tell us about the Midwest or its cultural impact more broadly fifty years later?

IHO the 50th anniversary of the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, I’m looking for a someone to historicize the event in the context of Great Lakes shipping for @cliocontemporary.bsky.social I’ve got a great idea to use the song as a framing device but don’t want to write it myself haha. 🗃️

We're excited to be partnering with Miami University's (OH) Humanities Center for #MHA2026, but the center is hosting a series of speakers on the Midwest all academic year. The first speaker is Kristin Hoganson on her book, "The Heartland: An American History" scheduled for September 16th @ 5PM

We're excited to be partnering with Miami University's (OH) Humanities Center for #MHA2026, but the center is hosting a series of speakers on the Midwest all academic year. The first speaker is Kristin Hoganson on her book, "The Heartland: An American History" scheduled for September 16th @ 5PM

🚨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.

🚨Check out this CFP from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Center for Digital and Public Humanities and the Kansas City Public Library on articles examining myriad social justice movements in Kansas City from the post-World War II era to the end of the 20th century. Deadline: June 15, 2025

Newest episode of Heartland History is out. An insightful conversation with Erik McDuffie about his book, The Second Battle for Africa. which won the best book prize at #MHA2025. Thanks @camdenburd.bsky.social for leading the podcast. We look forward to what the future holds for Heartland History.

The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature is hosting its conference next week! The schedule is at the link.

Congratulations to Erik McDuffie!

Thanks to SHSI for hosting @midwesternhistory.bsky.social! Shout-out to the great scholars at #MHA2025, esp. Pam Riney-Kehrberg's fantastic plenary on the still-visible Farm Crisis + prize winners like Erik McDuffie (best book) and @twincitiespbs.bsky.social (Broadcast Wars). Fantastic conference.

compulsivelyaimless.blogspot.com Fitzgerald's Midwest Morality and the Geography of the Self

To the putz that pulled the fire alarm at 1am at the hotel block. That was not very “Midwestern nice” of you. #MHA2025

#MHA2025 Session 4 (Sorry I missed session three while chairing a different panel. Next up, panels on the Civil War; Nature, Water, and Land Management; Responses to the Malaise in the 20th Century; and Midwestern Politics on the National Stage.

#MHA2025 Session 2. Topics include: Latino History; Archives in the Midwest; Black Freedom in Illinois; Art and Midwestern Intellectual Life; and Progressive Era

Day two of #MHA2025 and first up for session one are panels on Race, Early Migration, and settlement; Histories of Injustice; Shifting Boundaries of Science, Nature, and Race; and Transportation and Industrial Transformation.

“I began by worrying about the prose and soon learned to worry more about the politics.” John Bartlow Martin, one of speechwriters for Adlai Stevenson’s 1952 presidential campaign I’ll be discussing this afternoon at the @midwesternhistory.bsky.social’s annual conference. #MHA2025

MHA Awards Ceremony is underway. Stay tuned as the winners are announced. #MHA2025

For everyone attending #MHA2025, the gathering place at 7:00pm after the awards ceremony will be Exile Brewing Company at 1514 Walnut St, Des Moines. Spread the word!

Plenary Session is underway. Pamela Riney-Kehrberg (Iowa State University) is presenting “The Farm Crisis and Fallout: The Rural Midwest in the 1980s and After” #MHA2025

Be sure to visit our booth at the 11th Annual Midwestern History Association Conference in Des Moines, Iowa, May 15-16! #MHA2025 @midwesternhistory.bsky.social

All hail Meridel Le Sueur. There's more to life than dogmatism and Hemingway's three Fs!

Next up for session 2: Roundtable on BIPOC histories of the Midwest; the Extractive Midwest; 20th Century Wars; a Rediscovery of Meriden Le Sueur

First up: excellent panels including: the release of the Oxford Handbook of Midwestern History; Civil War Politics in the Midwest; Murder; and Feeding the Midwest.

#MHA2025 starts today! Looking forward to great first day of panels. Keep an eye out for updates on panels and our awards announcements later this evening.

I'm excited to take off tomorrow (3am drive down I-35!) to get to Des Moines for the #MHA2025 business meeting... ...and then be part of these great panels and see all this great work! (🧵 ensues) (fun fact: if both the images below were to be believed, I've never looked straight at the IA Capitol)

The University of Missouri Press will be attending the 11th Annual Midwestern History Association Conference in Des Moines, Iowa, May 15-16 (@midwesternhistory.bsky.social). Come visit our booth! #MHA2025 www.midwesternhistory.com/2025-confere...

#MHA2025 is this week in Des Moines, Iowa. We look forward to catching up with all of you and discussing new directions in Midwestern history. If you're attending the conference, be sure to use the hashtag above & tag us. Road trip pics to the conference are encouraged (please drive safely).

The Trump administration calls for the return of domestic manufacturing, there is one industry that managed to resist the outsourcing process of the late 20th century. As @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social explains, it only required the destruction of its labor unions and deeper exploitation of migrants.

Excellent analysis of the meatpacking industry and how it remained in the US by breaking up labor power and exploiting unprotected migrant workers. Glad to see the Hormel Strike of 1985-86 get a shout out, especially as the @midwesternhistory.bsky.social holds its conference this week.

Looking forward to this week’s @midwesternhistory.bsky.social’s annual conference in Des Moines. Excited to be on a panel moderated by @coryhaala.bsky.social. I’ll be talking about Adlai Stevenson’s outstanding speechwriting staff in the 1952 presidential campaign, eggheads all!

Less than two weeks to #MHA2025. We’re excited to see everyone and discuss new scholarship. If you’re attending the conference, be sure to tag us or use the hashtag to let people know. Conference information can be found in the link below. See you in Iowa!

I will be there talking about the “eggheads” who wrote speeches for Adlai Stevenson’s 1952 presidential campaign, including one of my favorite Hoosiers, John Bartlow Martin.

We’re less than three weeks away from this years #MHA2025. A digital program of the conference is available on our website. Please check it out as you prepare for your trip to Iowa. Looking forward to seeing everyone.

In a few days it’s gonna be May, but right now it’s gonna be my 222nd #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...

A new episode of Heartland History is out. @camdenburd.bsky.social sits down with Willa Hammit Brown to discuss her new book, Gentleman of the Wood: Manhood, Myth, and the American Lumberjack.

Call for Papers: Special Issue, "Public History in the Latinx Midwest" in the "The Public Historian." The deadline for submission of proposals is May 31, 2025. Selected authors will be notified by July 15, 2025. Articles will be due by January 15, 2026. Please see attachment for details how to apply

Anyway. If you're at #OAH25 and want to hear more about these and other trends in Midwestern history, go see the @midwesternhistory.bsky.social panel ft @camdenburd.bsky.social, Jazma Sutton, Andrew Klumpp, and Donna Doan Anderson, chaired by Sara Egge and Ashley Howard, on Saturday at 8:45!

We had a great session. Thanks to all that attended.

Good luck to all the presenters at the @oah.org conference. Here’s a list of MHA-sponsored panels.

The Midwestern History Association is excited to have endorsed panels at next week's @oah.org in Chicago. Here's a thread of our lineup of panels and the scholars involved. Good luck to everyone involved and thank you for sharing your work. (Apologies to anyone not tagged)

The 2025 Midwestern History Conference registration page is now live on Eventbrite Please register as soon as you are able! Rates are: $50 for academic faculty $25 for grad students, contingent faculty, K-12 teachers, and State Historical Society of Iowa members. $100 for presses and exhibitors

Are you a publisher or exhibitor who would like to reserve space at the 2025 Midwestern History Conference? Press rates AND advertising space in the conference program are still available. Follow the link below to register. To inquire about ad space, please email [email protected].

The 2025 Midwestern History Conference registration page is now live on Eventbrite Please register as soon as you are able! Rates are: $50 for academic faculty $25 for grad students, contingent faculty, K-12 teachers, and State Historical Society of Iowa members. $100 for presses and exhibitors