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 ...

In the wake of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s primary victory in New York in June, Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) launched a furious online debate about the political heart of the Midwest when she ...

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 ...

"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 ...

ST. LOUIS — As the year’s near-historic flooding would suggest, 2019 left a soggy spot in the regional record books. The St. Louis area had its fifth-wettest year on record, and its greatest number of ...

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 ...