History

Iowa Republicans Are Erasing the State’s History

Sixty percent of the historical society archives are being trashed with no transparency

What Counts as American Religion?

A new history reconsiders who belongs in American religious history and what should count as religion

How the U.S. Enlisted Farmers to ‘Feed the World’ in the 20th Century

As Trump eliminates U.S. international aid programs, a new history details the instrumental role Midwestern farmers played in establishing them

Will the Vampire of the Great Lakes Rise Again?

The Trump administration’s budget cuts could undermine bipartisan efforts to keep the Great Lakes great

Country Queers Spread the Love in Rural America

Rae Garringer’s new book documents more than a decade of LGBTQ+ rural life

Detectorists Find More Than What’s Underground

Relic hunters build comradery by uncovering history in rural Pennsylvania

Land of Liberty

Myth-making in the early American republic
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Native Life
May 23, 2024

Federal Courts Sentence Native Americans to Longer Prison Terms

How federal authority over tribes fails to provide equal justice under the law

History
October 25, 2023

How the ’70s Counterculture Shaped My Ozark Childhood

Going back-to-the-land meant confronting my family's, and our nation's, fraught racial history

History
September 25, 2023

Jim Hightower Confronts the 1980s Farm Crisis

"It's the same old story—Reagan helps the rich, and Lord help the rest of us."