Heartland History

Heartland History is the official podcast of the Midwestern History Association. Hosted by Camden Burd and Ramya Swayamprakash, the podcast features interviews with scholars, writers, and other professionals about the history of America’s heartland.

Episode 69: Paul Renfro - The Life and Death of Ryan White: AIDS and Inequality in America

Episode 68: Dr. Casey Huegel - Cleaning Up the Bomb Factory: Grassroots Activism and Nuclear Waste in the Midwest

Episode 67: Dr. Sergio Gonzalez - Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin

Episode 66: Pamela Riney-Kehrberg - When a Dream Dies: Agriculture, Iowa, and the Farm Crisis of the 1980s

Episode 65: Josiah Rector - Toxic Debt: An Environmental Justice History of Detroit

Episode 64: Steven Conn - Lies of the Land: Seeing Rural America for What It Is - and Isn’t

Episode 63: Max Fraser - Hillbilly Highway: The Transappalachian Migration and the Making of a White Working Class

Episode 62: Crystal Marie Moten - Continually Working: Black Women, Community Intellectualism, and Economic Justice in Postwar Milwaukee

Episode 61: John Nelson - Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago's Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent

Episode 60: Melissa Ford - A Brick and a Bible

Episode 59: Ashley Howard - What to the “Other” is the Midwest?

Episode 58: The Good Country with Jon Lauck

Episode 57: Dr. Alonzo Ward and African American Hybrid Labor Activism

Episode 56: Steven Moore, The Distance from Flyover Country

Episode 55: Dr. Christopher Ali, Farm Fresh Broadband

Episode 54: Dr. Fernandez-Jones, MexiRican Placemaking in Grand Rapids, Michigan

Episode 53: Dr. Kai Bosworth, Assistant Professor of International Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University

Episode 52: Dr. Sasha Maria Suarez, Assistant Professor of History at UW-Madison
Episode 51: Drs. Andrew Klumpp, Pamela-Riney Kehrberg, and Rebecca Conard on Regionalism & Local History
Episode 50: Phil Christman, author of Midwest Futures and Instructor of English at the University of Michigan
Episode 49: Dr. Benjamin E. Park, Assistant Professor of American Religion at Sam Houston State University
Episode 48: Brandon Ward, History Lecturer, Perimeter College at Georgia State University
Episide 47: Edward E. Curtis IV, the William M. and Gail M. Plater Chair of Liberal Arts at IUPUI
Episode 46: Dr. Molly Rozum, Ronald R. Nelson Chair of Great Plains and South Dakota History
Episode 45: Lynne Heasley, Professor of Environment and Sustainability at Western Michigan University

To access all episodes of the podcast, visit the Heartland History SoundCloud.

Photo by Cory Haala