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 71: Stephanie Ternullo - How the Heartland Went Red
Episode 70: Past, Present, and Future of Midwestern History Roundtable - MHA 2024
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
To access all episodes of the podcast, visit the Heartland History SoundCloud.
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