The collection features original scholarship by MHA board members Emiliano Aguilar and Ashley Howard, recipient of the 2025 MHA Jon Gjerde Award for Best Book Erik McDuffie, MHA Frederick Jackson Turner Lifetime Achievement Award Winner R. Douglas Hurt, and past MHA president Sara Egge.

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...

🚨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.

Please register for the event using the link below and feel free to share with friends, colleagues, and students.

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Crystal Marie Moten (MHA board member) will be moderating a discussion of two new books: Danielle Phillips-Cunningham's "Nannie Helen Burroughs: A Tower of Strength in the Labor World" and LaShawn Harris's "Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City."

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

We encourage applicants to use social media or this google doc tinyurl.com/MHA-2026-Pan... to identify and coordinate with potential co-panelists.

Submission Deadline: Monday, December 8, 2025 (non-negotiable)

Please direct all questions or inquiries to [email protected]

This year’s conference theme, “Midwestern History, Regional Humanities,” recognizes the collaboration between the MHA, the Miami University Humanities Center, and the university’s John W. Altman Program to inspire scholars, students, and the public toward new understandings of the Midwest.

🚨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

Midwestern Politics on the National Stage
@rboomhower.bsky.social

Nature, Water, and Land Management in the West. Chaired by @joshuanygren.bsky.social

Responses to the Political/Economic Malaise in the Late 20th Century.