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Web exclusive: Alumni reflect on favorite spots in Hyde Park and Chicago 50 some years ago, from bygone bars to enduring student haunts. mag.uchicago.edu/1970s

#OnThisDay: July 12 1941: Minneapolis Aquitennial opens with a parade down Nicollet Ave, organized by business leaders "to take citizens' minds off past troubles." The events celebrating the city pushed aside the Teamsters Picnic that had honored the labor movement since 1934.

Prepping the Old Fashioneds at a Wisconsin supper club on a Saturday in July

West Salem, Wisconsin. Member of the Tavern League of Wisconsin.

In Polish American Studies Vol. 82, No. 1, Martin J. Hershock (UM-Dearborn) discusses Detroit's Federal Screw Works Strike of 1938, in which Polonia's working-class women played a major but unrecognized role. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/pas/articl…

Malabar Farm Lucas, Ohio Home of the American author, and early environmentalist, Louis Bromfield

Crawfordsville, Indiana Post Office Indiana Agriculture - Frank Long (1942) Photo by David W. Gates Jr.

If you're out on the canal today, come visit the Indiana State Library! Please be aware that Ohio St. is currently under construction and closed in front of the library, but the library is still open and accessible by foot. #Indianapolis #downtown #travel

Main Street. Garretson, SD.

The label “flyover country” is used to compare the middle of America to coastal destinations. But the case of Midwest air traffic is more complicated than the term lets on, involving regional industry and an ongoing debate about economic development. midstory.org/planes-trains-…

WHS Maritime Archaeologist Tamara Thomsen sat down with UW–Madison Film Professor Eric Hoyt to view and discuss historic underwater films by Milwaukee diving pioneer Max Gene Nohl. Watch the footage—and their fascinating conversation—now on our YouTube! youtu.be/g8qYhxqIHpM

OJIBWE ETHNOGENESIS, 1640–1740 explores the origin, rise, and spread of Ojibwe identity from the mid-seventeenth to mid-eighteenth centuries. Save when you order now: bit.ly/4eOdVnV

SIU Press author Jane Flynn is giving a talk about her book MENNONITES OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS: A PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNAL today at 2:00 pm at the Herrin City Library! Read more on their website at the link below, and come out to listen if you're in the area! herrincitylibrary.org/2025/07/07/sat…

County courthouse, Dubuque, Iowa

How Ohio Governor Mike DeWine saved the journal *Ohio History* The Blade toledoblade.com/local/politics…

Lincoln heads take note, out from Illinois Press this week. If u don’t know Davis, he was a crucial ally of a Lincoln’s in Illinois & a good friend; he traveled the legal circuit in the early days, then helped engineer his nomination for president. Lincoln named him to supreme ct

I second this defense of edited volumes by Derek Krissoff at Book Work. Tip: if you want to edit a volume, loop in an acquisitions editor early on! They can advise on avoiding mistakes and help make the project into something greater than the sum of its parts. Essay link ⬇️

Support our friends at Dream Palace and local writers at the same time! The Indianapolis bookstore and host David Strange will have their last "Listen, Please" event on July 26, featuring writers Thomas Kneeland, Jennifer Delgadillo, Ariana Beedie, and Ryan J. Rader.

Happy Pub Date to DAVID DAVIS, ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S FAVORITE JUDGE by Raymond J. McKoski! press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c046… #Biography #Law #LincolnStudies #Illinois #AmericanHistory #AcademicPublishing #UniversityPress #Nonfiction cc: UIC Law

Call for Papers--68th Annual Missouri Conference on History and Midwest Regional Meeting of Phi Alpha Theta shsmo.org/mch/call-for-p… The New Territory The Midwest Newsroom The Missouri Review