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Hawkeye Elegy: A Collision of Pandemic, Disaster, and Polarization in the Heartland

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands February 8, 2021October 19, 2022

“Last summer a monster storm tore across Iowa, leaving billions of dollars damage in its wake. It was a brutal blow to an economy already reeling from a deadly pandemic and a state divided by politics like never before.”

Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story

‘Midwesterners Have Seen Themselves As Being in the Center of Everything.’

by Bridey Heing April 23, 2019October 19, 2022

In “The Heartland,” Kristin L. Hoganson says America’s Midwest has been more connected to global events than popular history allows — especially popular history as told in the Midwest.

Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes, Unapologetic Women

When a Missing Nickel Makes All the Difference

by Krista Stevens October 25, 2018October 19, 2022

“Yet money was a lie—pieces of paper and metal suggesting prices for goods, services, labor, and human beings themselves in a way that often had more to do with profit than with true value.”

Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Featured, Nonfiction, Story

Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth

by Longreads September 18, 2018October 19, 2022

“There’s an idea that laborers end up in their role because it’s all they’re suited for. What put us there, though, was birth, family history — not lack of talent for something else.”

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