Earlier this month, over at the Washington Post, Kristin Hoganson wrote an excellent piece challenging five key myths about the Midwest, including the commonly held perception that the rural Midwest was an isolated place, cut off from broader global contexts. She notes, “A dense web of threads have felted the Midwest into the global fabric since the early years of colonial contact.”[1] If you have read many of my posts over the past several months, you know that I strongly agree with Hoganson, and in fact, in many ways, I push the chronology she examines in her recent book back Read more