Forget tax returns. RELEASE THE COLONOSCOPIES!
Continue reading “How old is too old for the Senate? Handshakes, Colonoscopies, and North Dakota”How Midwestern Democrats confronted “the abortion issue”
Whether a relic of a bygone era or totally applicable lesson in Democratic messaging, there’s a historical example for how Midwestern Democrats responded when confronted with anti-abortion rhetoric.
Continue reading “How Midwestern Democrats confronted “the abortion issue””Progressive Populism on the Campaign Trail // Barnstorming the Midwest: Northfield
How do you run an authentic, progressive, populist campaign that empowers grassroots activists across a state as geographically, occupationally, and (occasionally) ethnically diverse as Minnesota?
Go to Northfield to find the answer.
Is there room for left-wing populism in American politics?
I joined the podcast “The Same, but Worse” to answer a few questions with burning relevance to modern American politics: What is “progressive populism?” How did Midwesterners respond to the economic challenges of the Farm Crisis and deindustralization in the 1980s? And, of course, which states are in the Midwest?
Continue reading “Is there room for left-wing populism in American politics?”Reclaiming the New Deal: Digital Humanities and Minnesota History
How do we find relevance in the New Deal when its sites have changed?
Continue reading “Reclaiming the New Deal: Digital Humanities and Minnesota History”Barnstorming the Midwest: Northeastern South Dakota
In 1985 the South Dakota Legislature voted to put all 105 of them, plus the governor, on chartered planes to Washington, D.C., to lobby Congress for action on the Farm Crisis.
(Got all that?)
Continue reading “Barnstorming the Midwest: Northeastern South Dakota”WPA, Then and Now: Digital Humanities and Minnesota History, Pt. I
As my students work on their final Citizen-Historian Project (read more here), I feel like it’s only fair that I participate with them. So let’s hit the Internet, hit our bikes, and log some New Deal sites around Minneapolis for the Living New Deal project!
Continue reading “WPA, Then and Now: Digital Humanities and Minnesota History, Pt. I”Crowdsourced History Projects in the Time of Social Distancing: A Virtual Classroom Project
Well, we’re not going anywhere for a while. And with classes cancelled or moved online, many of us are looking for ways to engage our history students beyond traditional online discussions and textbook-reading.
Here’s one way I do that with crowdsourced history projects that involve primary source learning, reinforce secondary source research, and assist local and national archives and history projects:
Continue reading “Crowdsourced History Projects in the Time of Social Distancing: A Virtual Classroom Project”North Dakota for Bernie. Again. And it’s nothing new!
Amid the struggles–or indifference–to understand how conservative North Dakota could go for Bernie Sanders, a little history lesson explains why you shouldn’t be surprised, nor should you bemoan the death of the Democratic-Nonpartisan League.
Continue reading “North Dakota for Bernie. Again. And it’s nothing new!”The Des Moines Register, Background Information…and the Election of 1982?
Dredging up offensive tweets from an Iowa State student whose sign went viral after College Gameday, spawning a grassroots philanthropic drive for a children’s hospital, the Des Moines Register once again reminds us of its past and present issues with sensational background details.
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