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B IN THE FALL OF 2014, b historians gathered at the Northern Great Plains History Conference voted to create the Midwest History Association (MHA), a culmination of ongoing discussions and projects to revitalize Midwest regional studies. Gleaves Whitney and I are also working with Kent State University Press on a book about the eastern Midwest, or roughly eastern Ohio, and the divide between the East and the Midwest. My good friend the historian John E. Miller worried that I would never find a publisher for such an arcane book, one discussing the diminishing historiography of the Midwest. My early books were about the agrarian politics of the Midwest and later campaign battles in the Midwest. [Extracted from the article] |
