Heartland
Heartland A history of a quintessentially American place--the rural and small town heartland--that uncovers deep yet hidden currents of connection with the world.When Kristin L. metro area with…
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Heartland
A history of a quintessentially American place--the rural and small town heartland--that uncovers deep yet hidden currents of connection with the world.When Kristin L. metro area with various stints overseas, she expected to find her new home, well, isolated. Hoganson arrived in Champaign, Illinois, after teaching at Harvard, studying at Yale, and living in the D.C.
After all, she had landed in the American heartland, a place where the nation's identity exists in its pristine form. Even provincial. Or so we have been taught to believe.Struck by the gap between reputation and reality, she determined to get to the bottom of history and myth.
The deeper she dug into the making of the modern heartland, the wider her story became as she realized that she'd uncovered an unheralded crossroads of people, commerce, and ideas. But the really interesting thing was that over the