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  • Heartland always a place of global connection, not isolation, author says

    Apr 10, 2019 12:00 pm by Craig ChamberlainResearch
    Professor, author Kristin Hoganson shown standing in a farm shed. Photo by Fred Zwicky

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    • Professor, author Kristin Hoganson shown standing in a farm shed. Photo by Fred Zwicky

    A persistent heartland myth paints the rural Midwest as local, insular, isolationist. Illinois historian Kristin Hoganson dug into the history and found the myth is far from reality.