Volume IX, Issue 1

Spring 2023
This issue was published directly into our static platform in the Fall of 2023. Note that its content is also available for download as a single .pdf using the link provided above.

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  • publisher's note
Publisher’s Note: Some New Books about the Tallgrass Prairie Region 

by Jon Andelson

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  • editor's note
Editorial Staff 

by Spring 2023 Editors

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  • essay
La Voz de la Comunidad: the Effect of the Discount Mall’s Closure on the People of La Villita 

by Francisco Pantoja Martinez

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  • interview
New Lives in the Midwest 

Peter Chan Min Sang & Saul Chan Htoo Sang

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  • essay
The Propaganda of Postcards 

by Kylie Klassen

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  • feature
Technology on the Prairie 

by Marty Allen

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  • poetry
Four-Legged People: Five Poems 

by Emma Walsh

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  • essay
Wolves Under Threat: A Deep Dive into the Endangered Species Act 

by Lucien Akira DeJule

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  • essay
Is Renewable Energy Enough? 

by Kamyar Enshayan

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  • interview
Tight, Insulated, and Thermally Massive: Rethinking Residential Architecture in Columbia, Missouri 

by Joanie Fieser

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  • essay
Tornadoes in Kansas 

by Beryl Clotfelter

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  • essay
Researching Corn in Iowa and Beyond 

by Benjamin Schrager

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  • essay
The Emptying of Rural Iowa 

by Dan Weeks

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  • memoir
Finding A Home: A Young Farmer’s Journey 

by Kate Edwards

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  • podcast
  • interview
RootsTalk! Podcast #7: Sustainability in Iowa: An Interview with Charles Connerly 

by Chuck Connerly

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  • poetry
Three Poems 

by Rustin Larson

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  • essay
Iowa’s Lichens: Found and Lost 

by James Colbert

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  • essay
A Spirited Land: Indigenous Tribes’ Fight to Protect the Boundary Waters 

by Zach Spindler-krage

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  • poetry
Two Poems 

by Karen Downing

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  • interview
Interview with Congressman Neal Smith 

Tayler Chicoine Ulbrich, with Jon Andelson

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  • photo essay
Sundogs 

by Will Gresham