Campus of Briar Cliff University, Sioux City, Iowa, up on a hill above the Missouri River. Reminds me Franciscan University of Steubenville, high on a hill above the Ohio River.

Justice and Peace Have Met Together Truth Hath Sprung Out of the Earth. Sioux City, Iowa.

Cola
Verona, OH — Elmdale, KS

Lifelong memories were created a week ago tonight in South Dakota

📍Grant Wood’s Grave - Anamosa, Iowa

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About ten years ago there was a wild story in the news about Cuban spies operating out of Pierre, SD

View into the Past—Downtown Grand Island, Nebraska in May 1942. Looking down N. Locust St toward the First National Bank building on the corner of W. 3rd St.

📷: John Vachon, Farm Security Administration Collection (Library of Congress)

#OTD in 1920, the blast furnaces at the Ford Motor Company Rouge Plant were fired up for the first time. Iron from the furnaces was transported directly to the foundry, where it was used to make engine blocks, cylinder heads, intake and exhaust manifolds, and other parts for the Model T.

Crepuscular rays are among nature’s most effective signage. Whenever they appear, they seem to say, “Hey, look at this place. You should take a picture.”

- 📝&📷: Justin Haag, NGPC

📍: Cottonwood-Steverson WMA in the Sandhills

From Sioux Falls, SD

Minnesotan

On this day in 1756, Britain officially declares war on its long-time rival France. The move is something of a formality; both powers have already been fighting for at least two years in the North American wilderness.

What did American religion look like around the Revolution?

Not at all what it looks like today.

Congregationalists dominated the Northeast.

Episcopalians in the middle.

Baptists and Presbyterians in the Carolinas.

#OTD May 16, 1905 – Actor Henry Fonda was born in Grand Island, Nebraska.

Throughout a 50-year career, Fonda won multiple awards including an Academy Award for his role in 'On Golden Pond' starring alongside his daughter Jane Seymour Fonda.

Detroit’s population declined consistently through the last several decades...but new figures show Detroit grew from 631,366 in 2022 to 633,218 residents in 2023, according to the bureau’s annual population estimate released Thursday freep.com/story/news/loc…

The USS Pierre, named after the capital of South Dakota, will be christened this weekend in Mobile, Alabama

Hashtag Alert-- #MidwestHistory24 will be the tag for the Midwestern History Association next month. The tag for the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature meeting right before MHA will be #MidwestLitSSML24 The SSML and MHA are back-to-back in Michigan. Pack your bags!

“Newspaper columnists fall into five general categories. The categories, in ascending order, are: 1) Bad. 2) Good. 3) Very Good. 4) Outstanding. 5) Mike Royko.” Join Bill Savage for a virtual class, Mike Royko's Chicago, starting June 26: newberry.org/learn/adult-ed…

Was there a place in Vermillion SD in the 1940s that had the audio recording equipment? …esandspecialcollections.wordpress.com/2024/05/06/was…