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Farm Aid Talk-Global Harvest: Mapping the Histories of Illinois Farms by Professor Kristin Hoganson

Event Type
Lecture
Sponsor
Spurlock Museum, Illinois Arts Council
Location
Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
Date
Oct 7, 2025   4:30 - 5:30 pm  

Drawing on her recent book, The Heartland (an NPR best book of the year), Hoganson challenges perceptions of the rural Midwest as quintessentially local prior to World War I. Her starting point is Champaign County, but the stories she has uncovered are surprisingly global in scope. 

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