I was fresh out of college with idealized images of life after graduation when my new husband dropped two bombs on me. The first: He’d decided to go active-duty military. The second: We would be moving to Wyoming soon, and he would go ahead without me to find us a...

Conflicts over race and slavery in the Lower Midwest have often set the stage for critical national conversations.

“I’d been operating under the hope — nay, the naive assumption — that sports were the great equalizer.”