David Boles: Prairie Voice

David Boles: Prairie Voice

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What the Prairie Pays
The pattern is national.
May 21 • David Boles
The Last Delivery Room
What Happens to Rural America When the Hospital Stops Delivering Babies
May 12 • David Boles
The Pedagogy of Concealment
Closed Communities, Withheld Knowledge, and a Novel That Names the Pattern
May 10 • David Boles
What the Hay Inspector Sees
Notes on my new book RelationShaping: Field Studies
May 5 • David Boles

April 2026

Three Ways to Settle a Prairie
Greeley County, Octagon City, and Bon Homme Colony
Apr 28 • David Boles
The Station in Lincoln
A new book asks what federated public broadcasting meant for rural America, and what ended when it dissolved.
Apr 24 • David Boles
Engineered Removal: A Reservoir, a Base, and a Bypass
The engineer is the state.
Apr 22 • David Boles
The Renaming
What changes is the label.
Apr 21 • David Boles
The Long Way from Lincoln to Mantua
The story is wrong.
Apr 20 • David Boles
Two Departures on US-83
What the town does not have, and has not had since 1989, is a hospital.
Apr 18 • David Boles
Filing a Claim on the Rural Body
A new book asks what the Homestead Act of 1862 became.
Apr 17 • David Boles
The Last Fourteen
Agricultural Consolidation and the Erasure of Graham County, Kansas
Apr 15 • David Boles
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