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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Hey, that seems like a good backdrop for flying out after giving a lecture on the Farm Crisis and progressive populism in the 1980s. Thanks to the UND Department of History and American Indian Studies and all who came out to talk about North Dakota's Nonpartisan League heritage!

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Mike Kafka against the Gophers in 2008, classic.

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm not an idiot but also to those Chicagoland alums that doesn't make you special and I don't care about your experience much in the same way you don't care if I have fun in an arbor or wherever thanks for your money and I hope you have an awful time and regret it for YEARS

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I enjoyed thanking Iowa fans for spending the $200 to get incessant emails from NU ticket reps, taking the 25-30% chance they were going to lose to Northwestern by some embarrassing 13-9 scoreline as Pat Fitzgerald looked at the scoreboard, grimacing, while punting on 4th and 2 from the Iowa 37.

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

but without the crucial component!

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

somehow they'd still find a way to make all three games (Kent State at Bowling Green, Akron at Sac State, Balls at Hawai'i) all kick off between 6-6:30pm CT on the ESPN family

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A long, long-overdue thank-you to Janine Giordano Drake for the chance to talk with @lawcha.bsky.social's Labor Online about When Democrats Won the Heartland -- check out the conversation here: lawcha.org/2026/08/04/c...

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Cory Haala on his new book, When Democrats Won the Heartland | LAWCHA

Cory Haala’s new book, When Democrats Won the Heartland: Progressive Populism in the Age of Reagan, 1978-1992 (University of Illinois Press, 2026) tells

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Redwood Falls. So that rebrand to the Minnesota Star Tribune is going...

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I feel like that's your solution to everything.

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Marching band practices on the field hockey field in November, too...playing sousaphone meant you had a big metal sail attached to your back, and that gust-aided wobble was real.

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Such a sweet feeling in that second half, when you'd punt a ball and there was a non-zero chance you'd score if the other keeper misjudged a bounce.

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Every time I watch a home game I think about the IM soccer games in like, March, when the wind was blowing straight from the north and there was NOTHING in the way.

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David Cochran @dcochran1004.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My interview with @coryhaala.bsky.social, author of “When Democrats Won the Heartland: Progressive Populism in the Age of Reagan, 1978-1992,” is in the current issue of the Illinois Labor History Society Reporter.

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

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Cory Haala on his new book, When Democrats Won the Heartland | LAWCHA

Cory Haala’s new book, When Democrats Won the Heartland: Progressive Populism in the Age of Reagan, 1978-1992 (University of Illinois Press, 2026) tells

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

imagining the Air Conditioning Repair School at Greendale, but with the pretension of Ohio State and the debt of Rutgers

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Been a fun (if abbreviated) return to College Park, site of my greatest triumph: not the 'Cats over the Terps (though that happened, obviously), but me, solo, over the Chessie.

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A Republican senator in a safe, rural, red seat dogged by medical lawsuits and his insistence that farm/trade economics are fine? Surely it'd never happen.

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Monster Mash (10 Minute Version) @randballsstu.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Minnesota Vikings (complimentary)

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"And if the Wolverines don't play significantly better this weekend against Oklahoma, Rod Moore said, "it's going to be way more embarrassing than that was."" Oh there they go, tempting me with a good time again.

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Wanted to be mad about (full disclosure former employer) St Cloud State being here after they killed football a decade ago... ...but most of these schools also run D-1 hockey programs.

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I liked this, but then also found Northwestern (the averagest of the average!) in a split second.

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

would you like a gently used Max Kilman? he used to play futsal, you know...

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Alma mater beats employer. Go alma mater.

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Read this and honestly saw it as the Tigers finally putting the Twins out of their misery. But nooooooooooo, they're gonna keep up the charade a little longer.

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

No, that's when I wear my #13 Northwestern jersey with "Samsa" on the back

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Nice job, man. Really appreciate how you look beyond the referendum itself - will be curious to see if/how these present campaigns do that.

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

you shut your damn mouth about West Ham legend David Moyes WHAT I WOULDN'T GIVE right now

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Really honored to be cited in this @ruralspatialj.bsky.social article alongside scholars like Kathy Cramer. Read to learn more on the application of Wisconsin's political history to its current political climate.

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Used to be the campus library -- got redesigned a few years ago. My office is on the balcony overlooking the space, but there's also student work space on those mezzanine platforms. Really cool spot.

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Oh man, that's right when I was doing my first round of diss research here -- loved the stadium then, love it now. (So...uh...tell her good work? from an untrained eye?) Excited to get to a game! And thanks!

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Pastries on the table, blue and gold treatments on the lights, dembow playing on the loudspeakers (chosen by the school director). Real vibes in Brookings for Day 1 of classes.

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Yeah but those old-timey wind-ups take so long I'll see it coming...

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Alright, so we've got three months to procure an oil can and three Red Baron pizzas. This feels doable.

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

@bendawson.bsky.social @b1ffy.bsky.social should we cook these over an open fire at the tailgate beforehand? I'll bring the pizzas, I assume Ben will throw a few Grain Belts at me

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

A tradition I last enjoyed in 2018: the chance to watch 'Cats-Gophers for the low, low price of intestinal distress. (Northwestern winning makes this tradition even funnier.)

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

A student reflection on his final project -- if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go crawl in a hole and die. "What is it, 2009?" (the year I graduated high school) is going to live rent-free in my head for a loooooong time.

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

New job! As of yesterday, I'm Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist in Civic Engagement and Public History at South Dakota State University. I'll run our Museum Studies minor, SD National History Day, and new statewide history programs. Not good at #EarsUp yet, can't wait to start. #GoJacks

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Today in "fun with soft power", my kids' new interactive, LeapFrog/BBC-branded globe capitalizes the names of independent countries and stars their capitals. I wonder where these globes are manufactured...

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Part of the confusion: MORE FARM GROUPS. I had two pages of acronyms in When Democrats Won the Heartland; now, in memos from farm advocacy groups in IL/MO...they're CCing a half-dozen others each. WAS one Pepe Silvia? Off to get thumbtacks, string, and a cigarette and get to the bottom of it...

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Long-distance co-teach? 🤝

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Excited for folks to contrast images like Wendy here with the cover of Michael Lansing's new book, A Police State (@uchicagopress.bsky.social) press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... Charlie Stenvig is the law-and-order Mpls mayor in 73! Understanding how these co-existed is crucial to MN liberalism.

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

ah, it's too bad northwestern was already planning to wear its green mardi gras-themed uniforms the SAME DAY. shoot.

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

My word there's a lot going on in this letter to Dick Gephardt in February 1988. Two conservative Republicans call him "dead wrong" on the Contras and bemoan "charity programs for dead beats"... ...but say he's the only acceptable candidate on trade and send him $100. A land of contrasts.

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