American Midwest

  • A diverse group of young children and a teacher stand with hands over their hearts, facing an American flag, reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in a classroom.

    These 17 Vintage Photos Perfectly Capture the ’70s in the American Midwest

    From Indiana and Iowa to Michigan and Illinois, these vintage photos capture what the American Midwest looked like in the 1970s.

    The American Midwest in the 1970s was a patchwork of rusty pickup trucks, front porch hangs, and walking the sidewalks of Chicago and Detroit. It was a decade when factory whistles marked time, grain silos towered over two-lane roads, and…