Interview with John R. Wunder

In May 2014 the historian John R. Wunder, who spent the largest part of his career at the University of Nebraska- Lincoln, took time out from his current projects to discuss his career in general, and more particularly, his interest in regional history, including the history of the Plains and the Midwest. Wunder, born in Iowa, earned his ba and law degrees at the University of Iowa before earning his PhD in history under the guidance of Vernon Carstensen at the University of Washington. Given the many existing academic barriers you have described and the various sources of resistance to regionalism, how do you think the effort to emphasize regional history will fare?