Evanston Public Library to host two-part mini-course on 2026 midterms

Evanston Public Library and the Northwestern Emeriti Organization will host a two-part mini-course on the 2026 midterm elections led by Larry Stuelpnagel, professor of practice emeritus in Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism and Department of Political Science. The course is the first Northwestern Emeriti Organization–Evanston Public Library (NEO-EPL) mini-course of the 2026-27 academic year and the 22nd since the series began in 2019. Stuelpnagel will present one session on Oct. 29, just before the Nov. 3 midterm elections, and a second a week later, to put the elections in context — first in Future Tense, then in Past Imperfect. The course will begin with a history of some of the most consequential midterm elections in American history and their impact. It will then turn to the past two years, the current state of democracy and what the 2026 results mean. Before joining Northwestern, Stuelpnagel was an Emmy Award-winning reporter for 25 years. For 15 of those years