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Jon K. Lauck

The Good Country: A History of the American Midwest, 1800–1900

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Illustration of a man with a shovel working a farm; the background shows scenes of family and communal life

Deep States

The old Midwest was a place animated by the belief that a self-governing republic is the best regime for man.

by Wilfred M. McClay via Claremont Review of Books on May 31, 2023

Map of Iowa and a drawing of a factory processing corn.

Searching for the Spirit of the Midwest

Was the nineteenth-century Midwest “the most advanced democratic society that the world had seen”?

by Phil Christman via The New Republic on February 22, 2023

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