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The Good Country
At the center of American history is a hole—a gap where some scholars’ indifference or disdain has too long stood in for the true story of the American Midwest. A first-ever …
The Midwestern Moment: The Forgotten World of Early Twentieth-Century Midwestern Regionalism, 1880-1940
The American Midwest wasn't always "fly-over country." In the early twentieth century it experienced a flowering of regional energy and industry - Midwestern writers, artists, …
The Plains Political Tradition
South Dakota' s unique blend of ethnic cultures, varied landscapes, and small, largely agrarian population have made for fascinating politics. This fourth volume of The Plains …
The Lost Region
The American Midwest is an orphan among regions. In comparison to the South, the far West, and New England, its history has been sadly neglected. To spark more attention to their …
The Plains Political Tradition
South Dakota is often thought of as a conservative or “red” state, but its political culture is much more variegated and unpredictable than such colour-coded references might …
From Warm Center to Ragged Edge
During the half-century after the Civil War, intellectuals and politicians assumed the Midwest to be the font and heart of American culture. Despite the persistence of strong …
Daschle vs. Thune
The story behind the unseating of a Senate majority leader the race between Tom Daschle and John Thune in South Dakota was widely acknowledged as ""the other big race of 2004."" …
The Conservative Heartland
In the wake of the 2016 presidential election there was widespread shock that the Midwest, the Democrats' so-called blue wall, had been so effectively breached by Donald Trump. But …
North Country
Travel north from the upper Midwest’s metropolises, and before long you’re “Up North”—a region that’s hard to define but unmistakable to any resident or tourist. Crops give way to …
The Plains Political Tradition
First impressions of the political landscape in South Dakota tend towards an assumption of hard-line conservatism, and yet such a conclusion barely scratches the surface of what …
Prairie Republic
American democratic ideals, civic republicanism, public morality, and Christianity were the dominant forces at work during South Dakota's formative decade. What?In our cynical age, …