The Good Country: A History of the American Midwest, 1800–1900. by Jon K. Lauck. Buy on Bookshop. University of Oklahoma Press, 366 pp., $30.99. In some ways, the case Lauck puts forward is ...

Why the Midwest should be a role model, not a punchline. In ‘The Good Country,’ Jon K. Lauck says the region was a cradle of progressivism and a template for fairness in education, voting ...

"The Good Country: A History of the American Midwest 1800-1900" by Jon K. Lauck (The University of Oklahoma Press) Dismissed as Flyover Country. Romanticized as the Heartland. Now, hi ...

The Midwest was the biggest region in the country at the end of the 1800s. It's where all the manufacturing took place. It's where we grew our food.

The Midwest Country Music Organization has been around since 2017 and its mission is to help country music artists all around the Midwest make music. Every year they hold an awards show and this ...

Jon Lauck is the editor of the scholarly publication Middle West Review and the author most recently of "The Good Country: A History Of The American Midwest 1800-1900," and he joins us now.

In September 1879, Walt Whitman headed for the American Midwest. The 60-year-old poet traveled from Philadelphia to St. Louis, then visited Kansas before moving on to Colorado. The beauty and ...

Established and rising stars from across country music will convene at Lakeside Ashland this August, when the venue hosts its first-ever Midwest Country Fest. Texan Granger Smith — and his alter ...