Jon lauck biography

I recently read Jon Lauck’s excellent history of the 2004 South Dakota Senate race between John Thune and Tom Daschle.

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Daschle v. Thune: Anatomy of a High-Plains Senate Race is one of the many Lauck books shaping the historical study of the Midwest.

Caitlin Evans has more at Midstory:

When Dr. Jon Lauck’s academic career led him down the path of Midwest history studies, he made an unexpected discovery — the field didn’t really exist.

“There’s so much information, but the information is not organized around regional, Midwestern history,” Lauck said. “It’s just focused in other ways. So you have to go in, read it, rethink it, reorient the information so that it’s speaking to the story of the region.”

According to a paper written by Paul Mokrzycki, when regional subfields of study took off in the mid-20th century, the Midwest was glossed over in favor of rising interest in the South and West.