Jon Lauck
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Great Lakes: The freighter American Spirit departed Superior with ore from BNSF for Algoma Steel. The air temp was around zero. 12/8/2022. Credit: Schauer Photo Images
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World’s Biggest Sixpack has been restored back to Old Style at City Brewing in LaCrosse, WI
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Bob Barker of Mission, South Dakota on Mitchell’s Corn Palace
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Fleetwood Max and I went on an adventure tonight and found the exact geographic place of Minnesota, Iowa, and South Dakota
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My 8 year old just took this photo in rural Lake County, South Dakota and I’m impressed
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How the West Could’ve Looked: an early draft bill from a key House committee, 1860
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“Gray and Gold” (1942) by John Rogers Cox of Terre Haute, Indiana at
@ClevelandArt
The storm clouds symbolize America’s plunge into WWII
@vinceguerrieri
@SkrticX
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Funeral of 100 year old WWII navy fighter pilot Harold Thune in Murdo, S.D.
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Inland Steel published a magazine called *Inland: The Magazine of the Middle West* from 1953-90. This is the first cover, the iconic bridge in Chicago. Inland now owned by Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. Image from Indiana University Northwest Calumet Regional Archives h/t
@robertloerzel
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My kid has a social studies test this morning over the capitals of the Midwest. Even he knows Kentucky isn't in the Midwest.
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Bridge over the Ohio River from Steubenville, Ohio to West Virginia
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A stark display of the bitter intra-state East v. West River rivalry in South Dakota on a gas station t-shirt:
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Commodore Perry’s victory on Lake Erie, hanging in the Ohio statehouse rotunda
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My sainted mother just turned 90 and the
@daily_leader
in her little prairie town did a nice story about her. She is, wisely, not on Twitter and one of this world’s nicest people. Happy birthday Mom.
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John E. Miller, 75, the great historian of South Dakota and the Midwest, died today in Brookings S.D.. He taught history at SDSU for 30 years. He was a great friend and mentor, a scholar, and a sincere gentleman. He is best remembered for his 3 books on Laura Ingalls Wilder.
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-14 degrees in Brookings for the Ice Bowl featuring SD State Jackrabbits v Montana State Bobcats
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In 2002, Minnesota designated the image known as "Grace" the official state photograph. It was taken by Swedish American photographer Eric Enstrom in 1918. It depicts an elderly man bowing his head and giving thanks. The image was colorized by Enstrom’s daughter, Rhoda Nyberg.
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Missouri River bridge, near Yankton, SD, dividing the states of Nebraska and South Dakota. This is mile marker zero (note the sign).
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Chart from today's Wall Street Journal: percentage of respondents who consider themselves in the Midwest
@bkesling
@jenniferlevitz
@MwHWG
@ohioarchivists
@UnivNebPress
@WhaHistory
@Kansas_Press
@myHNN
@in_bureau
@bradleybirzer
@JoshLipnik
#twitterstorians
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Most Midwest Tweet Ever: at the Brainerd, Minnesota ice fishing tournament the ranch dressing froze
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Winter Fleet 2024, Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. h/t Ships on Great Lakes
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Looks like I’m in the green -51 degrees pocket, i.e. the coldest place in the country
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Dale Wayne Lauck passed away today, December 15, 2022 in Madison SD just as an ice storm/blizzard was hitting eastern South Dakota (today the winds were 37 mph, making for a classic bit of South Dakota winter misery). Some thoughts on this great man here
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There is no wind today in Pierre, South Dakota. I don’t think that has ever happened before.
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A lot of the Germans-from-Russia who ended up migrating to the Dakotas (because the czars rescinded their exemption from military service) farmed in Ukraine just north of the Black Sea
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Northern lights. Taken Northwest of Miller, South Dakota. Photo from the South Dakota Aurora Notification Group.
@cyn_mix
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I bought a vintage map of Lake County, South Dakota, my home county, and I’m pretty darn excited about it
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The USS Pierre, named after the capital of South Dakota, will be christened this weekend in Mobile, Alabama
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The children of the recently passed historian John Miller stopped by my house today. They brought the files that Professor Miller kept on my work on the Midwest. They also brought my books that he had read and heavily annotated. Very sad to receive, but very special.
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Went to watch the baseball opener tonight at Aspen Park in Brandon Valley, South Dakota along the Big Sioux River
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The walleye bite is hot in the Dakotas. You better get out there before the ice starts to thin.
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I caught a big smallmouth on a Midwestern lake and I'm pretty happy about it
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A family in front of their sod house in Custer County, Nebraska, 1887. h/t OldDay
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I was out in the short grass country of West River South Dakota just after a storm coated the land and barbed wire fences with ice
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You mean pheasant
It looks like Trump's senior staff are all packing up their offices today. Here, Mark Meadows' wife Debbie appears to be loading up some type of taxidermied partridge
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1922 cartoon from the Chicago Tribune: “The New Yorker’s Idea of the Map of the United States” by John T. McCutcheon
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Richest American cities in 1949: Cleveland, Milwaukee, Chicago, Toledo, Dayton, Akron…. from
@SaysSimulation
fyi
@Kurt_Steiner
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Abigail and I went to the Midwest Book Awards last night in St. Paul. She was great luck as my recent book on the Midwest brought home the gold in the history category. The book “Nobody Likes A Booger” swept the children’s categories and was the darling of the gala.
@MIPA_org
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The Tri-state Marker, where Iowa connects with South Dakota and Minnesota
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Willow Lake, SD. The streets here are named for Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses Grant, and James Garfield, all Midwestern GOP presidents and Unionists
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Thanks Midwest friends. You’re all great people and I’m glad to know you.
Jon Gjerde Prize for Best Book on
#Midwest
History 📚
Congratulations to
@jlauck1941
for "A History of the American Midwest, 1800–1900" (
@OUPress
)!
#MidwestHistory2023
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RIP Senator Bob Dole of Kansas. I worked for him in Iowa in 1995/96. On this swing we picked up Senator Grassley and drove around to towns like Muscatine, Burlington, and Keokuk. I drove the suburban and Dole was hilarious. He was a great Midwesterner.
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This elevation map gives you a good sense of the dimensions of the Prairie Coteau, a wedge-shaped and lake-filled plateau in northeastern South Dakota that you sometimes miss when you're driving around and aren't paying particular attention to topographic matters.
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Watching “The Best Years of Our Lives”(1946) about returning World War II veterans coming back to Boone City, someplace in the Midwest. In this scene a former bomber pilot walks through a field of bombers built in the Midwest that they are scrapping after the war
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My daughter and I took (probably) our last ice fishing trip of the year at Big Stone Lake, a Minnesota-South Dakota border lake along the continental divide. The perch were biting. Bring on spring.
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Thank you
@SSML_MWLit
This is very kind of you.
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1960 - Sioux Falls - JFK speaks at the National Plowing Contest. Compliments of Dave Murphy.
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Wild sky behind an old Lutheran Church in downtown Sioux Falls South Dakota tonight
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Watching Oppenheimer. This is Ernest Orlando Lawrence, who was born on 8th August, 1901, at Canton, South Dakota. His parents, Carl Gustavus and Gunda (née Jacobson) Lawrence, were the children of Norwegian immigrants
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The walleye are biting tonight on the glacial lakes of South Dakota
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Iowa, 1939
Caption: Plowing with ten-horse team. Ryken farm, Hardin County, Iowa
Source: Farm Security Administration, Arthur Rothstein photographer
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Iowa State University historian Jeff Bremer with his new history of Iowa published by
@Kansas_Press
fyi
@notesoniowa
@iowasnewsnow
@IAStateHistory
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Front page of South Dakota's largest newspaper
@argusleader
today
@bydanaferguson
@jmartNYT
@LarrySabato
@TheFix
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Thanks
@NewberryLibrary
for a great Midwest panel today. Thanks
@RAYGUNshirts
for the map!
@LieslMOlson
@dbhunt
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The USS Pierre (LCS-38), an Independence-class littoral combat ship of the United States Navy named for the capital of South Dakota, will be launched this weekend. Pictured: the sister ship USS Independence
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The US Steel fleet, moored for the winter in the Kinnickinnic Basin by Milwaukee during the 1940s
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Sioux City: a photographer's photo essay of waving goodbye to her elderly parents
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