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Midwest Reading Group
April 11 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Do you love being a Midwesterner? Do you want to read difficult books and talk about them with other smart people? Join the pub‘s new biweekly Midwest Reading Group!
We’ll be reading Jon Lauck’s 2022 book The Good Country: A History of the American Midwest 1800-1900. Lauck charts the development of democratic ideals in the region from the organization of Ohio through just before WWI, aiming to tell a broad history of the regular working people who made up the region during that century. Lauck is the leader of the new revival of Midwestern Studies, and we’ll take to task the kind of new regional history he proposes. For Meeting 1, please read the Introduction, pages 1-19. Hosted by Lillian Lippold.
Email [email protected] if you need help getting the reading (scanned pages).
Reading Schedule:
Session 1 – April 11: Pages 1-19. Introduction.
Session 2 – April 25: Pages 20-50. Chapter 1.
Session 3 – May 9: Pages 51-85. Chapter 2.
Session 4 – May 23: Pages 86-119. Chapter 3.
Session 5 – June 6: Pages 120-153. Chapter 4.
Session 6 – June 20: Pages 154-204. Chapter 5, through Conclusion.