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some parts of our country stand out in

terms of the attention they get in American history New England invokes the

colonial era as well as many of our nations founding fathers. The South

flares up Civil War the far west reminds us of the

settlement of the American frontier the last conflicts between settlers and Native Americans

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what about the Midwest will Midwestern historian jobs

things to give in the Midwest short shrift

history Nexus case in his book

the most recent to make it today

program continues after the news good morning

good morning I’m Jim meadows in your listening to an encore broadcast of a previous focus program

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program for not taking calls this hour but will be back live tomorrow at 10

10 a.m. On wyll AM 580 today were talking about

talking about the history of the Midwest and how historians have treated by Midwest

Midwest or focus in here on the Prairie Midwest Eye not for instance the Great Lakes region

my guess John Lauck describes the region stretching from Ohio Indiana

Anna in Illinois on the eastern Nebraska Kansas in the Dakotas

the Western some people the states are all in flyover country not working

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what’s bothering about John Lauck says for many years historians secreted the Midwest much

much the same way not that important to the story of America

Johnson’s the Midwest has an important stories to tell in the historians

should be examining it remix the case for Midwestern history in his book The Lost Region

most recent toward a revival of Midwestern history is published by the universe

University of Iowa Press Jon Lovitz on the phone with us from South Dakota John welcome to f***

thanks Jim glad to be here I hope so I don’t know how

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well the car this morning

when I start it 23

Apartments in yes or no prior to

wind chill factor that it’s pretty chilly I saw in North Dakota

62 and 1000 so we’re doing pretty well compared to that

well we will try to take her thoughts of the cold and then look at Midwestern history

NFS far is is far is everybody listening today maybe you’re a student

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even historian yourself what are your thoughts about the history of

our part of the country and how was presented and maybe what we still don’t know you can

you can give us your thoughts email us at wilderness talking Illinois .edu

welcome your questions on Facebook and Twitter at focus

focus 580 and you know I never thought

Country Inn affect competing for attention from historians

different parts of the country have their own story

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mythologies connected to them what’s the story of the American Midwest

well it’s because they’re

of competition and I think that’s been good it’s been

Ben a healthy competition in the past unfortunately it’s kind of

dwindle down to essentially nothing in terms of the mid

the Midwest competing for center stage of a historian

the tension in recent years but you know that if course New England

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the American South first and especially New England and New York

New York what swear so much of academic research was based

alot of History focused on that region in the late 19th century

Centralia man from Wisconsin from portage Wisconsin Frederick Jackson

Jackson Turner said you know there’s a lot of a lot of History out here in our part of the country

the country to why don’t we write about that its just

just as important as the history and other regions and sell baseball hits leader

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leadership high school of historians was organized and they begin to focus

gifts on the Midwest in a very serious fashion on a bill to pay bill

scholarly organization and journals

Pulitzer Prize is it was a center of intellectual

selectivity for a long time then in Urbana

University of Illinois that was a man by the name of Clarence Alvord thank you for bringing that name up

I was going to buy was going to ask about them

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great well I just since we were talking and talking to an expert about Illinois

why is dimension all of his tremendous

this work for 20 or 30 years at the University of Illinois

part of the 20th century where he bill

built a very impressive a body of

historical research and I brought in a lot of others

and they turned out a lot of important books about the region in Alberta

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self important books about how the Midwest figured in Meijer

world events such as the American

Revolution and the French and Indian War etcetera mean it was very impressive

endeavor and there’s nothing like it today no one does this

now I want to get back to some of the specific you said about the Midwestern impact on American history

what else you said your ear saying that’s the Midwest

doesn’t get to the center of attention from historians today and I gather

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gather from what you wrote something changed around the mid century after World War II

it that after World War II the old

school of Midwestern history just fell apart the key

leaders of the group retired they moved on

Frederick Jackson Turner have died because stripper fashion became interested

other topics of course the Cold War had a major

major influence on focusing United States outward

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Blaine to attach to the Midwest for not being in c**

incomplete sync with the efforts of the efforts of the Cold War

the isolationist region of the United

United States and sell there was a bit of a hangover from

from certain people who thought the Midwest

world leadership whats up her because of back

historical profession and of course it became more diverse and better in a lot of ways

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play the one of the things that happened was the Midwest complete

completely dropped out of the conversation no longer was considered a

final region in a place where im portant

research took place another thing that happened was about 1960

Westerners became so much frustrated with lack of attention

region meeting trans Missouri West or the egg

the area of the United States be on the Missouri River and so they form their own sky

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so some Midwesterners

there and their old organization focus on the Midwest

begin the weather in a finally completely dropped

any offices on the Midwest in the 1960s  well

end in tion in terms of more recent years

historians have schools of history been organized in terms of region or have they been Oregon

organized by a bike in other way there still

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important regional dimensions to American history

of course the history of the American South still get some

tremendous amount of attention and part of that is because everybody knows exactly what the

what the south is in Pittsfield Confederacy behold states of the

the Confederacy everybody knows what the boundaries of the South R

and there’s a greater degree of historical and regional consciousness

in the south for good or bad

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helps to justify Moore historical research let me give you a

statistic Jim that I think reveals

how much further had the south is from of the Midwest

terms of its historical research at the University of Georgia

just to take one example there are 10 people who do research

in the history of the American South Salt n southern historia

at the University of Minnesota contrast which I think it’s bigger school

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there are exactly is zero is story ends

who are experts in the history of Minnesota where the Midwest

it’s just not done in the Midwest like it is another region

and so as a result there are no young

young professors there are no young graduate students are people writing dissertation

books there are no scholarly

organizations that faster research on the region and soul

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so therefore our consciousness of the region suffered as a result

well  first of all let me remind

talking about history and Midwestern history and its side Nicolette

recent years with John Locke in South Dakota along with Illinois

Illinois is part of the Midwest is the author of the Lost region 20

Midwestern history published by the University of Iowa press

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580 John I was wanting to get back in the sum of the areas

Midwestern history looked at

really thought of one of that was the Midwest impact

leading up to the Revolutionary War which is not the first

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the first thing that comes about because of course the 13 colonies that form the US

did not extend into the Midwest the Midwest then was divided between us

France and England what was going on Alta there in colonial times

affected the development of a nation yes this is one of those

things that gets overlooked and I think it can be attributed to

do a certain New England orientation to American history

words with people think about the spark that led to the American Revolution

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separation of the American colonies from Britain Bellefontaine

think about the conflicts in Boston and you know Massachusetts merchant

merchants reacting to wifey mean when was doing this

ultimately setting in motion the train of events that led to the revolution

as several Midwesterners pointed out including

Clarence Alvord at the University of Illinois way back in the 19

teens in 2013  the conflict

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originally stems from what was Ben called the backcountry

the colonial backcountry which we know it today as the Midwest because after the

after the French and Indian War the British took control of this Basque region

call the Midwest and they decided that they work

how to manage this area with something at the heavy hand

and they sent in a lot of troops and anchor delotta respect expensive because

because of this is a result they started to turn the screws

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rules on the colonists try to squeeze more money out of them

deal with all of these conflicts in the colonial backcountry and Co

salver pointed out and have no respect way back

back in the day the original spark of friction lab

lead to the revolution started

in the Midwest what we would think of as the Midwest

left today turned into an American tail the 19th century

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essentially the same region and so if we are conscious of the Midwest

Midwest and its history we understand events like the American Revolution

much much better but with no one pricing for a greater degree

historical awareness of the Midwest role in American history all of that

gets left on the cutting room floor and porch in Italy I guess

this soda foot works like the section of a James Fenimore Cooper

The Last of the Mohicans 20 years ago

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as as being part of the Midwestern missiles set the time on though I don’t think

I don’t think that movie came out that its parked at a big resurgence

no but I mean II love the movie of course because its set

in that area in this old French

Indian War era and area that is is absolutely

fascinating this is what led to the creation of the Midwest that led to the

dissolution of the French Empire in the New World

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world Atlanta to get all the British short term British occupation

Westin ultimately to the

the American seizure of the Midwest in the opening days of the

American Revolution when they sent George Rogers Clark outta place

places like Illinois and Indiana to seize the British outpost there

there and make this claim for the United States until Wednesday

negotiated the peace treaty at the end of the American Revolution they had strong clean

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claims to bring this territory into the new United States

but yes this the whole story of Cooper

leather stocking tail hawk eye of course that’s where

that’s where the term Iowa Hawkeyes comes from the people in

early Iowa James Fenimore Cooper and they like you

from these books and so that’s why we now have the Iowa Hawkeyes football team

what you may not like in Urbana

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another another piece of fiction which I guess that’s my Midwest Road soda

The Little House on the Prairie books of Laura’s Lauren

Laura Ingalls Wilder in the Midwest yes yes

they were she grew up Laura I’m talking about

primarily in western Minnesota and eastern South Dakota

and then ultimately she move down to Missouri northern Missouri where she

the writing help for daughter has been on a bus

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Hertz stories were about the early days in places like

Lake Minnesota settlers first moved and they first setup

setup Town the first till the Prairie they first began

rudimentary process of building Institution

Duchin Zen and assembling social life and building churches in school

school so this is this is a very important part of Midwestern history and probably

probably as your and you’re listener points out probably

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the one that’s best 9022 a popular

popular Audi I mean I would be interested in your opinion on this gem

little bit if your 40 and above your problem

probably fairly aware of the show

Michelle but I think it’s beginning to fade quite a bit earlier

generation so we’re going to have even left consciousness of this region I fear

yeah that’s something I wonder about that because I don’t know if I was a boy

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talk to people younger than my generation has a baby boomer one of my grade school

school teachers red from Laura Ingalls Wilder books to est

TV show came about which was tremendously popular but I think that was

was it was a use for jumping off point and I don’t know what the TV show

show did but I get the impression that there was the the books

books did a pretty good job of giving some idea of daily life

life at least from a child support if you sign out from the from the light from the 19th century

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I can’t they did a good job and I am a great

advocate of the books and I read them to my children

but I do think that it’s collective impact is feeding someone

somewhat because there are just a few are people who are familiar with them

I think the show gave a little bit of added boost

do the reading of the books and I think you know people in the last 15 years

is there cell are so inundated with media messages

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Obama Barnard with iPhones and Twitter etc

did just causes us to lose touch with those

deeper regional connections even more maybe I’m a bit too pessimistic about

about that but I think we’re going to have to work a little bit harder to maintain

connections to our shared regional past if you want to continue them

we have a cooler online for Steven Hoopeston good morning Iran focus

good morning thanks for taking my call

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falling up with you guys just talking about I couldn’t agree with you

im 13 and up what up what are not being taught

finish school about to you about the area and then also to agree with your

hello to compete with now it is so you know with the Internet

top of that they want to find something they can very easily find it

instantaneously I guess it doesn’t hold much of an interesting year up Midwest

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call the great flyover regions

which perhaps is unfortunate f*** my quick question is

John Hubbard

Palm Harbor

maybe not with allergies that he

Randy Indians for a mile and a half in the play that important in settling



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part of that thank you very much Steve

come to think of it I grew up in the south suburbs of Chicago myself and I remember

to the Hobbit trail is are all those concerning the same Hubbard

well I would just say very generally about

early Midwestern history that it is almost completely

erased from historical consciousness in terms of K 12

teaching and what children learn of courses is going on now

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what children where will learn and I

paper goggle Tribune a couple weeks ago

when they were preparing to launch this civics History Program

they found that like 50 K 12

didn’t even know who attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor and that’s what

so there’s a great day munition

mission of historical consciousness generally comes

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region is especially bad and yes Hubbard and

you mention the Leatherstocking Tales and James Fenimore Cooper at the early explorers

borders of the area George Rogers Clark in southern Illinois

all these people are so the boss 2 history

but I think it’s a little bit more attention and maybe a little pressure

pressure on are state legislators vocal teachers we can revive interested

local figures and I help but think it helped children become

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understand where they are in the world

the place that surrounds an unfortunate

sucked into this a digital world which is somewhat

and I think it hurts them in the long run it’s good to have roots

roots it’s good to know where you’re from it’s good to have a base

family is an important part of that it was the New York Times

story couple weeks ago about what’s the best thing that you can do to

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ensure for lack of a better word psychic stability

children and the all these this article went through the research

research done by many different professors around the country

the the key thing you can do is just teach your children who they are

and where they come from and what their family stories are and what the family

Family what’s the families ups and downs open

prepares them for life to get a better sense of where they are and where they’re going at home

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everybody has ups and downs but you can’t do that unless people understand where there from

what were going to take a short break right now and then we will continue

continue work talk about Midwestern history

dismiss it with my guest John Locke this is focus on wyll

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focus for talking with John Locke an attorney

AT&T store in South Dakota Tristan Midwest

Western history call the lost its published by the University of

Iowa Press what are the sing you were talking about in yearbook

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if I add Midwestern history isn’t getting on the right side of attention

is how many Western Area contributed to the Industrial Development

talk a little bit about that job yes

yes in the 19 century there was a bit off

commercial activity in New England in terms of industrial

dust realization that building plans

held in comparison to what can later in the Midwest

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mini pitbull this is what many people think of the Midwest as this Industrial Court

core of the region what’s now start off as the Rust Belt

but for decades of the central

industrial plant of the United States was basically

clear and from Central Ohio through to Michigan

Detroit of course in northern Indiana and Chicago

an unfortunate that heart of the country has fallen on sometimes

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tough times in recent decades but there is something about manufacturing

revival these days by in terms of Midwestern

Western history this period of rapid economic development

made the region an industrial power house and it made

Barry economically strong and supply

supplied to the plains and answer

supplied the guns on the shelves that help the world

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100 thing I would mention to is is the impact of

West on the Civil War because gifts

it had simply been a contest between the Old South England

it’s very likely that the South would have prevailed

seated and the early experiment

forming a republican government in the United States would a falling apart

but luckily for the north at that time they had

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the where with all of the Midwest to draw include

including its manufacturing sector but more importantly it’s so

soldiers and if you don’t through the list of who signed up to fight

Civil War you will find that the quotas

vastly oversubscribed in the Midwest

meaning bad about 55 of the people who could sign up to go

the gold fight in places like Indiana win in slot and this was buried

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very true also Illinois and Michigan Wisconsin

godson and they took the balance they made it possible for the north to win the war

when the war are you saying that may be on the number of people are you going in the army

Armed Forces for the Civil War was not a tie ins in New England it wasn’t

it was not it was not a specially in places in the urban centers in the Northeast in New York City

York City for example the could not be there

there a draft quote its infected big riots in New York City

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city anti draft riots I’m thinking of the movie are Gangs of New York

switch off of course is fertilized but it touches another little bit yeah exactly

that’s what I’m talking about this is the same set of circumstances but in

in the in the Midwest this was not a problem people rush to sign up because

does there was a great deal of empathy for the cause of the north

north and preserving the Union during the American republic and sew

there was not a problem raising Regiment Spartacus on tree of course

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where you’re located we had

prominent leaders like Abraham Lincoln who made it possible

who led the war effort and Ulysses S Grant from Galena Illinois

and then there were dozen

Illinois health north to win the war so I think

I think the role of the Midwest Inn in critical

episodes of American history Civil War it just gets it just gets forgotten

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people don’t remember

call now and this is Bruce in the mint good morning good morning

interesting topics and Happy New Year

originally from Iowa and but I grew up all over United States

when the sky goes back to you that’s what I call was part of your discussion

wilder and IQ ever been called American history on the East Coast

coastin this is back in the early 60’s hard is it to teachers

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ugly because of history teacher that thought

windmills word for drilling oil wells and

yeah I tell me about it and it took several pictures from my grandfather

farming Iowa to convince her otherwise but

what’s getting lost is the grandparents

kids are getting more more removed from farms I was lucky enough to spend a couple years with

look like grandfather feel like move around with my step father and stuffy work

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IBM from home without running away from home

home but I stayed on the farm for 2 years including up one room schoolhouse

what was that is now gone disappeared and its just the generational gap

more more removed from

people see you in 20 minutes to disconnect and is you said technologies

doesn’t really help anything anyway enjoy the show thank you

continue listening thank you very much and I wonder if I

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if it actually helps you think about history more

if your parents and grandparents live in a different situation in you

you grew up in the city but ur parents and grandparents who who grub on a farm

that might lead you to think about things more than fusa it all grown up in pharmacy

all grown up in the suburbs yeah I think his life truth to that Jem I

I think I think especially as we get older probably when we turn about 50

50 we really begin to think a little more seriously about what are we

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are roots are as I parents age they get older we wonder about their

experiences we wonder what kind of a culture

have a country that came from that’s a great opportunity for people that take a step back

soaking a little bit more their history

hope that if people hear about the book if they have something

klixen their minds think you know what I need to take my roots

I bit more seriously I have to stop being swept away

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what type of culture Elsmere support because of faith

if you are just glue dent popper

culture where are you going to take your kids from we’re going to take

take your kids from Hollywood to New York City cause that’s what most pop culture comes from

and it’s not the kind of place is its just to say that’s worth

that’s worth manufactured that’s where it comes from

there was a time in the Midwest where they were some more focused effort to

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create regional voices of people who wrote about the region

poets who were serious about the region that she’ll Lindsay

the in Illinois Edgar Lee masters in central Illinois

people that talk about their region therefore connected with other people

people that were located in the region had their own culture

think about and enjoy as opposed to

relying on a culture manufactured somewhere else by other people

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people who don’t understand where you left I just wanted ads

jim says were talking about central Illinois

writing this book end in a little bit of time

after I finish the writer from central Illinois

named Edgar Lee masters and I always knew him

courses in history I would always talk about him as being part

part of this movement that was once called the rim full from the village

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who began to turn against their hometown

criticize the region for being too austere and Puritans

when it cetera Apple iPhone but I actually look into the historical

miracle record and red what masters road

I didn’t rely on what other people told me was significant about him I found

doubt that he wrote a tremendous Obama about southern Illinois

very positive and its very impressive body of work including his

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books on the Sangam on river which is its a wonderful

are the rivers of America series but no one remembers

they only remember that one book the Edgar Lee masters

1915 because some people thought of you detect the Midwest

River anthology where in the in the end

of having of people in a small town graveyard

tell their stories he actually told stories based on some concept of the town

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the town clit Ray Rice

but it’s time as a young man in Illinois between St Peter

Petersburg New Salem and he is love

Petersburg in Lewiston okay I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m thinking something else but

but he he he spent a lifetime is young man there there was one of the town

what wonderful the other one he he thought there was some problems with it

Spoon River anthology that he was very much

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mixed bag it was very colorful and it was kinda funny and it was very clever because

because he was writing these poems in the book in the form of

tombstone in in inscriptions but anyway

too many people just take that one book and I think he was critical in the Midwest

mark this big rebellion among writers in the region

to attack the region that is really completely wrong is it special

specially as it relates to Edgar Lee masters if you look at the corpus of his way

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is work in the years after the Spoon River anthology

very writing about his home

how much he cares for it and its unfortunately he’s remember that way

what is remember that way because no one is writing Midwestern history anymore

attention to the other things you wrote and

unless we have a more sophisticated view of history in the region

we’re not going to hear those other voices well we are talking with John Locke on focus

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wyll author of the Lost region

tension to Midwestern history and that’s which port is full so much

92 County good morning around focus

hiya hiya Turner

talking about amazing Midwestern Apopka theatrical

exactly he’s he’s the guy that gave the Columbian Exposition speech

show that talked about the frontier was called the frontier thesis

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if basically helped develop the

the American myths that beat her empty land for free people

and it just implicitly accepted

tablets of of European racial

racialism for one I mean on the Thea

the great takeover of this land is a remedy

and the other is but a time does struck by the fact that

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Turner as if this was the only thing that he was talking about I think that hoe

contacts disc is quite important is sleep

exhibition wasnt really looked around in economics

but he started circulating it too

what’s a newspaper writers in it became

justified that the dominant phenomenon seems to me and

first hearing it out of service labor is

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is street is is not talk about much is labor history everywhere but the

but the end of the article for mint in Chicago

European left this and that gave us a tower work day which we don’t have anymore

is something that also get short Riften in and that’s not

not because of many Midwestern anti Midwestern think it’s just because of lack of

really authentic labor history so there’s a to justice and Oates I can I get some

I’m going to go back and try my pipes good luck thank you pump

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and I’m talking about a couple of areas

what’s been done about it both in terms of labor history

Native Americans in the Midwest well I was just going to come

comin on the corner of courses

remember to the extent is remembered very much for the frontier thesis

which basically argues that the fact that the United States had this western frontier

frontier were people kept moving out into had a major impact on how the country

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unlike other countries France or whatever

frontier influence so I think that’s an appointment

22 rays that’s why I remember

what is not remember 4 and this was my point and I & I hope I didn’t

clarified very well but my point was he became a leader in the

19 century in addition to promoting the frontier thesis

heat promoted the idea of focusing on this region and he said

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set after spending time on the East Coast at Johns Hopkins in other places that

that they just didn’t really focus on the interior of the country they were focused

full cast on other subject matter and this is

this is kind of a forgotten part of Frederick Jackson Turner the extent to which he was original

regional is an original s voice and that was my point with regard to Turner

okay let’s go ahead and take another call

flat Illinois good morning run Focus

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very interesting I just got to comments to make one and you can

Chicago reinventing the tell if you’re talking about the rough spot

Bell parts fit a one time Chicago was the lumber capital of the world

worldwide Chino bring that up in conversation I don’t know anybody that realizes that

how important was the mother of the reinvention to Chicago the other

iced out my vacation Nebraska

a book to read that might get people interested in their background

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Joe’s comes to mind but very entertaining

families there similar

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okay well thank you very much for your call Ron and I’m wondering

in terms of capital of what’s up before after

after the fire im wondering  that would have been before of course much

much of the Midwest you know we talked earlier about that you’re up James Cinemark

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Cooper in the French and Indian War etc during that period time

was heavily covered with with lumber

timber and sell one of the early industries

of the region was lumber and this is where we get

Blue Ox in all of this mythology surrounding

the lumber cancion of course still up farther north in northern Minnesota

Minnesota northern Michigan

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that was a phase in the economic development of the Midwest it was

it was followed up by this industrial fans in this industry

Trey still process to a certain extent but its not like it once was

okay let’s go ahead and I take another color let’s go to a line 1

110 good morning gentleman

I just want to make a little comet about

the state I grew up in Iowa

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62 grades

studying Nebraska I don’t remember who the author wife

social studies class you study to from where

coolant in a column in the city

that’s all I have to say the education thank you thank you very much

much and I actually that reminds me also reminds me

why I wanted to people riding in a similar specialties

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on a unit of local history Dana Wright Kentucky junior high school

high school social studies where you say they learned about the early settlers are local one room schoolhouse

full house in house smaller on clays became one town

interesting neighborhoods name street names

cetera what’s your opinion about hyper localizing

forgetting the story today students

what I think that is a great way to introduce

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children to the story of the region you have to start somewhere and if you

if you can localiza and have them dia de la loca

cool story and then have that local story fit into a bigger picture

picture important part of an exercise like that is to help the sea

what this local history means in terms of the totality of the region

region of the country in the world and I think of you can do that

if you can at once focus on the micro but still but use it

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to tell if your story then it starts to sing can people become more conscious of the

sense of their place and where they fit

Anne at same time Elko Nevada globalized sense of

things to do so it can be win win if its done properly

properly we are running out of time apologize for the calls and I’m not able to

table to get to one another in this hour a focus to Johnny wanted to get

get to give you the last word on do you see any hope for getting a bigger

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how big your voice from Midwestern history how do you change things in terms of history

why don’t you might think there is a little bit of hope

without a conference in Wisconsin last fall

Empire going to the conference I send an email to some of the other people think

let’s meet at the bar at the conference hotel and spa

talk about this problem of Midwestern history come on down will have a chat about

can think of some ways to deal with it and I thought maybe 3 or 4 people

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we at 35 people come to that meeting and so we formed

Midwestern history Working Group and weed

starter our own Facebook page in Twitter account

email list and sore trying to get people organize the little bad and we’re going to

to have some more meetings talk about this in March we’re going to meet in Omaha

Missouri Valley history conference center and we have some more meaning

land after that so if you’re really interested in that please

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can a member of the Midwestern history Working Group on the internet in

and maybe we can turn things around a little bit okay John

John John Locke we are out of time but I wanted to thank you for being on focus today

Johnlock of South Dakota is the author of the Lost region published by the University of

city of Iowa Press coming for a revival of interest in the Midwest History thank you for being

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