The Good Country

The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation and Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library & Museum welcome Jon Lauck to the stage to discuss his book The Good Country: A History of the American Midwest, 1800–1900.

His book describes a rich civic culture that prized education, literature, libraries, and the arts; developed a stable social order grounded in Victorian norms, republican virtue, and Christian teachings; and generally put democratic ideals into practice to a greater extent than any nation to date.

Where
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum
303 Pearl St. NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49504

When
Tuesday, May 16, 2023
Private Friends of Ford Member Reception: 5:30 p.m.
Public Program: 7 p.m.

Please RSVP by May 12, 2023

A Zoom alternative is available here. 

Lectures are free and open to the public. Since seating is limited, reservations are strongly encouraged. Walk-ins will be accommodated first come, first served.

*You must be a current member to attend the Friends of Ford reception. Need to check your status? Please contact Abby Vander Vliet at (616) 254-0396 or ford@38foundation.org.

Jon K. Lauck is the author of several books, including The Lost Region: Toward a Revival of Midwestern History (University of Iowa Press, 2013); From Warm Center to Ragged Edge: The Erosion of Midwestern Regionalism, 1920-1965 (University of Iowa Press, 2017); and The Good Country: A History of the American Midwest (University of Oklahoma Press, 2022). Lauck has worked for several years as a full-time professor, a part-time professor, and a lawyer and is currently serving as an adjunct professor of history and political science at the University of South Dakota and as Editor-in-Chief of Middle West Review. He earned his Ph.D. in history from the University of Iowa and his law degree from the University of Minnesota.

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