- The Good Country: A History of the American Midwest, 1800–1900
- The Good Country: A History of the American Midwest, 1800–1900
- From Warm Center to Ragged Edge: The Erosion of Midwestern Literary and Historical Regionalism, 1920-1965 (Iowa and the Midwest Experience)
- Daschle Vs. Thune: Anatomy of a High-Plains Senate Race
- Prairie Republic: The Political Culture of Dakota Territory, 1879–1889









