📍Sergeant Floyd Monument Sioux City, Iowa

The Library of Congress, to their eternal glory, has provided nearly 2,000 recordings of poets and writers dating back to 1943. We're talking T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Adrienne Rich, Sandburg, Robert Frost, and more. Check it out here! loc.gov/programs/poetr…

Federal judge rules construction must stop on the president's ballroom until Congress authorizes it: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

BREAKING: A judge orders the Trump administration to halt construction of $400 million White House ballroom unless Congress approves the plan. apnews.com/article/trump-…

National Trust President and CEO Carol Quillen has released the following statement in response to today's ruling grant a preliminary injunction halting construction of the White House ballroom: ow.ly/Upnt50YBu8o

The Arcane Texas Fact of the Day: 160 years ago today, on April 1, 1866, Jesse Chisholm commenced his first cattle drive up the famous trail that would be named after him. Over the next 17 years, five million cattle and one million mustangs would follow. It was the largest

Big moment for some Texas artists and Oklahoma's Kaitlin Butts in the video for the biggest country song in years. Ella Langley Chooses Texas Artists for New “Choosin’ Texas” Video savingcountrymusic.com/ella-langley-c…

Ella Langley’s ‘Choosin’ Texas’ Video: All the Cameos You May Have Missed Miranda Lambert is easy to spot, but here's who else the rising country star cast in her cinematic clip: rollingstone.com/music/music-co…

Pony Express has a birthday today. Attn, folks in St. Joseph, MO, and Seneca and Marysville, KS (an easy day-trip drive south of Lincoln, btw) x.com/pitsenberger/s…

PRCA Cowboys Choosin’ Texas 🎶🤠 Country music superstar Ella Langley called on authentic cowboys for the reshoot of her hit video “Choosin’ Texas.” Read the fully story here: prorodeo.co/4cq66Fa #WeArePRORODEO

3 Apr 1860: The Pony Express begins operations, carrying mail between #Missouri and California, dramatically reducing delivery time across the expanding United States. Though short-lived, it operated for only 18 months before being rendered obsolete by the completion of the

60+ yrs after his death, Frank Lloyd Wright remains America’s most famous architect. His career spanned 7 decades and w/ hundreds of realized structures built. Architectural Digest shares 20 Frank Lloyd Wright houses that redefined American architecture: ow.ly/neS550W4aha

Our new issue is now out! Featured: Midwestern music, architecture, opera, photography, women and Populism, Ohio's James Garfield, and more. Free access to the introduction "Narrative Inequality and the Flickering Flames of Midwestern Regionalism" at link muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/article…

On April 7, 1959, Marty Robbins entered Bradley Studios in Nashville, Tennessee, to record “El Paso.” Released as a single from his album Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs, it became a major crossover hit. Nearly seven decades later, the ballad remains popular among genre fans.

"Ramble On" is 56 years old and Robert Plant just walked onto The Late Show and made it sound like he wrote it this morning.

Album Review – Ella Langley’s “Dandelion” savingcountrymusic.com/album-review-e…

Our new issue features two pieces about O.E. Rolvaag's "Giants in the Earth," one a review of a new opera about the novel and another a consideration of the novel itself, which was recently reissued by sdhspress muse.jhu.edu/issue/56644

Oh, Pioneers! Red Cloud, Nebraska, and her favorite daughter The small town of Red Cloud (pop. ~1,000) has transformed its economy by leaning into its literary and architectural heritage. medium.com/small-towns-re… #WillaCather #SmallTowns #Nebraska #HistoricPreservation #econdev

The journal Illinois Heritage, the history magazine of the Illinois State Historical Society, is shutting down

Stromsburg is a great small town where I get my Swedish snacks at the grocery store.