- Midnight in Vehicle City: General Motors, Flint, and the Strike That Created the Middle Class
- Folktales and Legends of the Middle West
- How to Speak Midwestern
- Nothin' But Blue Skies: The Heyday, Hard Times, and Hopes of America's Industrial Heartland
- The Third Coast: Sailors, Strippers, Fishermen, Folksingers, Long-Haired Ojibway Painters, and God-Save-the-Queen Monarchists of the Great Lakes