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The biographical dictionary of Iowa
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ISBN: 1587297248 9781587297243 9781587296857 1587296853 Year: 2008 Publisher: Iowa City Published for the State Historical Society of Iowa by the University of Iowa Press

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Written by an impressive team of more than 150 scholars and writers, the readable narratives include each subject's name, birth and death dates, place of birth, education, and career and contributions. Many of the names will be instantly recognizable to most Iowans; others are largely forgotten but deserve to be remembered. Beyond the distinctive lives and times captured in the individual biographies, readers of the dictionary will gain an appreciation for how the character of the state has been shaped by the character of the individuals who have inhabited it.

The WPA guide to 1930s Iowa
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ISBN: 1587296632 9781587296635 9781587295706 1587295709 Year: 2007 Publisher: Iowa City University of Iowa Press

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Originally published during the Great Depression, The WPA Guide nevertheless finds much to celebrate in the heartland of America. Nearly three dozen essays highlight Iowa's demography, economy, and culture but the heart of the book is a detailed traveler's guide, organized as seventeen different tours, that directs the reader to communities of particual social and historical interest.

Iowa history reader
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ISBN: 1609380118 1587297086 9781587297083 9781609380113 9781587296345 1587296349 0813821770 9780813821771 Year: 2008 Publisher: Iowa City University of Iowa Press

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Rather than survey the basic facts, the essayists engage readers in the actual making of Iowa's history by trying to understand the meaning of its past. By providing comprehensive accounts of topics in Iowa history that embrace the broader historiographical issues in American history, such as the nature of Progressivism and Populism, the debate over whether women's expanded roles in wartime carried over to postwar periods, and the place of quantification in history, the essayists contribute substantially to debates at the national level at the same time that they interpret Iowa's distinctive...

Iowa
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ISBN: 1587296764 9781587296765 0585114706 9780585114705 0813823072 0813823064 9780813823072 9780813823065 9781587295492 1587295490 Year: 1996 Publisher: Ames Iowa State University Press

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In this engrossing history of the Hawkeye State, Dorothy Schweider reveals a place of fascinating grassroots politics, economic troubles and triumphs, surprising cultural diversity, and unsung natural beauty. Above all, this is the history of the people of Iowa and the lives they have led-the accomplishments of both ordinary and not-so-ordinary Iowans.

Benjamin Shambaugh and the intellectual foundations of public history
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ISBN: 158729401X 9781587294013 0877457891 9780877457893 Year: 2002 Publisher: Iowa City University of Iowa Press

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Conard draws upon an unpublished, mid-1940's biography by research historian Jacob Swisher to trace the forces that shaped Shambaugh's early years, his administration of the State Historical Society of Iowa, his development of applied history and commonwealth history in the 1910's and 1920's, and the transformations in his thinking and career during the 1930's. Framing this intriguingly interwoven narrative are chapters that contextualize Shambaugh's professional development within the development of the historical profession as a whole in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and

Was this heaven?
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ISBN: 1587291096 9781587291098 0877455201 9780877455202 Year: 1995 Publisher: Iowa City, Iowa University of Iowa Press

"A secret to be burried" : the diary and life of Emily Hawley Gillespie, 1858-1888
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ISBN: 1587291339 9781587291333 0877452377 9780877452379 0877452296 9780877452294 Year: 1989 Publisher: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press,


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The Welsh in Iowa
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ISBN: 178316591X 0708322417 9780708322413 9780708322222 0708322220 9781783165919 Year: 2009 Publisher: Cardiff University of Wales Press

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The Welsh in Iowa is the history of the little known Welsh immigrant communities in the American Midwestern state of Iowa. Dr. Walley's book identifies what made the Welsh unique as immigrants to North America, and as migrants and settlers in a land built on such groups.

Out of this world
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ISBN: 1609380207 1587297663 9781587297663 9781609380205 9781587296376 1587296373 0140241701 9780140241709 0670858080 9780670858088 Year: 2008 Publisher: Iowa City University of Iowa Press

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When a life-threatening allergic illness demanded that she eat only organically grown food, writer and professor Mary Swander built a new life in a former one-room Iowa schoolhouse in the middle of the largest Amish community west of the Mississippi. In this rich and engaging memoir, which follows the course of a farmer’s year, she writes from the well-named Fairview School to share the radical transformation of her life.


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From Blue Mills to Columbia
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ISBN: 1587296721 9781587296727 9781587296116 158729611X Year: 2007 Publisher: Iowa City University of Iowa Press

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Historian Kenneth Lyftogt introduces us to the volunteer soldiers of the Pioneer Grays and Cedar Falls Reserves infantry companies and in turn examines Iowa's role in the Civil War. Many of these soldiers served the Union for the duration of the war, from the early fighting in Missouri to Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Sherman's destructive marches through Georgia and the Carolinas. Their letters home are Lyftogt's primary sources, as are editorials and articles published in the Cedar Falls Gazette.

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