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1) Main Street public library: community places and reading spaces in the rural heartland, 1876-1956
Author
Publisher
University of Iowa Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Author
Publisher
University of Iowa Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
On Behalf of the Family Farm traces the development of women's activism and agrarian feminisms in the Midwest after 1945, as farm women's lives were being transformed by the realities of modern agriculture. Author Jenny Barker Devine demonstrates that in an era when technology, depopulation, and rapid economic change dramatically altered rural life, midwestern women met these challenges with their own feminine vision of farm life.
Author
Publisher
University of Iowa Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
What is life about but the continuous posing of the questions: what happens next, and what do we make of it when it arrives? In these highly evocative personal essays, Douglas Bauer weaves together the stories of his own and his parents' lives, the meals they ate, the work and rewards and regrets that defined them, and the inevitable betrayal by their bodies as they aged. In these clear-eyed, wry and graceful essays, Douglas Bauer presents with candor...
Author
Publisher
University of Iowa Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Brian Duffy has been poking fun at the Iowa caucuses for just about as long as they've been a media circus, since the 1970s. Now, the longtime editorial cartoonist has gathered a selection of his best images lampooning the politicians on their quadrennial stampedes through Iowa's fields and towns. Whether you're anticipating or dreading the onset of another caucus season in 2016, this book will put it all into perspective. From Jimmy Carter's innovative...
Author
Publisher
University of Iowa Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Historian Sara Egge offers critical insights into the woman suffrage movement by exploring how it emerged in small Midwestern communities--in Clay County, Iowa; Lyon County, Minnesota; and Yankton County, South Dakota. Examining this grassroots activism offers a new approach that uncovers the sophisticated ways Midwestern suffragists understood citizenship as obligation. These suffragists, mostly Yankees who migrated from the Northeast after the Civil...
Author
Publisher
University of Iowa Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Following the Dakota-U.S. War of 1862, the federal government passed legislation exiling all Dakota (whether they had participated in the conflict or not) from Minnesota. Dakota families were relocated to an isolated and drought-plagued reservation in Dakota Territory called Crow Creek, while over three hundred Dakota men were incarcerated at a military prison in Davenport, Iowa. Historians have neglected to tell the important story of the Dakota's...
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