The Working White House
Carver
Caucus Iowa
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exhibit website
An in-depth look at Iowa’s first-in-the-nation
political caucuses in a 10,000 square foot exhibition
celebrating Iowa’s unique brand of citizen-democracy.
Iowa
Medal of Honor Heroes
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exhibit website
The
“Iowa Medal of Honor Heroes” exhibit is
a permanent state-of-the-art multimedia kiosk located
in the rotunda of the Iowa State Capitol building. The
exhibit is also on the Internet accessed via the link
above. It recognizes Iowa soldiers who received the
Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest military
award. The Medal of Honor is given for distinguished
gallantry during hostile action and is presented by
the President of the United States in the name of Congress.
Authorized in 1861 by President Abraham Lincoln, the
Medal of Honor has recognized the valor and sacrifice
of 108 Iowans in 10 major conflicts. Fewer than 3,500
soldiers have received the award, more than half of
them posthumously.
Mammoth:
Witness to Change
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exhibit website
The close of the great
Ice Age brought many changes to the upper Midwest. It was an ending time and a
beginning time. The mighty surges of ice sheets and glaciers from the north had
ended. Great rivers, vegetation, animals, and the landscape itself changed as
the climate warmed. With these changes came human habitation.
The great beasts that had lived during the Pleistocene epoch watched as their
world and their dominance disappeared. Among these huge beasts were the largest
of them all—the mammoths.
Once monarchs of their realm, mammoths now relinquished dominance to humans.
Once protected in their long, woolly coats, they now faced warming temperatures
and a changing environment.
Two particular mammoths, separated by a few hundred miles and a few hundred
years, witnessed their world changing. Their deaths, in what are now Iowa and
Wisconsin, preserved those particular moments in time.
The
Delicate Balance: Human Values and Iowa's Natural Resources
A
look at lowa's natural resources and how people have
used them from prehistoric times to the present. This
exhibit features wildlife, fossils and Native American
collections. Try standing in the cramped coal mine,
listen to the miners at work and drill a shot hole into
the coal.
You
Gotta Know the Territory
Examines
Iowa's early years as a territory (1838-1846). Explore
native cultures, immigration, farming, town life and
human rights. Push a plow, carry water buckets with a
shoulder yoke, and watch a video which narrates the
diary of people moving to Iowa.
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