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of Contents Third Series, Vol. 61, No. 4, Fall 2002
The Rise and Fall of the Booster Ethos in Dubuque, 1850–1861
--by Timothy R. Mahoney
TIMOTHY R. MAHONEY describes the complex inter-relationships among
three elite groups of early settlers in Dubuque: a genteel society repre-sented
by the Lang-worthy brothers; a male sub-culture of politics, the law, and Main
Street repre-sented by George Wallace Jones; and a Yorkshire immi-grant culture
represented by Richard Bonson. All contributed to a booster ethos that promoted
Dubuque’s early economic development. Mahoney shows in fascinating detail
how that booster ethos—and the devel-op-ment it spawned—was under-mined
by the Panic of 1857 that transformed the future of Dubuque and other frontier
towns like it.
Excavating the African American Experience in Iowa: A Review Essay
--by Bruce Fehn and Robert E. Jefferson
BRUCE FEHN AND ROBERT F. JEFFERSON review Outside In: African-American
History in Iowa, 1838–2000 and discuss some potentially fruitful topics
for further investigation of the African American experience in Iowa.
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Third Series, Vol. 61, No. 3, Summer 2002
Contesting Habitual Drunkenness: State Medical Reform for Iowa's Inebriates,
1902-1920
--by Sarah W. Tracy
SARAH W. TRACY tells how Iowa became a trailblazing state in the institutional
treatment of inebriates in the early twentieth century. She goes on to describe
the contrasting views of the proper treatment of inebriates held by medical professionals
and reformers, legislators and taxpayers, and patients and their families. She
concludes that inebriate reform and treatment was not a top-down affair
controlled exclusively, or even primarily, by medical professionals. Instead,
it was the result of a complex set of negotiations among a variety of actors,
and did not necessarily reflect a change of perspective on the nature of inebriety
from vice to disease.
A Farmer and the Ku Klux Klan in Northwest Iowa
--by Dorothy Schwieder
DOROTHY SCHWIEDER employs the letters of a farmer from northwest Iowa in the
mid-1920s to uncover the workings of the Ku Klux Klan in that area. The picture
that emerges is one of a constantly bickering group of anti-Catholic activists
always on the brink of disintegration.
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In Memoriam: Louise Rosenfield Noun (1908-2002)
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Third Series, Vol. 61, No. 2, Spring 2002
The Divergent Paths of Iowa Quakers in
the Nineteenth Century
--by Thomas D. Hamm
THOMAS D. HAMM recounts the history of Friends, or Quakers, in Iowa in the
nineteenth century, focusing on the divisions that emerged after the Civil War.
Some of those divisions mirrored what was happening elsewhere in the country,
but in other ways Iowa Friends took the lead in adopting innovations that would
transform Quakerism nationally.
Herbert Hoover's Early Schooling in Iowa and Its Place in Presidential Politics,
Community Memory, and Personal Identity
--by James Quinten Cahill
JAMES QUINTEN CAHILL reviews the evidence about Herbert Hoover's early schooling
in Iowa, then traces how that story became distorted through journalistic carelessness,
manipulation for political and public relations purposes, and Hoover's own psychological
needs.
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Series, Vol. 61, No. 1 Winter 2002
The 1853 Mormon Migration through Keokuk
--by Fred E. Woods and Douglas Atterberg
FRED WOODS and DOUGLAS ATTERBERG offer an
account of the Mormon encounter with Keokuk in 1853, when the Mormons used that
town as an outfitting post for their emigration to the Salt Lake Valley. Keokuk
offered an adequate temporary solution to the Mormons' search for an outfitting
point, while the town benefited from the Mormons' temporary presence.
Machine in the Garden: The Woolen Textile Industry of the
Amana Society, 1785-1942
--by Peter Hoehnle
PETER HOEHNLE describes developments in
the Amana Society's woolen textile industry from 1785 to 1942, concentrating on
the ironic but key role this capitalistic, industrial enterprise played in a communitarian
society perceived by outsiders as existing in a bucolic garden-like setting.
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