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Progress and Catastrophe: Public History at the Iowa State
Fair, 1854–1946
--by Chris Rasmussen
CHRIS RASMUSSEN portrays the ways history has been presented at
the Iowa State Fair from its founding in 1854 to its centennial exhibition in
1946. Rasmussen shows how the fair’s exhibits and its entertainments, always
in some tension with one another, suggested nearly antithetical views of history
and of the certainty of progress. While the fair’s exhibits represented
steady progress, its most popular grandstand entertainments in the early twentieth
century — nightly disaster spectacles — brooded over the threat of
precipitous decline.
From Cob to Can: The Development of Iowa’s Canning
Industry in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
--by Derek Oden
DEREK ODEN offers a survey of the development of Iowa’s
canning industry in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He reviews
the obstacles canneries encountered as well as their relationship to town boosters,
the farmers with whom they contracted, and the workers they employed. He concludes
that the canneries offered economic benefits to the communities in which they
were located, most notably jobs and an outlet for farm products, but those benefits
came with some social costs.
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They
Tell Their Story: The Dakota Internment at Camp McClellan in Davenport, 1862–1866
--by Sarah-Eva Ellen Carlson
SARAH-EVA
ELLEN CARLSON tells the story, from the Dakota perspective, of the internment
of Dakota at a prison camp in Davenport after the Conflict of 1862 between Dakota
and white settlers in Minnesota. Carlson’s account is based on newly translated
letters from Dakota prisoners to Presbyterian missionaries.
The
Sergeant John R. Rice Incident and the Paradox of Indian Civil Rights
--by Thomas A. Britten and Larry W. Burt
THOMAS A.
BRITTEN AND LARRY W. BURT relate an incident in which a Winnebago (Ho Chunk) soldier
killed in action in the Korean Conflict was denied burial in a Sioux City cemetery
because of a race restrictive clause in the cemetery’s burial contract.
They set the incident and its aftermath in the context of the Cold War, the burgeoning
civil rights movement, and the not altogether parallel Indian rights movement.
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“A
Melody Before Unknown”:
The Civil War Experiences of Mary and Amanda Shelton
--by Theresa R. McDevitt
THERESA R.
McDEVITT relates the experiences of two sisters-Mary and Amanda Shelton-who
worked in the Civil War diet kitchens established by another Iowan, Annie Wittenmyer.
They faced challenges to their reputation, virtue, and abilities, but succeeded
in doing work that they valued and was valued by others. After the war, they struggled
to find similarly rewarding work.
Yours
for Liberty:
Women and Freethought in Nineteenth-Century Iowa
--by Joanne Passet
JOANNE PASSET
uses the letters Iowa women wrote during the nineteenth century to freethought
periodicals to explain what drew women to the freethought movement and what they
did to perpetuate it.
Manuscript
Collections:
The Iowa Women’s Archives
--by Sharon M. Lake
SHARON M.
LAKE describes the political collections held in the Louise Noun–Mary Louise
Smith Iowa Women’s Archives at the University of Iowa.
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Iowa
Physicians: Legitimacy, Institutions, and the Practice of Medicine
Part 2, Putting Science into Practice, 1887-1928
--by Susan C. Lawrence
SUSAN C. LAWRENCE
offers the second in her three-part series on the history of medicine in Iowa.
Here she traces institutional and professional changes and surveys major public
health concerns and programs from 1887 through 1928. She finds that these developments
converged in the advent of an expensive, science-based medicine that needed large
towns or cities to survive; as a result medicine began its retreat from Iowa’s
small towns and rural areas.
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