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Table of Contents, Third Series, Vol. 65, No. 4, 2006
We Were All Mixed Together”:
Race, Schooling, and the Legacy of Black Teachers in Buxton, 1900–1920
--by Richard M. Breaux
RICHARD M. BREAUX describes the racial climate in the schools of Buxton, Iowa, in the early twentieth century. He argues that at a time when segregation and racial violence were on the rise across the country, the presence of African American teachers and integrated schools in Buxton were key factors in residents’ memories of racial harmony in the town.
The Power of Prickliness:
Iowa’s H. R. Gross in the U.S. House of Representatives
--by David W. Schwieder and Dorothy Schwieder
DAVID W. SCHWIEDER AND DOROTHY SCHWIEDER trace and analyze the political career of H. R. Gross, U.S. congressman from Iowa’s Third District from 1948 to 1974. They conclude that his focus on government spending did not result in a major budgetary impact, but his legislative style improved the deliberative process and his close scrutiny of fiscal legislation provided a degree of accountability often lacking in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Index to Volume 65
Table
of Contents, Third Series, Vol. 65, Nos. 2 &
3, Spring/Summer 2006
The Place of Mormon Handcart
Companies in America’s Westward Migration
Story
--by William G. Hartley
WILLIAM G. HARTLEY provides an overview
of the experience, setting it in the context of
the overall overland trail migration from the 1840s
to the late 1860s.
Leadership, Planning, and
Management of the 1856 Mormon Handcart Emigration
--by Don H. Smith
DON H. SMITH discusses the leadership,
planning, and management of the 1856 handcart migration.
He argues that those aspects of the plan were executed
with care and skill and that the disasters that
befell the last two companies of 1856 were due to
factors beyond the leaders’ control.
Iowa City Bound: Mormon Migration
by Sail and Rail, 1856–1857
--by Fred E. Woods
FRED E. WOODS, often using the voices
of the emigrants themselves, narrates the experiences
of those emigrants as they made their way by ship
from Liverpool to the United States and then by
rail to Iowa City.
Handcarts across Iowa: Trial
Runs for the Willie, Haven, and Martin Handcart
Companies
--by Lyndia McDowell Carter
LYNDIA CARTER picks up the story from
there, following three of the handcart companies-the
Willie, Haven and Martin companies-across Iowa
as they were tested to see if they were up to the
challenge of crossing the Plains all the way to
the Salt Lake Valley.
Faint Footsteps of 1856–1857
Retraced: The Location of the Iowa Mormon Handcart
Route
--by Steven F. Faux
STEVEN F. FAUX carefully maps the
route the handcart migrants followed across Iowa.
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Table
of Contents, Third Series, Vol. 65, No. 1, Winter
2006
A Potent Influence:
The YMCA and YWCA at Penn College, 1882–1920s
--by Dorothy E. Finnegan
DOROTHY E. FINNEGAN describes the
potent influence the YMCA and YWCA had on Penn College’s
early development, from 1882 to the 1920s. During
those years, when the college’s institutional
resources were minimal, the Y associations made
vital contributions to the religious, physical,
social, and economic life of the college and its
students.
Race, Reading, and the Book
Lovers Club,
Des Moines, Iowa, 1925–1941
--by Christine Pawley
CHRISTINE PAWLEY describes the activities
of the Book Lovers Club, a club affiliated with
the segregated Blue Triangle Branch of the YWCA
in Des Moines, from 1925 to 1941. By analyzing what
they read and how they reviewed what they read,
Pawley finds that club members imagined multiple
members for themselves-as African Americans,
as Iowans, and as educated, cultured citizens.
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