To Shed Our Blood for Our Beloved Territory:
The Iowa-Missouri Borderland
--by Derek R. Everett
“Since it is my right, I would like to have it”:
Edna Griffin and the Katz Drug Store Desegregation Movement
--by Noah Lawrence
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Index to Volume 67
In this issue, five historians—H. Roger Grant, John D. Buenker, Rebecca Conard, George McJimsey, and Franklin D. Mitchell, all native Iowans except for one “Naturalized Iowan”—describe teirh experiences as Iowans and analyze how those experiences shaped their perspectives as historians.
An Albia Childhood
--by H. Roger Grant
Growing Up Iowan—Sort of!
--by John D. Buenker
Public History and the Odyssey of a Born-Again Native
--by Rebecca Conard
Naturalized Iowan
--by George McJimsey
An Outmigrant’s Tale
--by Franklin D. Mitchell
Public History and the Odyssey of a Born-Again Native
--by Rebecca Conard
The Iowa Polio Stories Oral History Project
--by Kathleen M. Scott
Family Farming in the Midwest in the Early Twentieth Century: A Review Essay
PAMELA RINEY-KEHRBERG reviews three new books with complementary portraits of family farming in Iowa and the Midwest in the early twentieth century.
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The Butter-Margarine Controversy and “Two Cultures” at Iowa State College
--by David L. Seim
DAVID L. SEIM tells the complicated story of a controversy during World War II involving agricultural organizations, watchdog groups, and economists and college administrators at Iowa State College. The controversy focused specifically on a pamphlet recommending that citizens consider substituting margarine for butter as part of the war effort. But it involved much larger issues, most notably, perhaps, the role and legitimacy of policy-oriented social science research at a land-grant institution.
Frank Spedding and the Ames Laboratory: The Development of a Science Manager
--by Joanne Abel Goldman
JOANNE ABEL GOLDMAN describes the emergence of Frank Spedding as a new breed of scientist—a science manager—as he shaped the development of the Ames Laboratory at Iowa State College during and after World War II.
Mastering the Vocabulary of Meat:A Review Essay
--by Mark Finlay
MARK FINLAY reviews two new books about meat production.
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