The Education of Linnie Haguewood
by Lisa R. Lindell
LISA R. LINDELL, a catalog librarian at Hilton M. Briggs Li¬brary at South Dakota State University, provides an account of the education of Linnie Haguewood at the Iowa College for the Blind and elsewhere in the 1890s. Dubbed by the press “the Helen Keller of the West,” Haguewood, like Keller, experienced not only a dedication to her education and well-being, but also the construction of a public persona for her built on media representations and societal expectations that reflected prevailing Victorian notions about gender and people with disabilities.
“This affair is about something bigger than John Bright”: Iowans Confront the Jim Crow South, 1946–1951
by S Zebulon Baker
S ZEBULON BAKER, a visiting instructor of history at Georgia South¬ern University, assesses the post–World War II encounters of the racially integrated football teams at Drake University, Iowa State University, and the University of Iowa with teams representing institutions in the South. Iowans, Baker argues, embraced racial equality on the gridiron during this period, and saw sports, generally, as a vehicle for combating racism in American life. But that ideal, as he shows, was persistently challenged, even as the context evolved, in encounters with southern institutions.
Leaving Home—Three Farm Memoirs: A Review Essay
by Pamela Riney-Kehrberg
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“A Dangerous Man”: Lewis Terman and George Stoddard, their Debates on Intelligence Testing, and the Legacy of the Iowa Child Welfare Research Station
by Steve McNutt
STEVE McNUTT, a doctoral candidate in Language, Literacy, and Culture at the University of Iowa, describes and sets in context the debates on intelligence testing between Stanford University’s Lewis Terman and the University of Iowa’s George Stoddard. Stoddard defended the findings of the University of Iowa’s Child Welfare Research station at a time when they were unpopular in part because they challenged prevailing views on intelligence and their relationship to ideas about meritocracy.
Diplomatic Farmers: Iowans and the 1955 Agricultural Delegation to the Soviet Union
by Peggy Ann Brown
PEGGY ANN BROWN, an independent historian in Washington, D.C., provides a lively, informative account of a U.S. agricultural delegation, made up largely of Iowans or people with some Iowa connection, to the Soviet Union in 1955. That delegation, along with a simultaneous visit by Soviet officials to American farms and the many public lectures members of the delegation gave upon their return, helped to reassure anxious Cold War–era Americans that residents of the Soviet Union, like them, desired peace and personal interactions. The delegation helped pave the way for more such cultural interactions in the future.
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