University Of Iowa Press imprint: 216 books
Invisible Hawkeyes
African Americans at the University of Iowa during the Long Civil Rights Era
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Between the 1930s and 1960s, the University of Iowa sought to assert its modernity, cosmopolitanism, and progressivism through an increased emphasis on the fine and performing arts and athletics. This enhancement coincided with a period when an increasing number of African American students arrived...
Others Had It Worse
Sour Dock, Moonshine, and Hard Times in Davis County, Iowa
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In 1977, while studying journalism at the University of Iowa, Chris Baker gave his grandmother a notebook and asked her to write about her childhood. Years later, long after her death in 1990, he found the tattered yellow notebook. In twenty-nine handwritten pages, the woman he knew as Grandma Covert...
Transcendental Meditation in America
How a New Age Movement Remade a Small Town in Iowa
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The Indian spiritual entrepreneur Maharishi Mahesh Yogi took the West by storm in the 1960s and ’70s, charming Baby Boomers fed up with war and social upheaval with his message of meditation and peace. Heeding his call, two thousand followers moved to tiny Fairfield, Iowa, to set up their own university...
Carnival in the Countryside
The History of the Iowa State Fair
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
More than a century and a half after its founding, the Iowa State Fair is the state’s central institution, event, and symbol. New Jersey has the Shore; Kentucky has the Derby; Iowa has the Fair. The humble Iowa State Fairground ranks alongside the Great Pyramids at Giza and the Taj Mahal in the...
Equal Before the Law
How Iowa Led Americans to Marriage Equality
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
“We’ve been together in sickness and in health, through the death of his mother, through the adoption of our children, through four long years of this legal battle,” Jason Morgan told reporters of himself and his partner, Chuck Swaggerty. “And if being together through all of that isn’t...
by Sylvan T. Runkel, Dean M Roosa
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Originally published in 1999, Wildflowers and Other Plants of Iowa Wetlands was the first book to focus on the beauty and diversity of the wetland plants that once covered 1.5 million acres of Iowa. Now this classic of midwestern natural history is back in print with a new format and all-new photographs,...
Necessary Courage
Iowa's Underground Railroad in the Struggle against Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
During the 1850s and early 1860s, Iowa, the westernmost free state bordering a slave state, stood as a bulwark of antislavery sentiment while the decades-long struggle over slavery shifted westward. On its southern border lay Missouri, the northernmost slaveholding state. To its west was the Kansas-Nebraska...
by William E. Whittaker, Lynn M. Alex, Mary De La Garza
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Iowa has the reputation of being one big corn field, so you may be surprised to learn it boasts a rich crop of recorded archaeological sites as well—approximately 27,000 at last count. Some are spectacular, such as the one hundred mounds at Sny Magill in Effigy Mounds National Monument, while others...
by Peter J. van der Linden, Donald R. Farrar
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Shrubs and vines, often literally overshadowed by trees, also receive much less attention than their taller neighbors, and yet they are very important elements of the region’s natural landscape. A guide to these interesting and useful plants, this book identifies all 150 shrubs and vines native...
The Iowa Lakeside Laboratory
A Century of Discovering the Nature of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Imagine a place dedicated to the long-term study of nature in nature, a permanent biological field station, a teaching and research laboratory that promotes complete immersion in the natural world. Lakeside Laboratory, founded on the shore of Lake Okoboji in northwestern Iowa in 1909, is just such...
The Sacred Cause of Union
Iowa in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
The Sacred Cause**of Union highlights Iowans’ important role in reuniting the nation when the battle over slavery tore it asunder. In this first-ever survey of the state’s Civil War history, Thomas Baker interweaves economics, politics, army recruitment, battlefield performance, and government...
Dubuque's Forgotten Cemetery
Excavating a Nineteenth-Century Burial Ground in a Twenty-first Century City
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Atop a scenic bluff overlooking the Mississippi River and downtown Dubuque there once lay a graveyard dating to the 1830s, the earliest days of American settlement in Iowa. Though many local residents knew the property had once been a Catholic burial ground, they believed the graves had been moved...
A Wrestling Life
The Inspiring Stories of Dan Gable
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
What does it take to be an Olympic gold medalist and to coach a collegiate team to fifteen NCAA titles? In A Wrestling Life: The Inspiring Stories of Dan Gable, famed wrestler and wrestling coach Dan Gable tells engaging and inspiring stories of his childhood in Waterloo, Iowa; overcoming the murder...
The Farm at Holstein Dip
An Iowa Boyhood
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Carroll Engelhardt’s parents grew up in homes without electricity on farms without tractors and began farming in the same way. As a farm boy in northeastern Iowa, he thought that history happened only to important people in earlier times and more exotic places. After decades of teaching, he at last...