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Book A History of the Des Moines Register

Download or read book A History of the Des Moines Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pages of History

Download or read book Pages of History written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Covering Iowa

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  • Author : William B. Friedricks
  • Publisher : Iowa State Press
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780813826202
  • Pages : 307 pages

Download or read book Covering Iowa written by William B. Friedricks and published by Iowa State Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friedricks (history, Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa) chronicles the institution that delivered morning and evening newspapers to roughly half of the people of the state for 150 years. He focuses on the content, including news, special features, and editorial positions; they physical plant and changes in production and technologies; and management practices that led to economic successes and failures.

Book Stories of Iowa history

Download or read book Stories of Iowa history written by Hubert L. Moeller and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Des Moines Register and Tribune

Download or read book The Des Moines Register and Tribune written by Des Moines Register and Tribune Company and published by . This book was released on 1953* with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Love  Zac

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  • Author : Reid Forgrave
  • Publisher : Algonquin Books
  • Release : 2021-09-07
  • ISBN : 1643752022
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book Love Zac written by Reid Forgrave and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The story of a young man from small-town Iowa who decided to take his own life rather than continue his losing battle against the traumatic brain injuries (CTE) he had sustained as a no-holds-barred high school football player, and at the same time a larger story about the hot-button issues that football raises about masculinity and violence, and about what values we want to instill in our kids"--

Book ACES   KINGS

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  • Author : Jay N. (Jay Norwood) 1876-1962 Darling
  • Publisher : Wentworth Press
  • Release : 2016-08-26
  • ISBN : 9781363140541
  • Pages : 100 pages

Download or read book ACES KINGS written by Jay N. (Jay Norwood) 1876-1962 Darling and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Woman Suffrage and Citizenship in the Midwest  1870 1920

Download or read book Woman Suffrage and Citizenship in the Midwest 1870 1920 written by Sara Egge and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2019 Gita Chaudhuri Prize Winner of the 2019 Benjamin F. Shambaugh Award Historian Sara Egge offers critical insights into the woman suffrage movement by exploring how it emerged in small Midwestern communities—in Clay County, Iowa; Lyon County, Minnesota; and Yankton County, South Dakota. Examining this grassroots activism offers a new approach that uncovers the sophisticated ways Midwestern suffragists understood citizenship as obligation. These suffragists, mostly Yankees who migrated from the Northeast after the Civil War, participated enthusiastically in settling the region and developing communal institutions such as libraries, schools, churches, and parks. Meanwhile, as Egge’s detailed local study also shows, the efforts of the National American Women’s Suffrage Association did not always succeed in promoting the movement’s goals. Instead, it gained support among Midwesterners only when local rural women claimed the right to vote on the basis of their well-established civic roles and public service. By investigating civic responsibility, Egge reorients scholarship on woman suffrage and brings attention to the Midwest, a region overlooked by most historians of the movement. In doing so, she sheds new light onto the ways suffragists rejuvenated the cause in the twentieth century.

Book The Catholic Church in Southwest Iowa

Download or read book The Catholic Church in Southwest Iowa written by Stephen M. Avella and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2018-06-08 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commissioned by the diocese to commemorate its centenary, this is the first book-length study of the history of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Des Moines, Iowa. Formally established in 1911, the Diocese of Des Moines built on the foundations laid by earlier generations of missionaries, religious women, priests, and bishops to provide a gathering point for the scattered Catholic population of southwest Iowa. This book weaves together the various stories of religious and lay members in the forging of a visible religious presence in the region. Influential priests of the diocese included Monsignor Luigi Ligutti, who became a renowned advocate of rural life, and Bishop Maurice Dingman, who took on sometimes controversial social and political issues. In October 1979, the diocese hosted Pope John Paul II for a short but memorable visit, which was the largest religious gathering in Iowa’s history.

Book Derecho 911

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  • Author : Carolyn S. Wettstone
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-11-26
  • ISBN : 9781649905307
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Derecho 911 written by Carolyn S. Wettstone and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derecho 911 chronicles the historic derecho of 2020 which devastated a large portion of Iowa. The book explores in-depth the meteorological conditions that caused the storm as well as why it has a special place as one of the most extreme wind storms in United States history. We look at other derechos in Iowa's past and how this compares to previous natural disasters. We also explore the human side of how this storm impacted the people of Iowa: its agriculture, its power grid, tree canopy, and many compelling sidebars related to the disaster.

Book An Iowa Album

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  • Author : Mary Bennett
  • Publisher : Bureau Oak Original
  • Release : 2001-02
  • ISBN : 9780877457534
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book An Iowa Album written by Mary Bennett and published by Bureau Oak Original. This book was released on 2001-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work invites the reader to travel through 60 years of Iowa history, between 1860 and 1920, and to view the state in turn-of-the-century glory. Lavish illustrations show harvest times, main streets, children playing, and leisure activities of the time - warmly redolent of a time gone by.

Book Dakota in Exile

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  • Author : Linda M. Clemmons
  • Publisher : Iowa and the Midwest Experienc
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 1609386337
  • Pages : 281 pages

Download or read book Dakota in Exile written by Linda M. Clemmons and published by Iowa and the Midwest Experienc. This book was released on 2019 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Hopkins was a man caught between two worlds. As a member of the Dakota Nation, he was unfairly imprisoned, accused of taking up arms against U.S. soldiers when war broke out with the Dakota in 1862. However, as a Christian convert who was also a preacher, Hopkins's allegiance was often questioned by many of his fellow Dakota as well. Without a doubt, being a convert--and a favorite of the missionaries--had its privileges. Hopkins learned to read and write in an anglicized form of Dakota, and when facing legal allegations, he and several high-ranking missionaries wrote impassioned letters in his defense. Ultimately, he was among the 300-some Dakota spared from hanging by President Lincoln, imprisoned instead at Camp Kearney in Davenport, Iowa, for several years. His wife, Sarah, and their children, meanwhile, were forced onto the barren Crow Creek reservation in Dakota Territory with the rest of the Dakota women, children, and elderly. In both places, the Dakota were treated as novelties, displayed for curious residents like zoo animals. Historian Linda Clemmons examines the surviving letters from Robert and Sarah; other Dakota language sources; and letters from missionaries, newspaper accounts, and federal documents. She blends both the personal and the historical to complicate our understanding of the development of the Midwest, while also serving as a testament to the resilience of the Dakota and other indigenous peoples who have lived in this region from time immemorial.

Book A Peculiar People

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  • Author : Elmer Schwieder
  • Publisher : University of Iowa Press
  • Release : 2009-04
  • ISBN : 1587298481
  • Pages : 215 pages

Download or read book A Peculiar People written by Elmer Schwieder and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now back in print with a new essay, this classic of Iowa history focuses on the Old Order Amish Mennonites, the state’s most distinctive religious minority. Sociologist Elmer Schwieder and historian Dorothy Schwieder began their research with the largest group of Old Order Amish in the state, the community near Kalona in Johnson and Washington counties, in April 1970; they extended their studies and friendships in later years to other Old Order settlements as well as the slightly less conservative Beachy Amish. A Peculiar People explores the origin and growth of the Old Order Amish in Iowa, their religious practices, economic organization, family life, the formation of new communities, and the vital issue of education. Included also are appendixes giving the 1967 “Act Relating to Compulsory School Attendance and Educational Standards”; a sample “Church Organization Financial Agreement,” demonstrating the group’s unusual but advantageous mutual financial system; and the 1632 Dortrecht Confession of Faith, whose eighteen articles cover all the basic religious tenets of the Old Order Amish. Thomas Morain’s new essay describes external and internal issues for the Iowa Amish from the 1970s to today. The growth of utopian Amish communities across the nation, changes in occupation (although The Amish Directory still lists buggy shop operators, wheelwrights, and one lone horse dentist), the current state of education and health care, and the conscious balance between modern and traditional ways are reflected in an essay that describes how the Old Order dedication to Gelassenheit—the yielding of self to the interests of the larger community—has served its members well into the twenty-first century.

Book Historic Pages from the Des Moines Register and Tribune

Download or read book Historic Pages from the Des Moines Register and Tribune written by and published by . This book was released on 197? with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Study of the Editorial Page of the Des Moines Register in 1928

Download or read book A Study of the Editorial Page of the Des Moines Register in 1928 written by Frederick John Lazell and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Good Governor

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  • Author : Matthew R. Walsh
  • Publisher : McFarland
  • Release : 2017-06-09
  • ISBN : 1476628882
  • Pages : 242 pages

Download or read book The Good Governor written by Matthew R. Walsh and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-06-09 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Americans withdrew from the Vietnam War, their Indochinese allies faced imprisonment, torture and death under communist regimes. The Tai Dam, an ethnic group from northern Vietnam, campaigned for sanctuary, writing letters to 30 U.S. governors in 1975. Only Robert D. Ray of Iowa agreed to help. Ray created an agency to relocate the Tai Dam, advocated for the greater admission of "boat people" fleeing Vietnam, launched a Cambodian relief program that generated $540,000, and lobbied for the Refugee Act of 1980. Interviews with 30+ refugees and officials inform this study, which also chronicles how the Tai Dam adapted to life in the Midwest and the Iowans' divided response.