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The Annals of Iowa (ISSN: 0003-4827 (Print) ISSN: 2473‐9006 (Online), ISSN-L 0003-4827) is published quarterly by the State Historical Society of Iowa, the Historical Division of the Department of Cultural Affairs of the State of Iowa. A print copy of The Annals of Iowa is available by subscription. Most back issues are still available for sale. The current year is available in print only.
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Annals of Iowa Wins AASLH Award of Excellence
Posted by Andrew Klumpp on 2022-06-16
The Annals of Iowa has won an Award of Excellence from the American Association for State and Local History for the Fall 2021 Issue that celebrated the 175th Anniversary of Iowa's Statehood. Nominators praised the award as making "substantial contributions to understandings of Iowa’s diverse past and notable advances in making the past more meaningful and accessible to all." They also [...]
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Volume 80 • Issue 2 • 2021 • Spring
A cartoon that ran in the Clinton (IA) Herald on December 24, 1930, which provides a satirical comment on the perceived priorities of many collegiate athletic programs during the 1920s and 30s. For more on the efforts of small colleges to curtail the growth of big time sports and establish a distinct approach to athletics within liberal arts colleges, see Brian M. Ingrassia's article in this issue.
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Front Matter, The Annals of Iowa, v. 80 no. 2 Spring 2021
2021-04-15 Volume 80 • Issue 2 • 2021 • Spring
Article
Sports for the Liberal Arts: Reimagining Iowa's Small Colleges, 1921-1939
Brian M. Ingrassia
2021-04-15 Volume 80 • Issue 2 • 2021 • Spring • 91–122
Inkpaduta in Iowa: Dakota Decline, Dispossession, and Erasure
Kevin T. Mason
2021-04-15 Volume 80 • Issue 2 • 2021 • Spring • 123–157
Review
The Shattered Cross: French Catholic Missionaries on the Mississippi River, 1698-1725
Patrick J. Jung
2021-04-15 Volume 80 • Issue 2 • 2021 • Spring • 159–160
The Imperial Church: Catholic Founding Fathers and United States Empire
Peter Cajka
2021-04-15 Volume 80 • Issue 2 • 2021 • Spring • 160–162
Mastering the Inland Seas: How Lighthouses, Navigational Aids, and Harbors Transformed the Great Lakes and America
James Feldman
2021-04-15 Volume 80 • Issue 2 • 2021 • Spring • 163–164
When It Was Grand: The Radical Republican History of the Civil War
Melanie S. Gustafson
2021-04-15 Volume 80 • Issue 2 • 2021 • Spring • 164–166
Organizing Freedom: Black Emancipation Activism in the Civil War Midwest
David Brodnax Sr.
2021-04-15 Volume 80 • Issue 2 • 2021 • Spring • 166–167
Rebels in the Making: The Secession Crisis and the Birth of the Confederacy
Madeleine Forrest
2021-04-15 Volume 80 • Issue 2 • 2021 • Spring • 168–169
A Thousand May Fall: Life, Death, and Survival in the Union Army
James Marten
2021-04-15 Volume 80 • Issue 2 • 2021 • Spring • 169–171
The Scourge of War: The Life of William Tecumseh Sherman
Jennifer M. Murray
2021-04-15 Volume 80 • Issue 2 • 2021 • Spring • 171–173
The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West
Courtney E. Buchkoski
2021-04-15 Volume 80 • Issue 2 • 2021 • Spring • 173–174
John Finerty Reports the Sioux War
Denny Smith
2021-04-15 Volume 80 • Issue 2 • 2021 • Spring • 174–176
The Last Sovereigns: Sitting Bull and the Resistance of the Free Lakotas
Tim Lehman
2021-04-15 Volume 80 • Issue 2 • 2021 • Spring • 176–177
The Life of Anna Ott: Money, Marriage, and Madness
Courtney Lacy
2021-04-15 Volume 80 • Issue 2 • 2021 • Spring • 177–178
"All Guns Fired at One Time": Native Voices of Wounded Knee, 1890
Akim Reinhardt
2021-04-15 Volume 80 • Issue 2 • 2021 • Spring • 179–180
Iowa State Parks: A Century of Stewardship, 1920-2020
Laura Jackson
2021-04-15 Volume 80 • Issue 2 • 2021 • Spring • 181–183
Madam C.J. Walker's Gospel of Giving: Black Women's Philanthropy during Jim Crow
Ashley Garrin
2021-04-15 Volume 80 • Issue 2 • 2021 • Spring • 183–184
Farm Boy, City Girl: From Gene to Miss Gina
Joy Ellison
2021-04-15 Volume 80 • Issue 2 • 2021 • Spring • 184–185
Classic Restaurants of Des Moines and their Recipes
Leo Landis
2021-04-15 Volume 80 • Issue 2 • 2021 • Spring • 187–188
Stranger Danger: Family Values, Childhood, and the American Carceral State
Anna K. Danziger Halperin
2021-04-15 Volume 80 • Issue 2 • 2021 • Spring • 188–190
Grocery Activism: The Radical History of Food Cooperatives in Minnesota
Gregory Grohman
2021-04-15 Volume 80 • Issue 2 • 2021 • Spring • 190–191