About the Journal

The Iowa Historical Review (ISSN 2373-1842) is the premier online undergraduate history journal at the University of Iowa. Founded in 2006, it is dedicated to providing an intellectual forum for undergraduate historians in the Midwest.

Articles

The Rise of the Chocolate Chip Cookie: Kitchens, Cookbooks, and Modernity in the Early Twentieth Century

  • Kaitlyn Walter

An Expansion Of Liberty

  • Gavin Scott

Brothers and Sisters Unite: Take Back the Night in San Francisco, Cambridge, and Iowa City

  • Anna Marie Behrens

Lost in Translation; The Evolution of Spanish Translations and the Black Legend in England from 1578 to 1740

  • Emma C Caster

Spinnen Out: Women's Work in Early Modern Textile Trades

  • Joy Curry

Agency in Removal: How the Iowa Tribe Navigated War and Colonization Between 1812 and 1824

  • Cameron John LaPage

Hysterical Women: The Fight for an Expanded British Franchise at the Turn of the 20th Century

  • Leighton Barnes

Grimalkin

  • Madeline DeCoste

La República de Los Indios:  Tlaxcala, Survival, and the Struggle for Autonomy within New Spain,  1519-1558.

  • Daniel Ocon

Playing With the Past: Building an Aztec Paper Warrior Doll

  • Berkley Wren Barnett

"We Don't Need Any More Martyrs": Anti-War Protests at the University of Iowa 1970

  • Jack Kapsner