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The state of Iowa is largely unappreciated and often misunderstood. It has a small population and sits in the middle of a huge country. It's thought of as an uninspiring place full of farms and fields of corn. But Iowa represents America as surely as New York and California, and Iowa's history is more dynamic, complicated, and influential than commonly imagined.Jeff Bremer's A New History of Iowa offers the most comprehensive history of the Hawkeye State ever written, surveying Iowa from the last ice age through the COVID-19 pandemic. It tells a new and vibrant story, examining the state's small-town culture, politics, social and economic development, and its many diverse inhabitants. Bremer features well-known individuals, such as Sauk leader Black Hawk, artist Grant Wood, botanist George Washington Carver, suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt, and President Herbert Hoover. But Bremer broadens the state's story by including new voices—among them, runaway enslaved men who joined Iowa's 60th Colored Regiment in the Civil War, young female pearl button factory workers, Latino railroad workers who migrated to the state in the early twentieth century, and recent refugees from Southeast Asia and the Balkans.
This new story of Iowa provides a brisk, readable narrative written for a broad audience, from high school and college students to teachers and scholars to general readers. It tells the story of ordinary and extraordinary people of all backgrounds and greatly improves our knowledge of a state whose history has been neglected. A New History of Iowa is for everyone who wants to learn about Iowa's surprising, complex, and remarkable past.
Contents
Introduction
Part I—Iowa to the Civil War
1. Native Iowa: Iowa to 1833
2. Iowa Territory, 1833-1846
3. Frontier Iowa, 1833-1870
4. Slavery, Politics, and Transportation before the Civil War
5. Iowa and the Civil War, 1861-1870
Part II—Iowa from the Civil War to 1929
6. Immigrants, Railroads, and Farm Protest
7. Religion, Education, and Rural Life
8. Cities, Industry, and Technology, 1833-1920
9. Suffrage, Prohibition, and Politics, 1870-1920
10. Iowa in World War I and the 1920s
Part III—Iowa since 1929
11. the Great Depression and Iowa
12. Iowa in World War II
13. Postwar Iowa, 1945-1975
14. Iowa and the Farm Crisis, 1975-2000
15 Iowa in the Twenty-First Century
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliographic Essay
Index
