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100 Years of Girl Scouting!
We created a small display of Girl Scout memorabilia from Iowa Women’s Archives collections. Did you attend Girl Scout Camp? What is your favorite memory? Come see our display or type a memory here.
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Shirley Briggs and the Iowa Connection to “Silent Spring”
Fifty years ago, Rachel Carson published “Silent Spring,” a lyrical and compelling book about how DDT and other pesticides were damaging the environment and human health. The book called for a...
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Ivory Winston, Iowa’s Own First Lady of Song
This post was written by Christina Jensen, Student Assistant in the Iowa Women’s Archives and graduate student in the UI School of Library and Information Science. Known as ‘Iowa’s own first lady of...
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Celebrating LGBT History Month
This post was written by Christina Jensen, Student Assistant in the Iowa Women’s Archives and graduate student in the UI School of Library and Information Science. October is LGBT history month! To...
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Election Day! Politics in the Archives
As the site of the Iowa caucuses as well as the home state of countless policy makers and political activists, Iowa is rich with electoral history. As we cast our votes today, we reflect on the...
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“Unbossed and Unbought”: Shirley Chisholm and the Voice of the People
Sunday, November 30 is the 90th anniversary of the birth of Shirley Chisholm. The following blog post was written by Anna Bostwick Flaming. Image via usps.com Shirley Chisholm, the “unbought and...
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Black History Month: African American Women at University of Iowa
Photos of Adah Hyde Johnson (1912), Dora Martin Berry (1956), and students in the newly integrated Currier Hall (1946). Though the University of Iowa was one of the first institutions to open...
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Light and Letters: An Iowa Woman’s Experience of Tuberculosis
Celebrate women’s history month with refreshments and conversation! Come join us for “Light and Letters: An Iowa Woman’s Experience of Tuberculosis,” a talk by Jennifer Burek Pierce, PhD, on Wednesday,...
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Meet Annessa Babic
Dr. Annessa Babic, coordinator of interdisciplinary studies at the New York Institute of Technology and Dr. Tanfer Tunç of Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey are the most recent recipients of a...
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“At Your Local Library” Interviews with IWA
Rachel Black is a graduate assistant in the Iowa Women’s Archives. As part of her graduate work in the School of Library and Information Science she has been working on a project called “@ Your Local...
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IWA Graduate Assistant Rachel Black Graduates from SLIS
Rachel Black, IWA graduate assistant completed her studies and graduated from the School of Library and Information Science. She will walk tomorrow at graduation. Earlier this month, Rachel...
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Travel Grant Applications due April 15, 2017
Linda and Richard Kerber Fund for Research in the Iowa Women’s Archives In honor of Linda and Richard Kerber’s enduring support for scholarship in the history of women, the Iowa Women’s Archives...
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Celebrating Iowa City’s Feminists
Join us this weekend, July 14-15, for the Iowa City Feminists Reunion! Many of the women who created Ain’t I a Woman, the Iowa City Women’s Press, Nahuatzen, and other publications featured in the Main...
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25 for 25: Ruth Salzmann Becker
Ruth Salzmann Becker’s papers represent several common themes found in IWA’s collections, including Jewish women in Iowa, German immigration, and feminist activism. Elizabeth Heineman, professor and...
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25 for 25: Ernest Rodriguez and Estefania Rodriguez
A few of the Rodriguez children. Ernest and Estefania Rodriguez’s father, Norberto, migrated to the United States from the state of Jalisco, Mexico in 1910. He met their mother, Muggie Adams, an...
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25 for 25: Lenabelle Bock
Lenabelle Bock was elected to the Iowa House of Representatives in 1960. Today, the Iowa Women’s Archives commemorates Lenabelle Bock. Bock, whose name is spelled variously Lenabelle and Lena Belle,...
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25 for 25: Nurses and nursing
The collections in the Iowa Women’s Archives feature women from all walks of life. For Karissa Haugeberg, Assistant Professor of History at Tulane University, the papers regarding nursing and nurses...
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25 for 25: Iowa Suffrage Memorial Commission
Iowa Suffrage Memorial bas-relief, Nellie Walker Lindsay Shannon, Assistant Professor of Art History, North Central College It is in part thanks to the Iowa Suffrage Memorial Commission that the IWA...
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Celebrating Women and Sport
One of our graduate student workers spent last semester processing additions to IWA’s University of Iowa Department of Physical Education for Women collection. The new material included everything from...
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Do Not Miss Three Events from October 24th – 27th
From October 24th – 27th Trudy Huskamp Peterson, the former Acting Archivist of the United States, and Jane E. Schultz, Professor of English and Medical Humanities at Indiana University-Purdue...
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