My mentor and friend Bob McCown, retired Head of the Special Collections Department in the University of Iowa Libraries, died on March 31st of this year. To remember Bob on […]
Author Archives: Karen Mason
Emma’s founding mothers visit the Archives
This post was written by Jessica Lawson, Graduate Research Assistant in the Iowa Women’s Archives. The Iowa Women’s Archives had an exciting visit at the end of July! […]
eras of emma: the emma goldman clinic through four decades
eras of emma: the emma goldman clinic through four decades Join us for a panel discussion featuring women who have been active in Iowa City’s feminist health clinic founded in 1973. The […]
John Fry: What I Learned from Publishing an Edited Manuscript, Fri, Sept 20, 10-11am
Laura & Earle Smith were barely out of college in 1913 when they left Moravia, Iowa, to try their hand at homesteading near Chugwater, Wyoming. Laura recounted their adventures years later in her memoir […]
“Life is not all sunshine”
Viola Nesfield Owen papers by Audrey Altman Preserving the history of poor and rural women is a mission of the Iowa Women’s Archives, but it can be challenging because these […]