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‘Now Do Not Let Your Courage Fail’: Voices from the Civil War

  University of Iowa News Release May 5, 2011 http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2011/may/050511libraries-civilwar.html   University of Iowa Libraries has launched a new exhibition and digital collection to commemorate the sesquicentennial of the Civil War, and it’s enlisting the help of a few good men and women (well, lots, really) to help make the collection even more accessible andContinue reading “‘Now Do Not Let Your Courage Fail’: Voices from the Civil War”

Being Biblical Through the Ages

  How did versions of the Bible reflect the struggles of the European Reformation? How did the Bible “migrate” to America? What is a Cherokee Testament? How did President Lincoln use the Bible in his private and political life? Can the Bible be a comic book? Editions of the King James Bible around the worldContinue reading “Being Biblical Through the Ages”

Library Guide on the 1960s

    What was it like to be a student, a professor, university staff, or a resident of a US college town in the 1960s? Special Collections & University Archives is launching a Library Guide – a collection of resources for learning, teaching, and researching the history of the 1960s at the University of Iowa, the stateContinue reading “Library Guide on the 1960s”

The Art of the Counterculture: Talk Featuring Collection on Lil Picard

  For a personal excursion into the art of the counterculture of the 1960s and ’70s, join WorldCanvass at 5:00 p.m. on January 28 in the Senate Chamber of the Old Capitol Museum. Among other guests of the show, the head of Special Collections & University Archives Sid Huttner will talk about the life andContinue reading “The Art of the Counterculture: Talk Featuring Collection on Lil Picard”

From Iowa to Soviet Siberia: The Zimmerman Steel Journey II

In 1931, Henry Zimmerman of Lone Tree, Iowa traveled to Kuznetsk, Siberia, to oversee the building of steel mills in the Soviet Union. The University of Iowa Special Collections has been collaborating with Russian History doctoral student Irina Rezhapova (Kuzbass Institute of the Federal Penal Service) on a special digital project which tells the story of Zimmerman’s journey.

UI alumni heed the Homecoming call

Ah, homecoming: A nearly century-old UI football ritual with more traditions than you can punt, pass or kick. A few of them are described in the October “Old Gold,” a monthly feature by university archivist David McCartney for Spectator@Iowa, a publication of the Office of University Relations for alumni and friends of the University of Iowa: http://spectator.uiowa.edu/2010/october/oldgold.html