When Dr. Jennifer Sterling set out to create the fall 2024 Main Library Gallery exhibit, Hawkeye Histories | Sporting Stories, she chose to include a handful of scrapbooks from the Iowa Women’s Archives and the University Archives at the University of Iowa Libraries. These items add a personal touch to the exhibition, showing how HawkeyeContinue reading “Curation in real time: the scrapbooks that tell our ‘Hawkeye Histories’”

Football is threaded into the University of Iowa’s DNA, and the importance of that connection is never clearer than during the height of football season. The sport also forms a crucial throughline in this semester’s Main Library Gallery exhibition, Hawkeye Histories | Sporting Stories, curated by Dr. Jennifer Sterling of the Department of American StudiesContinue reading “A hawk’s-eye view of Iowa football history in ‘Hawkeye Histories | Sporting Stories’”