On April 14th Special Collections & University Archives staff visited the International Students’ Cooking Club. György Tóth, a PhD candidate in American Studies and the senior Olson Fellow, prepared some dishes from his native Hungary. Besides the dinner, the evening also featured an introduction to the Chef Louis Szathmáry II Collection of Culinary Arts, with anContinue reading “Cooking Pamphlets as Culture”
Author Archives: Colleen Theisen
Farewell to Elizabeth Catlett
The New York Times reported today that “Elizabeth Catlett, whose abstracted sculptures of the human form reflected her deep concern with the African-American experience and the struggle for civil rights, died on Monday at her home in Cuernavaca, Mexico, where she had lived since the late 1940s. She was 96. “ Elizabeth was among theContinue reading “Farewell to Elizabeth Catlett”
The Zine Dream and the Riot Grrrl Scene March 30th 4-6PM
BECAUSE us girls crave records and books and fanzines that speak to US that WE feel included in and can understand in our own ways… BECAUSE we must take over the means of production in order to create our own meanings. from “Riot Grrrl Manifesto,” Bikini Kill #2 In conjunction with the MissionContinue reading “The Zine Dream and the Riot Grrrl Scene March 30th 4-6PM”
We’re Moving on Up!
The thunderous noise in the halls near Special Collections & University Archives is not an approaching storm, (we have had enough water for a lifetime), but rather the sound of cart wheels rolling back and forth carrying shelves. The Books are on the Move all over the Main Library and Special Collections is noContinue reading “We’re Moving on Up!”
The U.S. Goes to War – and the War Comes to Iowa III.
We are commemorating the 70th anniversary of the U.S. entry into World War Two by highlighting some items in our collections relating to this event. How did Henry A. Wallace, an Iowan and national politician respond to the coming of World War II to the United States? A look at his official Vice PresidentialContinue reading “The U.S. Goes to War – and the War Comes to Iowa III.”
The U.S. Goes to War – and the War Comes to Iowa
We are commemorating the 70th anniversary of the U.S. entry into World War Two by highlighting some items in our collections relating to this event. Nile C. Kinnick, Jr. was a University of Iowa student in 1939. The war began in Europe the same fall season when Kinnick and the UI “Iron Men” once again putContinue reading “The U.S. Goes to War – and the War Comes to Iowa”
Political Cartoons Exhibit Sampler
How many of the issues of the 2012 presidential elections are new to our society? What did politicians and the media say about unemployment and social security in the 1930s, the 1970s, or the 1990s? Were the elections of the last century less divisive in their language than those of today? What guidance canContinue reading “Political Cartoons Exhibit Sampler”