Remembering Iowa City’s tornado of 2006 and floods of 2008, via Iowa Digital Library. Here’s hoping for a less extreme 2013…
Monthly Archives: May 2013
Brown v Board of Education
Today is the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling in the Brown v Board of Education, making separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. The Daily Iowan story is in the May 18, 1954 issue. The ruling did not affect Iowa because segregation of schools had been illegal since 1868. “Our firstContinue reading “Brown v Board of Education”
First do no harm: historic UI medical photos now online
New at Iowa Digital Library: University of Iowa College of Medicine Historical Photographs digital.lib.uiowa.edu/com featuring dozens of images documenting the study and practice of medicine at the UI and its surrounding area