Clergy; Chaplains; War; Military life; Military medicine; Campaigns & battles; Hospital ships; Religion; Reunions; Reformatories
Corkhill was a Methodist minister, instrumental in the founding of Iowa Wesleyan College and the reformatories in Mitchellville and Eldora, Iowa. Governor Samuel Kirkwood commissioned this account of Corkhill's experiences as a chaplain for the...
Jonathan G. Andelson teaches anthropology and directs the Center for Prairie Studies at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa, where he joined the faculty in 1974. Editor Zachary Michael Jack compiled Letters to a Young Iowan (Ice Cube Press, 2007)...
IN CLASS: Students discover everything they wanted to know—and more—in a class that analyzes the links between sex and culture. -- A Grand Experiment: Medical experiments move out of the laboratory and into the kitchens and everyday lives of...
Correspondence detailing the experiences of Joseph Franklin Culver, who served with the Illinois 129th Infantry Regiment, Company A, from 1862-1865, first as a lieutenant and later as captain.