Jarrett Purdy was in the seventh grade at South East Junior High School in Iowa City, Iowa, when this poem was selected the 2010 Poetry in Public project, sponsored by the Iowa City Public Art Program. Now in its eighth year, Poetry in Public...
Newspaper articles about Nile Kinnick's untimely death and the many tributes that followed, which included scholarships, awards, memorials and the renaming of the University of Iowa's stadium to Kinnick Stadium.
DRIVE THE BUDGET: Getting what it takes to run the UI is getting harder. How can a university prove what it's worth to a state? -- DENTAL COLLEGE CENTENNIAL: 100 years of history have brought the UI dental school to national prominence and some...
Truce or Consequences: The people in Northern Ireland have decided they want peace, and a remarkable Iowa graduate is helping them achieve it. Mo Mowlam, who went face-to-face with killers from both sides of the conflict to broker the Good Friday...
Librarian and UI alumna Esther Walls was elected director of the United States Secretariat for the International Book Year 1972. In this capacity, she coordinated the activities of the U.S. Secretariat, an agency established to promote the United...
Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane, " Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper.
Letters to his father, sister and brother in Albia, Monroe County, Iowa and journal excerpts concerning camp life and activities; containing references to General Sherman, the battle of Shiloh and the siege of Vicksburg.
Diaries recounting the Civil War experiences of Jacob Harrison Allspaugh of the 31st Ohio Infantry regiment, primarily describing the war in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Georgia. Allspaugh was a resident of Rock Rapids, Iowa, in his later years.