Letters detailing army life in 1863 for Civil War soldier William Titus Rigby of the 24th Iowa Infantry Regiment, Company B, including the Vicksburg campaign.
Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane, " Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper.
W.B. Emmons was a soldier with the 34th Illinois Infantry during the Civil War. In his diary, he writes about the Atlanta Campaign, the end of the war, and Lincoln's assassination.
Judith Eastburn received a Master of Sciences in Microbial Genetics in 1969 from the University of Iowa. She subsequently earned an MFA in Printmaking and Photography in 1982 from the same institution. She has taught photography in England, Iowa,...
Judith Eastburn holds an MFA in Photography from The University of Iowa. She has taught photography courses at levels ranging from children to university students for the past twenty years. Her work has appeared in twenty four juried exhibitions,...
Jacob Zawa graduated from The University of Iowa in May 2009. He writes, "Struck by a lecture I attended led by Dr. Burns Weston on the subject of climate change, I thought for days that if I knew law I'd do something profounder than poetry."
Concerning memoranda from the Timees for Thornton's use; a war correspondent's description of the horrors of the war, evidently the Crimean war; an anecdote from the battle of Fontenoy; suggests that Thornton take a jest by Swift following such...