Paul Greenough is a Professor of History and of Community and Behavioral Health at the University of Iowa. His work specializes on health and environmental issues in India, and he directs the University's Global Health Studies Program. Greenough...
The Iowa City Foreign Relations Council is excited to welcome back Professor Carroll Harrison to the Iowa City and Cedar Rapids areas since his first visit during the International Visitor Leadership Program in 1998. In 2001, Professor Harrison...
David (age 35) tells his wife AmyRuth (age 37) about how he prepared for the Iowa River flood of 2008. As the stage manager for the University of Iowa theater department, he spearheaded the evacuation of the building.
Families; Physicians; Military medicine; Military hospitals; Sick persons; Soldiers; War casualties; Medicines; Amputation; Typhus fever; Harvesting; Food supply; Debt; Swine; Wages; War ships; Death
Correspondence between Dr. Asa Bean and his family while he served as a surgeon in the Union Army in Maryland, Louisiana, and Tennessee. Dr. Bean died of disease on a hospital ship April 26, 1863 as his wife, Mary Bean, was traveling to Memphis to...
Beth M. Howard reads from Making Piece, a Memoir of Love, Loss and Pie. When journalist Beth M. Howard's young husband dies suddenly, she packs up the RV he left behind and hits the American highways. At every stop along the way—whether filming a...
Bonnie Jo Campbell has created an unforgettable heroine in sixteen-year-old Margo Crane, a beauty whose unflinching gaze and uncanny ability with a rifle have not made her life any easier. After the violent death of her father, in which she is...
Gordon Kellenberger is a full time painter and potter working out of the Wasch Haus Studio in the Historic Amana Colony.""Throughout the seasons, in the morning and late afternoon hours, I take delight in traveling and experiencing the country...
Elizabeth Kostova reads from her novel entitled The Historian. During a question and answer session, Kostova details how the topic for her novel came from the stories about Dracula that her father had told her as a child while traveling through...
Erin Hart reads from her mystery novel, Lake of Sorrows. Hart gives a brief plot synopsis, explaining that the novel is set in modern day Ireland where officials have just discovered a “bog body,” believed to be around 2,000 years old. She...
Contents: Speech given to Milwaukee Public Library about the ALA Young Adult Services Division Project on Africa -- "The Role of the Negro Woman: Its Implications for Today" -- Speech given to NYPL branch library in Mott Haven about traveling in...
Growing up as a boy in rural Iowa, multi-talented Caleb Engstrom, spent considerable time working part time jobs, wrestling on school teams, and piling in his family's large conversion van to drive over an hour to go to church every Sunday and...
The bow harps or lyres which are produced by the Azande, Mangbetu, and a number of other groups in the forest regions of northeastern Zaire are frequently decorated with a beautifully carved human head, either in wood, as in this example, or in...
Dean Grondo spent years traveling throughout the great American Southwest, first as a performer, then as a country western music concert promoter. He has no serious aspirations as a writer. He hopes all our Iowan servicemen and women overseas come...
1986 IWP residents discuss their images of America. First, an unidentified Chinese author discusses China’s desire to look forward instead of backward and discusses American student’s ability to balance work and play. Another Chinese author...