An account of the actions, arrest, trial and imprisonment of Dr. Mudd surrounding the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth, reprinted from the Reader's digest.
Bestselling author William Lashner, an alumnus of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, reads from the seventh of his Victor Carl thrillers, "A Killer's Kiss."
The latest volume in Lashner's series about a Philadelphia district attorney...
Government; Business; Regulation; New Deal; United States. National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA); United States. National Recovery Administration (NRA)
Concerning his writing eight articles for the Examiner; urges her not to harp on other persons, evidently Mrs. Shelley included; requests her to tell Mrs. Shelley to give up the useless task of disposing of his Bacco, i.e. his edition of Redi's...
Excerpted is Helen Focht's account of a trial integration of University of Iowa's Currier Hall in the summer of 1954 and her recollections of Betty (Arnett) Ward, the African American student involved in the integration.
Historian Linda Ben-Zvi discussed her new book, Susan Glaspell: Her Life and Times. Glasspell, a native of Davenport, Iowa, is called female playwright, winner of the 1931 Pulitzer Prize for drama, and one of the most respected novelists and short...
In a special event sponsored by The University of Iowa Alumni Association, Laura Caldwell reads from and discuss her nonfiction book, Long Way Home: A Young Man Lost in the System and the Two Women Who Found Him. The nonfiction book chronicles...
INDEX TO SPECIAL ARTICLES
Alumni Student Loan Association /E. C. Robbins -- "Big Eight" Situation / Stephen H. Bush -- Chicago Conference and Summer Baseball /A. G. Smith -- Commencement, 1912 -- Convocation Address /President John G. Bowman...
Judge Nancy Gertner reads from her book, In Defense of Women: Memoirs of an Unrepentant Advocate. Nancy Gertner was born into tenement housing and raised in lower-middle-class Queens. Now, she is a federal district court judge. Prior to being named...
Margo Jefferson, a visiting speaker at The University of Iowa's Non-Fiction Writing Program, reads from her work. A Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural critic, Margo Jefferson is the author of the provocative book, On Michael Jackson. Reading between...
Nile Kinnick and William Stuart were appointed attorneys for the appellant in a law school mock trial. They presented a biref & argument, and, an appellant's reply.