Apply for a grant to support historical research and interpretive writing on a topic related to Iowa history. Preference is given to proposals that pursue neglected topics or new approaches to other topics. If awarded a grant, you will also produce an annotated manuscript for the Annals of Iowa scholarly journal.
The application cycle is currently closed.
| Project Title | Applicant | City | County |
Fiscal Year |
Grant Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Killing Butler’s Bloodhounds: Iowa Soldiers and an Act of Political Violence in Reconstruction South Carolina | Cormac Broeg | Iowa City | Johnson | 2017 | $1,000.00 | |
| Northwest Iowa during the Civil War: Sioux Uprising and Creation of the Northern Border Brigade | Ben Chase | Ames | Story | 2017 | $1,000.00 | |
| The Trans-Pacific Sojourn of Hong Kong Writers and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in the Cold War Era | Mung Ting Chung | Austin, TX | 2017 | $1,000.00 | ||
| The Social, Political, and Religious Attitudes of Iowa Lutheran Laypersons during the 1920s and 1930s | Mark A. Granquist | St. Paul, MN | 2017 | $1,000.00 | ||
| Community Identity, Rock & Roll, & Baby Boomer Nostalgia in Clear Lake, Iowa | Anna Thompson Hajdik | Madison, WI | 2017 | $1,000.00 | ||
| Women’s Equality and the Feminization of Iowa’s One-Room Schools | Ashley N. Loper | Cedar Falls | Black Hawk | 2017 | $1,000.00 | |
| Mad for the Stage: The Hyers Sisters and Gilded Age Theater | Kathryn E. Snyder | Williamsburg, VA | 2017 | $1,000.00 | ||
| Strangers in a Familiar Land: Pioneers and the Meskwaki Settlement in Early Iowa, 1832–1896 | Chelsea Tegels | Arlington, VA | 2017 | $1,000.00 | ||
| Confronting the Tramp Nuisance: Hobo Life in Iowa, 1890–1930 | Nathan Tye | Urbana, IL | 2017 | $1,000.00 | ||
| Religious Conflict in Southeastern Iowa, 1839–1846 | Brady G. Winslow | Fort Worth, TX | 2017 | $1,000.00 | ||
| Heartland Stories: Rural Iowa Ethnic Churches, 1945–1975 | David E. Zwart | Allendale, MI | 2017 | $1,000.00 | ||
| Preserving Sacred Spaces: A History of Effigy Mounds National Monument, 1890–1999 | Mary Wise | Iowa City | Johnson | 2016 | $1,000.00 | |
| Iowa Frontier Settlement and Market Participation, 1830–1870 | Jeff Bremer | Ames | Story | 2016 | $1,000.00 | |
| Dakota Prisoners, ABCFM Missionaries, and the Davenport Press | Linda M. Clemmons | Bloomington, IL | 2016 | $1,000.00 | ||
| Creating a Patchwork Quilt of a Drainage System: Reclamation and the hanging Landscape of Western Iowa’s Little Sioux River Valley | Maria E. Howe | Ames | Story | 2016 | $1,000.00 | |
| The Women’s Relief Corps and Union Women’s Organizational Activism, 1861–1920 | John C. Kennedy | Lafayette, IN | 2016 | $1,000.00 | ||
| The Camp Dodger | Matthew R. Lindaman | Winona, MN | 2016 | $1,000.00 | ||
| Iowa’s Role in Ethanol Development before the 1970s Energy Crisis | Jeffrey T. Manuel | Edwardsville, IL | 2016 | $1,000.00 | ||
| A Soldier’s Story: Francis Webster and the Third Iowa Infantry during World War I | Matthew J. Margis | Ames | Story | 2016 | $1,000.00 | |
| Picturing Packing: Historical Photographs of the Iowa Meatpacking Industry | Emily K. Morgan | Ames | Story | 2016 | $1,000.00 |
