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.
| Project Title | Applicant | City |
County |
Fiscal Year | Grant Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Farmers’ Lawyers: Small-Town Lawyers and Rural Identity | Emily A. Prifogle | Bloomington, IN | 2018 | $1,000.00 | ||
| Monumental Uplift: Grand Army Veteran Advocacy for Iowa’s Institutions of Learning, 1880–1920 | Jonathan D. Neu | Verona, PA | 2018 | $1,000.00 | ||
| The Company, the Independent, and the International: Changing Ideas of Unionism in Iowa’s Meatpacking Industry,1960–1970 | Michelle Martindale | West Lafayette, IN | 2018 | $1,000.00 | ||
| Constructing Nordic Cultural Heritage in Decorah, Iowa: From “Luther College Museum” to “Vesterheim: The National Norwegian-American Museum and Heritage Center | Daniel R. Maher | Fayetteville, AR | 2018 | $1,000.00 | ||
| Reclaiming the Hearts and Minds: Hungarian and Romanian Participants in the Iowa International Writing Program during the Cold War (1967–1989) | Szabolcs László | Bloomington, IN | 2018 | $1,000.00 | ||
| Deep Red Roots: Religion, Ethnicity and the Origins of Sioux County, Iowa’s Conservative Subculture | Andrew Klumpp | Dallas, TX | 2018 | $1,000.00 | ||
| Religious Liberty without RFRA in Iowa | Paul Baumgardner and Brian K. Miller | Ewing, NJ & Arlington, VA | 2018 | $1,000.00 | ||
| Iowans in the Cold War | Kevin Y. Kim | Seattle, WA | 2018 | $1,000.00 | ||
| Veterans on the Land: Agriculture, Masculine Work, and the Disabled Veterans of the Great War in Iowa | Evan P. Sullivan | Latham, NY | 2019 | $1,000.00 | ||
| “How about some muscle?”: C. H. McCloy and Strength Training Research at the University of Iowa | Jason P. Shurley | Wales, WI | 2019 | $1,000.00 | ||
| The Land Between Two Rivers: Cartographic Caricatures of the Present-Day State of Iowa, 1845-2020 | Amanda Murphyao | 2021 | $1,000.00 | |||
| The UNIque Story of the University of Northern Iowa’s Domed Stadium | Matthew R. Lindaman | Winona, MN | 2019 | $1,000.00 | ||
| Lincoln’s Practical Radical: A Reconsideration of the Political Life of General Samuel Curtis | Kyle S. Sinisi | 2021 | $1,000.00 | |||
| Turning Corn into Magic: Iowa’s Post-WWII Place in the “Magic Circle,” 1946-1960 | Jeffrey P. Stone | 2021 | $1,000.00 | |||
| Getting Rid of the Gumbo: Good Roads Trains, “Scientific Localism” and the Culture of Iowa Road Improvement, 1904–1927 | Amanda L. Katz | Pittsburgh, PA | 2019 | $1,000.00 | ||
| Sustaining Progressive Populism: The Iowa Democratic Party in the Wake of the Farm Crisis, 1986–1992 | Cory M. Haala | Crystal, MN | 2019 | $1,000.00 | ||
| “Whether My Days Be Many or Few”: The Civil War Letters of Matthew Kemper | Donald C. Elder III | Portales, NM | 2019 | $1,000.00 | ||
| The Iowa Challenge: The National Farm Organization and the Fate of Agrarian Liberalism | Jeffrey Bloodworth | 2021 | $1,000.00 | |||
| “We Came Home Together:” Black Veterans and Community Building in Iowa | Dwain Coleman | 2021 | $1,000.00 | |||
| Migrant Education and the Social Construction of Mexican-American Learners in Iowa | Deirdre M. Dougherty | 2021 | $1,000.00 |
