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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Soldier’s Story: Francis Webster and the Third Iowa Infantry during World War I | Matthew J. Margis | Ames | Story | 2016 | $1,000.00 | |
| A Transnational History of Chinese Students in Iowa, 1910s–1930s | Shu Wan | Iowa City | Johnson | 2019 | $1,000.00 | |
| America's Forgotten Vice President: The Life and Political Thought of Charles Curtis | Jason Phillips | 2022 | $1,000.00 | |||
| Americanizing the Heartland: The Quest for Immigrant Loyalty in Iowa during World War I | Robert F. Zeidel | Afton, MN | 2015 | $1,000.00 | ||
| Annie Turner Wittenmyer and the Professionalization of Women’s Paid Labor | Lisa G. Guinn | Fayette | Fayette | 2014 | $1,000.00 | |
| Bertha Shambaugh: Domestic Life as Artistic Practice | Andrea M. Truitt | Iowa City | Johnson | 2019 | $1,000.00 | |
| Camp Hantesa, Boone, IA: Summer camp as formative to the lives of girls and women growing up in the 1940s-1970s | Stacey Hockett Sherlock | Iowa City | Johnson | 2022 | $1,000.00 | |
| Campaigning for the Farm: Electoral Rhetoric and the Farm Crisis, 1975–1988 | Rebecca Stoil | Baltimore, MD | 2015 | $1,000.00 | ||
| Churchwomen, Church Building, and Print Culture in the Construction of Black Citizenship in Iowa, 1868-1900 | Mila W. Kaut | 2021 | $1,000.00 | |||
| Class Identities and Working-Class Conservatism: A Community Study of Unions, Class, and Politics in Waterloo, Iowa, in 1968 | Jason A. Whisler | Iowa City | Johnson | 2014 | $1,000.00 | |
| Community Identity, Rock & Roll, & Baby Boomer Nostalgia in Clear Lake, Iowa | Anna Thompson Hajdik | Madison, WI | 2017 | $1,000.00 | ||
| Confronting the Tramp Nuisance: Hobo Life in Iowa, 1890–1930 | Nathan Tye | Urbana, IL | 2017 | $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 | ||
| Coping with Drought in Iowa during the 1890s Depression | Susan Curtis | West Lafayette, IN | 2015 | $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 | |
| Czechs in Iowa: History, Places, and Opportunities for Further Research | Martin Nekola | 2022 | $1,000.00 | |||
| Dakota Prisoners, ABCFM Missionaries, and the Davenport Press | Linda M. Clemmons | Bloomington, IL | 2016 | $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 | ||
| Democracy Has Iowa Roots: Rural Reeducation and New Deal Environmentalism on a Subsistence Homestead | Michael Bowman | Ames | Story | 2018 | $1,000.00 | |
| Empowerment, Social Uplift, and Community: Pauline Humphrey and the Crescent School of Beauty Culture | Ashley R. Garrin | Ames | Story | 2014 | $1,000.00 |
