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 Tama Philharmonic Society’s Iowa Composers Concerts | Marian Wilson Kimber | Iowa City | Johnson | 2019 | $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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Negotiating Downtown: Visions of Urban Renewal in Iowa City, 1960–1972 | David S. De La Torre | Coralville | Johnson | 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 | |
| From Bioprospecting to Biodiesel: Soy Commodity Frontiers in the Twentieth Century | Rachel C. Steely | Cambridge, MA | 2018 | $1,000.00 | ||
| Food, Family Farms, and the Crisis of the 1980s | Pamela Riney-Kehrberg | Ames | Story | 2018 | $1,000.00 | |
| 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 Keokuk Teachers Strike of 1970 and the Origins of Iowa’s Public Employment Relations Act | John W. McKerley | Iowa City | Johnson | 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 | ||
| 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 |
