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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa by the Sea: Long Beach and the Annual Iowa Picnics | Wayne Anderson | Iowa City | Johnson | 2015 | $1,000.00 | |
| Coping with Drought in Iowa during the 1890s Depression | Susan Curtis | West Lafayette, IN | 2015 | $1,000.00 | ||
| The Return to Ne ko to si ye: Meskwaki Village Life, 1857–1902 | Erik D. Gooding | Moorhead, MN | 2015 | $1,000.00 | ||
| “When the Hens Begin to Lay”: Rural Women in The Woman’s Standard, 1886–1911 | Stephanie A. Grossnickle-Batterton | Iowa City | Johnson | 2015 | $1,000.00 | |
| Lonely Sentinel: A History of Fort Madison, 1808–1813 | Patrick J. Jung | Milwaukee, WI | 2015 | $1,000.00 | ||
| Socialism in Madrid, Iowa, 1910–1920 | Thomas F. Jorsch | Fayette | Fayette | 2015 | $1,000.00 | |
| Joel E. Hendricks and The Analyst: Mathematical Publishing “on the borders of civilization,” 1873–1883 | Deborah A. Kent | Des Moines | Polk | 2015 | $1,000.00 | |
| “Speaking Truth to Power”: The Story of the Palo 13 | Sharon M. Lake | Iowa City | Johnson | 2015 | $1,000.00 | |
| From Military Reporter to “Mary Manners”: The Unbounded Journalism of Dorothy Ashby Pownall | Tracy Lucht | Ames | Story | 2015 | $1,000.00 | |
| The Making of a Midwestern Catholicism: Transatlantic Identities, Ethnicity, and Catholic Culture in Iowa City, 1840–1940 | Michael J. Pfeifer | Sunnyside, NY | 2015 | $1,000.00 | ||
| Lost in the Heartland: Missing Children, the Midwestern Character, and the Boy on the Milk Carton | Paul Mokrzycki | Iowa City | Johnson | 2014 | $1,000.00 | |
| The Last Holdout to Progress: Straightening the Skunk River, 1908–1920 | Joseph W. Otto | Norman, OK | 2014 | $1,000.00 | ||
| Politics in Paint: The Creation, Destruction, and Restoration of the Cedar Rapids Courthouse Mural | Breanne Robertson | College Park, MD | 2014 | $1,000.00 | ||
| The 1898 American Cereal Company Strike in Cedar Rapids: Gender, Ethnicity, and Labor Activism in Late Nineteenth-Century Iowa | Pam Stek | Iowa City | Johnson | 2014 | $1,000.00 | |
| Farming by Rail: Perry G. Holden, Iowa’s Demonstration Trains, and the Rise of Mobile Agricultural Experiment Stations | David D. Vail | Manhattan, KS | 2014 | $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 | |
| Voices for Change: Women and Chautauqua at the Turn of the Century | Sarah Bell | Lawrence, KS | 2014 | $1,000.00 | ||
| Union Memory of the Civil War: An Iowa Case Study | Robert J. Cook | United Kingdom | 2014 | $1,000.00 | ||
| Railroad Maps as Windows to Iowa History | Gerald A. Danzer | Itasca, IL | 2014 | $1,000.00 | ||
| “Eyes Right” in Des Moines: Rearing Respectability at the Blue Triangle YWCA, 1919–1947 | Sarah J. Eikleberry | Iowa City | Johnson | 2014 | $1,000.00 |
