Upcoming Events

What does it take to create and run a museum? Young historians (entering 4th through 6th grade) will explore the roles of curators, conservators and exhibit designers with the unique experience...

Join Mila Kaut, a Ph.D. student at Northwestern University and co-organizer of the Iowa Colored Conventions Project, to learn how Black women's practices of institutional citizenship in African...

Join Kevin T. Mason, an associate professor of history at Waldorf University, as he explores the history of coal in southeastern Iowa. Incorporating elements of his 2021 walk across Iowa to...

What does it take to create and run a museum? Young historians (entering 4th through 6th grade) will explore the roles of curators, conservators and exhibit designers with the unique experience...

Join Sara Egge, the Claude D. Pottinger Professor of History at Centre College, as she discusses some of the landmark scholarship about gender in Iowa's history. We'll examine several topics,...

Join historian Dr. Anthony J. Miller to explore the lives of the first Chinese immigrants to live in the American Midwest and examine how they founded businesses, formed small communities, won...

Join Jason Loper and Michael Schreiber as they share the remarkable story of the Delbert and Grace Meier House in Monona, the third building Frank Lloyd Wright designed in Iowa. Loper and...

Join Leo Landis, the state curator for the State Historical Society of Iowa, as he discusses the history of Juneteenth, which has been a state holiday in Iowa since 2002 and became a federal...