Upcoming Events

Iowans are invited to take a healthy step forward by stepping back in time. The 8th annual Iowa State Fair Historical Walking Tour, co-hosted by the Iowa Department of...

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...

Join the State Historical Society and Annals of Iowa editor, Andrew Klumpp, to explore Iowa’s past. Each quarter a book related to a different aspect of Iowa history will be selected and at the...

Join the State Historical Society and Annals of Iowa editor, Andrew Klumpp, to explore Iowa’s past. Each quarter a book related to a different aspect of Iowa history will be selected and at the...