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    Iowa History 101 Series

    Join the State Historical Society of Iowa for a 60-minute online learning series that focuses on the past lives of Iowans to help commemorate the 175th anniversary of Iowa. The Iowa History 101 webinars share Iowa stories and the history of the state through a cultural history lens on the second and fourth Thursdays of each month. Register for an upcoming program or watch a recorded presentation. Registration is required for each event.

    Upcoming Programs

    All Iowa History 101 programs are scheduled from noon to 1 p.m. on the date of the presentation. 

    Date Program Title (Click the link to register) Presenter
    Jan. 14 Iowa’s Native Nations Lance Foster
    Jan. 28 Tales of the Territory Leo Landis
    Feb. 11 Immigration to Iowa Jeff Bremer
    Feb. 25 Iowa's Black Migration:
    Into, Around, Out Of, and Back Again    		 Ricki King
    March 2 Iowa History Month:
    Stories from the “Iowa’s People and Places” Exhibit    		 Leo Landis
    March 4 Iowa History Month:
    Inkpaduta in Iowa: Dakota Decline, Dispossession and Erasure    		 Kevin Mason
    March 9 Iowa History Month:
    The Industrialization and Americanization of Midwesterners' Diets    		 Amahia Mallea
    March 11 Iowa History Month:
    The Iowa National Guard in the Spanish-American War 1898-1899    		 Mike Vogt
    March 16 Iowa History Month:
         Emir Abd el-Kader’s Life, Legacy and Connection to Elkader, Iowa    		 Kathy Garms, 
    Matt Peterson
    & John Kaiser
    March 18 Iowa History Month:
    A Menace to the Morals of the Institution:
    Women in Wartime and the 1918 Flu Epidemic at Iowa State College    		 Jenny Barker-Devine
    March 23 Iowa History Month:
    Prairie Fires: Urban Rebellions in the Midwest    		 Ashley Howard
    March 25 Iowa History Month:
    100 Years of Donna Reed    		 Mary Owen &
    Kurt Lee, 
    moderated by Leo Landis
    March 30   Iowa History Month:
    Iowa City and Des Moines: A Tale of Two Capitol Buildings    		 Liz Crooks & Joan Arnette 

    Watch the latest Iowa History Iowa program: Winter Holidays 

    Past Programs

    Iowa History 101 Recordings
    Automobiles
    Back to School
    Baseball
    Buxton, Iowa: The Black Utopia: To view the recording, please contact museum.education@iowa.gov.
    Corn Farming
    Glendale Cemetery, Des Moines
    Iowa and the Great War
    Iowa and the Presidency
    Iowa State Fair
    Movies & Film
    Prohibition and Temperance
    Winter Holidays
    Women's Suffrage
    World War II
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