This project was last updated on Tuesday, 19 August 2008

 Iowa History Project

                              An IAGenWeb Special Project

and a member of the   was born in November 2002 when we acquired several volumes of general Iowa history that weren't quite appropriate for a county page. We also thought many folks who were researching their Iowa ancestors might want to know what Iowa was like when their ancestors lived here, and so here are the books, pamphlets, journals  and news articles we share:

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BOOKS

• Iowa Magazine, December 1918

• Iowa Official Register, 1941-9142

• History of Medicine in Iowa

• Iowa Official Register, 1925-1926

• A Glimpse of Iowa in 1846

• The Making of Iowa 1900 

• History of Iowa From Its Earliest Times to the Twentieth Century 1903

• Modern Conveniences for the Farm Home 1906

• The Iowa Official Register 1909-1910

• Register of the Society of Sons of the Revolution in the State of Iowa, 1912

• The Quakers of Iowa 1914

• Iowa Its History and Foremost Citizens 1918

• Northwestern Iowa, Its History and Traditions 1804-1926

• Iowa Official Register 1927-1928

• Grandmother Brown’s Hundred Years 1929

• A Narrative History of the People of Iowa Vol III.-1931 (Bios)
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• A Narrative History of the People of Iowa Vol IV.-1931 (Bios)

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• Stories of Iowa for Boys and Girls 1931

IOWA GAZETTEERS AND DIRECTORIES

Hair's 1865 Gazetteer

• General Index 

• Index to Business Register 

• Index to Counties and Communities

• Index to Towns and Villages

EARLY IOWA MARRIAGES 

• Early Iowa Marriages (Pre 1850)

JOURNALS, ANNALS, NEWSPAPERS, ETC.

Early Times

• Three Foreign States Have Claimed Jurisdiction
• The Coming of the Railroad
• Youth Time in Frontier Iowa
• Winter Night on the Open Prairie
• Frontier Mills
• Dubuque in Early Times
• A Scene in the Early History of Iowa
• Early Times in Iowa
• Early Homes and Homemakers of Iowa
• Life of the Pioneer Farmer
• Hardships of Pioneers in Northwestern Iowa
• Breaking Prairie
• Early Cabins in Iowa
• Pioneering at Bonaparte and Near Pella
• Iowa Settler's Homestead
• Early Social and Religious Experiments in Iowa
• Pioneer Perils I
• Pioneer Perils II
• Things Remembered
• Recollections of the Past
• Recollections of the Early Settlement of N.W. Iowa #1
• Recollections of the Early Settlement of N.W. Iowa #2
• Recollections of the Early Settlement of N.W. Iowa #3
• Recollections of the Early Settlement of N.W. Iowa #4
• Recollections of the Early Settlement of N.W. Iowa #5
• Recollections of the Early Settlement of N.W. Iowa #6
• Recollections of the Early Settlement of N.W. Iowa #7
• Recollections of the Early Settlement of N.W. Iowa #8
• Recollections of the Early Settlement of N.W. Iowa #9
• Recollections of the Early Settlement of N.W. Iowa #10
• Recollections of the Early Settlement of N.W. Iowa #11
• Recollections of the Early Settlement of N.W. Iowa #12
• Recollections of the Early Settlement of N.W. Iowa #13
• Recollections of the Early Settlement of N.W. Iowa #14
• Recollections of the Early Settlement of N.W. Iowa #15
• Life Among the Fur Traders
• Fur Trade in Early Iowa
• The Indians at Gray Ford

Religion

• A Sermon on the History of the First Congregational Church of Lyons, Iowa
• Some Pioneer Preachers of Iowa
• Some Pioneer Preachers of Iowa #2
• The Quakers in Iowa
• The Quakers of Iowa in 1850
• The Quakers of Iowa in 1858
• Frontier Church Going - 1837
• Father Sam Mazzuchelli, An Iowa Pioneer
• Journal of a Missionary in Jackson County, Iowa Territory 1843-'6
• Catholic Missionaries in the Early and Territorial Days of Iowa
• Reverend Daniel Lane and his Keosauqua Academy
• A Day at New Melleray
• The Trappists in Europe
• The Abbey in Iowa
• The Life of the Trappists
• St. Anthony's Church at Davenport, Iowa
• A Minor Prophet in Iowa
• Called to Iowa
• 1893 Centennial -Central Presbyterian Church, Polk Co.

Law and Crime

• The Trial and Execution of Patrick O'Conner at the Dubuque Mines in the Summer of 1834 (Annals of Iowa)
• The Trial and Execution of Patrick O'Conner at the Dubuque Mines in the Summer of 1834 (Palimpsest)
• Lynch Law at the Dubuque Mines
• An Iowa Fugitive Slave Case-1850
• Pioneer Protection from Horse Thieves
• History of Liquor Legislation in Iowa
• The History of Liquor Legislation in Iowa 1861-1878
• Attempted Lynchings in Iowa
• Law Proceedings in Early Times
• Siam Gold

Education

• Medical Department of the Iowa State University
• Early Schools in Iowa
• Who Taught the First School in Iowa? And Where and When?
• The Iowa School System
• Building the First School House
• The Early Schools and Teachers of Iowa
• Questions for State Certificates- Keosauqua Republican May 1883
• The Sheldall School

Miscellaneous Information

• A Lincoln Pole Rising
• Letters of General Street to Dr. Alexander Posey
• The Garry Owen Vote
• "Swinging Around the Circle"
• Women in Iowa
• The Dead of 1884
• Recent Deaths (1886)
• Recent Deaths (1889)
• Recent Deaths (1893)
• Notable Deaths-1921
• Notes
• The Grasshopper Invasion
• Editorial-Slaves in Iowa
• Vital Statistics
• The Neutral Ground
• Underground Railroad in Iowa
• Three Early Taverns
• Organization of the Historical Dept. of Iowa
• 1919 Minutes of State Board of Conservation
• Harlan Home
• Harlan's Defense of Grant

Travel & Emigration

• The Vanished Stage Coach
• Camanche and Albany Ferry
• The Story of an Emigrant Train
• Crossing the Mississippi
• Across the Mississippi
• How Boonesboro Lost a Railroad Station
• The Old Military Road
• Official Encouragement of Emigration to Iowa
• Galland's Iowa Emigrant 1840
• Transportation in Iowa Before Railroads
• Letters of a Railroad Builder
• Emigration from Iowa to Oregon 1843

On The River

• A Compilation of Burlington River Men
• Ferry Boats on the Upper Mississippi River
• Recollections of the Old River
• Life on the Main Deck
• History of Packet Lines and Steamboats
• Sketch of S. R. VanSant
• The Steamer Lilly & Logs
• The Old Des Moines Rapids Canal
• Down the Ohio and Up the Mississippi in 1823
• When the RI Road Reached the River, The Famous Excursion Train of 1854
• Iowa Steamboat Wars
• The Good Old Days on the Mississippi River
• Steamboat Races
• Steamboat Disasters

• Life and Adventures of Stephen B. Hanks

• On the Mississippi by Walter Blair

Life on the Mississippi

• Announcement by E.H. Thomas to Burlington Post
• Cover Page
• Contents
• Index

When Rafters Ruled - The Career of Capt. Jerome E. Short

• Cover Page
• Table of Contents

Speeches

• Memorial Speech by Judge Grant
• A Notable Speech of Black Hawk

County Specific Information

• Dorothy G. Clark Collection (Mahaska County)
• John Huff, the First White Settler of Jefferson County
• Jefferson County Pioneers
• Jefferson County Pioneers (cont.)
• Van Buren County Pioneer Association
• Clayton County, 1838
• Pioneer Days in Plymouth County
• Beginnings of Burlington (Des Moines Co.)
• Early Land Claims in Des Moines Co.
• Store Ledger of Azor R. Mills (previously Mills & Manning) 1867-1880

Weather

• Observations on Tornadoes in Iowa
• Lost in a Snow Storm
• Some Tornadoes in Iowa
• The Great Blizzard of 1856
• Lost in an Iowa Blizzard
• The Flood of 1851 (July 1902)
• The Flood of 1851 (June 1934)
• The Winter of Eighty-One
• Tornado of 1882-Keosauqua Republican June 22, 1882
• Tornado of 1882-Keosauqua Republican June 29, 1882
• Tornado of 1860-Keosauqua Republican  June 29, 1882
• Fighting Tornadoes with Cannons-Keosauqua Republican June 29, 1882

Civil War

• Iowa and Andersonville
• A Tribute to the 16th Iowa
• War Memories
• Wives of the Brigade
• A Confederate Spy
• Burlington Weekly Hawkeye Items Jan-Mar 1863
• Missing Army Men of Iowa-Keosauqua Republican 1866
• Iowa Dead at Shiloh-Fairfield Tribune 1884
• Civil War Vets Buried at Jefferson Cemetery-Jefferson Bee, 1954
• Iowa and the Draft
• Wartime Doctor's Account Book 1861-62 (Wood & Dial)
• A Famous War Horse
• Wittenmyer Diet Kitchens

Biographical Sketches

• John Strange, Wisconsin Lieutenant Governor, 1908
• Dr. Frederick Lloyd
• James M. Elson
• Clint Parkhurst
• Nancy Ann Hunter
• Major-General Lewis Addison Grant
• Manuel Lisa
• Hope Glenn
• Lewelling Family Pioneers

Memories & Diaries

• Gladys Van Horn (In Her Own Words)
• Adolph Witt Story
• Hanover #4 - A One Room School
• Stories of John and Lucy York Odell Family

BOOK EXCERPTS AND EXTRACTS

• Panorama and Encyclopedia of the United States  Iowa Section, 1863

• History of Des Moines County   How Pioneers Lived  1879

• Poetry in Cookery

 1897

• The Iowa Official Register  The Nativity of the Pioneers in Iowa,  1911 - 1912

• Roster of Iowa Soldiers, Vol. VI.  Northern Border Brigade, 1911

• Board of Parole Iowa   1916

• Iowa Journal of History and Politics  1918

• Iowa and the Nation 1920

• Iowa Official Register  Bios 1933 -1934

• Our Iowa Its Beginnings and Growth  1938

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