Iowa History
Dive into hundreds of classroom-ready and standards-aligned resources exploring natural history, politics, civil rights, industry, agriculture and conflicts are ready for use with your students. Explore the video, images, stories, activities and first-person accounts that make Iowa a unique state.
Mary Beth Tinker explains her reasoning behind wearing black armbands to protest the Vietnam War.
Learn how the NAWSA (led by Carrie Chapman Catt), with President Wilson’s help, got the 19th Amendment ratified.
Explore the life of Iowan, Alexander Clark from school desegregation to U.S. Ambassador to Liberia.
Learn about the landmark 1969 U.S. Supreme Court decision that defined students free speech rights.
Why does Booker T. Washington choose Carver to head up his agriculture department at Tuskegee University?
Carrie Chapman Catt: Warrior for Women tells the story of an Iowan's role in the women’s suffrage movement.
Discover what the New Deal and Civilian Conservation Corps have to do with our Iowa state parks.
Just walk the trails at Pine Lake or Effigy Mounds to see the lasting effect members of the CCC have had on our state.
What does nature mean to you? Nature was George Washington Carver’s classroom inspiration.
Explore Freedom Summer, the 1964 voter registration drive to register Black voters in Mississippi.
Learn about scientist, teacher, humanitarian, environmentalist and artist George Washington Carver.
Why would we consider George Washington Carver’s approach to science as applied science?
In 1972, the Iowa caucuses became the first major event in the nomination process for President of the United States.
Explore how Iowa became a testing ground and the first electoral event for presidential candidates.
Go on an educational exploration of Iowa’s natural environments and environmental challenges.
Explore the people, places and events in Iowa history.
Learn why John Tinker felt it was important to protest the Vietnam War.
Explore how the 19th Amendment came to be by looking closer at the strong women who created and lead the NAWSA.
Billions of dollars move through the agricultural marketplace each year. Explore the government’s role in agriculture.
Mary Beth and John Tinker react to the Supreme Court decision and the “Tinker Standard”.
Caesar Smith, U.S Army Veteran, explains the role U.S. advisers played in Vietnam prior to the start of the Vietnam War.
Explore photos and first-person accounts of farm life during the Great Depression and the early twentieth century.
Examine the economic and personal disasters that afflicted the agriculture sector in the 1980s.
Learn about the historic battle that led to free speech rights for public school students.