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.

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Social Studies

Learn how the NAWSA (led by Carrie Chapman Catt), with President Wilson’s help, got the 19th Amendment ratified.

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Social Studies

Explore the life of Iowan, Alexander Clark from school desegregation to U.S. Ambassador to Liberia.

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Social Studies

Learn about the landmark 1969 U.S. Supreme Court decision that defined students free speech rights.

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Social Studies

Why does Booker T. Washington choose Carver to head up his agriculture department at Tuskegee University?

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Social Studies

Carrie Chapman Catt: Warrior for Women tells the story of an Iowan's role in the women’s suffrage movement.

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Social Studies

Discover what the New Deal and Civilian Conservation Corps have to do with our Iowa state parks.

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Social Studies

Just walk the trails at Pine Lake or Effigy Mounds to see the lasting effect members of the CCC have had on our state.

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Social Studies

What does nature mean to you? Nature was George Washington Carver’s classroom inspiration.

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Social Studies

Explore Freedom Summer, the 1964 voter registration drive to register Black voters in Mississippi.

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Social Studies

Learn about scientist, teacher, humanitarian, environmentalist and artist George Washington Carver.

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Social Studies, STEM

Why would we consider George Washington Carver’s approach to science as applied science?

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Social Studies

In 1972, the Iowa caucuses became the first major event in the nomination process for President of the United States.

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Social Studies

Explore how Iowa became a testing ground and the first electoral event for presidential candidates.

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Social Studies

Go on an educational exploration of Iowa’s natural environments and environmental challenges.

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STEM

Explore the people, places and events in Iowa history.

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Social Studies

Learn why John Tinker felt it was important to protest the Vietnam War.

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Social Studies

Explore how the 19th Amendment came to be by looking closer at the strong women who created and lead the NAWSA.

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Social Studies

Billions of dollars move through the agricultural marketplace each year. Explore the government’s role in agriculture.

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Social Studies

Mary Beth and John Tinker react to the Supreme Court decision and the “Tinker Standard”.

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Social Studies

Caesar Smith, U.S Army Veteran, explains the role U.S. advisers played in Vietnam prior to the start of the Vietnam War.

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Social Studies

Explore photos and first-person accounts of farm life during the Great Depression and the early twentieth century.

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Social Studies

Examine the economic and personal disasters that afflicted the agriculture sector in the 1980s.

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Social Studies

Learn about the historic battle that led to free speech rights for public school students.

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Social Studies