The Annals of Iowa
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DAVID K. THOMPSON, Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union
JASON LOPER AND MICHAEL SCHREIBER, This American House: Frank Lloyd Wright's Meier House and the American System-Built Homes
JOHN NICHOLS, The Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party: The Enduring Legacy of Henry Wallace's Antifascist, Antiracist Politics
MICHAEL JOHN WITGEN, Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America
"A Flight of Alien, Unclean Birds": The Mobility of Hobo Labor in Iowa 1870s-1910s
NATHAN TYE explores the place of hobos in Iowa during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He argues that transitory workers' illicit rail travel, apparent disconnection from society, and sudden arrival and departure unsettled rural and urban lowans and that hobos' efforts to advocate and organize publicly elicited strong responses from legislators, law enforcement, editorialists, and even the Iowa Supreme Cour
American Indian Resistance to Settler Colonialism in the Western Great Lakes and Upper Mississippi Valley, 1815–1832
PATRICK J. JUNG examines Indigenous societies living in the western Great Lakes and upper Mississippi Valley, which included eastern Iowa, during the early nineteenth century. He considers how Indigenous people drew on ideological foundations built during the War of 1812 in order to employ various forms of anonymous resistance to American expansion in the decades following the war's conclusion