The Annals of Iowa
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Leaing Through a Crisis: An Oral History of Iowa and the Farm Crisis
No full textAMBASSADOR TERRY BRANSTAD reflects on his time leading Iowa through the Farm Crisis of the 1980s. Excerpts from an extensive oral history interview conducted by the Annals of Iowa editor provide insights into how Branstad charted a course through the crisis and worked to position Iowa to survive the Crisis and come out of it in a stronger position
Printing and Performing Citizenship: The Production of Black Parallel Politics in Iowa
No full textMILA KAUT examines the intersections between churchbuilding and political thought and activity in order to create the conditions to understand Black women as political actors. She demonstrates how Black women organized congregations, participated in lay societies, and engaged with congregations across the state through the Afro-Protestant press and therefore, worked out a definition of institutional citizenship characterized by autonomy and respectability
"It's My Greatest Desire Before I Die to be in the Iowa Constitution": Iowa and the Equal Rights Amendment
No full textKAREN KEDROWSKI explores the Equal Rights Amendment in Iowa, beginning in the wake of the Nineteenth Amendment’s passage and continuing through the ratification of Iowa’s Equal Rights Amendment in 1998. In the first history of the ERA in Iowa, she considers the national- and state-level actors and issues that supported, challenged, and ultimately passed an ERA in the Iowa Constitution
