A New History of Iowa

English | ISBN: 0700635564 | 2023 | 400 pages | EPUB | 9 MB

The state of Iowa is largely unappreciated and often misunderstood. It has a small population and sits in the middle of a huge country. Its thought of as an uninspiring place full of farms and fields of corn. But Iowa represents America as surely as New York and California, and Iowas history is more dynamic, complicated, and influential than commonly imagined.
Jeff Bremers A New History of Iowa offers the most comprehensive history of the Hawkeye State ever written, surveying Iowa from the last ice age through the COVID-19 pandemic. It tells a new and vibrant story, examining the states small-town culture, politics, social and economic development, and its many diverse inhabitants. Bremer features well-known individuals, such as Sauk leader Black Hawk, artist Grant Wood, botanist George Washington Carver, suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt, and President Herbert Hoover. But Bremer broadens the states story by including new voicesamong them, runaway enslaved men who joined Iowas 60th Colored Regiment in the Civil War, young female pearl button factory workers, Latino railroad workers who migrated to the state in the early twentieth century, and recent refugees from Southeast Asia and the Balkans.