Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Iowa history"”.
-
Homing to Authenticity: Iowa Testimony in "Gilead"
Iowa history reveals a long-term progressive stance towards implementing civil liberties laws. Yet many outside of the state equate Iowa with staid provincialism because of its rural isolation in the American heartland. Novelist Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead brings attention to a little known time in …
-
Homing to Authenticity: Iowa Testimony in "Gilead"
Iowa history reveals a long-term progressive stance towards implementing civil liberties laws. Yet many outside of the state equate Iowa with staid provincialism because of its rural isolation in the American heartland. Novelist Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead brings attention to a little known time in …
-
History of High School Wrestling in Iowa
41 leaves
-
Iowa schoolmarms: The significance of rural schools and the feminization movement, 1865-1920
1 PDF file (vii, 105 pages)
-
Crisis communication in the wake of the storm: Derecho 2020
1 PDF file (xiii, 171 pages)
-
The history of Iowa Buttermaking 1890-1915
121 leaves
-
From Military Express to Free Delivery: the Postal History of Des Moines, Iowa
The problem. The role of postal history on the urban frontier has not been adequately explored by urban historians. The inauguration of postal service in fledging Midwestern towns served to not only unite separated family and friends, to legitimize place names, and to introduce politics into …
-
History of Unionization in Waterloo, Iowa
… of the Twentieth Century. This thesis, a history of unionization in Waterloo, Iowa, seeks to explore a small local facet of the larger nation-wide movement. I chose Waterloo as the locale of my study because of its placement in a farming region of the Midwest and because most of the city’s …
-
Sources of Prohibitionism in Iowa, 1878-1882
176 leaves.
-
The Mormons: Their Trek Across Iowa and Their Settlement in Kanesville
… taking up three distinct phases of Mormon history, all closely connected and chronologically following one another, The first chapter is merely an Introduction, little source material being used. | Chapter Two, dealing with the trek across Iowa, has been written chronologically telling a …
-
A Study of the Present Status and the Trends of General Science in the High Schools of the State of Iowa
The Iowa Association of Science Teachers meeting in conjunction with the Iowa State Teachers Association, in Des Moines, Iowa, on November 5 and 6, 1936, set as its objective the improvement of science education in Iowa. To accomplish this objective, plans were made to determine what standards the …
-
Baseball in the heartland: Semi-pro baseball survives in Iowa
1 PDF file (v, 313 pages)
-
A Comparative Study of the Catholic High Schools of the Archdiocese of Dubuque
… a survey was made in order to study their history, growth and present status. Through the information received, an effort was made to determine what trends are most evident in the Catholic high schools of the Archdiocese and what predictions might be made. Information in the survey included …
-
A Comparative Analysis of the History of Substate Districts in Iowa and Missouri
… of the establishment of substate districts in Iowa and Missouri did not exist. The severity of this fact intensifies considering that the political ramifications of substate districts will either directly or indirectly touch the lives of all of us. Procedure. The data on Iowa and Missouri's …
-
Iowa's wolf in populist clothing: Norman Baker, 1925-1936
1 PDF file (iii, 98 pages)
-
A History of the Schools of the Sisters of Humility in Iowa
… and conducted by the Sisters of Humility in Iowa, where this community has labored for over fifty years. An earnest effort has been made to be as accurate as possible in tracing the history of these schools, both public and parochial, from their poor beginnings through their gradual …
Page 1 of 2