In the final decades of the 19th century, the Aesthetic Movement was regarded by some…
Iowa People and Profiles
As the holiday season approaches and our thoughts turn to people we love and would…
Clemens Gretter was the (unheralded) artist who drew the newspaper cartoons for Robert Ripley’s Believe…
In 1887, 26-year-old Alice Moore resigned as a primary school teacher in Cedar Falls and…
On the evening of June 25, 1906, during a performance at Madison Square Garden in…
(East Grove Farms celebrates the 10th anniversary of its Folk Music Festival this Saturday, June…
American novelist Edna Ferber, who was originally from Kalamazoo, Michigan, moved with her family to…
Franc Johnson Newcomb (née Frances Johnson) was born in 1887 near Tomah, Wisconsin. Her father…
Iowa-born Wild West showman William Frederick Cody, famously known as Buffalo Bill, was fortunate not…
My great-great-grandpa John Love served as a Union cavalry soldier in the Civil War. Even…
Some people are energized by seemingly impossible missions. Arabella “Belle” Babb Mansfield—our nation’s first female…
A Place to Grow, the highly anticipated third film in the award-winning Fairfield History Series,…