"Booze was not the issue at all, it was woman suffrage," JR Kane, newly elected mayor of Charlotte, Iowa, claimed in explaining his win in a city election in 1922. Women had won the vote through the 19th amendment to the Constitution.
Some called it the fastest and best typewriting machine in the world. It was destined to revolutionize the business world. What was this marvelous invention that everyone was talking about
“I shudder to think what the economic condition of the country and of all other countries involved will be when this awful war is over.”
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“Woman Mayor Refuses to Sign Big Contract Before Investigating”
The headline in Albia’s Daily Times newspaper must have caught the attention of readers in 1922. A woman mayor? And
Who lives in or near downtown in Iowa City, which houses students from across Iowa and other states, is out of balance, housing and urban planning experts in the city say. It’s that way because, paradoxically, more students can afford housing there because of the rents, squeezing out potential homeb
An 8-year-old girl was on the Dubuque Street dock in Iowa City and using a pole to test the depth of the water when she lost her balance. What happened next was deemed to be heroic.
On Nov. 20, 2008, UNESCO named Iowa City, Iowa its third City of Literature, after Edinburgh, Scotland and Melbourne, Australia. Test your knowledge on Iowa's City of Literature and learn more about its literary identity and tradition.
Chinese students at the University of Iowa continue to try making do in a system that isn’t tailored to them, from the admissions process to academics and life on campus, despite moves by the university and others over the past several years to make life more pleasant for them in the United States.
Two IowaWatch forums, on Nov. 19 and 20, based on the documentary "Breaking the Cycle: Meth Addiction in the Heartland [http://www.iowawatch.org/2014/06/05/breaking-the-cycle-meth-addiction-in-the-heartland/]" will seek solutions to Iowa's cycle of meth abuse.
Home ownership is taken for granted as the default standard of living for many Iowans. But black and Latino homeownership rates have dropped since 1960, an analysis of census data shows. The reasons are explored in the conclusion of the series, "Iowa's Opportunity Gap," an IowaWatch collaboration wi
With student Stafford loan interest rates on the verge of doubling, President Barack Obama entered the University of Iowa’s Field House today and urged students to appeal to Congress to extend the rate freeze before it jumps to 6.8 percent in July.
