State Curator; @iowamuseum, @iowaculture, Bacon enthusiast, @isualum in @iastatehistory, views are my own
Des Moines, IA
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Springdale, Iowa was a Quaker community w/strong abolitionist ties. Stopped there last week on a John Brown project & found this unrelated but intriguing grave site. Obit from Muscatine Journal (Dec 1902) via @StateCuratorIA
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Springdale, Iowa was a Quaker community w/strong abolitionist ties. Stopped there last week on a John Brown project & found this unrelated but intriguing grave site. Obit from Muscatine Journal (12/12/1902) via @StateCuratorIA
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Our free, monthly networking and community building event gives you the opportunity to meet other history practitioners around the country. This month's History Hour is hosted by the AASLH Educators and Interpreters Committee. Register at tinyurl.com/HistoryHour0624.
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AASLH is proud to announce that we have been selected by @America250 as an inaugural National Resource Partner. National Resource Partners are a select group of expert nonpartisan, nonprofit orgs that will help elevate and scale America250 programming. america250.org/about-america…
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Our 2024 Alice Smith Prize in #PublicHistory: congrats to the State Historical Society of Iowa (@IowaMuseum) for their 2023 program highlighting the 1980s #FarmCrisis!
@aklumpp was on hand to accept on behalf of SHSI.
#MidwestHistory24
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A terrific night & great crowd at @IowaStateFair to premiere the new @IowaPBS documentary “Our Great State Fair” chronicling the nearly 170-year history of the Fair.
The two 1-hour episodes air on @IowaPBS Aug 1 and Aug 2. Also @PBS app and IowaPBS.org
Iowans have a tradition of honoring freedom and equality for generations, as early as 1856. Program on 6/12 at State Historical Building of IA, 600 E Locust, w/conversation with long-time Iowans. @blackiowanews @Rushthewriter @NAACPIANE @catchdesmoines @jaybyers @IowaMuseum
I’ve been off Twitter due to its many issues.
A change for Memorial Day, when people ask about favorite artifacts @IowaMuseum, the flag of the 1st Colored Regiment of Iowa is among the top. 1/10 @blackiowanews @IowaNatGuard #MemorialDay #GoldStar
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The men received their uniforms in October of 1863, clip from @journalonline of 10/15/1863, and headed to Jefferson Barracks in November, 2nd clip from Muscatine Tri-Weekly Journal, 11/13/1863.
Read about men who served in the regiment and made their homes in Newton after the war, see Dwain Coleman’s ISU master’s thesis, “ Still in the Fight: The Struggle for Community in the Upper Midwest for African American Civil War Veterans”
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