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Iowa's Archaeological Past
University of Iowa Press 2000; US$ 29.95Iowa has more than eighteen thousand archaeological sites, and research in the past few decades has transformed our knowledge of the state's human past. Examining the projectile points, potsherds, and patterns that make up the archaeological record, Lynn Alex describes the nature of the earliest settlements in Iowa, the development of farming cultures,... more...
New England's Generation
Cambridge University Press 1991; US$ 26.00This book explores New England's founding, in terms of ordinary people and the transcendent meanings that those lives ultimately acquired. more...
Dos Mundos
Utah State University Press 1995; US$ 20.00Mexican Americans make up the largest minority in Idaho, yet they seemingly live in a different world from the dominant Anglo population, and because of pervasive stereotypes and exclusive policies, their participation in the community's social, economic, and political life is continually impeded. This unique ethnographic study of a small Idaho... more...
Prairie City, Iowa
University of Iowa Press 2008; US$ 19.95Weary from the journalistic treadmill of "going from one assignment to the next, like an itinerant fieldworker moving to his harvests" and healing from a divorce, Douglas Bauer decided it was time to return to his hometown. Back in Prairie City, he helped on his father's farm, scooped grains at the Co-op, and tended bar at the Cardinal. The resultant... more...
Island Practice
PublicAffairs 2012; US$ 25.99A spirited true story of a colorful, contrarian doctor on Nantucket, a world-famous yet strikingly offbeat corner of America. Dr. Timothy Lepore often holds the life of the island in his hands. more...
Iowa History Reader
University of Iowa Press 2008; US$ 44.95Rather than survey the basic facts, the essayists engage readers in the actual making of Iowa?s history by trying to understand the meaning of its past. By providing comprehensive accounts of topics in Iowa history that embrace the broader historiographical issues in American history, such as the nature of Progressivism and Populism, the debate over... more...
Always Put in a Recipe and Other Tips for Living from Iowa's Best-Known Homemaker
University of Iowa Press 2012; US$ 19.95In 1949, Iowa farm wife Evelyn Birkby began to write a weekly column entitled “Up a Country Lane” for the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel , now called the Valley News . Sixty-three years, one Royal typewriter, and five computers later, she is still creating a weekly record of the lives and interests of her family, friends, and neighbors.... more...
Duluth Portfolio
University of Minnesota Press 2001; US$ 35.00In these images, Craig and Nadine Blacklock have captured the essence of Duluth?the bedrock on which it is built; the waters that flow through it; the great lake at its base; the glowing wildflowers and stately trees that give it life. The photographs in The Duluth Portfolio will refresh memories and inspire Duluthians and visitors alike to explore... more...
Gooseberry
University of Minnesota Press 2001; US$ 30.00Nature photographers Craig and Nadine Blacklock communicate the essence of Gooseberry Falls State Park?from the powerful waterfalls to the subtle beauty of the Gooseberry River, the woods that surround it, and the shore of Lake Superior into which it empties. more...
Portage into the Past
University of Minnesota Press 1999; US$ 48.00In this work of travel and adventure, Bolz recounts a journey he took in 1958, retracing the voyageurs? route from Grand Portage on Lake Superior through the Quetico-Superior country to Rainy Lake. His canoe and paddle served as a time machine as he re-created a trip first taken centuries ago. Today?s adventurers of the north country will treasure... more...









