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  • Helen Lewis: Voicing a Cause, Voicing a Self

    Nevada Public Library, 631 K Ave, Nevada, IA 50201, USA

    Voicing a Cause, Voicing a Self: Jane Addams at the Hull HouseThroughout her long career advocating the needs of impoverished immigrants, exploited laborers, youth criminals and war victims, Jane Addams valued Hull House, her settlement house in Chicago, as the center from which she and her colleagues could assist others, improve society and benefit themselves. […]

  • Chad Timm: Working With the Enemy

    Tama County Historical Society & Genealogical Library, 200 N Broadway St, Toledo, IA 52342, USA

    Working with the Enemy: German, Italian and Japanese Prisoners of War in Iowa during the Second World WarAs part of a relatively quiet and under-publicized government program, thousands of enemy soldiers invaded Iowa in 1943. With the hugely successful 1942 Allied campaign against Adolf Hitler’s vaunted Afrika Corps in North Africa, the number of enemy […]

  • Sarah Uthoff: In the Kitchen with Laura

    Indianola City Public Library, 207 N B St, Indianola, IA 50125, USA

    In the Kitchen with LauraIn the Kitchen With Laura mixes stories and information about Laura Ingalls Wilder’s life with food history and hands-on cooking. It’s the 1930s and we find ourselves in Laura’s kitchen as she’s dealing with all the food coming in from a bountiful summer garden. Catch up with the story of her […]