Side Trails

• Health Care Issues Timeline

  This timeline shows health care issues from the 1900s through the 1940s.

  Source: PBS, Healthcare Crisis: Who's at Risk?

  http://www.pbs.org/healthcarecrisis/history.htm

• Henry A. Wallace

  Who was Henry A. Wallace?

  Source: The Wallace House Foundation

  http://www.henryawallacecenter.com/henryawallace.html

• Henry A. Wallace Documentary

  Henry A. Wallace was an agricultural scientist whose innovations revolutionized the production of food.

  Source: Iowa Public Television, Henry A. Wallace

  http://iptv.org/wallace/

• Henry A. Wallace. George Washington Carver, and Dr. Norman Borlaug

  How are Henry A. Wallace. George Washington Carver, and Dr. Norman Borlaug all connected? Read here to find out!

  Source: AgWorld

  http://www.agbioworld.org/biotech-info/topics/borlaug/connection.html

• Henry C. Wallace, Editor, Secretary of Agriculture, 1866-1924

  Henry Cantwell Wallace loved the land and was a champion of agriculture and economic equality for farmers.

  Source: Des Moines Register Extras, Famous Iowans

  http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/99999999/FAMOUSIOWANS/40920011

• Henry Wallace, Pioneer Editor 1836-1916

  Henry Wallace, affectionately called 'Uncle Henry,' loved to preach, especially about the virtues of rural Iowa.

  Source: Des Moines Register Extras, Famous Iowans

  http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/99999999/FAMOUSIOWANS/41220015

• Herbert Hoover

  Listen to George H. Nash speak about Herbert Hoover on KUNI's Voices of Humanities Iowa.

  Source: Humanities Iowa, KUNI radio, KMA radio and KWIT radio, Voices of Humanities in Iowa, http://www.kuniradio.org/ audio_vault.htm

  http://mm1.uni.edu:8080/ramgen/1/kunirm/rossi040110.rm

• Herbert Hoover: National Events Timeline

  This timeline parallels President Herbert Hoover's life alongside world events.

  Source: Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum

  http://hoover.archives.gov/education/chronology.html

• HHS Great Pandemic

  Learn more about how Iowans reacted to the 1918 influenza epidemic.

  Source:

  http://1918.pandemicflu.gov/your_state/iowa.htm

• Highway Archaeology Program

  What happens when someone wants to build a highway through an historic place?

  Source: Office of the State Archaeologist at the University of Iowa

  http://www.uiowa.edu/~osa/hap/description.htm

• Historic Alteration of Surface Hydrology, Iowa Landscape

  Iowa's landscape was most drastically altered by Euro-American settlement.

  Source: Iowa Department of Natural Resources

  http://www.igsb.uiowa.edu/Browse/histalt/HISTALT.HTM

• Historic Period: European Explorers, Ioway, Oto

  Read more about Iowa from the late 1600s through 1800.

  Source: Office of the State Archaeologist at the University of Iowa

  http://www.uiowa.edu/~osa/learn/historic/hisper.htm

• Historic Photographs of Iowa Artists

  These historic photographs capture a few rare moments of the lives of artists in Iowa.

  Source: Cedar Rapids Museum of Art

  http://www.crma.org/collection/archives/archives.htm

• History of Broadcasting in Iowa

  Find out more about the history of radio and television broadcasting in Iowa.

  Source: Communication Arts Department, Wartburg College

  http://www.wartburg.edu/broadcast/index2.html

• History of Cerro Gordo County

  Want to know more about William M. Colby and the history of Cerro Gordo County?

  Source: Iowa Biographies Project

  http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Eiabiog/cerrogordo/h1910/h1910-c.htm

• History of Forest City and the Flax Palace

  Find out more about the history of Forest City, including its Flax Palace!

  Source: Forest City, IA

  http://www.masoncitynet.com/forest_city_virtual_tours

• History of Hoover-Ball

  Hoover-ball is a combination of tennis, volleyball and medicine ball. It was invented by a White House physician to keep President Hoover physically fit.

  Source: Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum

  http://hoover.archives.gov/education/hooverball.html

• History of Keokuk, Iowa

  Explore a timeline of Keokuk, Iowa.

  Source: History of Keokuk, Iowa

  http://www.keokuk.net/history/index.html

• History of Men's Collars

  Since men usually wore under shirts in the 1800s and 1900s, removable collars and cuffs saved on laundry.

  Source: University of Alaska Fairbanks Theatre Department

  http://www.uaf.edu/theatre/students/resumes/res/collars/collars.html

• History of the Grand Opera House

  Take a step back in time with a look at the Grand Opera House in Dubuque, Iowa.

  Source: http://www.thegrandoperahouse.com/History/History.htm

• History of the Iowa Bureau of Refugee Services

  Learn about the Iowa Bureau of Refugee Services created with the help of Iowa Gov. Robert Ray

  Source:

  http://www.dhs.state.ia.us/refugee/bureau/history.asp

• Hogs and the Meaning of Life in Iowa

  In 1995, the President of the United States was introduced by Senator Tom Harkin with a joke: No one should be allowed to be president, if they don't understand hogs.

  Source: Mississippi: River of Song, a Smithsonian Institution series for public television and radio

  http://www.pbs.org/riverofsong/music/e1-hogs.html

• Homestead Act (1862)

  The 1862 Homestead Act speeded the settlement of Iowa and other Midwest territories.

  Source: OurDocuments.gov, a cooperative effort of National History Day, The National Archives and Records Administration, and USA Freedom Corps

  http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=31

• Hook's Point - First Settlement - First Murder

  Read about the first settlement in Webster County and its first murder in 1858.

  Source: Newspaper Articles by Ed Nass, 2000 for Daily Freeman-Journal

  http://showcase.netins.net/web/marjned/hookspt.html

• Hoover Library Virtual Tour

  Learn more about Iowa's President in this virtual tour of the permanent galleries of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library.

  Source: Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum

  http://hoover.archives.gov/exhibits/Hooverstory/index.html

• Hoover's Boyhood Memories

  Herbert Hoover recalled his boyhood in Iowa in this speech to the Iowa Society of Washington in 1927.

  Source: Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum

  http://hoover.archives.gov/education/boyhood.html

• Horace Boies Biography

  Horace Boies was governor of Iowa from 1890 to 1894.

  Source: Waterloo Public Library

  http://www.wplwloo.lib.ia.us/History/WlooBios/HoraceBoies.html

• Houng Baccam, Tai Dam Musician

  Houng Baccam, a Tai Dam musician, spends much of his time promoting the culture of the Tai Dam people.

  Source: Iowa Arts Council, Iowa Roots

  http://www.iowaartscouncil.org/programs/folk-and-traditional-arts/iowa-roots/season-one/houng-baccam.shtml

• How a Bill Becomes a Law

  A bill is a proposal for a law. Find out how a bill becomes a law.

  Source: State of Iowa

  http://www.legis.state.ia.us/Pubinfo/bill2law.htm

• How Iowa Was Named

  What's in a name - especially a name like Iowa?

  Source: Humanities Iowa, KUNI radio, KMA radio and KWIT radio, Voices of Humanities Iowa

  http://www.uiowa.edu/~humiowa/iowaname.html

• How the Boone River Got Its Name

  Read about how the Boone River got its name.

  Source: Newspaper Articles by Ed Nass, 2000 for Daily Freeman-Journal

  http://showcase.netins.net/web/marjned/nathan.html

• How to Make Golden Butter in 1874

  How did they make golden butter in 1874?

  Source: Dyersville Commercial, Dyersville, Dubuque, Iowa, Thursday, July 23, 1874, The Irish in Iowa Web site

  http://www.celticcousins.net/irishiniowa/food.htm#butter

• IAGenWeb Project

  The IAGenWeb Project provides Internet websites for genealogical research in every county in Iowa. Take a look at the stories your county has to tell.

  Source: IAGenWeb Project

  http://iagenweb.org

• Ice House Museum

  Do ice houses still exist? Visit the Ice House Museum in Cedar Falls!

  Source: Cedar Falls Historical Society

  http://www.cedarfallshistorical.org/ice_house_museum.htm

• I'm From Iowa Sheet Music

  Oh, I'm from Iowa, That beautiful Iowa, Yes she is queen of the west, I'll say that she is the best!

  Source: Iowa Digital Archives

  http://cdm.lib.uiowa.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/sheetmusic&CISOPTR=86&REC=3