Side Trails

• Executive Order 8802: Prohibition of Discrimination in the Defense Industry (1941)

  See President Roosevelt's 1941 Executive Order 8802 banning discriminatory employment practices by Federal agencies, unions and companies engaged in war-related work.

  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=72

• Executive Order 9981: Desegregation of the Armed Forces (1948)

  See the 1948 executive order signed by President Truman that committed the government to integrating the segregated military.

  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=84

• Experiencing War: World War I

  On June 6, 1944 the largest seaborne invasion in history, known as D-Day, over 120,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy in German-occupied northern France.

  Source: LIbrary of Congress

  http://www.loc.gov/vets/stories/ex-war-home.html

• Explore More: Genetic Engineering

  Would you want to clone your pet? Do you care if your strawberry contains a gene for fish?

  Source: Iowa Public Television, Explore More

  http://www3.iptv.org/exploremore/ge

• Explore More: The Future of Energy

  Energy is an important part of our lives. Explore more about energy in Iowa.

  Source: Iowa Public Television, Explore More

  http://www3.iptv.org/exploremore/energy

• Explore More: Water Quality

  Water. Everyone uses it, needs it, and many of us take it for granted.

  Source: Iowa Public Television, Explore More

  http://www3.iptv.org/exploremore/water

• Explore More: Working Landscapes

  This site tells the story of the Loess Hills of Western Iowa and discusses the problems surrounding working landscapes.

  Source: Iowa Public Television, Explore More

  http://www3.iptv.org/exploremore/land

• Famous Iowans: Fay Bainter

  Find out more about Academy Award winning actress Fay Bainter who got her acting start in Des Moines

  Source:

  http://www.dmregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/99999999/FAMOUSIOWANS/41230010/0/THEMES

• Famous Iowans: Ralph Bellamy

  Star of over 100 movies, Ralph Bellamy, got his start in Iowa

  Source:

  http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/99999999/FAMOUSIOWANS/41230014/0/THEMES

• Father Peter Cade, Greek Orthodox Priest

  The first Greeks came to Iowa in the 1880s to work in the mines and on the railroad; today, about 6000 Greek-Americans live in Iowa.

  Source: Iowa Arts Council, Iowa Roots

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

• Federal Aid Road Act of 1916: Building the Foundation

  With the Federal Aid Road Act of 1916, car trips would no longer require as much time, patience, tire-patching equipment, tools, spare parts, emergency food and fuel, and shovels for the mud-stuck auto.

  Source: US Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration

  http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/rw96a.htm

• Federal Duck Stamp Program

  'Ding' Darling thought of the idea of using duck stamps to raise money for the purchase of wetlands.

  Source: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

  http://www.fws.gov/duckstamps/federal/stamps/1934fedstamp.htm

• Find out how well known Blue Cross and Blue Shield Insurance came to Iowa

  Source:

  http://www.wellmark.com/about_us/company_history/iowa_hist.htm

• First Americans: Cultures of Prehistoric America

  Find out more about thousands of mysterious mounds that early Native Americans built in the Mississippi and Ohio River valleys.

  Source: Digital History, A Partnership with University of Houston, Chicago Historical Society, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, Museum of Fine arts Houston, National Park Service, Teaching American History

  http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/textbook_search.cfm?HHID=660

• First Webster City Schoolhouses

  In early Iowa, school was conducted for village children in pioneer cabins.

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

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

• Fish and Wildlife Resources

  Iowa's fish and wildlife are plentiful and diverse.

  Source: Iowa Official Register 1999-2000

  http://publications.iowa.gov/archive/00000135/01/profile/8-12.html

• Five Families in Dubuque: The Urban Depression: 1937 - 1938

  Learn about the Beuscher, Park, Crumbaugh, Roer, and Watson families, unemployed industrial workers looking for help from government relief programs.

  Source: Explorations in Iowa History Project, University of Northern Iowa

  http://www.uni.edu/iowahist/Social_Economic/Urban_Depression/urban_depression.htm

• Flag Restoration

  Explore more about the effort to stabilize, restore, and preserve Iowa's historic battle flags.

  Source: State Historical Society, Iowa's Battle Flag Preservation Project

  http://www.iowaflags.org

• Flintknapping

  Find out more about flintknapping, the making of flaked or chipped stone tools.

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

  http://www.uiowa.edu/~osa/learn/ancient/flint.htm

• Flood of 1993 Uncovers Devonian Sea Floor

  The floodwaters of the 1993 Flood ripped out a road and campground, and scoured away glacial-age sediments to expose a 375-million-year old Devonian fossiliferous bedrock.

  Source: Iowa Department of Natural Resources

  http://www.igsb.uiowa.edu/Browse/flood93/flood93.htm

• Floods of 2008 data

  Find facts and statistics about the floods of 2008.

  Source: MCeer

  http://mceer.buffalo.edu/infoService/disasters/iowa-flood-news-statistics.asp

• Food of the 1800s: The Way They Lived

  What does the food pantry of an Iowa pioneer in the 1800s have in it?

  Source: Northwestern Iowa, Its History and Traditions, 1804-1926, Vol. I, Chicago: S.J. Clarke Publishing Co 1927, The Irish in Iowa Web site,

  http://www.celticcousins.net/irishiniowa/primitivefood.htm

• Forestry and the Forest Resource

  Iowa has about 2 million acres of forested land.

  Source: Iowa Official Register 1999-2000

  http://publications.iowa.gov/archive/00000135/01/profile/8-13.html

• Fort Atkinson

  Find out more about the history of Fort Atkinson

  Source:

  http://www.iowadnr.com/parks/state_park_list/fort_atkinson.html

• Fossils of Iowa

  Holding the shell of a sea-dwelling organism found in an Iowa rock makes us think about changes through geologic time.

  Source: Iowa Department of Natural Resources

  http://www.igsb.uiowa.edu/Browse/fossils/fossils.htm

• Frank Sanache, Iowa's Meskwaki Code Talker, WWII POW

  WWII Midwest POWs included Iowa's Meskwaki Code Talker Frank Sanache.

  Source: Traces.org

  http://www.traces.org/buseumnarrativetexts.html#mesk

• Frederick and August Duesenberg: Car Builders

  Cars designed by Frederick and August Duesenberg were known for speed, style and luxury.

  Source: Des Moines Register Extras, Famous Iowans

  http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/99999999/FAMOUSIOWANS/40920015

• Frederick W. Kaltenbach and Nazi Short-Wave Radio Broadcasts to America, 1939-1945

  Born to German immigrants, this Iowa native Frederick W. Kaltenbach became a Nazi propagandist and was indicted for treason after the U.S. entered WWII.

  Source: Traces.org

  http://www.traces.org/kaltenbach.html

• Frontier House

  Could a modern-day family handle a pioneer family's lifestyle?

  Source: PBS, Frontier House

  http://www.pbs.org/wnet/frontierhouse

• Frontline: The High Price of Health

  PBS Frontline: The High Price of Health examines the tough issues and the controversial world of American medicine and medical issues.

  Source: PBS, Frontline: The High Price of Health

  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/hmo

• G.I. Bill

  President Roosevelt's 1944 Servicemen's Readjustment Act, known as the G.I. Bill, provided funds to veterans of WWII for college education, unemployment insurance and housing.

  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=76

• Galland-Nashville: 1829-1913

  Read more about the town of Galland.

  Source: USGenWeb Project: Lee County Iowa GenWeb Project

  http://iagenweb.org/lee/History/Galland.html

• Gas Tax

  When did the Federal Government begin collecting the gas tax?

  Source: US Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration

  http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/gastax.cfm

• Gasoline Tractor

  The Hart Parr 14,000 pound #3 two-cylinder gasoline engine with 30 horsepower at the belt and 18 at the drawbar is the oldest surviving internal combustion engine tractor in the United States.

  Source: Smithsonian National Museum of American History

  http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object.cfm?key=35&objkey=157

• General Store

  View the front and back of a postcard from 1909 showing a general store in Alburnett, Iowa.

  Source: Noble Photographs Digital Collection, University of Iowa

  http://cdm.lib.uiowa.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/noble&CISOPTR=1347&REC=1