Recently at the Cedar Rapids branch of the Kirkwood Community College library we’ve had several books come in that had something to do with Iowa and especially Iowa history. These titles are housed in Cedar Rapids, but you can request them to be delivered to any of the other centers at any time.
Find previous Iowa-centric lists from 2014, from 2016, from 2018, and from 2023.
Children’s Books
The Sac and Fox Indians by Melissa McDaniel, Call Number: CL 977 M134s
Main Collection
Bonnie Iowa Farm Folk: An Authentic Story of Life on an Iowa Farm in the Eighteen Eighties by Janette Stevenson Murray and Janet Murray Fiske, Call Number: 977.702 M982b
Buxton: Work and Racial Equality in a Coal Mining Community by Dorothy Schwieder, Joseph Hraba, and Elmer Schwieder, Call Number: 305.962 S415ba
Cedar Rapids: Downtown and Beyond by George T. Henry and Mark W. Hunter, Call Number: 977.762 H522c
A Cook’s Tour of Iowa by Susan Puckett, Call Number: 641.5 P977c
Corridor Rising: A Decade of Reinvestment Following the 2008 Floods, Call Number: 977.7 C825
Discovering Your Iowa Civil War Ancestry by Steve Meyer, Call Number: 973.7 M613d
Eyewitness Travel USA: National Parks – Cities – Maps – Restaurants – Festivals – Hotels – Scenic Routes – Museums – Beaches – History – Shops, Call Numbers: 917.3014 U581a
Finding a New Midwestern History, Edited by Jon K. Lauck, Gleaves Whitney, and Joseph Hogan, Call Number: 977 F494f
From Warm Center to Ragged Edge: The Erosion of Midwestern Literary and Historical Regionalism, 1920-1965 by Jon K. Lauck, Call Number: 810.9 L366f
George Washington Carver: In His Own Words (2nd ed.), Edited by Gary R. Kremer, Call Number: 630.92 C331kr
Hippocrene USA guide to America’s heartland : a travel guide to the back roads of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, and Kansas (Rev. ed.) by Tom Weil, Call Number: 977 W422h
Images of Rail: Railroads of Omaha and Council Bluffs by William Kratville, Call Number: 305.097 K899r
Iowa’s Geological Past: Three Billion Years of Change by Wayne I. Anderson, Call Number: 557.77 A552i
The Midwestern Moment: The Forgotten World of Early-Twentieth-Century Midwestern, Regionalism, 1880-1940, Edited by Jon K. Lauck, Call Number: 977 L366m
The Ruba’iyat of Omar Khayyam, Translated by Peter Avery & John Heath Stuffs, Call Number: 891.551 O547f
NOTE: Why is this in the Iowa post? Because this book gets a featured call out in The Music Man. If you’ve ever heard the reference, but haven’t read the book, now you have no excuse.
A Ruth Suckow Omnibus by Ruth Suckow, Call Number: 813.52 S942r
NOTE: A famous Iowa authoress.
Some Awfully Tame But Kinda Funny Stories About Early Iowa: Ladies of the Evening by Bruce Carlson, Call Number: 306.742 C284s
The Steamboat Bertrand: History, Excavation, and Architecture by Jerome E. Petsche, Call Number: 977.7 P498s
Storm Lake: A Chronicle of Change, Resilience, and Hope from a Heartland Newspaper by Art Cullen, Call Number: 071.77 C967s
A Stranger in a Strange Land: The Story of a Dutch Settlement in Iowa Under the Leadership of H.P. Scholte by Leonora Scholte, Call Number: 325.249 S368s
A Sugar Creek Chronicle: Observing Climate Change from a Midwestern Woodland by Cornelia F. Mutel, Call Number: 577.3 M992s
NOTE: Ecologist Connie Mutel talks about what she sees of climate change in Iowa.
Tell a Tale of Iowa by Don Brown, Call Number: 977.7 B877t
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