AFRS 243: African Literature
Novian Whitsitt, J-Term 2025
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Local histories are useful resources to learn about a state, a community or an institution. They often contain information about locally-celebrated individuals and major milestones. The information preserved in these types of histories is often not recorded in broader resources or very specialized.
Luther College Histories
- Transformed by the Journey: 150 Years of Luther College in Word and Image byPublication Date: 2011
- Stability and Change: Luther College in its Second Century byCall Number: LD3133 .J67Publication Date: 1986
- Luther College, 1861-1961 byCall Number: LD3133 .N4Publication Date: 1961
Local Iowa Histories
Iowa's Black Legacy by Call Number: E185.93.I64 B37 2000ISBN: 0738503517Publication Date: 1999-12-07
Outside In by Call Number: E185.93.I64 O98 2001ISBN: 0890330131Publication Date: 2001-10-01A distinguished group of 36 writers (for no pay or royalties), including community leaders as well as academic historians, has created Outside In: African-American History in Iowa, 1838-2000, a book certain to become the standard work on the African-American experience in Iowa. Each of the book's 20 chapters focuses on a particular aspect of that experience--legal and political rights, business and professional leardership, clubs and community organizations, churches and schools, and more--from Iowa's territorial days to the present. Hundreds of photographs (gathered from family albums and scrapbooks, as well as historical archives) accompany the text, which is documented with extensive references. A detailed index is also included.
- African Immigrants in IowaA short article on African immigrants to Iowa from the New Iowans series. Part of Iowa PBS' Iowa Pathways project.
Iowa University Histories
- University of Northern Iowa HistoryContains the two-volume history of UNI "A Century of Leadership and Service."
Invisible Hawkeyes by ISBN: 9781609384425Publication Date: 2016-09-01By examining the quieter collisions between Iowa's polite midwestern progressivism and African American students' determined ambition, Invisible Hawkeyes focuses attention on both local stories and their national implications. By looking at the University of Iowa and a smaller midwestern college town like Iowa City, this collection reveals how fraught moments of interracial collaboration, meritocratic advancement, and institutional insensitivity deepen our understanding of America's painful conversion into a diverse republic committed to racial equality.
The University of Iowa in the Twentieth Century by ISBN: 1587291843Publication Date: 1990-01-01Available both in print and as an e-book.
- University of Iowa MilestonesPhotos and essays on pivotal moments in the history of the University of Iowa.
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