In the final decades of the 19th century, the Aesthetic Movement was regarded by some…
Mark Twain, the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was born in November 1835, coincident…
Clemens Gretter was the (unheralded) artist who drew the newspaper cartoons for Robert Ripley’s Believe…
In 1887, 26-year-old Alice Moore resigned as a primary school teacher in Cedar Falls and…
On the evening of June 25, 1906, during a performance at Madison Square Garden in…
In 1919, Iowa-based writer Woodworth Clum was touring the state as director of the Greater…
American novelist Edna Ferber, who was originally from Kalamazoo, Michigan, moved with her family to…
American astronaut Peggy Whitson was born in south central Iowa, in Ringgold County, and attended…
In 1938, George McGrew, a pianist and dance-band leader, was living in Hampton, Iowa, when…
Franc Johnson Newcomb (née Frances Johnson) was born in 1887 near Tomah, Wisconsin. Her father…
Iowa-born Wild West showman William Frederick Cody, famously known as Buffalo Bill, was fortunate not…
A few years ago, while lecturing in Sydney, Australia, I was not at all surprised…