I remember the first time I discovered that my grandpa had eyelashes. I was five…
Iowa People and Profiles
We’ve all heard stories about brave men and women who fought in wars to protect…
I wear many hats as senior editor of The Iowa Source magazine. I am editorial…
A new book of 25 essays, Dreams of Fields: Memory Traces of Iowa’s Past, by…
The following account is true. The events rolled out like a bad dream, in spite…
It’s rare to meet a young person who’s fired up about the state of Iowa—one…
Like many Americans, I grew up reading Mark Twain’s stories about Tom Sawyer and Huck…
On day two of distributing bundles of The Iowa Source a few months ago, I…
Discovery Channel’s Alaska: The Last Frontier, the 11-season reality show that ended in 2022, garnered…
Over the years, I have often run across a photograph that is inevitably mislabeled as…
On my way back home from a wedding in northern Iowa last month, the ideal…
In the heartland of America, where the horizon stretches as far as the eye can…
In an issue of The New York Times on February 20, 1899, there was a…
When John Lloyd Wright, son of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, drafted a memoir about his…
Editor’s note: In June 2025, the Iowa State Historical Society selected this story as “the…