History Research Guide

The homepage for Iowa State University's Special Collections and University Archives. Located on the 4th floor of Parks Library.

Collections highlight works and collections from the Iowa State University Library, including material from Special Collections and University Archives. These materials include photographs, manuscripts, artifacts, books, and audiovisual formats.

Digitized collection of historic photographs, with annotations, depicting people, places, and events in the city of Ames, Iowa. Photographs accessible through an extensive alphabetical index.

Detailed map of Iowa showing parcels of land that made up the 240,000 acres that helped fund the start of the Iowa Agricultural College and Model Farm

Full text to all issues of the Annals of Iowa from 1863-2014.

Free access to most recent two years. Access to content back to 1871 available for a fee.

Provides access to dozens of Iowa newspapers for towns of all sizes with coverage going back to the nineteenth century in many cases.

This bibliography lists histories and selected contemporary accounts of the University of Iowa and many of its colleges, departments, and other programs.

This bibliography was compiled by two reference librarians, Patricia Dawson and David Hudson with the goal of making it easier for tracking down material on Iowa history and culture. This supplements the Iowa History Reference Guide published in 1952 by William Petersen. Printed version available at F621 A11 D39x 1989
See also Hudson's "Iowa in the Past: A Bibliography of Materials Published Before 1952"
F621 A11 H83x 2012

Sponsored by the Price Laboratory School at the University of Northern Iowa, this site provides a wide-range of online resources for teaching the history of Iowa.

A history of the Iowa dairy farming industry