Essays and writings on history, architecture, archaeology and other fields.
I’ve done an extensive amount of original research into one of Iowa City’s two Civil War training camps and want to share what I found with my readers in this essay. For ease of reading online, I have broken it up into pages, each with a topical theme. The table of contents below will help you navigate them. Please enjoy! Continue reading Camp Pope: A Civil War Training Camp at Iowa City
A New Map of Iowa: Accompanied with Notes by W. Barrows. Cincinnati: Engraved & published by Doolittle & Munson, 1845 … Continue reading Problems in Mapping Iowa’s Native Nations
A Historical Gazetteer of Places Named Liberty in Iowa Iowa has a lot of place names that invoke the … Continue reading Our Liberties We Prize
The land that is the United States today was turned over to the US Government in a series of federal … Continue reading Native Peoples of Iowa as Seen in Native American Indian Land Cessions