Busse Library provides these resources and book titles for students and faculty seeking information on Iowa history. The Busse Virtual History Library is also a valuable resource for this topic. Books listed here are a sampling available in the library and elsewhere.

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General History Resources -- Tourism -- Places to Visit -- Busse Library Resources

General History Resources

• Baxoje Ukich'e (The Ioway Nation)
• "A Brief Culture History of Iowa." By Shirley J. Schermer, William Green, and James M. Collins. c1995. University of Iowa.
• Center for Agriculture History at Iowa State University
• Historic Sites : State Historical Society of Iowa
• Historical Tour of Blackhawk County
• Iowa Documents : History and Genealogy : Kinyon Digital Library (KDL) -- full-text online
• The Iowa Lincoln Highway Association (ILHA)
• Iowa World War II Freedom Memorial
• ISU Extension (ISUE): Iowa History Quiz
• Letters from an Iowa Soldier in the Civil War
• State Historical Society of Iowa

Tourism

• IOWA: Official Iowa Tourism Homepage
• Visit Northeast Iowa

Places to Visit

• Bob Feller Hometown Museum : Van Meter
• Brucemore
• Carrie Chapman Catt Childhood Home : Charles City, IA
• Danish Immigrant Museum : Elk Horn
• Effigy Mounds National Monument : Harpers Ferry, IA
• Granger House Museum
• Herbert Hoover National Historic Site
• Historic Burlington, Iowa
• Historic Pella, Iowa : Tulip Time and Historical Village
• The Iowa State Fair
• John Wayne Birthplace : Winterset, IA
• Keokuk, Iowa
• Living History Farms : Des Moines
• "Loess Hills of Western Iowa." By Ed Perley.
• Madison County, Iowa
• Mamie Doud Eisenhower Birthplace : Boone
• National Czech and Slovak Museum and Library
• Ottumwa's Historic Districts
• Villages of Van Buren

Busse Library Resources

• Anderson, Duane. Eastern Iowa prehistory / 1981. E78.I6 A5
• Bennett, Mary. An Iowa album : a photographic history, 1860-1920 / 1990. F 622. B46 1990q
• Bergman, Marvin. Iowa history reader / 1996. F621.5 .I56 1996
• Brooker, Doug. Iowa : an American portrait / c1996. Video F 621. I5
• Carpenter, Allan. Between two rivers : Iowa year by year, 1846-1996
• Folmar, John Kent. This State of wonders : the letters of an Iowa frontier family / 1986. F621. T48 1986
• Franzwa, Gregory M. The Lincoln Highway. 1995-. HE356.L7 F72 1995
• Kurtz, Carl. Iowa's wild places : an exploration / 1996. QH 105.I8 K87 1996
• Satterfield, John R. We band of brothers : the Sullivans and World War II / c1995. D769.85.I5 S3x 1995
• Schwieder, Dorothy. Iowa past to present : the people and the prairie / 1991. j977.7 Sch4
• Smith, Bernard. Cedar Rapids prologue & promise / c1998. F629.C3 S65x 1998
• State Historical Society of Iowa. Iowa heritage illustrated / c1996-. PERIODICALS.
• State Historical Society of Iowa. Iowa historian / c1987-. PERIODICALS
• Vogel, Virgil J. Iowa place names of Indian origin / c1983. F619. V63 1983 Ref
• Wubben, Hubert H. Civil War Iowa and the Copperhead movement / 1980. E507.9 .W8