James Alan McPherson was the first African-American writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. His collection of short stories, …
Articles Tagged: Time Machine
History Aug. 15, 2016 6:00 am3310d ago
Iowa City school district Superintendent Iver Opstad faced an unwilling electorate when he proposed a new school for a rapidly …
News Aug. 8, 2016 8:00 am3317d ago
When it was built in 1909, the landmark T.M. Sinclair Co. smokestack was labeled the ‘Finest Smoke Stack in Iowa” …
History Aug. 1, 2016 8:00 am3324d ago
Edward R. Murphy was born on August 22, 1909, the only son of Edward B. and Elizabeth Murphy. The elder …
News Jul. 25, 2016 9:00 am3331d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Charles A. Laurance grew up in a very young Cedar Rapids, a fact he chronicled in his …
News Jul. 18, 2016 9:00 am3338d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Architect Frederick G. Brown moved to Cedar Rapids from the West Coast in 1909 when a friend …
News Jul. 11, 2016 9:00 am3345d ago
Dr. James J. Murphy arrived in Cedar Rapids in 1900 fresh out of college, and was almost immediately involved in …
History Jul. 4, 2016 10:00 am3352d ago
Bayard Rustin was the organizer of the successful March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Aug. 28, 1963, considered the …
News Jun. 27, 2016 8:00 am3359d ago
Iowa’s one-room country schools were feeling pinched in the late 1940s when the Legislature began reorganizing the state educational system. …
News Jun. 13, 2016 8:00 am3373d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Imogen B. Emery made her mark on women’s rights long before she had the right to vote. …
News Jun. 6, 2016 8:00 am3380d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – In 1917, the Jarard family of Clyde Valley Farm in New Sharon sold a pair of Clydesdale …
News May. 30, 2016 8:00 am3387d ago
As a boy, McGregor native Harry I. Clark explored the forests and islands near his home. He grew up to …
News May. 23, 2016 6:00 am3394d ago
On a beautiful fall day in 1966, more than a thousand people gathered in a rural valley. Some were there …
News May. 16, 2016 9:00 am3401d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS — Frank J. Mittvalsky, a native of Czechoslovakia, came to Cedar Rapids in 1870 and opened his butcher …
News May. 9, 2016 9:00 am3408d ago
Iowa’s community colleges got their start with a 1961 legislative resolution, directing the Department of Public Instruction ‘to study and …