Articles Tagged: Time Machine

Shooting of students and an unpopular war in Vietnam led to unrest at University of Iowa, other Iowa colleges

Schoolchildren in Eastern Iowa in the 1930s into the 1960s often got to visit places or experience events that are …

Jean Adeline Morgan Wanatee — whose last name is now attached to a Linn County park and creek — was …

It was a Saturday – March 2, 1935 – that the Cedar Rapids Gazette reported artists Grant Wood and Sara …

Passion Plays – the dramatic representations of the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ – began in medieval Europe …

Any tour of Grant Wood-related sites in Iowa would be woefully incomplete without a visit to the Cherry Building in …

Phyllis Fleming spent 45 years working in The Gazette’s newsroom, most of that in leadership positions, before retiring in 2002. …

A group of seven Iowa Hawkeye fans from Cedar Rapids started a nonprofit in 1979, the Iowa Hawkeye Rebounders Ltd., …

In 1839, militias in Iowa and Missouri squared off over where the state line should be between the two states. …

Long before postcards were relegated to reminders of dental checkup and oil changes, they delivered well wishes and news of …

This month’s ‘Piece of History” is a picture taken June 6, 1957, of big band leader Duke Ellington talking to …

Dr. Andrew Jay Hankins is retired now. He lives in the Detroit area, but for four years, from 1961 to …

A marriage of 66 years seems a worthy topic to write about on Valentine’s Day. I started researching a column …

When the 18th Amendment outlawing the manufacture and sale of liquor was added to the U.S. Constitution in 1920, it …

Just as older generations tried to save American youth from the dangers of the lambada and the twist, even-older generations …