When the 18th Amendment outlawing the manufacture and sale of liquor was added to the U.S. Constitution in 1920, it …
Articles Tagged: Time Machine
By Joe Coffey, The History Center
History Jan. 29, 2021 10:33 pm1680d ago
Just as older generations tried to save American youth from the dangers of the lambada and the twist, even-older generations …
By Tara Templeman, The History Center
History Jan. 29, 2021 10:35 pm1680d ago
Edwin Bruns taught a variety of courses at the Cedar Rapids YWCA in the 1960s, including ones in oil painting …
History Jan. 19, 2021 8:30 am1691d ago
Charles E. Fawcett – who would become a successful Cedar Rapids businessmen – moved to the city from Benton County …
History Jan. 19, 2021 6:30 am1691d ago
Images of the violent Jan. 6 incursion of the U.S. Capitol, in which five people died, evoked recollections of previous …
History Jan. 12, 2021 10:55 pm1697d ago
Dr. Emma Jewel Neal knew, ‘from the time I knew anything,” that she was going to be a doctor. ‘My …
History Jan. 6, 2021 11:29 pm1703d ago
The SS Edmund Fitzgerald was a 729-foot freighter plying the Great Lakes for 17 years before it sank Nov. 10, …
Education Dec. 29, 2020 9:54 am1711d ago
Alice Carey Inskeep, who would have a deep and lasting impact on music education in Cedar Rapids, was born in …
By Tara Templeman, The History Center
History Dec. 22, 2020 9:00 am1719d ago
Linn County’s first courthouse was built in Marion in 1842 and replaced with another courthouse in Marion in 1855. As …
By Joe Coffey, The History Center
History Dec. 22, 2020 9:58 am1718d ago
Ever heard of Alexander Lippisch? He was an inventor and aeronautical engineer and might be one of the most significant …
History Dec. 18, 2020 9:13 pm1722d ago
The Killian Co. department store was a fixture in downtown Cedar Rapids from the time it opened in 1911 until …
History Dec. 18, 2020 9:14 pm1722d ago
Christmas trees were first sold commercially in the United States in the 1850s. The trees were chopped down in forests …
History Dec. 1, 2020 8:30 am1740d ago
Marion cabdriver Mary Snyder grew up in Cedar Rapids and loved to tell about her kindergarten days at Jackson Elementary …
By Tara Templeman, The History Center
Living Nov. 25, 2020 9:15 am1745d ago
By the 1890s, advances in technology had made bicycles safer, lighter and faster. Cedar Rapids residents saw the proof in …
By Joe Coffey, The History Center
Living Nov. 25, 2020 9:00 am1746d ago
Of all the piano-playing couples throughout the history of pianos and couples, perhaps the best couple to ever play together …