Introduction
Part I—Iowa to the Civil War
1. Native Iowa: Iowa to 1833
2. Iowa Territory, 1833–1846
3. Frontier Iowa, 1833–1870
4. Slavery, Politics, and Transportation before the Civil War
5. Iowa and the Civil War, 1861–1870
Part II—Iowa from the Civil War to 1929
6. Immigrants, Railroads, and Farm Protest
7. Religion, Education, and Rural Life
8. Cities, Industry, and Technology, 1833–1920
9. Suffrage, Prohibition, and Politics, 1870–1920
10. Iowa in World War I and the 1920s
Part III—Iowa since 1929
11. the Great Depression and Iowa
12. Iowa in World War II
13. Postwar Iowa, 1945–1975
14. Iowa and the Farm Crisis, 1975–2000
15 Iowa in the Twenty-First Century
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliographic Essay
Index