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Sample
Topics for Previous Years' Themes
"Taking a
Stand in History: People, Ideas, Events" (2005-2006)
- Edward Allen, founder of the Iowa Civil
Liberties Union and the free speech zone at ISU (RS 13/14/51)
- Jack Trice, first African-American athlete
(football and track) at Iowa State University (RS 21/7/23)
- Carrie Chapman Catt, woman suffrage leader and
political activist (RS 21/7/3. Note: the ISU Library also holds
microfilm of the Carrie Chapman Catt Papers at the Library of
Congress.)
- The September 29th Movement and the
controversy over the naming of Iowa State University's Catt Hall
(named for Carrie Chapman Catt) (RS 21/3/0/1 and RS 22/1/8; also
review committee report, ISU catalog call no. Archives LD2543 I172x
1998)
- George Washington Carver, first
African-American student and first African-American faculty member
at Iowa State University; educator and inventor (RS 21/7/2. Note:
the ISU Library also holds microfilm of the George Washington Carver
papers at Tuskegee Institute.)
- Farmers Organizations and Protest Groups
including: National Farmers
Organization (MS 481), may focus on a particular event such as the milk
and meat withholding actions of 1967 and 1968
- Henry A. Wallace, U.S. Secretary of
Agriculture (1933-1941) and Vice President (1941-45), Progressive
Party leader and presidential candidate (1948) (RS 21/7/5.
Note: ISU holds a small collection related to Wallace; however, the bulk of his
papers are at the University of Iowa. The ISU Library also holds
microfilm of the Henry A. Wallace collection at the Library of
Congress.)
"Triumph and Tragedy in History" (2006-2007)
- Jack Trice. The
first African-American athlete (football and track) at Iowa State
University, he died from injuries received during his first football
game for Iowa State. (RS 21/7/23)
- George Washington
Carver. Born into slavery, he became the first African-American student
and first African-American faculty member at Iowa State University, and
was a renowned educator and inventor (RS 21/7/2. Note: the ISU Library
also holds microfilm of the George Washington Carver papers at Tuskegee
Institute.)
- Carrie Chapman Catt.
A leader in the campaign for woman suffrage. (RS 21/7/3. Note: the ISU
Library also holds microfilm of the Carrie Chapman Catt Papers at the
Library of Congress.)
- William Van Zandt.
The Van Zandt family had members in both the North and the South during
the Civil War. William Van Zandt was a sergeant in an Iowa regiment,
but did not survive the war.
- Roswell
Garst and Nikita Khrushchev visit. The Garst family hosted Soviet Premier
Khrushchev at their Iowa farm in 1959; the visit helped to open doors for
trade between the U.S. and U.S.S.R.
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