Our nation’s three most important and revered documents are enclosed in titanium display cases in the rotunda of the National Archives in Washington, D.C., and they rest on custom-made archival paper created at the University of Iowa. Tim Barrett, the now-retired director of the UI Center for the Book, says he got the call in […]
Iowa was covered by tall grass prairie in 1776
What was Iowa like when the Declaration of Independence was signed 250 years ago? John Pearson, an ecologist with the Iowa
