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The UI Press is the only university press in Iowa, also dedicated to the preservation of literature, history, culture, wildlife, and natural areas of the Midwest. Scholarly titles include reference and course books, and trade books published by the UI Press include the winners of the Iowa Short Fiction Award and the Iowa Poetry Prize, as well ...
Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town is a book by Nick Reding which documents the drug culture of Oelwein, Iowa and how it ties into larger issues of rural flight and small town economic decline placed in the historic context of the drug trade, particularly the manufacture and consumption of methamphetamine.
The rising of book bans across America. Iowa is not alone in banning books. In the fall of the 2023-24 school year, Florida had banned 3,135 books and Wisconsin 481, according to a PEN America report.
The University of Iowa library system is the state's largest library and comprises the Main Library, the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, five branch libraries, and the Law Library. The University Libraries' holdings include more than five million bound volumes, more than 200,000 rare books, and 1000 historical manuscript collections.
Parents and community members have filed 100 challenges to books in Iowa schools between August 2020 and May 2023, according to a statewide records request. Here are images of some of the 60 books ...
Iowa book ban's toll: 3,400 pulled books, including '1984' and 'To Kill a Mockingbird' Key points A Des Moines Register survey found nearly 1,000 unique titles were removed from Iowa public schools.
Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America (ISBN 0156013363) is a 2000 book by journalist Stephen G. Bloom.The book documents the struggle between the small town of Postville, Iowa, and a group of new arrivals: Lubavitcher Hasidim from New York City who came to the town to run Agriprocessors, the largest kosher meat plant in the United States.
Parents and community members filed 100 challenges to books in Iowa schools between August 2020 and May 2023, according to data gleaned from a statewide records request.