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<div style="color:#376077;font-family:Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif;font-size:14pt;" styleclass="style_ArticleHead1" align="left"><font color="#376077" size="4" face="Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif" style="color:#376077;font-family:Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif;font-size:14pt;"><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#333333">History on the Move is an innovative new program from the State Historical Society of Iowa that brings Iowa history to the students of Iowa. History on the Move (HOM) will feature new, exciting exhibits in a mobile format that will enable school children across the state to learn about Iowa history without having to travel.<br />&nbsp;<br />The first exhibit in this new format is "Lincoln and Iowa." This exhibit, produced in cooperation with the Iowa Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission and with support from Union Pacific Railroad Foundation, highlights Lincoln's associations with Iowa both before and during the Civil War. Did you know that Lincoln owned land in Iowa? Or, that Lincoln visited with Grenville Dodge in Council Bluffs to discuss a route for a transcontinental railroad? These and more Lincoln associations will be highlighted in the exhibit as well as a chance to see if you "measure up" to Lincoln!<br />&nbsp;<br /><img border="0" contenteditable="false" src="http://www.iowahistory.org/shsi_news_photos/2009/sept-oct/homlogo.jpg" align="left">The initial visits of the HOM trailer will accompany a play about Abraham Lincoln produced by the Old Creamery Theater of Amana. Middle schools that book the play will also get the traveling exhibit.<br />&nbsp;<br />Bookings will begin in early October and can be made by contacting Old Creamery Theater, (319) 622-6034 or <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=sy6wp4cab.0.0.9giywqcab.0&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oldcreamery.org%2F&id=preview" target="_blank"><font color="#376077">www.oldcreamery.org</font></a>. Teachers may download the accompanying "Lincoln and Iowa" lesson plan at <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=sy6wp4cab.0.0.9giywqcab.0&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iowahistory.org%2Feducation%2Fhistory-on-the-move.html&id=preview" target="_blank"><font color="#376077">www.iowahistory.org/education/history-on-the-move.html</font></a>.&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;&nbsp; 

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<td style="color:#333333;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;" styleclass="style_MainText" align="left"><font color="#333333" size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" style="color:#333333;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;"><font size="4"><font face="Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif"><font color="#376077" face="Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif"><strong>I-JOBS Helps Iowa's Cultural Attractions Recover</strong></font><font size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif"><font color="#333333"><br />Governor Culver's signature initiative, I-JOBS, will strengthen Iowa's economy, help our state recover from the natural disasters of 2008, and preserve or create thousands of jobs. <br />&nbsp;<br />The $830 million three-year program is funded with existing state gaming revenue, meaning no increase in taxes. On August 31, 2009, the I-JOBS Board announced<br />$118.5 million in competitive grants in addition to $46.5 million in previously announced non-competitive grants under the I-JOBS Local Infrastructure Program.<br />&nbsp;<br />The following museums and cultural attractions were awarded grants:<br />&nbsp;<br /><strong>Cedar Rapids (Linn County)</strong>
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<li>National Czech and Slovak Museum: $10 million non-competitive grant for disaster relief</li>
<li>Paramount Theater: $5 million non-competitive grant for disaster relief</li>
<li>Legion Arts - Restoration of CSPS Hall: $4.8 million competitive grant for disaster relief</li></ul>
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<li>National Balloon Museum North Slope Project: $188,300 competitive grant for future flood mitigation<br /></li></ul>
<p>This represents an I-JOBS commitment of over $20.8 million towards museums and cultural attractions. These projects will create both temporary construction-related jobs as well as permanent positions as they these communities recover from the 2008 disasters and prepare for future floods.<br />&nbsp;<br /><br /></p></font>

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<div>Go Beyond the Exhibit: Historical Library Materials Make the Connection</div></img></b><font color="#333333" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif"><br />The Library and Archives Reading Room in Des Moines has installed its own exhibit using selected archives and special collections holdings to complement the new exhibit "From Distant Places to Dubuque Shores: 175 Years of Jewish Presence." <br />&nbsp;<br />The materials relate to the life of Alexander Levi and illustrate the richness and diversity of SHSI documentary collections available to historians, students, genealogists and others in their research.<br />&nbsp;<br /><img border="0" contenteditable="false" src="http://www.iowahistory.org/shsi_news_photos/2009/sept-oct/levi2.jpg" align="left">"From Distant Places to Dubuque Shores: 175 Years of Jewish Presence" celebrates the unique role the Jewish community played in the history of Dubuque and Iowa. Alexander Levi (pronounced lee-vee), a French Jew of Spanish descent who immigrated to the United States and arrived in Iowa in 1833, provides the backbone of the exhibit. Insight into the activities of Alexander Levi's life is afforded by such documentary holdings as censuses, court records, city council minutes, contemporary newspapers, associational reports, published histories, maps and photographs.&nbsp; Additionally, the exhibit includes original documents relating to Levi's efforts to remove his family from the besieged French city of Verdun in the autumn of 1870.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<br /><img height="165" border="0" width="168" contenteditable="false" src="http://www.iowahistory.org/shsi_news_photos/2009/sept-oct/levi1.jpg" align="right">Visitors may view the exhibit through Dec. 3, 2009, in the Library and Archives Reading Room at 600 E. Locust, Des Moines. Reading Room hours are Tuesday-Saturday, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. (closed Sundays, Mondays and official state holidays). There is no fee. </img></img></font></font></div>
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<div /></b><font color="#376077"><font color="#333333"><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">The Des Moines school district in August celebrated the receipt of a $1.5 million Project Clio Teaching American History grant. <br /><br />The grant is designed to improve student achievement through high quality history instruction over a five-year period. <br /><br />The Teaching American History Grant program is a partnership among the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, Iowa State University, the Center for Iowa Studies at Des Moines Area Community College, the State Historical Society of Iowa, Fort Des Moines Museum and Education Center and Living History Farms.<br />
<div>&nbsp;</div>"Never has there been such a significant investment in history education in the state of Iowa," said David Johns, humanities curriculum coordinator for Des Moines public schools. "Access to world-class historians and educators will be the key to making history more relevant, exciting and engaging for our students."<br />&nbsp;<br /></font></font></font></font></div>
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<div style="color:#376077;font-family:Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif;font-size:14pt;" styleclass="style_ArticleHead3" align="left"><font color="#376077" size="4" face="Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif" style="color:#376077;font-family:Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif;font-size:14pt;"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><font color="#333333">Writer and Iowa historian Donald Doyle Brown, 75, formerly of Leon, Iowa,&nbsp;died Saturday, September 5, 2009 at Genesis Care Center in Des Moines.<br />&nbsp;<br /><img border="0" contenteditable="false" src="http://www.iowahistory.org/shsi_news_photos/2009/sept-oct/don-dorothy-ed.jpg" align="left">Brown&nbsp;was a former owner of the 1912 Villisca murder axe and the author of an elementary school&nbsp;Iowa history textbook that dominated Iowa schools during the 1960s and 1970s.<br />&nbsp;<br />Brown&nbsp;was also&nbsp;the author of a syndicated newspaper column on Iowa history that was carried in over 30 Iowa papers.&nbsp;&nbsp;He later distilled his&nbsp;Iowa history&nbsp;stories&nbsp;into the popular book entitled&nbsp;"Tell a Tale of Iowa."<br /></img></font>&nbsp;<br /></font></font><font color="#333333" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif">As one of the original researchers in the 1912 Villisca axe murder mystery case, Brown acquired the notorious murder weapon used in the killings from the widow of former Iowa Bureau of Criminal Investigation head&nbsp;James Risden.&nbsp;Risden was a former special investigator in the Villisca axe murder inquiry.<br />&nbsp;<br />The Villisca axe occupied a glass display case in a Leon bookstore owned by Brown until he left the state in the late 1970s&nbsp;and gave the axe to fellow researcher and college classmate Edgar V. Epperly. Dr. Epperly donated the axe to the Villisca Historical Society, Inc.&nbsp;in 2006.<br />&nbsp;<br />Brown found financial success as a publisher of books on antiques and collectibles.<br />&nbsp;<br />A private burial in Leon is scheduled for late September.<br /></font>&nbsp;<br /></font></div>

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