20 November
In 1992, at the request of Professor Connie Berman, then director of graduate studies in the department, Professor Stow Persons prepared remarks to incoming graduate students about the history of the department at Iowa. During the next two years, he worked up those remarks into a draft history entitled, “History at Iowa: The First Century, 1955-1948.” He then followed that up with a document entitled, “History at Iowa: The Modern Era,” which ruminates on the evolution of the department since 1948. A decade before before Professor Berman’s request, Persons also had drafted a personal memoir, “Thirty Years at the University of Iowa: 1950-1980,” which offers frank and candid reflections on the college and university during his time. After his retirement, Persons also published a history of the university, The University of Iowa in the Twentieth Century: An Institutional History (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1990), and an essay in the Annals of Iowa “Education and the Liberal Arts at the University of Iowa.” Persons’s documents, which are all included in his manuscript collection, are a foundation upon which we can begin to understand the History of History @ UIowa:
History at Iowa, The First Century
History at Iowa, The Modern Era
Thirty Years at the University of Iowa, 1950-1980: A Memoir
“Education and the Liberal Arts at the University of Iowa,” Annals of Iowa (Spring 1993)