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Title: An Evaluation of Al Exito's Impact on Participants in the Program's First Three Years (2006-09)
Description: A research project with Al Éxito focused on determining the impact of this youth Latina education program on its participants in its first three years (2006-09).
Date Created: 2015
PID: grinnell:12980

Title: Decline and Renewal in the Heartland, Fall 2003 Syllabus, Tutorial, Fall 2003, Decline and Renewal in the Heartland
Description: The first year tutorial, taken in the fall semester, is Grinnell College's only general academic course requirement. The college intends the tutorial to assist students in further developing their critical thinking skills and in improving their written and oral communication skills. Each of the tutorials offered in a given fall semester is based around a particular subject matter, which provides the vehicle by which the above goals are accomplished. The arrival of European Americans in the Upper Midwest in the middle of the nineteenth century led to dramatic changes in the region's ecology. In what was perhaps the most rapid and extensive degradation of a natural ecosystem in human history, in the space of 50 years settlers plowed under millions of acres of the native tallgrass prairie and replaced it with a diversified agricultural ecosystem on what proved to be some of the best farmland in the world. As agriculture expanded, the prairie diminished.
Date Created: 2003
PID: grinnell:316

Title: George W. Cook to Collins Cook, March 19, 1858
Description: George writes to his brother Collins about the railroad in Iowa and Illinois, and speaks about Henry Farnum [Farnam]. Land plots and lines of credit are discussed.
Date Created: 1858
PID: grinnell:12262

Title: John Brown's route across Iowa
Description: Clipping from Des Moines Register describing John Brown's route across Iowa.
Date Created: 1859
PID: grinnell:186

Title: Programme, Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting of the Iowa Equal Suffrage Association, Iowa Equal Suffrage Association Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting Programme
Description: Program of the 34th annual meeting the the Iowa Equal Suffrage Association held in Panora, Iowa, on November 9-11, 1905. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Collection #161.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:5224

Title: Thirty-seventh Annual Convention of the Iowa Equal Suffrage Association, Iowa Equal Suffrage Association Thirty-seventh Annual Convention
Description: Program of the 37th annual convention of the Iowa Equal Suffrage Association held in Boone, Iowa, on October 27-29, 1908. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Collection #161.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:5225