Iowa history

What few UNI alumni know -- and fewer residents of the state of Iowa know -- is that MLK visited Cedar Falls and spoke in the university's Lang Hall just five years prior to winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

Have you heard of this Iowan?

The process of using fingerprints has been around a lot longer than you think, and a city in Iowa was the first to require all citizens to be fingerprinted.

It's been that way for more than 175 years.

More than a century ago, Iowans needed a way to get from one place to another and a group of people came up with an idea that changed everything.