Iowa history

His first visit to the Hawkeye State and Black Hawk County came in 1959.

It's too damn cold, and we have modern conveniences. I can't imagine how people hundreds of years ago survived Iowa winters.

If not for what happened in Iowa one night many years ago, there may not be a Lakers franchise today.

During a family gathering on the night of December 30, 1987, a man entered the home and opened fire on his parents, sister, niece, and nephews.

From Beaconsfield, Iowa, she's also the record-holder for amount of time in space by a woman.

According to the Book of Mormon and the Church of Latter Day Saints, there may have been a lost city in what is now a tiny town in southeast Iowa.

The Buddhist religion makes up less than one percent of Iowa's population, but that hasn't stopped its followers from expanding the faith in the Hawkeye State.

The first thanksgiving is believed to have taken place in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1621. When did Iowa start the holiday?

Tensions were naturally high between the settlers and the nomadic tribes of the Midwest. After trading blow for blow with deaths of individuals and small groups in northwest Iowa, a mass killing was bound to ensue.

Given the lack of radio and television technology, barnstorming tours gave smaller towns across the country an opportunity to see and meet some of their baseball heroes.