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From Marvin Bergman, State Historical Society of Iowa <marvin-bergman@uiowa.edu> Announcing a new issue of the Annals of Iowa. The Fall 2009 issue of the Annals of Iowa is now available. In one feature article, "A Workers' Cold War in the Quad Cities: The Fate of Labor Militancy in the Farm Equipment Industry, 1949-1955," Matthew M. Mettler describes the events and motivations that led workers in the farm equipment industry in the Quad Cities in the 1950s to abandon their militant, left-led union for more conservative mainstream unions. He argues that the move did not necessarily represent a rejection of the core ideals of left-led unionism but is better understood as a difficult but pragmatic attempt to preserve those ideals. In the other feature article, "Iowa University Towns and the Twenty-sixth Amendment: The First Test of the Newly Enfranchised Student Vote in 1971," Clyde Brown and Gayle K. Pluta Brown tell what happened when, after the Twenty-sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution took effect in 1971, 18- to 20-year-olds voted for the first time in the three Iowa cities - Ames, Cedar Falls, and Iowa City - that are home to the state's public universities. They analyze the factors that contributed to students' varying degrees of success in the three towns in securing the election of student candidates or candidates they supported. The usual set of book reviews and notices includes reviews of books about the Upper Iowa River and its people, Native Americans in the Midwest, steamboat disasters, state boundaries, James Henry Lane, the Civil War and the American culture of death, pioneer cemeteries, courtship, coeducation in Western land-grant colleges, the Wabash and Iowa Central railroads, Hamlin Garland, Jay Sigmund, frontier medicine, race relations in the YWCA, African American troops in World War II, and the industrialization of agriculture after World War II. To order a single copy of this issue of the Annals of Iowa, or to subscribe, call Deb Pedersen at 319-335-3912 or e-mail deb-pedersen@uiowa.edu and ask for the Fall 2009 issue of The Annals of Iowa. Marvin Bergman, editor THE ANNALS OF IOWA 402 Iowa Avenue Iowa City IA 52240 ph. 319-335-3931 FAX 319-335-3935 For more information about the State Historical Society of Iowa or to find out how you can support its mission of preserving, conserving, promoting, and interpreting Iowa history, visit our Web site at http://www.iowahistory.org
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