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Iowa Civil War CD-ROMS

Two new CD-ROM titles related to Iowa history are now available through the Green Valley Area Education Agency 14. It is with their permission that information on each CD-ROM is placed on this site for patrons' who wish to procure some primary sources at a reasonable cost. Not only will this prove to be a valuable tool for family history research, but the CD-ROMs will be a resource for the classroom to teach Iowa history.

Note: Normally I would not promote the purchase of products on this website. However, the potential of the CD-ROM's discussed are too great not to share.

Treasures From the Archives, Volume 2 Popular Iowa History CD-ROM

This is a first-of-its kind searchable CD-ROM disk for Mac and Windows that has been produced. It contains many hard-to-access book volumes and more than 104,000 pages of Iowa history of interest to genealogists, students, scholars, Civil War buffs, and the general public.

The disk encompasses all issues of all Iowa history journals 1863-1965, the full test of 15 booklets, 120 Des Moines Register articles on the history of Iowa, and 43 books on Iowa history. The latter range from old items such as Galland's Iowa Immigrant to comprehensive items such as the two volume set of Story of Iowa to specific content such as Indians of Iowa.

All of the above can be accessed and printed either in its entirety, by page or by volume. Printable directions are contained on each disk.

A complete listing of the publications included on the disk are:

• Annals of Iowa 1863-1965
  102 years of the Annals in their entirety. This segment includes 330 volumes and more than 1000 searchable and printable articles from a publication noted for its first person, primary source articles.
• Iowa Historical Record 1885-1902
  18 years, the entire lifespan of the journal are included in the 72 publications and 250+ articles.
• Iowa Journal of History (and Politics) 1903-1961
  69 years, the entire run of the journal is included. The Iowa Journal was a publication catering to a more scholarly audience. This segment contains 232 volumes and more than 700 articles.
• 43 Books on Iowa History
  These books range from the very old Glimpse of Iowa in 1846 to the scholarly Iowa Pioneer Foundations to the specific Iowa Indians to the detailed narrative History of the People of Iowa. It also includes Iowa: Its History and Foremost Citizens Vol. 1 & 2 as well as numerous other books.
• Palimpsest's 1920-1965 Iowa History Journals
  45 years of the Pals, includes 540 journals and more than 17,00 searchable and printable articles from one of Iowa's most popular history sources.
• Iowa History Text
  An historical overview of Iowa designed for general audiences and readability targeted to TH grade.
• Topical Booklets on Iowa History
  Topics include: transportation, fur trade, pioneers, pioneer farming, agriculture, early industry, geography, education, tracing your roots, immigrants, Mormons in Iowa, Indians I and Indians II, trees.
• True Tales from Iowa's Past
  A series of more than 100 vignettes from Iowa's history in an unpublished book. Topics range from early explorers to the Iowa Cow War of the 1930's.
• DM Register Iowa History Series
  A series of serialized articles by Herb Moeller that ran throughout the 1930's in the Des Moines Register.

Minimum System Requirements: Double Speed CD-ROM Drive.
Mac 6820 processor, 4 mgb Ram.
Windows 3.1: 486 processor 8 mgb Ram
Windows 95, 98 NT: 486 processor 16 mgb Ram

Price: $39.95 + $3.00 shipping and handling

Civil War and Iowa: Greyhounds and Hawkeyes

This CD-ROM for Mac and Windows contains hard-to-access book volumes and more than 54,000 pages of Iowa Civil War History. All of the information can be accessed and printed by its entirety, by page or by volume.

• Roster and Record of Iowa Troops (6 volumes)
• Alphabetical roster of Iowa troops (database)
• Official Records of the Adjutant General of Iowa (1860-65)
• Civil War articles appearing in Iowa journals (1863-1965)
• Series of 25 original Civil War diaries and documents
• Civil War sections from 4 Iowa history books
• 90 letters to soldiers
• Common Soldier of the Civil War
• Iowa and the Rebellion (Ingersoll - 1866 History of Iowa Regiments)
• Iowa in War Times (Byers 1876)
• History of Iowa Vol. 2 (Civil War) - Gue, Iowa Colonels and their Regiments
• Iowa in Times of War
• Military handbook and Soldiers' Manual of the Civil War
• 1959 Civil War issues of the Palimpsest
• Undying Loyalty
• Iowa in the Civil War
• Years of Valor, Hardtack and Coffee
• Soldier Life in the Confederate Army
• Iowa counties and regiments raised therein
• And much, much more!

Minimum System Requirements: Double Speed CD-ROM Drive.
Mac 6820 processor, 4 mgb Ram.
Windows 3.1: 486 processor 8 mgb Ram
Windows 95, 98 NT: 486 processor 16 mgb Ram

Price: $39.95 + $3.00 shipping and handling

Both CD-ROM's can be ordered by sending check or money order to:

Lori Kinyon, Business Manager
Green Valley Area Education Agency
1405 North Lincoln
Creston, IA 50801

Call Lori with your questions at (641) 782-8443 or (800) 362-1864