Join State Curator Leo Landis as he addresses topics from the Iowa territory, before Iowa officially became a state in 1846.

Join Jeff Bremer, Associate Professor at Iowa State University, as he addresses immigration to Iowa in the 19th and 20th Centuries and shares some personal stories of immigrants.

Join genealogist Ricki King, owner of Roots to Branches Genealogy, as she presents a journey of Iowa's Black history illustrating the reasons why people or families moved to Iowa, around Iowa, left Iowa, returned to Iowa and left again from the beginning of Iowa's statehood.

Join Kevin Mason, Waldorf University professor, as he discusses the changing physical environment of Iowa in the 1850s, how the worst winter on record in northwestern Iowa led to escalating tensions between settler populations and Indigenous peoples in 1856-57, and what Inkpaduta’s attack on Spirit Lake means today.