Since so much of the tallgrass state has been transformed into an agricultural landscape, Mutel focuses on understanding today's natural environm

Many different Indian tribes have lived in Iowa, each existing as an independent nation with its own history, culture, language, and traditions.

Founded as a communal society in 1855 by German Pietists, the seven villages of Iowa's Amana Colonies make up a community whose crafts, architect

Who are the "plain people," the men and women who till their fields with horse and plow, travel by horse and buggy, live without electricity and

Photographers Linda and Robert Scarth have an incredible eye for that magic moment when small becomes beautiful. Matched with patience and skill,

Most prairies exist today as fragmented landscapes, making thoughtful and vigilant management ever more important. Intended for landowners and ma

In June 2008, the rivers of eastern Iowa rose above their banks to create floods of epic proportions; their amazing size-flowing in places at a r

"Billy Sunday (1862-1935) was the richest and most influential evangelistic preacher in the first half of the twentieth century. Bringing his bra

From 1900 until the early 1920s, an unusual community existed in America's heartland-Buxton, Iowa. Originally established by the Consolidation Co

Up on the River is John Madson's loving and often hilarious tribute to the people, animal life, and places of the Upper Mississippi. Madson's Upp

The tallgrass prairie of the early 1800s, a beautiful and seemingly endless landscape of wildflowers and grasses, is now a tiny remnant of its fo