| Time Frame | Artifact Type | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Video | Borlaug Receives Congressional Gold Medal | In December 2006 native Iowan, Norman Borlaug, received the Congressional Gold Medal. |
| 1950 | Video | History of Veterans Benefits | Historically, the nation has tried to provide for its returning soldiers. Following World War Two, veterans benefits were based on the thousands of returning to their hometowns and changing the nation to a peacetime economy. |
| 1673 | Video | Europeans Come to Iowa | In 1673 European explorers, Marquette and Joliet, traveled the Mississippi River spending time in what would become Iowa. They brought change to the area's native inhabitants. |
| 1913 | Photo | Hart-Parr gas tractor | Hart-Parr gas tractor built in 1913 by the Oliver tractor plant. It was on display in front of the Oliver Corporation manufacturing plant. Charles City, 1964. |
| 1975 | Video | Life in a Refugee Camp | Former Iowa Governor Robert Ray describes conditions in a refugee camp in Thailand when he visited in 1975 after Iowa had opened its doors to earlier refugees. |
| 1975 | Video | Definition of a Refugee | Former chief of the Bureau of Refugee Services Wayne Johnson defines the term 'refugee.' |
| Late 1940s | Video | African-Americans Labeled Communists | Charles P. Howard Jr. (1921-1994), prominent attorney and former president of the National Bar Association, talks about black activists who were labeled communists in the 1940s. |