History Grinders

This is R.O.I. show number #38. Our noted scholar for this show was one of our first guests on R.O.I., Dr. Sara Butler, author of the article that is the topic of today’s show, “Abortion By Assault: Violence against Pregnant Women in Thirteenth-and Fourteenth-Century England”, which was published in The Journal of Women’s History, Vol. 17 No.4 2005.  tHE dECIDERS for this show were our editor, Jen Broders, and Amanda Nicholson. Our producer is David Baker.

This is R.O.I. show number #43. The noted guest for this show was our favorite Jeffersonian, Dr. Art Scherr. The topic for this show was Thomas Jefferson and his Beliefs on Religion and its Relationship with Government. The Deciders for this show were Jen Broders and our favorite Rhodes Scholar, Dr. Modupe Labode, who jumped on her horse and traveled all the way from IUPUEE in Indianapolis to join us.

My name is John Kealey and I co-host the show with my colleague and friend Jay Swords. This is R.O.I. show number #57. Our noted guest for this show was Father Paul Ouderkirk, the priest at St. Bridget's  Catholic Church in Postville, Iowa.

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Our noted guests for today’s show were Janet Weaver, Ernest Rodriguez, and Henry and Rita Vargas. Our producer is David Baker.

The members of R.O.I. actually had a couple days off from school for the parent teacher conferences. It was a real pleasure for R.O.I. to have on our show Janet Weaver, an assistant curator at the Iowa Women’s Archives, University of Iowa Libraries and the author of the article that was published in this issue of the vol 68, No. 3 Summer 2009 of the  Annals of Iowa, titled “From Barrio to “¡Boicoteo!”: The Emergence of Mexican American Activism in Davenport, 1917–1970.

This is R.O.I. show number #58. Our noted guest for this show was Dr. Robert Neymeyer  Project Coordinatory for the Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans museam.