Graduate Research Papers
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Open Access Graduate Research Paper
Abstract
Knowing and learning about local history is considered to be important by both Iowa and Illinois State Departments of Education. School Districts have directed their teachers to teach the history of the state as well as the local community. The Mississippi River acts as a border between the two states and has played an important part in the development of villages and towns up and down the river. Living in towns that border the Mississippi River most of my life, I recognize the history that has played out in many of the locations from both sides of the river. Having become a teacher that needs to teach that history, I found that there were not a lot of materials readily available that included the towns in Iowa and Illinois that go from Dubuque to Keokuk in Iowa and East Dubuque to Hamilton in Illinois. Mississippi River Towns: From Dubuque, Iowa to Hamilton, Illinois will give information about neighboring communities that students from both sides of the Mississippi River will recognize. It will give them a source to refer to when wanting to know more about the communities that surround their town. Learning about local history can be revealing as well as exciting.
Year of Submission
2008
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
First Advisor
Lynn Nielsen
Date Original
7-2008
Object Description
1 PDF file (37 pages)
Copyright
©2008 Bonnie Jean Lawhorn
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Lawhorn, Bonnie Jean, "Mississippi River Towns: From Dubuque, Iowa to Hamilton, Illinois" (2008). Graduate Research Papers. 3764.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/grp/3764
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