If you have a passion for history, History Camp is for you. It’s a unique opportunity to spend a day with others from all walks of life who have a passion for history, from authors, teachers, genealogists, and students, to park rangers, museum volunteers, librarians, and individuals from other professions and backgrounds.
Sine 2015, History Camp Iowa has been held annually in Des Moines. Our most recent event welcomed more than 100 passionate history enthusiasts who came together to share their stories in two dozen sessions and joined us on outings to historic sites in and around Des Moines.
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History Camp Iowa is a independent event, organized entirely by volunteers under the History Camp un-conference model.
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Adriene Katz ()
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Alexander R. Cain JD ()
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Bernard Rosenthal Trubowitz ()
Bert Klein ()
Bil Lewis ()
Bill Lewis ()
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Brian Sheehy ()
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Brooke Barbier ()
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Captain Kidd ()
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Carl Hanson ()
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Caroline Janney ()
Carolyn Gilman ()
Carrie Lund ()
Cassandra Good ()
Catherine Musemeche ()
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Charles Bahne ()
Charles Ferguson ()
Charles Fishman ()
Charles Glass ()
Charles Lindbergh ()
Chef Justin Cherry ()
Chef Sarah Lohman ()
Chris Hall ()
Christian McBurney ()
Christiana Boehmer ()
Christle Rawlins-Jackson ()
Christopher C. Gorham ()
Christopher Cox ()
Christopher Davis ()
Christopher Klein ()
Christopher S. Davis ()
Cindy Thames ()
Civil Rights Movement ()
Claire Bellerjeau ()
Clay Risen ()
Cold War (1947–1991) ()
Colleen Janz ()
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Connie Crosby ()
Continental Army ()
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Courtney O’Connor ()
Craig Chapman ()
Craig Nelson ()
Crime ()
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Cynthia Hatch ()
Dale Magee ()
Damien Lewis ()
Dan Coonan ()
Dan Gifford ()
Dane Huckelbridge ()
Daniel A. Gagnon ()
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Daniel Gifford ()
Daniel Gleason ()
Daud Alzayer ()
David A. Bossert ()
David Dalrymple ()
David J. Bobb ()
David Maraniss ()
David Perry ()
David W. Blight PhD ()
Debbie Sheme ()
Declaration of Independence ()
Democracy ()
Desmond Bertrand-Pitts ()
Don Cygan ()
Don N. Hagist ()
Donald L. Miller ()
Donald Miller ()
Donna Curtin PhD ()
Donna Seger ()
Dorothea Jensen ()
Dorothy Wickenden ()
Doug Most ()
Douglas Heath ()
Dr. Allen Guelzo ()
Dr. David S. Weed ()
Dr. Francis J. Bremer ()
Dr. Michael Shire ()
Dr. Sam Forman ()
Dwight Eisenhower ()
Earl Taylor ()
Economics ()
Edith Wilson ()
Edouard Lussan ()
Education ()
Edward F. O’Keefe ()
Edward Malouf ()
Edward O'Keefe ()
Edward Shawcross ()
Edward T. O’Donnell PhD ()
Egypt ()
Ehris Urban ()
Elizabeth Cobbs ()
Elizabeth Cobbs PhD ()
Elizabeth D. Leonard ()
Elizabeth Matelski ()
Elizabeth Varon ()
Ellen Stine Miller ()
Elliott Fabrizio Chief Petty Officer (SW/AW) ()
Emerson W. Baker PhD ()
Emily Sneff ()
Emma Bickford ()
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Eric Jay Dolin ()
Eric Moskowitz ()
Eric Peterson ()
Eric Williams ()
Erik Bauer ()
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Fergus Bordewich ()
Fergus M. Bordewich ()
Food History + Cuisine ()
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Frances M. Clarke ()
Frances Perkins ()
Francis Gary Powers Jr. ()
Franklin Roosevelt ()
Fred Anderson ()
Frederick Douglass ()
Frederick Leiner ()
Fredrick Douglass ()
Freemasons ()
French and Indian War (1754-1763) ()
French Revolution (1789–1799) ()
Friederike Baer ()
Gabriel Papa ()
Gail Baden ()
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Garrett Dash Nelson PhD ()
Garrett M. Graff ()
Gary Gregory ()
Gary Hoover ()
Gavin Kleespies ()
George Armistead ()
George Koukeas ()
George Putnam ()
George Washington ()
George Wright ()
Gerald Holland ()
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Giovanni Alabiso ()
Glenn Noreen ()
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Greg Steinmetz ()
Harold Knudsen LTC (Ret.) ()
Harry Sidebottom ()
Heather Dune Macadam ()
Heather Rogers ()
Heather S. Cole ()
Henry Wilkinson ()
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J. L. Bell ()
J. Lincoln Hallowell ()
Jack Kelly ()
Jake Sconyers ()
James B. Conroy JD ()
James Bradley ()
James Carl Nelson ()
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James Hankins ()
James Longstreet ()
James Madison ()
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James Otis Jr. ()
Jamie Holmes ()
Jan Drake ()
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Jane Hampton Cook ()
Jane Sancinito PhD ()
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Jared Bruening ()
Jay Gould ()
Jeanne Abrams ()
Jeff Denman ()
Jeff Denman MA ()
Jeff Erzin ()
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Jeffery J. McKenna ()
Jeffrey Boutwell ()
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Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie PhD ()
Jeffrey Rosen ()
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Jeremy Bell ()
Jerry Enzler ()
Jess Dorre ()
Jessica Kent ()
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Jimmy Stewart ()
Joan DeJean ()
Joanne Paul ()
John Adams ()
John Avlon ()
John Bell ()
John Cass ()
John F. Kennedy (JFK) ()
John Hancock ()
John Hendrix ()
John L. Smith Jr. ()
John Marshall ()
John Morrison ()
John Morton ()
John Phillips ()
John Reeves ()
Jon Grinspan PhD ()
Jonathan Daniel Wells ()
Jonathan Daniel Wells PhD ()
Jonathan Eig ()
Jonathan W White ()
Jonathan White ()
Joseph C. Grew ()
Josephine Baker ()
Josh Hutchinson ()
Joshua Yohe ()
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Joyce Lee Malcolm ()
Joyce White ()
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Judith Kalaora ()
Judy Anderson ()
Judy Cataldo ()
Julie A. Potter-Dunlop ()
Julie Chenoweth Terstriep ()
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Julie Hall ()
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Julie Montagu ()
Julie Satow ()
Julie Winch ()
Julien Pierre Icher ()
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Karen Warren ()
Kat D. Williams ()
Kate Moore ()
Kate Werran ()
Katherine Howe ()
Kathleen Coulter ()
Kathleen DuVal ()
Kathleen DuVal PhD ()
Kathleen Langone ()
Katie Sanders ()
Katie Turner Getty ()
Ken Liss ()
Kenneth R. Turner ()
Kenneth Whyte ()
Kent Masterson Brown ()
Kevin M. Levin ()
Kevin R. C. Gutzman ()
Kiersten Marcil ()
Kim Todd ()
Kit Sergeant ()
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Kostya Kennedy ()
Kurt Nelson ()
Kyle Jenks ()
Labor ()
Lance Geiger; The History Guy ()
Larisa Moran ()
Larry Stuart ()
Laura A. Macaluso PhD ()
Laura Keyes ()
Laura Rocklyn ()
Laura Rocklyn MFA ()
Lauren Muney ()
Laurie Gwen Shapiro ()
Lee Wright ()
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Leon Carroll Jr ()
Leslie Goddard ()
Lexington and Concord ()
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Lincoln ()
Linda Hirshman ()
Linda Jeffers Coombs ()
Lindsay M. Chervinsky PhD ()
Liz Covart ()
Liz Lightfoot ()
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London ()
Lori Lyn Price ()
Lori Rogers-Stokes PhD ()
Lorna Hainesworth ()
Louis L. Picone ()
Louisa Catherine Adams ()
Loyalists ()
Lucy Adlington ()
Lucy Jane Santos ()
LueCreasea Horne ()
Lydia Maria Child ()
Lydia Moland ()
Malcolm Gaskill ()
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Margo Burns ()
Marie Danielle Annette Williams ()
Marilynne K. Roach ()
Marion Gibson ()
Maritime History ()
Marjorie Hilton ()
Mark E. Stille ()
Mark F. Anderson ()
Mark Gardner ()
Mark Harmon ()
Mark Lender ()
Mark Szymcik ()
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Martha Washington ()
Martin Luther King Jr. ()
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Mary E. Raker ()
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Mary Sears ()
Massachu ()
Matt Borders ()
Matt Wilding ()
Matthew Gabriele ()
Matthew Lockwood ()
Matthew Mees ()
Matthew Pinsker ()
Maureen Taylor ()
Maurice Isserman PhD ()
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Meika Downey ()
Mel Bloom ()
Melinda M. Dart ()
Melissa Barker ()
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Mexico ()
Michael Burlingame ()
Michael C. Harris ()
Michael Digby ()
Michael Holzman ()
Michael Meyer ()
Michael Paradis ()
Michael Ruderman ()
Michel Paradis ()
Michelle D. Novak ()
Mikayla Harden ()
Mike Troy ()
Military ()
Military History ()
Milo Root ()
Muriel D. Roberts ()
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Nancy K. Bristow PhD ()
Nancy Rubin Stuart ()
Napoleon III ()
Nate Johnson ()
Nathaniel Parry ()
Native Americans/Indigenous Peoples ()
Neil Lanctot ()
Netherlands ()
Nicholas Reynolds ()
Nick Tabor ()
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Nikki Stewart ()
Nina Zannieri ()
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Olivier Zunz ()
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Owen Laurenzo ()
Pacific Northwest ()
Pamela D. Toler PhD ()
Pamela Toler ()
Paris ()
Pat Wilson Pheanious ()
Patricia Buttaro ()
Patricia Posner ()
Patrick Gabridge ()
Patrick McGuire ()
Patrick Riccards ()
Paul Revere ()
Paul Sparrow ()
Pearl Harbor (1941) ()
Peggy Jablonski ()
Pennsylvania ()
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Peter Snoad ()
Peter Stark ()
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Plymouth ()
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PTSD ()
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Quinn Stuart ()
Quock Walker ()
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Rachel Christ-Doane ()
Rebecca Boggs Roberts ()
Rebecca Carpenter ()
Rebecca Flynt ()
Rebecca Jo Plant ()
Rebecca Simon PhD ()
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Ricardo A. Herrera ()
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Richard Parker ()
Richard Tucker ()
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Robert Cooney ()
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Robert J. Allison ()
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Rod Gillis ()
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Rome ()
Rosalyn D. Elder ()
Rose A. Doherty ()
Ross H. Schwalm ()
Roxanne Reddington-Wilde PhD ()
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Ryan Cole ()
Ryan Walters ()
Salem Witch Trials / Witchcraft ()
Salina B. Baker ()
Samantha Garrity MEd ()
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Sandy Spector ()
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Sarah Morgan ()
Sarah Walsh ()
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Scott Kirsner ()
Scott Nadler ()
Sean Osborne ()
Serena Zabin PhD ()
Sharon McMahon ()
Shawn P. Quigley ()
Shirley Ann Higuchi JD ()
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Sonia Anderson ()
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Stacey Ferguson ()
Stacy Schiff ()
Stan Haynes ()
Star Spangled Banner ()
Stephanie Call ()
Stephanie Cohen ()
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Stephen Clarke ()
Stephen F. Knott ()
Stephen Fried ()
Stephen Kling ()
Stephen L. Kling Jr. ()
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Steve Butz ()
Steve Call ()
Steve Kemper ()
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Susan Jaques ()
Susan Nagel PhD ()
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Suzy Buchanan ()
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Ta Mara Conde ()
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Ted Widmer PhD ()
Terri Diane Halperin ()
Terry Mort ()
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The Pursuit of History LLC ()
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Theodore Roosevelt ()
Thomas Brothers ()
Thomas Carey Jr. ()
Thomas E. Ricks ()
Thomas G. Andrews PhD ()
Thomas Jefferson ()
Thomas Ketchell ()
Thomas Richardson ()
Tiffany Yecke Brooks PhD ()
Tim Brady ()
Timothy B. Smith ()
Tina Cassidy ()
Todd DePastino PhD ()
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Tom Clavin ()
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Transportation ()
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