Iowa Famous

A conversation with author Melissa Febos on her latest novel, The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year without Sex. Then, an expert on Iowa's most famous Muppet.

America’s most experienced astronaut, Iowa native Peggy Whitson, is scheduled to launch Tuesday on her fifth mission to the International Space Station.

It was 80 years ago that the Karp family walked out of Oskar Schindler’s factory as free Jews. They had survived the unimaginable and would soon find a new life in Iowa. Celina, who was just 13 at the time, shares her story of overcoming hate and the importance of finding your voice.

This Iowa teacher became famous for her blue eyes/brown eyes exercise that had children experience discrimination firsthand.

Waterloo schools canceled their annual African-American Read-in, fearing loss of funding. The 1619 Freedom School decided to plan their own.

Waterloo’s Gary Kroeger said that with his "Iowa modesty" he couldn’t believe he was in a room with so many stars.

In 1968, the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, a third grade teacher in Riceville, Iowa, decided she needed to teach her students what discrimination really felt like.