In a city with many businesses, fraternal orders, newspapers, associations, churches and citizens still speaking the languages of their immigrant founders and families, Iowa Gov. William Harding's May ...

A dark cloud of suspicion hung over recent immigrants. The president questioned their loyalty. U.S. troops deployed to a divisive foreign war. The year is 1918 and the United States finds itself at ...

Hidden deep within the archives of the Iowa State Historical Building, lies a letter dated August 26, 1918. It was addressed to the governor of Iowa, who replied that the information contained therein ...

DAKOTA DUNES-- In May 1918, Gov. William L. Harding of Iowa issued a proclamation, nicknamed the "Babel Proclamation," banning the use of any language but English in Iowa. State and local institutions ...