There are a lot of good resources out there to browse and learn about Ames and Iowa State’s history, some of which can probably build on upon the snippets I post on this site.
Local news resources
- Iowa State Daily (1995-present)
- Iowa State Daily newspaper archive
- Ames Tribune
- Ames Tribune archive (1877-2018)
- Bomb yearbook archive (1893-1994)
History organizations & resources
Ames history books
- Ames by Douglas Biggs and Gloria J. Betcher (2014)
- Ames: The Early Years in Word and Pictures by Farwell T. Brown (1993)
- Ames in Word and Picture: Further Tales and Personal Memories, Book 2 by Farwell T. Brown (1999)
- Ames in Word and Picture, Book Three: Tales from Two Old-Timers by Farwell T. Brown and Kendrick W. Brown (2003)
- At the Squaw and the Skunk by Gladys H. Meads (1976)
- History of Story County, Iowa by William Orson Payne (1911)
Ames history booklets & surveys
- Ames Public Schools, 1870-1970 (1970)
- An Ames Time Table by Farwell T. Brown (1992)
- Fourth Ward: Ames, Iowa by William Page (2007)
- Political History of the City of Ames (1992)
Iowa State University history
- Farm House: College Farm to University Museum by Mary E. Atherly (2009)
- The First 100 Years of Residential Housing at Iowa State University by J.C. Schilletter (1970)
- The First Fifty Years: Iowa State Memorial Union by Harold E. Pride (1972)
- Fraternities & Sororities at Iowa State by Walter James Miller (1949)
- The History of the Iowa State College by Earle D. Ross (1942)
- The Iowa State University Campus and Its Buildings, 1859-1979 by H. Summerfield Day (1980)
- The Land-Grant Idea at Iowa State College by Earle D. Ross (1958)
Ames Maps: 1875, 1902, 1914, 1916, 1919, 1926, 1930, 1943, 1948, 1961, 1978, 1980, 1988, 2000, 2005
The Iowa State Daily Archive 
