Iowa History 101 - "Invading Vacationland for Christ": Postwar Era Summer Camps in Iowa

In this week’s webinar, Rebecca Koerselman explored Iowa summer camps in the postwar era. Evangelical summer camps blossomed in the post-World War II years, more than tripling their numbers from 1945 to 1960. Summer camps, an innovative approach to reaching America’s youth, aided evangelicals as they sought to reassert both a Christian and American identity in the postwar milieu of anxiety and change.