Ken Lyftogt
Professor Emeritus
Ken Lyftogt
Professor Emeritus
MA, University of Northern Iowa, 1989
He taught Humanities in the Liberal Arts Core, and various U.S. History classes. He continues to travel the state giving lectures for Humanities Iowa.
Mr. Lyftogt continues to be the leading authority on Iowa in the American Civil War. He is the author of five books including “Iowa’s Forgotten General: Matthew Mark Trumbull” (University of Iowa Press, 2005), “From Blue Mills to Columbia: Cedar Falls and the Civil War” (Iowa State University Press, 1993), “Left for Dixie: The Civil War Diary of John Rath (Mid Prairie Books, 2004) and “The Sullivan Family of Waterloo (Sunseri with the Waterloo Public Library, 1998).
Most recently, Mr. Lyftogt published "Iowa and the Civil War, Volume 1" (2018) and "Iowa and the Civil War, Volume 2" (2020).