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Tuesday, May 22, 2012
During his career in the U.S. Congress, Thomas became known as an advocate for working men and women--his empathy no doubt infor..
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Friday, May 18, 2012
Fort Wayne's classicist wrote for what would today be called a "popular" audience, although she never wrote down to her readers...
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Friday, May 4, 2012
As films became increasingly risqu? in the Roaring 20s, Hollywood attempted to preempt governmental intervention with a self-reg..
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012
IU's legendary president Herman B Wells didn't set out to be a university administrator. According to his father, he was "pract..
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Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Although his name rarely graced the marquee, Evansville-born composer and arranger Belford "Sinky" Hendricks was a central figur..
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012
The hope in the early nineteenth century was that the people who had fallen on hard times and needed to live at the farm would n..
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012
A major general in the Civil War, and a territorial governor of New Mexico, Indiana native Lew Wallace was best-known for his la..
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Jenckes became politically engaged in the 1920s, when she observed firsthand how the lack of public flood control programs affec..
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Friday, March 23, 2012
In the autumn of 1834, ten-year-old Sarah Hawks and her family left New York's Finger Lakes area bound for northern Indiana. In..
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Friday, March 23, 2012
The founders of the Women's Improvement Club navigated a strictly segregated society to save countless lives during the TB epide..
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Friday, March 23, 2012
Gougar was converted to the cause of women's suffrage by the issue of domestic violence, which she hoped to be able to "vote awa..
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Monday, February 27, 2012
Two groups in particular saw a golden opportunity in Indiana's centennial celebration: conservationists and the good roads movem..
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Monday, February 27, 2012
In 1840, the largest city in Indiana was New Albany, with 4, 226 people. The state capital, Indianapolis, was second with 2,692;..
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Monday, February 13, 2012
New Albany was perfectly situated to serve as real head of navigation on the Ohio-Mississippi system. But merchants never reali..
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Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Blackford's greatest contribution to the development of the state's jurisprudence came through his work as the first reporter of..
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