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May 5, 2013

 

An Ignominious Governorship

On Governor David Wallace's watch, the internal improvements program bankrupted the state and the Potowatomi Indians were exiled to Kansas by armed militia.

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April 29, 2013

 

Morgan's Raiders in a vintage lithograph

In Morgan’s Wake Without A Break

Few claims were paid for the property confiscated by Union troops in pursuit of Morgan's Confederate raiders since the federal government required receipts.

April 22, 2013

 

Bridging The Span From Past To Present

The 460-foot bridge without windows spanning the east fork of the White River became known as “The Dark Bridge.”

April 15, 2013

 

the interior of a mid-nineteenth-century schoolhouse

Advocating For Better Schools

in 1840, 1 in every 10 white citizens in Indiana above the age of 21 could neither read nor write, an illiteracy rate matching that of Mississippi.

April 8, 2013

 

current view of 19th-century canal embankment

Indiana’s Canal Debacle

The Wabash and Erie Canal became emblematic of the failure of Indiana’s great transportation revolution of the 1830s.

April 1, 2013

 

stacks of books in a library

Caroline Dunn: Heroine Of The Stacks

Caroline Dunn was a manuscript librarian who knew her collections, knew how to use them for research, and even how to introduce them to the uninitiated.

March 25, 2013

 

Engraved portraits of John Cleve Symmes and Daughter Anna Symmes Harrison

Indiana’s First First Lady

Anna Symmes Harrison had not yet made it to Washington when her husband gave his inaugural address. As she prepared to leave, she received news of his death.

March 18, 2013

 

Judge Loretta Rush is introduce as the new Supreme Court judge in 2012 in Indianapolis.

A Woman’s Judgment

Although Ohio elected a woman to its supreme court in 1922, it was not until 1995 that Indiana would see a woman sitting on its highest state court.

March 11, 2013

 

black and white portrait of T.C. and Selma Steele in their garden

Steele’s Magnolia

In the spring of 1908, Selma Steele began planting gardens—a passion that would become her own artistic contribution to the House of the Singing Winds.

March 4, 2013

 

vintage photo of Camilla Williams in opera

The Desegregating Diva

Camilla Williams was the first black woman singer to appear with a major national opera company, nearly ten years before Marion Anderson's debut at the Met .

February 25, 2013

 

watercolor painting of New Harmony in 1832 by Karl Bodmer

Old World Royalty In New Harmony

Prince Maximilian's journals are a significant record of the intellectual life of New Harmony after its famous years as an experimental utopian community.

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