Moment of Indiana History
Although most of his contemporaries had no interest in abolition and little sympathy for slaves, Harding tried to persuade hostile audiences across Indiana.
A French expatriate promised her nephews Ohio Valley acreage if they made the voyage, entreating them to bring along apricot cuttings and eau de cologne.
A rash of robberies in the 1920s prompted bank employees to take up arms in the name of vigilante justice.
French Lick is known for its Pluto Water and Martinsville once boasted numerous artesian water spas; less remembered is Warren County's “Mudlavia” resort.
Indiana’s “bone dry” law outlawed the possession of all liquor—even for medicinal purposes. And even in the hands of the state's best known temperance crusader.
Indiana's ill-fated second statehouse was acclaimed as “’the nearest approach to the classical spirit of the antique yet instanced in the Western hemisphere’”.
Faced with limited local and regional markets for their grain and livestock, enterprising Indiana farmers shipped their products by flatboat to New Orleans.
The trial that followed a 1917 murder at an elegant downtown Indianapolis hotel revealed contemporary prejudices based on ethnicity, race, and gender.
There is no solid evidence to back up any theory of a “French Connection” to Southern Indiana's great buffalo salt lick.
In the summer of 1863, a young woman wrote her cousin about the "visit paid to the citizens of Corydon and vicinity by Morgan and his herd of horse thieves.”
On the frontier of the young state of Indiana, formal church buildings and trained pastors were few and far between. That's where circuit riders came in.
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