Moment of Indiana History

Archive for March 2011

March 7, 2011

 

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Newspaperwoman, Politician, Impresario…Esther Griffin White

When she ran for delegate to the 1920 Republican State Convention, the first woman whose name appeared on a ballot in Indiana could not yet vote.

March 14, 2011

 

Esther Griffin White's own bookplate

Ex Libris Indiana

One of the first serious studies of Indiana art sidestepped the state's Impressionist painters for its bookplate designers.

March 21, 2011

 

Indianapolis City Hospital, edit

A Hoosier Nurse in World War I

More than sixty years after the Armistice, the private recollections of a Hoosier nurse on the front lines of World War One came to light.

March 28, 2011

 

Fort Benjamin Harrison

A Hoosier Woman on the World War II Homefront

"It takes all kinds of people to fight a war. There are soldiers and sailors. And then there are those who only stand and wait. I was a draftee’s wife.”

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