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October 3, 2011

 

Black Women Clubbing for Healthcare Reform

In Indianapolis, the Woman’s Improvement Club worked to manage tuberculosis among the city’s black population, independent of any public funding or assistance.

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September 19, 2011

 

Reenvisioning The City Of Streams

Urban planner George Kessler raved about the Circle City's diagonal thoroughfares and plentiful waterways, but bemoaned its hands-off attitude toward growth.

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September 12, 2011

 

Aspiring Towards Utopia: Blue Spring Community

New Harmony was not the only community in the state to be inspired by the utopian visions of 19th-century social reformer Robert Owen.

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June 13, 2011

 

Something In The Water

The popular digestive enhanced French Lick’s cachet. Movie stars, politicians and socialites—from Barrymore to Roosevelt—streamed in.

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February 28, 2011

 

Damage Control for a Painful History

When the Klan announced plans to march through Martinsville in 1967, the mayor successfully banned a parade and residents ignored the Klan’s motorcade.

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February 14, 2011

 

Frank Beckwith for President

Records are scant about the namesake of a little park in Indianapolis. At one time, however, Frank R. Beckwith gave Richard Nixon a run for the money.

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January 31, 2011

 

Carved from the Comics

It's a bit ironic that Oolitic's “champion of democracy” resembles those statues of Lenin that used to mark town squares across the old Soviet Union.

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January 24, 2011

 

Name Rings A Bell

In January 2007, when Joshua Bell performed in a Washington D.C. metro station for 45 minutes, only six people stopped to listen to the unidentified violinist.

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January 10, 2011

 

Envisioning A Faculty, Against All Odds

In recruiting faculty, President Herman B Wells demonstrated his conviction that the university “be a free agent … and be willing to fight when necessary…”

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December 6, 2010

 

Party Like It’s 1869!…Historic Holiday Hooplas

Over the holidays, there are homes all across Indiana where you can step across the threshold and find yourself in the nineteenth century.

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