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In Indianapolis, the Woman’s Improvement Club worked to manage tuberculosis among the city’s black population, independent of any public funding or assistance.
Urban planner George Kessler raved about the Circle City's diagonal thoroughfares and plentiful waterways, but bemoaned its hands-off attitude toward growth.
New Harmony was not the only community in the state to be inspired by the utopian visions of 19th-century social reformer Robert Owen.
The popular digestive enhanced French Lick’s cachet. Movie stars, politicians and socialites—from Barrymore to Roosevelt—streamed in.
When the Klan announced plans to march through Martinsville in 1967, the mayor successfully banned a parade and residents ignored the Klan’s motorcade.
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.
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.
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.
In recruiting faculty, President Herman B Wells demonstrated his conviction that the university “be a free agent … and be willing to fight when necessary…”
Over the holidays, there are homes all across Indiana where you can step across the threshold and find yourself in the nineteenth century.