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September 26, 2011

 

The Vote Felt ‘Round The World

When a DeKalb County farmhand hurried to Kendallville on election day in 1842, he cast a vote that may have that forever changed the fates of two nations

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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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September 5, 2011

 

The Divorce Mill Of The Midwest

Indiana lawmakers in the 1850s were accused of having “practically legalized Free Love and its endless and nameless abominations" through liberal divorce laws.

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August 29, 2011

 

Writing Toward the Vote: Ida Husted Harper

Ida Husted Harper--Susan B. Anthony's friend and biographer--was one of the lucky few early suffragists to live to see the Nineteenth Amendment pass in 1919.

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August 22, 2011

 

A Public ‘Jollification’: The 1859 Women’s Rights Petition

The crowd petitioning the legislature for women’s rights was ridiculed in the press as a “field of crinoline” and a “surging mass of pantaloons.”

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August 15, 2011

 

A War Correspondent’s Salad Days

"Bloomington is a nice place although it isn’t as big nor as modern as Champaign. The University is a nice place, not out-of-date like I had always heard."

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August 8, 2011

 

The Controversial Fifteenth Amendment

The Fifteenth Amendment’s bumpy passage through Congress was nothing compared to the obstacles it would face in the Indiana General Assembly.

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July 18, 2011

 

The Battle of Tippecanoe: A Lieutenant’s-Eye View

“This expidition,” wrote Lieutenant Charles Larrabee, "is against the tribes of Indians who are under the prophet and tecumcy."

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July 4, 2011

 

The Petrified Man Hoax

On viewing the stone man, Governor Durban proclaimed it a genuine petrified human being, pronouncing: “It is the most wonderful thing I have ever seen.”

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