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November 21, 2011

 

The French Connection That Has Historians Licked

There is no solid evidence to back up any theory of a “French Connection” to Southern Indiana's great buffalo salt lick.

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November 14, 2011

 

A Young Girl’s Brush With The Civil War

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.”

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November 7, 2011

 

A Methodist Circuit Rider On The Indiana Frontier

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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October 31, 2011

 

A Woman’s Bid For The Highest Post

In 1984, Virginia Dill McCarty became the first Hoosier woman to run for governor.But it was not Virginia Dill McCarty’s first “first.”

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October 24, 2011

 

Drawing A Line In The Riverbed

Where does Indiana end and Kentucky begin? The answer seems simple enough: the Ohio River. But it’s not that simple.

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October 17, 2011

 

Hoosier Justice At Nuremberg

Two Indiana Supreme Court Justices were recruited into the grim business of holding Nazis accountable for their crimes against humanity during World War II.

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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 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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