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April 12, 2010

 

Make shirts, not war…the Jeffersonville Quadrangle

After a massive fire and two stints on Historic Landmarks’ Ten Most Endangered list, an aging brick behemoth in Jeffersonville has been saved and re-purposed.

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April 5, 2010

 

From Internment to the Midwest: Japanese-Americans After WW2

On release from West-Coast internment camps, more Japanese-Americans relocated in the Midwest during the 1940s than anywhere else in the nation.

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March 29, 2010

 

Marble Hill: Nuclear Power In Madison, Indiana

In Indiana, construction of a massive nuclear plant near Madison was well underway by March 1979 at the time of the Three Mile Island accident.

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March 22, 2010

 

The Daredevil Debutante…Josie Orr

The daughter of an East-Coast department store magnate, Indiana's future First Lady ferried war planes around North America before marrying Bob Orr.

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March 15, 2010

 

Teaching around Jim Crow…Merze Tate

Being the first African-American to graduate from Western Michigan Teachers College wasn't enough to land Merze Tate a teaching job in her home state.

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March 8, 2010

 

A Hoosier in New York…Emily Kimbrough

In her humorous columns in The New Yorker magazine, Muncie native Emily Kimbrough frequently referred to her Hoosier roots and world-view.

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March 1, 2010

 

On the trail of the lost sister…Frances Slocum

Long before the Witness Protection Program, a Pennsylvania native found herself relocated in Indiana, living under an assumed identity.

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February 22, 2010

 

Monster Meetings At The YMCA

Even before the founding of the NAACP, an Indianapolis institution came to serve as a crucible for integration.

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February 8, 2010

 

A Portrait of Black Life in a Young State

Records from a small black agricultural community that once flourished in St. Joseph County contradict the image of life under state-sanctioned segregation.

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February 1, 2010

 

Slavery Before Statehood

A haven for free blacks and runaway slaves by the mid-nineteenth century, Indiana almost legalized slavery at an earlier moment in its history.

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