Moment of Indiana History
shows Archive
June 22, 2009
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20th-Century Archaeology
One tends to think of archaeological excavation in the context of ancient Roman ruins, but there’s plenty to be learned from a dig in the backyard.
June 15, 2009
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See you in September
Every spring a new generation of students around the county gets exposed to an Indianapolis-based brand name.
June 8, 2009
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Little Detroit
In its heyday, the automotive industry was so concentrated in Connersville that the city qualified as the manufacturing capital of the world.
June 1, 2009
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Is the Bloom off the Peony?
While paying respects in Hoosier cemeteries over Memorial Day weekend, one encounters a recurring floral motif.
May 18, 2009
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Spinning dreams out of two wheels
Two staples of twentieth-century American culture share a common progenitor. Ironically, the father of the Indy 500--and Miami Beach--rolled in on two wheels.
May 11, 2009
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Unwrapping a gift from the past
Recently, history buffs and preservationists in Indiana have had the opportunity to unwrap a few gifts from the past.
May 4, 2009
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The Ten O’Clock Line Treaty
While the nation celebrates the Lincoln bicentennial, 2009 also represents the two century-mark of another important event in the state where the President spent his boyhood. In 1809, Governor William Henry Harrison struck a monumental land deal with a consortium of native peoples. The Treaty of Fort Wayne, also known as “The Ten O’clock Line Treaty,” conferred three million acres of land to the settlers.
April 27, 2009
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Radical behavior
Although not associated with any specific school of psychological thought, Indiana University’s Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences was once home to the biggest name in behaviorism. Regardless of a lifelong affiliation with Harvard, B.F. Skinner did some of his most notorious work while chair of psychology at IU. An advocate of the idea that […]
April 20, 2009
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Racing against racism…Major Taylor
Since 2003, Team Major Taylor has fueled competition at Bloomington’s annual Little Five Hundred bicycle race. The namesake of the racially diverse team was a hero from the golden age of cycling at the turn of the twentieth century. The glory was bittersweet, however, when considered in light of the enormous racial discrimination Marshall Walter Taylor had to battle along the way.
