Moment of Indiana History
shows Archive
March 25, 2013
Indiana’s First First Lady
Anna Symmes Harrison had not yet made it to Washington when her husband gave his inaugural address. As she prepared to leave, she received news of his death.
March 18, 2013
A Woman’s Judgment
Although Ohio elected a woman to its supreme court in 1922, it was not until 1995 that Indiana would see a woman sitting on its highest state court.
March 11, 2013
Steele’s Magnolia
In the spring of 1908, Selma Steele began planting gardens—a passion that would become her own artistic contribution to the House of the Singing Winds.
March 4, 2013
The Desegregating Diva
Camilla Williams was the first black woman singer to appear with a major national opera company, nearly ten years before Marion Anderson's debut at the Met .
February 25, 2013
Old World Royalty In New Harmony
Prince Maximilian's journals are a significant record of the intellectual life of New Harmony after its famous years as an experimental utopian community.
February 18, 2013
The Kingsbury Ordnance Plant
Work at the Kingsbury Ordnance Plant was dirty, difficult, and dangerous, and African American employees were consistently assigned to the most hazardous tasks.
February 11, 2013
A Modest Start To A Storied Tournament
Though the IHSAA attracted national attention when single-class basketball ended, Indiana's first statewide high school tournament was less than newsworthy.
February 4, 2013
A Pocket Of Abolitionism In Fort Wayne
The short-lived "Fort Wayne Standard" suggests that Indiana, despite its mostly conservative political leanings, was also home to more radical political views.
January 28, 2013
Correspondence Course
Mail delivery in Indiana was uncertain until 1800, when the postal service established a weekly there-and-back-again route from Vincennes to Louisville.
January 21, 2013
Vance Hartke, Indiana Liberal
When Hartke left Evansville for the U.S. Senate in 1958, he was the first Democrat to represent Indiana in the Senate for two decades.
