What role does Ball Brothers Foundation play in Indiana history? Ball Brothers Foundation is one of the state’s oldest and largest private family foundations. Edmund B. Ball, one of the five Ball brothers, provided the initial gift that created the foundation in 1926. Over the years, other gifts from Ball family members have added to […]
Longtime member Marianne Doyle is the Boone County historian and serves on the IHS Public Programs and Outreach Committee. For 15 years, she was first genealogy librarian and then museum director for the P.H. Sullivan Museum and Genealogy Library in Zionsville. She lives in Zionsville with her husband of 43 years, Guinn, who grew up […]
If you’ve been to an event at the History Center, you’ve likely seen Michael Thrall, a legislative assistant with the Democratic Caucus Staff at the Indiana House of Representatives. He talks to us about his life and why he is a longtime and active member of the Indiana Historical Society. What made you join IHS […]
Retired professor Cheryl Engber is a longtime IHS supporter. Born in East Chicago, she was raised on a farm near Pendleton and graduated from Anderson High School and Indiana University. She has two master’s degrees from Ball State and a Ph.D. from IU. She taught Spanish at Anderson University, English as a Second Language at […]
Dianne Cartmel is a native Hoosier. She grew up in Indianapolis, but now makes her home in Brownstown in Jackson County. Mrs. Cartmel served on the IHS Board of Trustees for 11 years and was president when the History Center building was finished in 1999. What did you enjoy about being a board member? I […]
As Indiana’s Storyteller™, the Indiana Historical Society actively works to preserve historical narratives from Indiana’s diverse population. In 2014, IHS began collecting and preserving the rich history, tradition and culture of the LGBTQ community through the Indiana LGBTQ Collecting Initiative. Since then, it has become one of the largest collections documenting Indiana LGBTQ-related materials and […]
The newly processed D.A. Bohlen Architectural Firm Records span four generations of the Bohlen family – 111 years from 1867 to 1978. The phrase, “A Bohlen on every block,” referring to their popularity in Indianapolis, is reflected in the sheer scope of this collection, which covers roughly 175 separate buildings and multibuilding campus projects. It […]
To celebrate Indiana’s sesquicentennial in 1966, the Indiana Historical Society – in partnership with the Indiana Historical Bureau and with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. – launched the History of Indiana series. To celebrate Indiana’s Bicentennial, IHS is producing the series as ebooks. In the five volumes of this series, published between 1968 and 1998, […]
David L. Smith is the author of a 2006 book, Hoosiers in Hollywood, published by the IHS Press, and a 2011 book, Sitting Pretty: The Life and Times of Clifton Webb. The wealth of materials he used in his research are cataloged in the David L. Smith Collection. These materials include photographs, lobby cards, movie […]
Not so long ago, in a place not so far away, 3,000 Italians found themselves in a prisoner of war camp in Indiana. In 1943, Italian soldiers captured in North Africa were sent to POW camps across the U.S. A large group of them lived in a compound next to Camp Atterbury, a military installation […]
