INDIANAPOLIS—The Indiana Historical Society (IHS) is proud to announce Leonard Hoops, Sallie W. Rowland, Deborah Hearn Smith and Jeffrey H. Smulyan are being recognized as the 2018 Indiana Living Legends. This year’s class of Living Legends will be honored at the annual gala, Friday, July 27, at the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center, […]
INDIANAPOLIS—The Indiana Historical Society (IHS) proudly announces more than 500 students from 40 schools around the state took part in the 2018 National History Day in Indiana (NHDI) state contest, Saturday, April 14, at Ivy Tech’s campus in downtown Indianapolis. The 2018 national theme is “Conflict and Compromise in History,” and students explored the impact […]
Indianapolis Colts: The Exhibit Now Open at the Indiana History Center INDIANAPOLIS—As a new era of professional football in Indiana unfolds, the Indiana Historical Society (IHS) invites guests to connect with the story of the Indianapolis Colts and how the team embodies the values, drive and heart of the city they call home. Indianapolis Colts: […]
Four National History Day in Indiana students – Warsaw seventh graders Keller Bailey, Jason Benyousky, Geoffrey Hochstetler and Ryun Hoffert – visited Pearl Harbor to meet and honor men who survived the burning and sinking of the USS Arizona on Dec. 7, 1941. The students researched their History Day project for a year – the […]
Is your bracket still intact? No, not the one you’re thinking of – it’s Archives March Madness here at IHS. We had staff members choose their favorite image in our collections. And this is no small task – we have more than 2 million in our collections and thousands of those are digitized for everyone to […]
Thursdays in June and July | 6 to 8 p.m. Kruse Family Stardust Terrace, History Center Our Concerts on the Canal series is Indy’s favorite Thursday night summer hangout! This year, see your local favorites – from The Cool City Band to My Yellow Rickshaw. The Stardust Terrace Café, outdoor grill and cash bar, operated by […]
From Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History, Winter 2018. To receive Traces four times a year, join IHS and enjoy this and other member benefits. Back issues of Traces are available through the Basile History Market. Photo: first broadcast of basketball game play-by-play, IHS, WOWO Radio Station Photographs Collection, P 524. Radio station WOWO in Fort Wayne first signed on the air on March 31, […]
From The Hoosier Genealogist: Connections, Fall/Winter 2017. To receive Connections twice a year, join IHS and enjoy this and other member benefits. Back issues of Connections are available through the Basile History Market. Photo courtesy of Randy Mills. Recovering and Reconstructing the Lost Story of My Father’s World War II Adventures “I am so homesick for Horse Creek.” […]
Virginia Dill McCarty is best known as the first woman who was appointed and served a full four-year term as U.S. Attorney. Recommended by Senator Birch Bayh in February 1977, she was appointed to the Southern District of Indiana by President Jimmy Carter in June 1977 and served until 1981. Her collection reflects her activities […]
Urban renewal. Revitalization. Skyscrapers. It is rare that a collection comes along that so thoroughly documents the changes in the downtown Indianapolis landscape over 50 years. The Joseph and Georgia McGuire Photographs narrates this municipal transformation – overlapping chronologically with the W.H. Bass Photo Co. and the Larry Foster photography collections – and continues in […]
