INDIANAPOLIS—The Indiana Historical Society (IHS) invites guests to learn about a forerunner of the farm-to-table movement with its newest exhibit, The German Growers of Indianapolis. The exhibit explores the contributions of German immigrants, and their tradition of locally grown fruits and vegetables, from the late 19th century to the present. The German families who settled […]
Jody Blankenship, incoming IHS President and CEO, answers a few questions about himself. Find out more about him here. What inspired you to enter the history field? While in college, I had the opportunity to research and write a paper about early 20th-century eastern and southern European immigration to the United States. That is when my […]
Dec. 11 was the 202nd anniversary of Indiana’s Statehood. On that day, we usually send out a “Happy Birthday” message. These posts on social media are lighthearted ways to recognize the day. One popular image in Statehood day posts is this 1819 map of Indiana. This map, prepared by John Melish, was originally published in […]
INDIANAPOLIS—The Indiana Historical Society (IHS) invites guests to a Nutcracker family affair. The Sugarplum Breakfast takes place Sunday, Dec. 2, at the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center, located at 450 W. Ohio St. in downtown Indianapolis. The special event runs from 10 a.m. to noon, with doors then opening to the public from […]
The Indiana Writers collection includes photographs, letters, documents and other materials that pertain to Indiana’s authors, poets and playwrights. It highlights writers from the Golden Age of Indiana Literature, as well as contemporary Hoosier writers. Authors in this collection illustrate Indiana’s rich literary history and include notables such as James Whitcomb Riley, Booth Tarkington, Meredith […]
Marcus Mote was born in West Milton, Ohio, in 1817, a son of Quaker farmers David Mote Jr. and his wife, Miriam (Mendenhall) Mote. Marcus was raised in a strict Quaker household where art was not encouraged. In spite of this, he chose art as his career, eventually becoming a self-taught painter of miniature portraits, […]
INDIANAPOLIS—The Indiana Historical Society (IHS) is gearing up to host one of the biggest events in the history of its free annual Holiday Author Fair. More than 70 authors will be on hand for mixing, mingling and book signing, Saturday, Dec. 1, at the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center, located at 450 W. […]
Three years ago, I cried at Lowe’s. Over a Christmas tree. It was late in the tree-buying season, and my boyfriend and I headed to Lowe’s to get a tree. A real tree. None of the kids were around – two were away at college and the youngest was crazy busy with everything that happens […]
Shortridge High School is Indiana’s oldest public high school and has been an integral part of the rich history of the state and the city of Indianapolis. The Shortridge archives hold documents and artifacts dating to the opening of the school’s current building in the 1920s and well beyond. Shortridge Archives Club scholars and educators […]
Yesterday, I had the immense pleasure to meet one of the people featured in our exhibit Be Heard: Latino Experiences in Indiana, open through Saturday, Nov. 3. We rarely get the opportunity to meet with the subjects of an exhibit but the Be Heard series, which has grown out of our special collecting initiatives – LGBT, Latino and […]
