Are you ready for the Indiana Historical Society’s (IHS) favorite book event of the year? The annual Holiday Author Fair, presented by Printing Partners, is just the place to find the perfect read for you! This year, Author Fair attendees can mix and mingle with more than 60 authors of books about everything from sports […]
This is Part 2 of the story of Wilbur Gibbons. To read part 1, click here. On Wilbur Gibbons’ 1918 draft registration card, he listed himself as a minister. Although he had been ordained in the Presbyterian church under the pretense that he would be working among the Apache in Arizona, he and his family […]
Figuratively speaking, the landscape of historical collections is strewn with Rabbit-Holes. Like Alice in Wonderland, if you choose one and jump down it, you never know when or where you’ll end up. Or who you’ll meet. As a processing archivist, I’m often the first to discover a particular hole and begin to map it out. […]
Welcome to the second installment of my Are We Related series. You can view the first blog about the Herndon family here. In this series, I am looking at surnames in the IHS collection and determining if a shared surname in my own line has any known ties. When I began working at the Indiana […]
The Indiana Historical Society (IHS) is proud to announce its Annual Award Winners for 2023. Each year, these awards recognize outstanding individuals and organizations whose efforts have enriched the lives of others by conveying awareness and appreciation of Indiana’s history on local, regional and statewide levels. “These individuals and organizations have led and inspired so […]
National History Day® (NHD) is proud to announce the first phase of its Inclusive History Initiative (IHI), funded by a grant from the Bezos Family Foundation. This initiative is a series of programs and publications that promote diversity, equity, access and inclusion within the NHD network and organization. Inclusive history refers not only to a […]
Tickets are now on sale for the Indiana Historical Society’s (IHS) 2023 Festival of Trees, celebrating its 10th anniversary as one of central Indiana’s biggest holiday traditions for families and people of all ages. From November 10 through January 6, visitors can take part in the annual holiday extravaganza at the Eugene and Marilyn Glick […]
As a librarian and historian, I explore various aspects of history and have become more and more fascinated by family history over the years. While perusing various collection materials, I see many different surnames, some of which are familiar to me as family names I have researched. One such name is Herndon. It is most […]
Program-only tickets are now available for “Founders Day: An Evening with Brian Williams,” a special event bringing Emmy Award-winning journalist Brian Williams to the Indiana Historical Society. The event takes place Tuesday, October 24, at the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center, located at 450 W. Ohio St. in Indianapolis. The program will take […]
Expanding the narrative of Latino history in the Indiana might be called by some, “filling in the gap,” but really it is filling in what I call the in between. From my observation, the general perception of Latino history in the Midwest is that Latinos are either seen as foreigners or farmworkers, with nothing much […]
