Below are the remarks by Dr. Alex Kor, son of Eva Kor, on March 10, 2022. Dr. Kor spoke at a special event at the Indiana Historical Society to celebrate the opening of IHS’s newest exhibits — Eva Kor from Auschwitz to Indiana and Dimensions in Testimony. Both exhibits run through January 2024. Good evening! […]
With all the staying-at-home recently, I’ve had time to reflect on my travels the past three years with our History on Wheels traveling exhibit. History on Wheels is a custom trailer with nearly 1,000 square feet of exhibit space. We travel to festivals, fairs, schools and other special events to share Indiana’s rich automotive heritage […]
When you visit the Indiana Historical Society to see You Are There 1915 Madam C.J. Walker: Empowering Women you will meet the real characters in Madam Walker’s life. The creators of the Netflix series Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker chose not to include many of the real people close to […]
It’s Indiana State Fair time, which means it’s time for the Indiana History Train! Since I manage the Train, I spend a LOT of time at the Fair. I was told it was selfish for me to keep all my tips and favorites to myself – so here goes! Some of these are basics, bust […]
Everyone has seen the 1983 movie A Christmas Story. It is hard to miss – it’s usually on at least once a day throughout the holiday season and on a continuous loop on Christmas Day. It wasn’t until 17 years after it came out, when I was halfway through college, that I found out it […]
History Matters is a blog series where we’ll be talking about the things you’re not supposed to discuss at the dinner table – things that may make some people uncomfortable. These pieces of our history are there if you look but might not be top of mind or in a textbook. We often think of history on a larger scale, […]
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 […]
25 individuals with an age range of 43 to 100 years 1,947 minutes of audio 3,935 miles traveled 1,200 pages of transcripts 100 years of documented history into a 188-year-old collection In the fall of 2016, I started traveling around the state for the Latino Collecting Initiative. I talked to 25 pioneering individuals who sat […]
Since all of you seem to enjoy learning about behind-the-scenes life at museums, I thought I’d share a few fun facts about the Exhibitions Department – things I take for granted but you might not know. Here we go. 1. We have a LOT of props and furniture from old exhibits. In fact, we have […]
Not so long ago, in a place that?s not so far away, 3,000 Italians found themselves in a prisoner of war camp at Camp Atterbury. In 1943, Italian soldiers captured in North Africa got sent to various POW camps across the United States. A large group of them arrived in Indiana beginning April 30. These […]
