During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Indiana played a vital role in national politics, with Hoosiers often represented on national party tickets. Legend has it that the first words from an Indiana child were, taking off on William Tecumseh Sherman?s declaration, If nominated I will run and if elected I will serve.? IHS […]
Can you keep a secret? Or, are you like Lizzie, one of the characters in my new book, Giant Steps? I am going to share some secrets with you, and I don?t care if you pass them along. My book is classified as historical fiction, but I like to think of it as a truth […]
As July 7, 1861, dawned, war was in the air in Lexington, Indiana. The county seat of Scott County was abuzz with the latest news of the southern rebellion. The Madison Daily and Evening Courier told of skirmishes between Federal troops and secesh forces at Harpers Ferry and Falling Waters, Virginia. Closer to home, word […]
In August 1915, author Theodore Dreiser and artist Franklin Booth, both Indiana natives, set off from New York City in a 60-horsepower, Hoosier-made Pathfinder touring car on a trip that brought Dreiser home after a more than 20-year absence. The result of the two-week, 2,000-mile journey was A Hoosier Holiday, published in Indiana?s centennial year. […]
The grandniece of the Italian Renaissance art connoisseur Bernard Berenson, Rachel Berenson Perry worked at the T. C. Steele State Historic Site in Brown County for more than a decade, doing everything from giving tours to mowing the property. Today, the fine art curator emeriti of the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites, Perry is […]
Mapping Indiana: Five Centuries of Treasures from the Indiana Historical Society is the most recent publication from IHS Press and is endorsed by the Indiana Bicentennial Commission. It is a 10-pound, 320-page, hand-stitched, full-color marriage of information and beauty. Forgive the flight of fancy, but this is truly one of the most beautiful books I […]
From scrambling over avalanche-choked passes in Tibet to track down a source to meticulously tracking down mismanaged U.S. government development aid in Afghanistan, journalist and author Douglas A. Wissing has done whatever it has taken to write his stories. The Bloomington, Indiana, author has, however, also discovered much to write about in his home state […]
Part of the Indiana Historical Society?s commemoration of the nineteenth state?s bicentennial, Indiana’s 200: The People Who Shaped the Hoosier State recognizes the people who made enduring contributions to the state of Indiana in its 200-year history. Written by historians, scholars, biographers and independent researchers, the biographical essays in this book will enhance the public’s […]
A retired U.S. Department of Defense employee who serves as a volunteer at the Monocacy National Battlefield, Gail Stephens, author of the new IHS Press book Shadow of Shiloh: Major General Lew Wallace in the Civil War, also lectures on the Civil War, teaches courses at area colleges and gives battlefield tours. Here she talks […]
A Bloomington-based independent journalist and writer,Douglas A. Wissing, author of the new IHS Press bookIndiana: One Pint at a Time; A Traveler’s Guide to Indiana’s Breweries, brings some family history to his work detailing the history and culture of the Hoosier State’s brewing history. Wissing is a descendant of nineteenth-century Indiana-German brewers. In the following […]
