From Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History, Winter 2019. 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 and at images.indianahistory.org. “Either I have moved away from them or they have moved away from me” In 1991 evangelist and motivational speaker Guy Kawasaki interviewed Indianapolis mayor William Hudnut […]
The history of Indianapolis’s oldest African-American church congregation is celebrated in a new Destination Indiana journey at the History Center. Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church was established in Indianapolis in 1836 by preacher William Paul Quinn and Augustus Turner. The church held worship services in different locations downtown – including in Turner’s log cabin – […]
Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. established the Section of Painting and Sculpture in 1934, during the Depression. The program’s purpose was to provide artistic decoration for public buildings across the United States while providing financial relief for artists. Because of their public access, post offices were chosen as the ideal location for the […]
From The Hoosier Genealogist: Connections, Fall/Winter 2018. 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. Large numbers of Irish immigrants began coming to America in the early eighteenth century. Many who made the voyage before the American Revolution came from the northern province of Ulster and […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
From The Hoosier Genealogist: Connections, Spring/Summer 2018. 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. Just outside the small village of Alton, Crawford County, Indiana, where the Little Blue River empties into the Ohio River, a lumber mill owned by Abraham N. Peckinpaugh and Lycurgus Harrison […]
From Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History, Summer 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. The first thing you notice are his eyes—clear, brown, friendly, and full of life. But I have to admit, I was immediately searching behind those glasses for signs. […]
