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Ernest Merritt, born in Indianapolis two weeks after Lincoln’s assassination in 1865, would grow up to become the head of …
A collection of materials from the Merritt family of Indianapolis, recently added to our collections, embodies the wide variety of …
This is part one of a two-part series. Within the last few years scholars, and the like, have continued to reflect …
Indianapolis of the 19th and 20th centuries never had a large enough Asian population that would lend itself to create …
As we’ve explored Sylvia Dichner’s life (Part I and Part II) in Indianapolis, we have encountered the man who would …
Sylvia’s World was, especially by today’s quick and far moving standards, contained to a fairly small area- mostly her neighborhood …
The crowd that gathered at the Broadway Christian Center at Seventeenth and Broadway Streets on Indianapolis’s near northside for an …
The Indiana Historical Society is excited to announce that the National History Day in Indiana State Contest is in-person this …
Recently I have been reprocessing the collection of Hugh D. Studabaker (1869-1943). Studabaker was a thorough diarist and completed exactly …
Indiana’s history is deeply rooted in agriculture from family farms to large-scale corporations, the last week of March is National …
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