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 …
Below are the remarks by Dr. Alex Kor, son of Eva Kor, on March 10, 2022. Dr. Kor spoke at …
When you are a young woman who just graduated high school 1932, while America is still deep in the Great …
As delegates to the Republican national convention gathered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in June 1892, their choice of a presidential candidate …
It seems an appropriate time to revisit a past blog theme, 'My Favorite Things,' featuring a slightly subjective look at …
Our collection in the William H. Smith Memorial Library contains its fair share of guestbooks and scrapbooks, but I think …
November is Indigenous History month. Indigenous communities in present-day Indiana, existed for generations, several times over, before European contact. And …
In my last blog post, Return to Rare Book School, Part I, I discussed the “Descriptive Bibliography: The Fundamentals” course …