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Our 2024 Annual Conference will be held in Indianapolis on Fri. April 5 and Sat. April 6.
The 2024 Annual Conference theme is "Historical Intelligence."
2024 Annual Conference registration is now open.
Annual Conference

The 44th annual IAH Conference will be held on Friday April 5 and Saturday April 6 at the Indiana University Campus (IUPUI) in downtown Indianapolis. Historians, archivists, K-12 teachers, graduate students, and college and university scholars will gather to explore the conference theme “Historical Intelligence.” The IAH CFP is now available at the link below.  Proposals for papers, panels, roundtables, lightning sessions, and working groups relating to any historical subject are due by January 15, 2024.

Registration to the conference is now open:

 

IAH.CFP.2024 Conference

 

Book at the Hampton Inn (Indianapolis Downtown IUPUI) with this link to receive our IAH Conference rate!

Hampton Inn Indianapolis (Downtown IUPUI)
414 West Vermont St.


Important Dates


  • Conference Registration begins: Tues. March 5, 2024
  • Hotel Block closes: Fri. March 8, 2024
  • IAH Annual Conference: Fri. April 5-Sat. April 6, 2024

Host

Sponsors

Emma Lou Thornbrough

Image on the left of Gayle Thornbrough, Indiana Historical Society. Image on the right of Emma Lou Thornbrough, University Archives, Butler University Libraries.

Thornbrough Lecture Series


The Thornbrough Lecture Series is an annual series on African American history, sponsored by the Indiana Association of Historians, which takes place every fall.  The lectures honor the lives and careers of sisters Gayle and Emma Lou Thornbrough. Gayle (1914-1999) made a lasting contribution to Indiana history as librarian, editor, and administrator. Emma Lou (1913-1994) was a professor, researcher, and author who left a profound mark on Indiana history.

The 2023 Thornbrough lecture titled “We Ask Only for Evenhanded Justice: Fighting the Black Laws in the Antebellum Midwest” was given by Dr. Kate Masur, the Board of Visitors Professor at Northwestern University, where she has taught in the History Department since 2005. Dr. Masur’s talk examined Midwestern “black laws” and their eventual repeal. Dr. Masur discussed her research on the under-appreciated first civil rights movement, exploring how Black Midwesterners and their white allies fought for racial equality in the lower midwestern states of Ohio, Illinois and Indiana

Her recent book, Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History and winner of three other book prizes. With a team of students and staff at Northwestern, she recently completed the web exhibit, “Black Organizing in Pre-Civil War Illinois: Creating Community, Demanding Justice.” She frequently consults with K-12 educators, museums, and the National Park Service.

 The lecture was free to the public.

 


Indiana Historical Society--450 W. Ohio Street, Indianapolis
September 7, 2023

Events Around The State


 

The Calumet Voices, National Stories exhibition will be featured at the Field Museum in Chicago through December 3, 2023. Learn more about the Calumet region of Indiana which has been “shaped by generations of community resilience and passion, is home to rare ecosystems and monumental steel mills. Explore the unique relationship between nature, world-class innovation, and artistic expression that makes this region located at the southern end of Lake Michigan an unexpected national treasure. Calumet Voices, National Stories shines a spotlight on the region’s past, present, and future, and on the people who have fought to protect it. Experience the daily life of an industrial worker and the role their work has in the region. See neighborhoods and nature through the eyes of renowned artists, and learn about the region’s natural areas through specimens like puccoon plants and red-headed woodpeckers on display.”  For ticket info: https://www.fieldmuseum.org/visit