On Tuesday August 15, Governor Eric Holcomb and IARA Executive Director and IAH Treasurer, Chandler Lightly, broke ground on a new Indiana State Archives Building in downtown Indianapolis along the Indianapolis Canal Walk between Ohio and New York Streets. Learn more about the project plan and timeline here.
Thank you to everyone who made our 2023 Annual Conference a success: IAH board members; conference hosts from the Indiana Magazine of History; presenters who shared their work; session chairs; and the organizers of the special Unmasked exhibit at IUB, for offering tours to our members during the conference.
The December 2022 issue of the Indiana Magazine of History highlights Women, Suffrage, and Politics in Indiana.
Purdue University Professor Emerita of History Nancy Gabin introduces the special issue, which contains Jamie Wagman’s consideration of South Bend socialist politician Alice Mannering and her 1917 mayoral campaign; Anita Morgan’s analysis of available sources for the history of Black women suffragists and voters; and Laura Merrifield Wilson’s history of Indianapolis lawyer and public servant Harriette Bailey Conn. The issue is available through libraries subscribing to Project Muse at: https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/826.
On Tuesday August 15, Governor Eric Holcomb and IARA Executive Director and IAH Treasurer, Chandler Lightly, broke ground on a new Indiana State Archives Building in downtown Indianapolis along the Indianapolis Canal Walk between Ohio and New York Streets. Learn more about the project plan and timeline here.
Thank you to everyone who made our 2023 Annual Conference a success: IAH board members; conference hosts from the Indiana Magazine of History; presenters who shared their work; session chairs; and the organizers of the special Unmasked exhibit at IUB, for offering tours to our members during the conference.
The December 2022 issue of the Indiana Magazine of History highlights Women, Suffrage, and Politics in Indiana.
Purdue University Professor Emerita of History Nancy Gabin introduces the special issue, which contains Jamie Wagman’s consideration of South Bend socialist politician Alice Mannering and her 1917 mayoral campaign; Anita Morgan’s analysis of available sources for the history of Black women suffragists and voters; and Laura Merrifield Wilson’s history of Indianapolis lawyer and public servant Harriette Bailey Conn. The issue is available through libraries subscribing to Project Muse at: https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/826.
The CITL has created a list of supportive approaches for online teaching due to COVID-19.
Ruth D. Reichard recently published a new book based on her 2015 Indiana University doctoral dissertation. The book titled Blood and Steel: Ryan White, the AIDS Crisis and Deindustrialization in Kokomo, Indiana is an urban and social history that examines how two historical developments—the emergence of the AIDS pandemic and the ongoing deindustrialization of the Midwest—divided a community.
The James H. Madison Best Indiana Magazine of History Article Award is given for the best article published in the IMH during the previous calendar year.
The IAH Best Graduate Student Paper Award is named in honor of Walter K. Nugent, Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame.
The Bennett-Tinsley Award encourages undergraduate research in a broad range of subjects related to Indiana and rewards excellence in history research and writing.
The CITL Blogosphere is located at the bottom of the CITL homepage. It provides articles on how to engage students and remote learning.
John R. Dichtl, President & CEO of the American Association for State and Local History outlines what historians and historical organizations need to do in the months and years ahead.
Evansville African American Museum is seeking an Executive Director to have day-to-day oversight of all operations, with an active presence within the city, and build collaborative partnerships to ensure that annual and strategic goals are achieved.
This recorded webinar provides information on redesigning courses due to the 2020 pandemic and the challenges of remote learning.
This blog article analyzes scholarly writing during the 2020 pandemic and social issues. It also provides a link to their open-access book.
Historian Nicole Poletika explores how Unigov, a 1970s-era Indiana legislative project, helped create modern-day Indianapolis and its suburbs.
Author Carrie A. Meyer traces the early history of gas engines in the midwestern barnyard. Manufacturers recognized women’s farm labor and appreciated women as prospective users, affecting both advertising and engine design.
This link contains book reviews, syllabi, podcasts, resources for teaching online, a link to The Wabash Center Journal on Teaching, and many other links.
Project Kaleidoscope aims to provide STEM faculty, including those from underrepresented groups, resources for graduating liberally educated students.
The Wabash Center Journal on Teaching critically analyzes their standard of academic writing in this journal.
Indiana Landmarks seeks a full-time Community Preservation Specialist in its Western Regional Office. The Community Preservation Specialist assists in carrying out a full range of preservation services in a 17-county region in western Indiana, specifically Terre Haute.
In the December 2020 issue of the IMH, historian David Nord looks at the important role Indiana manufacturers played in milling Hoosier wheat into well-known flour brands such as Swans Down and EZ Bake.
The Indiana Association of Historians is now online at our new website, which features a wide range of information about the Association and about history in Indiana.