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WFIU: Moment of Indiana History

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Brief explorations of Indiana History, historic places and people. Produced by WFIU and WBAA for the Indiana Public Broadcasting Stations and Narrated by Dan Skinner.


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Unwrapping a gift from the past
The practice of placing significant objects within a building's masonry may have origins in the early Christian tradition of secreting a saint's relics within the foundation stone of a church. In the meantime, many edifices have been constructed to contain a sort of secular reliquary. Recently, history buffs and preservationists in Indiana have had opportunities to unwrap a few of these gifts from the past, which have served to provide practical information along with cultural context....

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[ Mon, 04 May 2009 13:04:03 -0400 ]


The Ten O'Clock Line Treaty
While the nation celebrates the Lincoln bicentennial, 2009 also represents the two century-mark of another important event in the state where the President spent his boyhood. In 1809, Governor William Henry Harrison struck a monumental land deal with a consortium of native peoples. The Treaty of Fort Wayne, also known as "The Ten O'clock Line Treaty," conferred three million acres of land to the settlers....

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[ Mon, 04 May 2009 13:03:54 -0400 ]


Radical behavior
Although not associated with any specific school of psychological thought, Indiana University's Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences was once home to the biggest name in behaviorism. Regardless of a lifelong affiliation with Harvard, B.F. Skinner did some of his most notorious work while chair of psychology at IU. An advocate of the [...]...

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[ Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:33:21 -0400 ]


Racing against racism...Major Taylor
Since 2003, Team Major Taylor has fueled competition at Bloomington's annual Little Five Hundred bicycle race. The namesake of the racially diverse team was a hero from the golden age of cycling at the turn of the twentieth century. The glory was bittersweet, however, when considered in light of the enormous racial discrimination Marshall Walter Taylor had to battle along the way....

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[ Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:43:14 -0400 ]


Littler Fives
In college towns across Indiana, spring colors include the bright jerseys of determined-looking bike riders thronging the streets. An annual spring cycling event on the Indiana University-Bloomington campus that began as a fundraiser for working college students has gained national renown thanks to the beloved 1979 film Breaking Away . Inspired by the Indianapolis [...]...

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[ Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:53:11 -0400 ]


Taking a gamble on contemporary art
The story of modern art in the United States can not be told without acknowledging the role played by "Indiana's wild bunch of gamblers in art." Bound by a common "interest in contemporary art, together with a willingness to take chances" and to pay annual dues of $25, an Indianapolis-based group calling itself the Gamboliers informed [...]...

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[ Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:35:48 -0400 ]


Sorority girl, farm wife, environmental advocate...Rachel Peden
In two long-running newspaper columns and three books, IU graduate Rachel Peden dispensed lessons gleaned from a life lived in tandem with the land. Since 1952, the Children's Farm Festival at the Peden Family Farm outside Bloomington continues to be a long-awaited spring tradition....

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[ Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:35:32 -0400 ]


Restoring Utopia: Jane Blaffer Owen
The third recipient of Indiana's highest honor is neither a legendary coach nor a university president. Jane Blaffer Owen was presented with the 2007 Sachem Award in recognition of her philanthropic efforts in historic preservation and the arts. The Houston native is best known for her work to restore the southwestern Indiana town of New Harmony to the spirit in which it was founded....

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[ Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:07:46 -0400 ]


Survival and Forgiveness: Eva Kor
The founder of Terre Haute's CANDLES Holocaust museum was once the subject of medical experimentation by Dr. Josef Mengele, the infamous "Angel of Death." Eva Kor, recipient of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Spirit of Justice Award and the Sagamore of the Wabash, among others, espouses a philosophy of forgiveness, a controversial position among survivors of the Holocaust....

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[ Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:07:44 -0400 ]


The Father of Women's Sports: Senator Birch Bayh
When ERA failed to be ratified, Indiana Senator Birch Bayh turned his energies to a law that would mandate equal opportunities for men and women in federally funded educational programs and activities. Title IX did not explicitly address athletics, but the impact of the 1972 legislation has been most visible in the context of high school and collegiate sports teams and programs....

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[ Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:07:29 -0400 ]


Taking diversification to a new level....William Mays
Having served the Circle City's African-American community for 95 years, the Indianapolis Recorder was in financial straits in 1990....

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[ Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:24:01 -0500 ]


Black and white and read all over...the Indianapolis Recorder
A national leader among African-American publications, the Indianapolis Recorder newspaper has served the Circle City's black population since 1895....

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[ Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:03:41 -0500 ]


Re-introducing a Hoosier muralist
Canvases by African-American painter Henry O. Tanner hang in the White House and the National Gallery of Art. Less familiar, however, is the name of Tanner's prot?g?, once known as the "dean of Negro artists."...

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[ Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:24:04 -0500 ]


Making a deal, under a tree...
Given the drastic transformation of Indiana's landscape over the course of its settlement, it seems unlikely that a single tree might serve as a bridge from the seventeenth century to the present....

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[ Wed, 11 Feb 2009 01:45:47 -0500 ]


Riding the rails, back to South Bend...Schuyler Colfax
The global economic crisis of 2008 has been traced to a range of factors from market deregulation to massive inflation in the price of commodities....

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[ Wed, 11 Feb 2009 01:45:46 -0500 ]


Tailor-made forests...the Singer Cabinet Works
Time was, a squirrel could cross Indiana by jumping from one tree to another, without touching the ground. Or so the legend goes....

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[ Wed, 11 Feb 2009 01:45:41 -0500 ]


A fruit by any other name...the "Indiana banana"
Although found in twenty six eastern states, the pawpaw tree might be particularly beloved to Hoosiers for the colloquial names given to its fruit. Known alternately as the "Indiana banana," or the "Hoosier banana," the tree Asimina triloba produces the largest edible tree fruit native to the U.S. The only temperate relative of a [...]...

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[ Wed, 11 Feb 2009 01:45:40 -0500 ]


I ride a bike, and I vote
Grassroots organizing. Alternative transportation. Greenways and parks. Many components of contemporary political campaigns seem to have been borrowed from the platforms and strategies that worked well in Indiana in the 1890's....

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[ Wed, 11 Feb 2009 01:45:21 -0500 ]


Tecumseh's Curse
A quick scan of US Presidential history reveals an eerie recurrence: from William Henry Harrison through John Kennedy, every President elected in a year ending in zero has died in office.? The presidential terms of Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley, Warren Harding and Franklin Roosevelt were all curtailed by death. The pattern marking the [...]...

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[ Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:34:59 -0500 ]


The Birthplace of the Modern Political Campaign
Political campaigns can turn the nation into a veritable battleground.? Perhaps it is fitting then, that the place where the modern political campaign is said to have been launched is the town of Battle Ground, Indiana.? Just outside of Lafayette, Battle Ground was so named as the site of a definitive showdown in 1811 between [...]...

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[ Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:54:54 -0500 ]


Dan Quayle
Controversial vice presidential picks are nothing new in American politics, as even recent Indiana history reveals.? When Republican presidential nominee George H.W. Bush announced his running mate in August 1988, Indiana Senator James Danforth Quayle faced relentless questioning from the press about his military service, personal life and leadership experience.? Hardly a political newcomer by [...]...

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[ Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:34:06 -0500 ]


Bellwether Blues...and Reds
When it comes to predicting the outcome of a presidential election, one might consult Indiana history.? More specifically, the voting record of Vigo County, Indiana, which has been the most consistent bellwether of American presidential voting trends for more than a century.? From 1892 through 2004, Vigo County picked the winner every election, except 1908 [...]...

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[ Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:01:48 -0500 ]


Selwin and Sammy Terry
When Universal Pictures floated its set of classic horror flicks from the 30s and 40s as ready-made content for the TV stations cropping up across the country in the 1950s, WISH-TV was the first Indiana station to bite¿so to speak. In 1958, the young station at Channel 8 on the dial created the ghoulish character [...]...

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[ Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:25:55 -0400 ]


Shocking New Medium
The "shock" of the new...medium, on this Moment of Indiana History....

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[ Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:13:16 -0400 ]


John Mellencamp
Small town boy, farmers' friend, rock star...on this Moment of Indiana History....

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[ Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:03:35 -0400 ]


Hoosier Gold
Hoosier Gold...Bronze AND Silver...on this Moment of Indiana History....

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[ Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:03:21 -0400 ]


James Watson
The Quiz Kid who solved the secret of life...James Watson, on this Moment of Indiana History....

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[ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:24:07 -0400 ]


Evansville African American Museum
A legacy restored in Evansville, on this Moment of Indiana History....

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[ Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:55:54 -0400 ]


Sandy Allen
Cutting a striking figure, on this Moment of Indiana History....

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[ Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:47:26 -0400 ]


Conn Instruments
Strike up the band, Conn Instruments, on this Moment of Indiana History....

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[ Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:26:32 -0400 ]

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