Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Eli Lilly, Archaeology, Glenn Black, and the Indiana Historical Society

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In the fall of 1930 a staff member of the Smithsonian Institution, Frank Setzler, assistant curator for archaeology, ran across a visitor fr...
Thursday, June 12, 2025

Celebrating Statehood: The Indiana Centennial

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The fall of 1914 was a bloody one in Europe. The British and German were winding down the First Battle of Ypres and would soon dig in to beg...
Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Ed Breen: Hoosier Journalist

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As a teenager growing up in Fort Dodge, Iowa, Edward E. Breen, and many other citizens of the town, were attracted to the downtown one day b...
Thursday, January 2, 2025

The Battle of Ap Bac

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The future looked bright for Captain Kenneth Good. His superiors had recommended the thirty-two-year-old West Point graduate to leave his ro...
Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Top Ten Books for Hoosiers

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A number of years  ago, I came across an online article with the intriguing title “10 Books Every Minnesotan Should Have Read by Now.” The p...
Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Covering a Coup: Malcolm W. Browne in Saigon

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The first sign of trouble came on a clear Friday afternoon, November 1, 1963. Saigon, South Vietnam’s capital, had been “empty and silent” f...
Friday, June 28, 2024

The Magazine and the Writer: Harper's and John Bartlow Martin

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While living in the Hubbard Woods neighborhood in Winnetka, Illinoi in the early 1940s with his young wife Fran, freelance writer John Bartl...