This landmark volume is the most important work ever done on Indianapolis past and present. With over 900,000 words, it boasts 22 major interpretive essays and some 1,600 entries on people, organizations, and events. An innovative timeline offers a fascinating overview of key events in the city's history. Illustrations and a statistical appendix accompany the text.

Manufacturer: Indiana University Press
Written By: David J. Bodenhamer

The Indiana Way traces the history of the Hoosier state from prehistoric times through the late twentieth century. The author argues that there had always been a distinctive Indiana way that rejects radical and extreme notions and movements and prefers the comfort and security that comes from a respect for the achievements of the generations that preceded.

Manufacturer: Indiana University Press
Written By: James H. Madison

This study explores the political, economic, social, and cultural developments of the pre– and post–Civil War years. The author draws on scholarly and primary source material to provide a view of mid-nineteenth-century Indiana life, dealing not only with the political turmoil of the era but also with changes in education, agriculture, transportation, religion, and industrialization. Volume 3 ...

Manufacturer: Indiana University Press
Written By: Emma Lou Thornbrough

"A lot of things started in Indiana - the automotive industry for one - and Indiana has produced a great many ideas, many wrongheaded and some downright wicked. Viewed one way, this book is a study of Indiana ideas, for threads run through it - the guest for the better life, bigotry, provincial protest. Viewed another, it is a study of an idea itself, the Hoosier, or Indiana, idea. By the 'Indiana ...

Manufacturer: Indiana University Press
Written By: John Bartlow Martin

Manufacturer: Indiana Historical Society

Clark County, Indiana, has grown from a handful of small settlements and scattered farms at the Falls of the Ohio into a sprawling metropolitan region. Yet, as Carl E. Kramer describes in this wonderful new history, significant continuities help define the county. Middle-class business owners and farmers still serve as its leaders. Jeffersonian democracy, emphasizing localism and ...

Manufacturer: Quarry Books
Written By: Carl E. Kramer

A series of family letters detailing the emigration of a German family to the United States and finally the state of Indiana in the early 1800's.

Manufacturer: Indiana Historical Society
Written By: Jacob Schramm

For much of Indiana's history, its distinctiveness has lain in its typicality. It has embodied - and continues to embody - values and behavior that are specifically American. In the late eighteenth century Indiana was the heart of the Old Northwest, a vast area conceived as a preserve where independent farmers and their families could live free from the shadow of slavery. During the Civil War, the ...

Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press
Written By: Howard H. Peckham

"...the best account of how life was lived on the frontier of the Old Northwest that I have ever read...it will deepen your understanding of the American inheritance." - "Harper's". "In a style remarkable for ease and lucidity, the author has recreated the Indiana of his great-grandparents' day." - "Saturday Review". These sketches tell of early settlement by a variety of movers seeking homes in a ...

Manufacturer: Indiana University Press
Written By: Logan Esarey, Bruce Rogers

This book is based on the world of E.C. Roberts youth. It is a kinder, gentler America, and also in some ways tougher, more sentimental, more open to experience, more authentic and personal-in short, the world of Mark Twain. In this book, Mr. Roberts gives us more than fifty wonderful 'stories' of the good old days.

Manufacturer: Indiana University Press
Written By: E. C. Roberts