Every September in Indiana Harbor (East Chicago), Lake County, Indiana there is an annual parade and events for Fiestas Patrias, …
“It was during these hard years of the early 1930s that mass groups of the parishioners departed in whole train …
Ernest Merritt, born in Indianapolis two weeks after Lincoln’s assassination in 1865, would grow up to become the head of …
A collection of materials from the Merritt family of Indianapolis, recently added to our collections, embodies the wide variety of …
This is part one of a two-part series. Within the last few years scholars, and the like, have continued to reflect …
Indianapolis of the 19th and 20th centuries never had a large enough Asian population that would lend itself to create …
As we’ve explored Sylvia Dichner’s life (Part I and Part II) in Indianapolis, we have encountered the man who would …
Sylvia’s World was, especially by today’s quick and far moving standards, contained to a fairly small area- mostly her neighborhood …
The crowd that gathered at the Broadway Christian Center at Seventeenth and Broadway Streets on Indianapolis’s near northside for an …
The Indiana Historical Society is excited to announce that the National History Day in Indiana State Contest is in-person this …