WFIU-FM: WFIU: Moment of Indiana History Podcast show

WFIU-FM: WFIU: Moment of Indiana History Podcast

Summary: Weekly 2-minute program on Indiana History produced by WFIU Public Media in association with the Indiana Public Broadcasting Stations.

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Podcasts:

 Win-Win: The Mutual Ascent Of Basketball And Radio | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 0:00

And when station owners went looking for popular programming that would draw fans and encourage advertisers, they discovered that one sure bet was basketball.

 A Motorcade Fit For A Prince | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 0:00

cars started up and headed west out of the city. The first challenge came when the cars "stopped to get ready for the high hills" west of the White River.

 An Ignominious Governorship | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 0:00

On Governor David Wallace's watch, the internal improvements program bankrupted the state and the Potowatomi Indians were exiled to Kansas by armed militia.

 Advocating For Better Schools | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 0:00

in 1840, 1 in every 10 white citizens in Indiana above the age of 21 could neither read nor write, an illiteracy rate matching that of Mississippi.

 Indiana's Canal Debacle | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 0:00

In September 1853, the southern section of the Wabash and Erie Canal finally opened for business. By the early 1850s

 Indiana's First First Lady | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 0:00

Anna Symmes Harrison had not yet made it to Washington when her husband gave his inaugural address. As she prepared to leave, she received news of his death.

 A Woman's Judgment | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 0:00

Although Ohio elected a woman to its supreme court in 1922, it was not until 1995 that Indiana would see a woman sitting on its highest state court.

 Steele's Magnolia | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 0:00

In the spring of 1908, Selma Steele began planting gardens--a passion that would become her own artistic contribution to the House of the Singing Winds.

 A Modest Start To A Storied Tournament | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 0:00

Though the IHSAA attracted national attention when single-class basketball ended, Indiana's first statewide high school tournament was less than newsworthy.

 A Pocket Of Abolitionism In Fort Wayne | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 0:00

The short-lived "Fort Wayne Standard" suggests that Indiana, despite its mostly conservative political leanings, was also home to more radical political views.

 Correspondence Course | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 0:00

Mail delivery in Indiana was uncertain until 1800, when the postal service established a weekly there-and-back-again route from Vincennes to Louisville.

 Vance Hartke, Indiana Liberal | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 0:00

When Hartke left Evansville for the U.S. Senate in 1958, he was the first Democrat to represent Indiana in the Senate for two decades.

 A Safe Harbor for The Region's Mexican Community | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 0:00

Mexican migrants to the Calumet Region in the 1920s began to form their own fraternal benefit societies, already popular in their native country.

 "Romance Out of Indiana": George Barr McCutcheon | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 0:00

George McCutcheon's obituary in The New York Times placed him in the "Indiana school of romantic literature," noting the "innocent happiness" he had imparted.

 An English Abolitionist Tours Antebellum Indiana | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 0:00

Candler was favorably impressed with the "young and vigorous city" of Indianapolis, but soundly disapproved of the legislature's attitude toward slavery.

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