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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- Copyright: 2014
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And when station owners went looking for popular programming that would draw fans and encourage advertisers, they discovered that one sure bet was basketball.
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.
On Governor David Wallace's watch, the internal improvements program bankrupted the state and the Potowatomi Indians were exiled to Kansas by armed militia.
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.
In September 1853, the southern section of the Wabash and Erie Canal finally opened for business. By the early 1850s
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.
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.
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.
Though the IHSAA attracted national attention when single-class basketball ended, Indiana's first statewide high school tournament was less than newsworthy.
The short-lived "Fort Wayne Standard" suggests that Indiana, despite its mostly conservative political leanings, was also home to more radical political views.
Mail delivery in Indiana was uncertain until 1800, when the postal service established a weekly there-and-back-again route from Vincennes to Louisville.
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.
Mexican migrants to the Calumet Region in the 1920s began to form their own fraternal benefit societies, already popular in their native country.
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.
Candler was favorably impressed with the "young and vigorous city" of Indianapolis, but soundly disapproved of the legislature's attitude toward slavery.