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Charles Phillips Emerson

(Sept. 4, 1872-Sept. 26, 1938). Physician, medical textbook author, and long-time dean of medicine at Indiana University, Charles Phillips Emerson… Read More »

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Nicholas McCarty Sr.

(Sept. 26, 1795-May 17, 1854). Born in Moorefield, Hardy County, Virginia (now West Vi...

Harriette Bailey Conn

(Sept. 22, 1922- Aug. 21, 1981). Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, Harriette Vesta Bailey...

Harvey Weir Cook

Born on June 30, 1892, a native of Wilkinson, Indiana, Cook launched his celebrated ca...

Joseph Elmer Ritter

(July 20, 1892-June 10, 1967). Ritter was born in New Albany, Indiana. Upon entering S...

PLACES

One America Tower

At 38 stories, One America Tower (One America Square, formerly AUL Tower), surpassed the 1970 Indiana National Bank Tower in… Read More »

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Home Place

Home Place is a suburban area, centered at the intersection of 106th Street and Colleg...

Illinois Central Gulf Railroad

The Illinois Central Gulf Railroad that served Indianapolis is a composite of several ...

Decatur Township

Decatur Township is located in the southwestern part of Marion County and named for St...

Bradford Woods

Bradford Woods is located on roughly 2,500 acres of heavily wooded land located in Cla...

EVENTS

Police Mutiny

Occasioned by a streetcar strike, the mutiny was the most serious breach of police protocol and one of the greatest… Read More »

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Talbot Street Art Fair

Originally held on Mother’s Day weekend in 1956, a group of students from the initia...

Robert F. Kennedy Speech

On the evening of April 4, 1968, as more than a hundred cities erupted in violence fol...

Richmond Hill Explosion

On Saturday night November 10, 2012, at 11:10 p.m., a natural gas explosion occurred i...

Black Hawk War

Black Hawk, chief of the Sac Indians, called Ma-ka-tai-she-kia-kiak by his people, rej...

ORGANIZATIONS

Christamore House Family and Community Center

In 1905, Butler University alumnae and urban missionaries Anna C. Stover (1870-1944) and Edith D. Surbey (ca. 1872-1972) began settlement… Read More »

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Indiana Humanities

In late 1971, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) collaborated with a grou...

Downtown Indy Inc.

On July 27, 1977, Indiana governor Otis R. Bowen and Indianapolis Mayor , in conjuncti...

Children’s Theater

The Little Theater Society, now the , launched the first children’s theater in India...

John Birch Society

The John Birch Society is a nationwide organization dedicated to freeing the United St...

TOPICS

Ragtime

This uniquely American musical genre, based upon African American rhythms and styles rendered initially by Black banjoists and pianists, flourished… Read More »

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