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County cemetery, church, family, and other records culled from the Indiana Historical Society’s genealogy quarterly, published since 1961.Researchers and family historians will find a wealth of original source material in the volumes of the Indiana Source Books.This volume covers material from 1993 through 1994 issues of The Hoosier Genealogist and includes an every-name index. ... Read more

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These readings provide an overview of Indiana history based upon primary and secondary acounts of significant events and personalities. This treasure trove includes work by George Rogers Clark, Emma Lou Thornbrough, George Ade, Dan Wakefield, and many more.

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The Historical Indiana Book Collection is a collection of 38 volumes relating to the history of Indiana and its people primarily in the 18th and 19th centuries. Several of the volumes have great period illustrations and portraits of relevant historical figures.Here are the computer requirements to run and operate this CD. You must have a PC running Windows or a Macintosh running OS X or higher software and a web browser. All the manuals in this disk are in DJVU format. This format allows you to page through the manuals, enlarge pages for better viewing and print the individual pages or entire manual as well as many other things. The viewer is very intuitive to use and has a full help system to answer any questions you may have about its more advanced features. The viewer is included on the CD. ... Read more

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This volume explores the political, economic, agricultural, and educational developments in the early years of the nineteenth state. Carmony’s book also describes how and why Indiana developed as it did during its formative years and its role as a member of the United States. Volume 2 of The History of Indiana, copublished with the Indiana Historical Bureau. ... Read more

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Beginning with the State Fair as a window on Indiana as a whole, Martin interprets the Hoosier state and its history, from the Civil War and its impact on the state to the period during and just after World War II. As he says, "It is a conception of Indiana as a pleasant, rather rural place inhabited by people who are confident, prosperous, neighborly, easygoing, tolerant, shrewd."

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A fascinating view of Indiana history
This book was written in 1947 when Indiana was a very different place. Yet this book endures as a compelling and sometimes critical look at important people, times, and events in Indiana's history.

Martin tells about Indiana's beginnings: How people came to settle here, what those people were like. He shows how the Civil War played out in Indiana, where every fourth-grade student is now told that "brother fought against brother." He describes the poverty of Indiana farm life and how natural gas made many men wealthy, both in the late 1800s. He tells of the "golden years" in the early 1900s, as cities began to rise. And he explains the troubled years of the 1930s and 1940s, which were fresh in the memories of this book's first audience.

Martin's most compelling writing, however, is reserved for his portraits of colorful Indiana men: Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley, socialist leader Eugene V. Debs, infamous Klansman D. C. Stephenson, and others. The story of Debs is the best part of the book. Martin clearly sympathized with Debs, who championed the worker from his Terre Haute home and, later, from the Presidentail campaign trail and, finally, from prison. Debs's story is all the more interesting to me because I lived in Terre Haute for several years in the 1990s. My apartment was a mile or so north of Debs's home on Eighth Street, which still stands as a historical site. I can imagine the physical setting of Debs's Terre Haute activism as Martin relates it. But it is difficult for me to imagine the spirit of the city in those days, if nothing else because the city's current sleepiness stands in such stark contrast. ... Read more

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Indiana University Press is pleased to be able to collaborate with the Hoosier National Forest in making this engaging look at the Forest region available to a wide audience. "Looking at History" examines the history from geologic times to the present of a nine-county region - Perry, Jackson, Orange, Crawford, Dubois, Lawrence, Monroe, Martin, and Brown. It is an area rich in cultural heritage - prehistoric Indians, pioneer settlers, rural family life, folklore. "Looking at History" concentrates on the land and the natural culture of the inhabitants to produce a unique portrait of a distinctive area of our state. Included are 105 photographs, drawings, and maps. ... Read more

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"...this is the ultimate collection of photographs and visuals about the history and culture of Indiana." - Jared Carter, "Indianapolis Weekly". ""A Pictorial History of Indiana" is a splendidly illustrated and organized volume that Hoosiers will want to read and treasure for many years." - "Kokomo Tribune". "Eye catching color photographs of nature preceding the text pull the reader into the world of Hoosierland: its land, its history, its people. Throughout, paintings, maps, and photo-reproductions make vivid "the history of the Hoosier state from the time of the first inhabitants to the present." There is an abundance of pleasant surprises." - "History Bulletin". "...an important Midwestern state and a well-printed collection of over 900 historic views touching on all aspects of US history." - "Choice". A lavishly illustrated, colorful chronicle of the Hoosier state and the people who made it great. Over 900 photographs, maps, and drawings and a lively accompanying text relate the fascinating history of Indiana - from the earliest known cultures through the gleam of modern industry to the space age.The vast collection of pictures has been gathered from individuals and the archives of colleges and universities, businesses, libraries, and newspapers. "A Pictorial History of Indiana" portrays the richness of Indiana's heritage: the beauty of the landscape, the pioneer period and early statehood days, the excitement of the Revolutionary period, the exploits of George Rogers Clark, and features the early settlements of Fort Ouiatenon, Vincennes, New Harmony, and Fort Miamis (now Fort Wayne). Hundreds of personal, candid photographs - a veritable family album - show the participation of Hoosiers in the Civil War and two world wars, the progress of education from one-room schoolhouses to a diversity of colleges and universities, countryside homes and pastimes, and the gradual growth of towns and cities, stores, and factories. It presents a memorable account of places, events, and individual Hoosiers, both the famous and the unknown, who have made Indiana a state of distinction. ... Read more

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This takes a journey back in time with Turner Publishing's county history books, this one focusing on Lawrence Co., IN. It is thoroughly researched, chronicling the extensive heritage of the county through historic photos and family, business, church and organizational histories. Library quality, hardbound, smythsewn, 8.5" x 11.Genealogy5", printed on arachival, acid-free paper. Red with gold seal on cover. Limited edition of 1150, this is #840. ... Read more

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"... 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

These sketches tell of early settlement by a variety of movers seeking homes in a Beulah land, of the raising of rough cabins in primitive clearings, of farm life in the 1850s, and of the growth of politics and government. Logan Esarey, born in Perry County, Indiana, in 1873, was a pioneer in the development of regional history.

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more