{"title":"A Tale of Two Models: Theophilus A. Wylie and Higher Education in Nineteenth-Century Indiana","authors":"Shawn Martin","doi":"10.2979/INDIMAGAHIST.115.1.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/INDIMAGAHIST.115.1.02","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In the mid-nineteenth century, higher education transitioned from a classical curriculum focused on moral and religious principles to a research-based one tied to industrial needs. Many professors were forced to navigate their own careers through this period. The life of Theophilus Adam Wylie, an Indiana University faculty member from 1840 to 1880, who also served as a university administrator, provides an interesting framework to reflect on this transitional period in education. Wylie saw a clear relationship between his research interests, linking science, religion, and natural philosophy into an educational mission. His role as a scholar was to find the ultimate origins of the forces acting upon the universe, and he believed those forces to be controlled by God, who was the ultimate cause. As an educator, it was essential for his students to be wise and moral people who could utilize the tools of both science and religion to understand the mysteries of nature.","PeriodicalId":81518,"journal":{"name":"Indiana magazine of history","volume":"115 1","pages":"20 - 41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44687052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Many Social Selves of an Indiana Soldier: David W. Voyles, M.D.","authors":"Stephen E. Towne","doi":"10.2979/indimagahist.116.3.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/indimagahist.116.3.03","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Archivist and Civil War historian Stephen E. Towne introduces the edited letters of Dr. David W. voyles, Assistant Surgeon for the 66th Indiana Infantry Regiment, to his wife Susan. voyles wrote the letters from early in his enlistment in fall 1862 until his mustering out for health reasons in early 1864. Towne examines the social selves that voyles exhibits in his letters, among them the spouse, father, soldier, moralist, and patriot. Towne also considers Voyles's letters written before and after his military service, held in the National Archives and the Indiana State Archives, which show Voyles as an ambitious and proud professional, and as a politically motivated government informant, seeking to expose Democratic conspiracies on the home front.","PeriodicalId":81518,"journal":{"name":"Indiana magazine of history","volume":"116 1","pages":"203 - 208"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45557904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Day Leland Stanford Met David Jordan","authors":"H. F. McMains","doi":"10.2979/indimagahist.115.3.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/indimagahist.115.3.02","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:On the evening of Saturday, March 21, 1891, Leland and Jane Stanford arrived at the Bloomington, Indiana, railway depot in the standard accommodation car of the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago's Number 9. The couple were building a university on their Palo Alto ranch to honor their late son, Leland Jr., and Senator Stanford was searching for a president for his new university. David Starr Jordan, the president of Indiana University, had been recommended to Stanford to fill the position. The two men met briefly and privately the next morning, Jordan accepted the post, and the Stanfords quietly left town on Monday. Howard F. McMains details the reasons behind Stanford's discreet visit and examines how historians have mischaracterized the Stanfords' travels to Bloomington and thus the meeting between Stanford and Jordan.","PeriodicalId":81518,"journal":{"name":"Indiana magazine of history","volume":"115 1","pages":"197 - 218"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42759765","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Telling Hoosier Stories: The Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site and the Significance of Presidential Ceremony","authors":"D. A. Nichols","doi":"10.2979/indimagahist.117.4.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/indimagahist.117.4.03","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:While historians recently ranked Benjamin Harrison in the bottom third of American presidents, an examination of his White House career suggests he was far more effective in office than scholars admit. Harrison understood the dual responsibilities of the president: head of an elected government and chief representative of the American nation-state. The Hoosier president sponsored significant legislation related to commerce, conservation, and veterans' affairs; he also ably presided over commemorations, speaking tours, and other ceremonies of state. The Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site, whose officers Charles Hyde and Jennifer Capps the author interviewed for this article, holds documents and artifacts illustrating the twenty-third president's ceremonial undertakings and how they intersected with policy-making. Events like the 1889–90 Conference of American States and Harrison's public and private trips across the United States, along with the policies they helped generate, show President Harrison's devotion to a balance between development and conservation, and between peace and regional American hegemony.","PeriodicalId":81518,"journal":{"name":"Indiana magazine of history","volume":"117 1","pages":"296 - 305"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47148976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pride, Patriotism, and the Press: The Evolving True Story of the First American Shot of World War I","authors":"Greta A. Fisher, Lauren E. Kuntzman","doi":"10.2979/indimagahist.115.1.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/indimagahist.115.1.03","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:On October 23, 1917, Alex Arch, a Hungarian-born artillery officer from South Bend, Indiana, fired the first American shot of World War I from a muddy gun pit in the French countryside. This article investigates how Arch's action was misreported in the press, and discusses the many forces acting on the recording of this historical event. Fisher and Kuntzman's investigation reveals the problematic collision of a variety of conflicting impulses: a need to protect sensitive military information; the desire to claim bragging rights for this important milestone; the drive to have a sensational story that sells newspapers, and the government's need to share a hero with the American people.","PeriodicalId":81518,"journal":{"name":"Indiana magazine of history","volume":"115 1","pages":"42 - 56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44527635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Remembering Richard Lugar","authors":"P. Helmke","doi":"10.2979/indimagahist.115.4.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/indimagahist.115.4.03","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Paul Helmke, former three-term mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana, offers his memories of Indiana Senator Richard G. Lugar, who died April 28, 2019. Helmke met Lugar in 1969, while the latter was serving as mayor of Indianapolis and planning Unigov, the consolidation of the city with surrounding townships in Marion County. Helmke discusses how Lugar's career inspired his own career at both the state and national levels.","PeriodicalId":81518,"journal":{"name":"Indiana magazine of history","volume":"115 1","pages":"296 - 298"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47685569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Gone to Another Meeting”: Willard B. Ransom and Early Civil Rights Leadership","authors":"J. Madison","doi":"10.2979/INDIMAGAHIST.114.3.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/INDIMAGAHIST.114.3.01","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Willard B. (Mike) Ransom's career reveals the challenges of the early civil rights movement at the local level. Young, impatient, and armed with a Harvard law degree, Ransom returned from World War II to become Indiana president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and to challenge the state's intense racial segregation. Ransom organized picketing of segregated restaurants, filed legal briefs, and travelled the state to organize NAACP branches. His sophisticated militancy led him to join the Progressive Party in 1948 and to run for Congress on the third-party ticket. In struggles within the national NAACP leadership, he challenged Walter White and supported W. E. B. Du Bois. As he led the fight for equality in Indianapolis and Indiana, Ransom faced opposition from African American moderates, anti-communists, and conservative Hoosiers generally.","PeriodicalId":81518,"journal":{"name":"Indiana magazine of history","volume":"114 1","pages":"165 - 201"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49061669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Journal of the Forced Removal of the Potawatomi from Indiana, 1838","authors":"Dawn E. Bakken, D. A. Nichols, Admiral S. Wieland","doi":"10.2979/INDIMAGAHIST.117.2.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/INDIMAGAHIST.117.2.02","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:On August 28, 1838, General John Tipton arrived at the Twin Lakes encampment in Marshall County, Indiana, accompanied by one hundred armed militia, to enforce the provisions of an 1836 treaty with the Yellow River Potawatomi that specified the band’s removal from their lands and homes in northern Indiana to Indian Territory, west of the Mississippi River. Eight hundred and fifty-nine Potawatomi were forcibly gathered up and marched through Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri, until they reached their destination in Kansas on November 4. The official journal of the removal kept by Tipton, conductor William Polke, and secretary Jesse Douglass, details the length of each day’s march, the weather, the state of rations and provisions, the count and condition of the sick and the dead among the Potawatomi, and all other details required by the Office of Indian Affairs. The journal is published with footnotes researched and written by the editorial staff of the IMH, accompanied by ten interleaved letters to and from conductor William Polke.","PeriodicalId":81518,"journal":{"name":"Indiana magazine of history","volume":"117 1","pages":"151 - 82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43946898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mothers Against AIDS in Kokomo, Indiana","authors":"Nancy Brown","doi":"10.2979/INDIMAGAHIST.114.2.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/INDIMAGAHIST.114.2.01","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:During the 1985–1986 school year, Kokomo, Indiana, area residents debated whether or not Ryan White—a thirteen-year-old with hemophilia and AIDS—should be allowed to attend school. Some feared their children would be exposed to the AIDS virus while others held confidence in expert assurances that the virus was not transmitted through casual contact. Community members used various avenues to learn more about AIDS, with mothers taking leadership roles as spokeswomen and lay medical experts. This paper considers how mothers on both sides of the conflict educated themselves. It provides a community study of the state of AIDS knowledge during the mid-1980s outside of the coastal epicenters and seeks to contextualize the Kokomo conflict based on available national and local information.","PeriodicalId":81518,"journal":{"name":"Indiana magazine of history","volume":"114 1","pages":"114 - 81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48483801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Diva and the Socialist: Sarah Bernhardt, Camille, and Eugene Debs's Crusade to Save the Fallen Woman","authors":"Jason D. Martinek","doi":"10.2979/INDIMAGAHIST.115.2.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/INDIMAGAHIST.115.2.03","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Sarah Bernhardt was a great dramatic actress, considered one of the best of her era. Eugene V. Debs was an unrepentant radical, a member of the Socialist Party who ran for U.S. president five times. In 1920, Debs was in prison, convicted under the 1917 Espionage Act for speaking out against the war. While in prison, Debs wrote a letter to his brother Theodore about a night in February 1881 when he had seen Bernhardt perform in Indianapolis's Park Theater. By Debs's own account, Bernhardt's Marguerite in Camille helped to shape his attitudes about women's vulnerable place in modern society. Author Jason Martinek reflects on how that influence played itself out in Debs's social activism.","PeriodicalId":81518,"journal":{"name":"Indiana magazine of history","volume":"115 1","pages":"146 - 157"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43401571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}