Hoosiers and the American Story
Hoosiers and the American Story

Author: Madison, James H.

Publisher: Indiana Historical Society

Published: 2014-10

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 0871953633

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A supplemental textbook for middle and high school students, Hoosiers and the American Story provides intimate views of individuals and places in Indiana set within themes from American history. During the frontier days when Americans battled with and exiled native peoples from the East, Indiana was on the leading edge of America’s westward expansion. As waves of immigrants swept across the Appalachians and eastern waterways, Indiana became established as both a crossroads and as a vital part of Middle America. Indiana’s stories illuminate the history of American agriculture, wars, industrialization, ethnic conflicts, technological improvements, political battles, transportation networks, economic shifts, social welfare initiatives, and more. In so doing, they elucidate large national issues so that students can relate personally to the ideas and events that comprise American history. At the same time, the stories shed light on what it means to be a Hoosier, today and in the past.

Indiana and the Great Flood of 1913
Indiana and the Great Flood of 1913

Author: Nancy M. Germano

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2021-04-12

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 143967230X

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Indiana suffered enormous losses in the Great Flood of 1913, yet this disaster is largely forgotten. The combined tornado and flood barreled through Terre Haute, killing more than twenty. In Peru, 114 miles away, the circus lost most of its animals in the storm. At the southwestern corner of the state, a "sea of water," as local papers put it, washed over Evansville, turning streets into canals. In the capital, levee failures left hundreds homeless and vulnerable to disease and famine. Pulling from archival photographs, newspapers and local accounts, Dr. Nancy M. Germano shares stories from across the state to reveal how Indiana's history of settlement and development contributed to one of the state's worst disasters.

Indiana's Wabash River Valley
Indiana's Wabash River Valley

Author: Marsha Williamson Mohr

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781945306426

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Indiana's Wabash River Valley has taken Marsha Mohr miles and years to collect the library of over 500 images. This book highlights the whole Wabash River from it's beginning at Fort Recovery, Ohio, to it's terminus at the Ohio River. Marsha composed a narrative covering the outstanding landscapes, history and cultures along all 503 miles. The importance of the Wabash to Indiana can't be minimized. The unspoiled hollows and waterfalls are bountiful and the river's rich history is intertwined in Indiana's own history. The state river is the Wabash, and the state song is 'ON the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away."