By: Ellen Glover, Bicentennial Intern, Class of 2018, Journalism, Bloomington This blog is comprised of excerpts from the Trailer Towns podcast. All information was obtained from the Indiana University Library Archives. When World War II ended in 1945, the country welcomed back hundreds of thousands of young men, many of whom had cut their higher education short, or skipped it all together, in order… Read more »
By: Ellen Glover, Bicentennial Intern, Class of 2018, Journalism, Bloomington This blog is comprised of excerpts from the Outcasts: Pearl Harbor’s Effect on Japanese Hoosiers podcast. All information was obtained from the Indiana University Library Archives. In December 1941, all of America listened in horror as broadcasts reported the catastrophic Japanese bombing of Pearl… Read more »
By: Ellen Glover, Bicentennial Intern, Class of 2018, Journalism, Bloomington This blog is comprised of excerpts from the Campustry podcast. All information was obtained from the Indiana University Library Archives. It’s a sunny spring morning in Bloomington in 1895. The sun is hanging low in the blue, cloudless sky. The birds chirp from the… Read more »
By: Ellen Glover, Bicentennial Intern, Class of 2018, Journalism, Bloomington This blog is comprised of excerpts from the Class Scrap podcast. All information was obtained from the Indiana University Library Archives. Perhaps the most interesting part of researching Indiana University’s history is being able to see just how different life was like for students… Read more »
By: Ellen Glover, Bicentennial Intern, Class of 2018, Journalism, Bloomington I’ve never really been interested in history. I always enjoyed hearing about cool things that have happened in history; but as a journalism student, I never really thought about researching and covering history all that deeply. This changed, however, when I was hired as an… Read more »