By: Kayla McCarthy, Bicentennial Intern, Class of 2018, American Studies, Bloomington Hello worldwide web! My name is Kayla and I am a spring-semester intern researching how IU has experienced, interacted with, and participated in U.S. presidential happenings since IU’s inception in 1820. This could mean elections, campaigns, inaugurations, presidential visits to IU, you name it…. Read more »
By: Scott Jauch, Bicentennial Intern, Class of 2016, International Studies, Bloomington My work for the Indiana University Bicentennial Internship Program centered on the history of IU’s buildings. The first interesting piece of information that I discovered is that IU has not always been on its current campus, which is marked symbolically by the Sample Gates… Read more »
By: Alison Stankrauff, Archivist and Associate Librarian, IU South Bend The Indiana University South Bend Archives holds many, many interesting things… More keep getting uncovered and “discovered” each week, in fact! In 2007, Archives Student Intern Scott Sandberg found a particularly exciting bit of IU South Bend history. Scott had been working with the papers… Read more »
By: Kristin Leaman, Bicentennial Archivist The IU Libraries and the Office of the Bicentennial hosted an event on Thursday, January 19 2017, where several civil rights documentaries were screened in the IU Libraries Moving Image Archive new Screening Room in remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. These rare documentaries were made during and just after Dr. King’s life,… Read more »