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 »
By Sarah Jacobi, Office of the Bicentennial Office Manager and Administrative Assistant The inaugural Bicentennial Intern Open House was held on December 9th 2016 and was a great success. Twelve interns participated in the event and faculty and staff stopped by to learn more about the projects they have been working on throughout the semester…. Read more »
By: Kevin Schascheck, Bicentennial Intern, Class of 2019, International Business and German, South Bend At our founding, Indiana University at South Bend was more comparable to a Bloomington colony rather than being emblematic of the South Bend community. Today, we see a very different story. IUSB has three buildings dedicated to classes and offices, a… Read more »
By: Lee Eubanks, Bicentennial Intern, Class of 2018, History, Bloomington The importance of collecting narratives from those who have experienced history can be summarized in this quote by Elizabeth J. Grace; “One elder is a whole library.” As a Bicentennial intern working with the Bicentennial Oral History Project, my goal is to record the histories… Read more »
By: Grace Shymanski, Bicentennial Intern, Class of 2017, French and History, Bloomington The WRA Era, Extramural Era, and Association Eras Women’s Basketball continued to progress as a game and as the preferred pass time for collegiate women at Indiana. Organizations such as sororities, dormitories, and other unorganized groups of women continued to compete in basketball… Read more »
By: Sarah Kissel, Bicentennial Intern, Class of 2017, Political Science, Religious Studies, English Literature, Bloomington “Racism and Race-Awareness at Indiana University – Bloomington: An Ad Hoc Study by the Board of Aeons. February 23, 1982.” Thus reads the title of the iconic report on race relations at Indiana University, a decades-long conversation among members of… Read more »