By: Alexis Morales, Bicentennial Intern, Class of 2019, Business, Northwest At the end of every oral history interview, I ask the question: “What does IU mean to you?” Here are some of my favorite answers: “It’s my second love.”—Eva Mintz “. . .Acceptance.”—Anthony Partacz “When I think about IU, I think of the spirit of… Read more »
By: Rachna Chaudhari, Bicentennial Intern, Class of 2018, Biology, Bloomington My research for the IU Bicentennial has focused on the life of Andrew Wylie, the first president of Indiana University. Researching so far back in time proved to be more difficult than I expected. A lot of records exist, which was fantastic but also overwhelming…. Read more »
By: Rachna Chaudhari, Bicentennial Intern, Class of 2018, Biology, Bloomington Andrew Wylie was born in 1789 and was the son of an immigrant Irish farmer. He grew up in Washington County, Pennsylvania where he was a licensed Presbyterian minister. In 1812, he was unanimously elected the president of Jefferson College. In 1813, Andrew Wylie married… Read more »
By: Kayla McCarthy, Bicentennial Intern, Class of 2018, American Studies, Bloomington I thought this project would look a lot different. I expected more of a linear, step-by-step chronological history where one clue leads to another in sequential order. Instead, it’s like a game of one-way Battleship. You know, the one with the laptop-like boards, the… Read more »
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 »
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 »