By: Samantha Riley, Bicentennial Intern, Class of 2020, French and Anthropology, IUPUI Edited by: Bre Anne Briskey, Bicentennial Graduate Assistant “We have courses for fun, self-help and some that might be job-related.” –Marjorie Leamnson Stonehill[1] Stonehill joined IUPUI in 1970 as the coordinator of continuing education in the school of continuing education and retired as… Read more »
By: Samantha Riley, Bicentennial Intern, Class of 2020, French and Anthropology, IUPUI Edited by: Bre Anne Briskey, Bicentennial Graduate Assistant “I don’t think that sympathy is very therapeutic”-Clare Assue[1] Clare Assue held multiple roles at the IU School of Medicine and Larue Carter Hospital. Working as a professor, advisor, clinician, and coordinator for these two… Read more »
By: Bre Anne Briskey, Bicentennial Graduate Assistant Nursing education at Indiana University dates back to 1914, when the Indiana University Training School for Nurses opened its doors in Indianapolis. Since that time, Indiana University has changed in many ways, including the expansion of the university to a total of nine campuses, many of which offer… Read more »
By: Alexandria Ruschman, Bicentennial Intern, Class of 2021, International Studies and Central Eurasian Studies, IU Bloomington Edited by: Ellie Kaverman and Bre Anne Briskey, Bicentennial Graduate Assistants In 1870, only eight state universities accepted women, including Indiana University. At the time, many women who wanted a higher education faced stigma and criticism. Popular pseudoscience of… Read more »
By: Bre Anne Briskey, Bicentennial Graduate Assistant The 1930s and ’40s are considered by many to be the “golden age of radio.” This golden age spread all over the United States, and reached the Indiana University Northwest campus through Romola Latchem Hicks, a professor at the school and former actress and popular radio host. Hicks… Read more »
By: Arielle Pare, Bicentennial Intern, Class of 2021, International Studies, French, Bloomington Edited by: Ellie Kaverman and Bre Anne Briskey, Bicentennial Graduate Assistants In a multi-campus system such as Indiana University, each campus has a distinct identity and voice. Indiana University South Bend (IUSB) refined its identity in the 1980s with the help of Dr…. Read more »
By: Arielle Pare, Bicentennial Intern, Class of 2021, International Studies, French, Bloomington Edited by: Ellie Kaverman and Bre Anne Briskey, Bicentennial Graduate Assistants Policing and justice have always been important topics in American life. Before Martin Luther King Jr. entered the mainstream American narrative in the 1950s through the Civil Rights Movement, academics such as… Read more »
By: Arielle Pare, Bicentennial Intern, Class of 2021, International Studies, French, Bloomington Edited by: Ellie Kaverman and Bre Anne Briskey, Bicentennial Graduate Assistants “When we open ourselves to face and deal with the realities of life, no matter how distasteful, we disarm our… oppressors.”—Goldie Ivory Goldie Ivory, an adjunct faculty member in Indiana University South… Read more »
By: Alexandria Ruschman, Bicentennial Intern, Class of 2021, International Studies and Central Eurasian Studies, IU Bloomington No matter where you look in history, at any time period or within any group, there are the people who are known. Their names are recognizable; they are the individuals who are remembered. IU history is no exception—everyone knows… Read more »
By: Elizabeth Gritter, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History, Indiana University Southeast and Alexandra N. Stepp, History Major, Indiana University Southeast Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890–1920 Courtesy of https://documents.alexanderstreet.com/d/1009860006 Rebecca Williams Rogers was born on May 28, 1862, in Pendleton, Indiana, to Elijah Pennypacher Rogers and Ellen P. Dunwoody Rogers. Her parents originated from Westchester,… Read more »