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 »
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: 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: Jordan Siden, Bicentennial Intern, Class of 2017, History, Bloomington After spending the first few months of my Mini 500 project deep in primary sources, at the start of the fall semester I decided to work toward placing my story in its larger context. This included reading about women’s experiences in American colleges since… Read more »
By: Lee Eubanks, Bicentennial Intern, Class of 2018, History, Bloomington History provides a precedent. By journeying through archives, perusing historical texts, or experiencing the latest exhibit at a museum, one can discover a place of belonging among the past. For LGBTQ+ individuals, an understanding of queer history is vital. Often faced with marginalization and discrimination,… Read more »
By: Kristie White, Bicentennial Intern, Class of 2018, History, Southeast My name is Kristie White, and I was chosen as an intern for the Indiana University Bicentennial Oral History Project. The point of the project is to celebrate the bicentennial of Indiana University by collecting research and oral histories from people who have been affiliated… Read more »
By: Kevin Schascheck, Bicentennial Intern, Class of 2019, International Business and German, South Bend Permanent, unchanging, forever—these are the words that describe the view many students have of the university which they attend, fundamentally understanding that their institution has gone through change, yet being acutely unaware of the exact details of those changes and occurrences… Read more »