War and Peach
With Christmas Eve approaching, you might have the tune “Chestnuts Roasting Over an Open Fire” playing somewhere. A hundred years ago, chestnuts were actually on the path to becoming a rarity, as a...
View ArticleThe Black Stork: Eugenics Goes to the Movies
From 1917 into the 1920s, Hoosier movie-goers had a chance to see one of the most controversial — and arguably infamous — silent films ever produced, The Black Stork, later renamed Are You Fit To...
View ArticleMore Freaks of the Storm
Yesterday’s post set us to hunting: as blizzards and ice give way to spring lightning and wind, how many other weird weather phenomena lie hidden in the news? Obviously, we’ve never believed that...
View ArticleVesto Slipher: Uncovering the Cosmos
The Andromeda Galaxy. Courtesy of NASA. The known universe is big; insanely big! At a staggering age of 13.8 billion years, our observable universe has a diameter of 92 billion light-years. Over the...
View ArticleA Hoosier Shackleton: Julius Frederick and the Greely Expedition
Julius R. Frederick, courtesy of NOAA. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, expeditions from multiple nations took on one of the most dangerous, treacherous parts of the globe: the...
View ArticleW. H. LaMaster: The Hoosier Iconoclast
The masthead of the Iconoclast, W. H. LaMaster’s freethought newspaper. Indiana State Library. Indiana’s contribution to the “Golden Age of Freethought” during the late nineteenth century has been...
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