Deja Vu Tuesday: The Year the Legislature Outlawed Hate
In January 1945, Raymond C. Vick made the front page of The Indianapolis Star when he became the...
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Author: Libby Cierzniak
Deja Vu Tuesday: Just another book in the wall
Indianapolis was just beginning to emerge from the pioneer era in the winter of 1853 when a small...
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Unlikely Neighbors: Woodruff Place and the Women’s Prison
An undeveloped area just east of downtown was the hottest place in Indy during the sweltering...
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Deja Vu Tuesday: Raiders of the Lost Ark Tavern
A few months ago, an old photograph of a young woman named Dora Stevens was auctioned on eBay. ...
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Deja Vu Tuesday: A flood of first-time female voters
107 years ago yesterday, a 70-year-old woman from Indianapolis named Mary E. Nicholson made...
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Deja Vu Tuesday: The College Avenue War of 1903
For Mrs. Lottie A. Kinsey, life on the corner of 15th and College Avenue was a lot like an AC/DC...
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Deja Vu Tuesday: 1835 letter sheds light on worst legislative fiasco in state history
In an old Saturday Night Live sketch, a rugged frontiersman named “Johnny Canal”...
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Deja Vu Tuesday: A Tree Falls in Indy
Pioneer leader James Blake was a man of many firsts. During the early years of the 19th century,...
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Deja Vu Tuesday: Dear Indy – Please tell us your real birthday
In May 1920, The Indianapolis Star published a special edition commemorating the city’s...
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Deja Vu Tuesday: The Know Nothing Party of Indiana
Imagine for a moment that you’re living in a world where families are struggling to make...
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Deja Vu Tuesday: The Carole Lombard Mystery
“Every picture tells a story don’t it,” Rod Stewart famously sang in the early...
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Deja Vu Tuesday: For Whom the Bell Tolls
During a recent campaign stop in Indiana, Donald Trump told a cheering crowd that the job of...
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Deja Vu Tuesday: Would a Hoosier by any other name smell as sweet?
In a rare display of bipartisanship during a campaign season otherwise marked by epic ugliness,...
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Deja Vu Tuesday: Celebrating 200 years of history repeating itself
In 1905, philosopher George Santayana penned the oft-repeated maxim, “Those who cannot...
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Indianapolis Collected: The things we leave behind
There are two kinds of people who buy old houses, according to The New York Times: old house...
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Indianapolis Collected: Free textbooks & the IPS music man
In the closing days of the Civil War, Indianapolis Public Schools superintendent Abram Shortridge...
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Indianapolis Collected: The Worms crawl in…..
This week’s story has all the hallmarks of a classic horror tale. A slaughterhouse. A...
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Indianapolis Collected: A Message from a Dead Friend
In May 1915, Argyra Friend was asleep in her apartment at 15th and Illinois when she had a...
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The Crumbling Crossroads of America
“Practically every great city has to be a geographic crossroads before it can become a great...
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Indianapolis Collected: Tribute to a “Hero in Overalls”
Classes were dismissed early on the afternoon of April 12, 1907, so that students and teachers at...
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