Tag: women’s history

Misc Monday: The Magnetic Woman who Overpowered In...

Posted by Stephen J. Taylor | Jun 22, 2015 | Misc Mondays | 3 |

Madam CJ Walker

by Tiffany Benedict Browne | Feb 20, 2019 | General | 3 |

1998 U.S. Postage stamp, honoring Madam C. J. Ever wonder who your role models’ role models...

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Bacteria, Blood & Bad Dreams: The Unsolved Murder of Helen Knabe

by Stephen J. Taylor | Nov 9, 2015 | Historic Miscellania | 4 |

How did one of Indiana’s pioneer investigators into STDs and rabies come to a gory end? The...

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“Escaped Nuns are Myths”: The Roots of a Forgotten Riot

by Stephen J. Taylor | Oct 10, 2015 | Historic Miscellania | 4 |

Did you ever hear about the riot sparked by horror tales, a Holiness preacher, and a renegade nun?...

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A Ku Klux Quaker?

by Stephen J. Taylor | Sep 28, 2015 | Historic Miscellania | 8 |

Daisy Douglass Barr, Imperial Empress of the Women of the Ku Klux Klan, circa 1923. Women are...

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Of Spirits and Soldiers

by Stephen J. Taylor | Sep 21, 2015 | Historic Miscellania | 3 |

Fall is here. So it’s time to keep on the spectral side of life. On June 6, 1910, the...

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Women Take to the Skies in Jazz Age Indy

by Stephen J. Taylor | Jul 27, 2015 | Historic Miscellania | 6 |

“You haven’t seen a tree until you’ve seen its shadow from the sky.” That...

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Agitatin’ on the Fourth of July: The Hidden History of Dietz’s Grove

by Stephen J. Taylor | Jul 4, 2015 | Historic Miscellania | 3 |

On July 4, 1913, Americans celebrated their national holiday with pride as always, even as the...

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