My Experience as a Curatorial Intern at the Monroe County History Center By Adelaide Young Burst In May, I will be finishing my History degree at Indiana University. Over the last three years, I’ve taken a myriad of courses on different periods and themes, searching for what subject might be my specialization. I’ll confess, I’ve never […]
Wait’ll You Smell Roses, Jimmie Posted on November 26, 2024 by mchclibrary Blog post by Rod Spaw The last time the Indiana University football team had only one loss as it prepared to meet Purdue for its final regular season game, the year was 1967. Helping to boost spirits that week was a chimpanzee named “Jimmie,” whose owner […]
Indiana Hoosiers Basketball: 1970-71 Another Big 10 basketball season is about to begin, with both the Indiana men’s and women’s teams set to start the regular season in early November. Before play commences, let’s rewind to the 1970-1971 season with the help of the History Center’s Herald-Times photo archives. It was a season notable for a […]
Blog post by Gabby Krieble In conducting research for our newest exhibit, Barns of Monroe County: Our Heritage Built in Wood, the curatorial team came across an early version of a surprisingly contentious debate that continues to the present day: mandatory milk pasteurization. Pasteurization is the rapid heating and cooling of a product, in this case […]
The History Center’s current exhibit, Breaking the News, couldn’t hold all the stories of Monroe County newspapers. So here is a Breaking the News EXTRA: Marcus Deal, a Whig editor in Indiana. Blog post by Rod Spaw. Frontier editors bounced around from town to town, rarely staying in any one place long. Such was the career of […]
Italicized text from “Silver Knight: 25 Remarkable Years of Championship Indiana Basketball” by Bob Hammel. Images from the H-T photo archives at the Monroe County History Center. Blog by Rod Spaw. Robert Montgomery Knight (October 25, 1940,- November 1, 2023) When they met in a hotel room in Houston in March 1971 – 30-year-old Army coach […]
The History Center’s current exhibit, Breaking the News, couldn’t hold all the stories of Monroe County newspapers. So here is a Breaking the News EXTRA: William Gabe and the Republican Progress. Blog post by Rod Spaw. Few examples survive of one of the most successful Bloomington newspapers of the 19 th century, the Republican / Republican […]
The History Center’s current exhibit, Breaking the News, couldn’t hold all the stories of Monroe County newspapers. Here is another Breaking the News EXTRA: George W. Purcell – publisher of the Evening World. By Rod Spaw One of Bloomington’s 20th Century newspaper owners could boast of ties to the earliest days of journalism in the Hoosier State. George […]
The Monroe County History Center, along with the IU Archives and the Monroe County Public Library, have been fielding phone calls and questions for weeks once it was announced that bound copies of the Herald-Times were going to be auctioned off instead of being taken in by a local repository. Dina Kellams, Director of the […]
Blog post by Rod Spaw The History Center’s current exhibit, Breaking the News, couldn’t hold all the stories of Monroe County newspapers. So here is a Breaking the News EXTRA: John Stempel, newspaperman and educator. John Stempel learned the gritty lessons of journalism in newsrooms from the Bloomington Evening World to the New York Sun. But his greatest contribution was […]