Monroe County History Center
202 E 6th Street
Events at this location
september
09sep11:00 am12:00 pmSaturday's Child
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WFHB’s long-running monthly concert series in front of a live audience at the Monroe County History Center. Every second Saturday! To find out this month’s performers, check out WFHB’s
Event Details
WFHB’s long-running monthly concert series in front of a live audience at the Monroe County History Center. Every second Saturday! To find out this month’s performers, check out WFHB’s Facebook page.
Time
(Saturday) 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location
Monroe County History Center
202 E 6th Street
16sep6:30 pm8:00 pmCivil War Roundtable
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The Monroe County Civil War Roundtable will be hosting a special guest speaker: Historian and UNC-Asheville New Media Professor, Christopher Oakley. For nearly 160 years, historians have
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The Monroe County Civil War Roundtable will be hosting a special guest speaker: Historian and UNC-Asheville New Media Professor, Christopher Oakley.
For nearly 160 years, historians have debated and suggested many possible locations for the platform from which Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous “Gettysburg Address.” This debate may now have ended. Using cutting-edge computer animation technology, Oakley, a former Disney animator, studied existing photographs of the November 1863 dedication ceremony and was able to determine the location of the platform. The results of Oakley’s work made the front page of the New York Times in November of 2022. His project is a wonderful example of how 21st-century technology can be used to solve some of history’s most persistent mysteries. In his presentation, Oakley will share with attendees how his decade-long project came to fruition, how his students contributed to the final results, and of course share where Lincoln actually stood while delivering his “Gettysburg Address.”
Please join us in the education room of the Monroe County History Center on Saturday, September 16, 2023, at 7:00 pm for what is sure to be a fascinating presentation. The presentation is free and open to the public.
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Time
(Saturday) 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Location
Monroe County History Center
202 E 6th Street
27sep9:00 am11:00 amWhat's in the Photo?
Event Details
Help us identify uncaptioned images from the Herald-Times Archive Collection. You might even find yourself in the collection! This program is made possible by support from Indiana
Event Details
Help us identify uncaptioned images from the Herald-Times Archive Collection. You might even find yourself in the collection!
This program is made possible by support from Indiana Humanities.
Time
(Wednesday) 9:00 am - 11:00 am
Location
Monroe County History Center
202 E 6th Street
october
14oct11:00 am12:00 pmSaturday's Child
Event Details
WFHB’s long-running monthly concert series in front of a live audience at the Monroe County History Center. Every second Saturday! To find out this month’s performers, check out WFHB’s
Event Details
WFHB’s long-running monthly concert series in front of a live audience at the Monroe County History Center. Every second Saturday! To find out this month’s performers, check out WFHB’s Facebook page.
Time
(Saturday) 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location
Monroe County History Center
202 E 6th Street
19oct6:00 pm7:30 pmType, Ink, Paper: The Newspaper as Physical Object
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A Show & Tell & Touch Presentation, with Original Newspapers from 1685 to 1941 Dave Nord taught journalism history at IU for many years. For class use, he gradually collected dozens
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A Show & Tell & Touch Presentation, with Original Newspapers from 1685 to 1941
Dave Nord taught journalism history at IU for many years. For class use, he gradually collected dozens of original historic newspapers spanning three centuries of American history. For this presentation, he is bringing in a sampling of this collection to illustrate both change and continuity in the newspaper as a material product of manufacturing. If you have never handled an 18th-century or 19th-century newspaper before, this is your chance.
Nord is a professor emeritus of journalism and adjunct professor emeritus of history at Indiana University. He is the author of Faith in Reading: Religious Publishing and the Birth of Mass Media in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004) and Communities of Journalism: A History of American Newspapers and Their Readers (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001.) He is a former interim editor and associate editor of the Journal of American History. In retirement, he has been exploring the history of Monroe County and southern Indiana. A recent project is Mapping Monroe County, Indiana: An Annotated Bibliography, 1815–1941 (Bloomington: Monroe County History Center, 2021). It is available as a pamphlet at the Center’s bookstore and as a downloadable PDF with clickable links through the online catalogs of the Indiana Historical Society, the Indiana State Library, and IU-Bloomington.
This program is made possible by support from Indiana Humanities.
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Time
(Thursday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Location
Monroe County History Center
202 E 6th Street
23oct10:00 am11:00 amMemory Walk
Event Details
Our Memory Walks are a great way to share stories inspired by our exhibit galleries! These dementia-friendly Memory Walks highlight objects on display while we share our own stories of
Event Details
Our Memory Walks are a great way to share stories inspired by our exhibit galleries! These dementia-friendly Memory Walks highlight objects on display while we share our own stories of Monroe County.
Memory Walks are a part of the Living with History program initiative in partnership with the Alzheimer’s and Dementia Resource Service at IU Health.
Time
(Monday) 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Location
Monroe County History Center
202 E 6th Street
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25oct9:00 am11:00 amWhat's in the Photo?
Event Details
Help us identify uncaptioned images from the Herald-Times Archive Collection. You might even find yourself in the collection! This program is made possible by support from Indiana
Event Details
Help us identify uncaptioned images from the Herald-Times Archive Collection. You might even find yourself in the collection!
This program is made possible by support from Indiana Humanities.
Time
(Wednesday) 9:00 am - 11:00 am
Location
Monroe County History Center
202 E 6th Street
november
04nov11:00 am12:00 pmSaturday's Child
Event Details
WFHB’s long-running monthly concert series in front of a live audience at the Monroe County History Center. Every second Saturday! To find out this month’s performers, check out WFHB’s
Event Details
WFHB’s long-running monthly concert series in front of a live audience at the Monroe County History Center. Every second Saturday! To find out this month’s performers, check out WFHB’s Facebook page.
Time
(Saturday) 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location
Monroe County History Center
202 E 6th Street
27nov10:00 am11:00 amMemory Walk
Event Details
Our Memory Walks are a great way to share stories inspired by our exhibit galleries! These dementia-friendly Memory Walks highlight objects on display while we share our own stories of
Event Details
Our Memory Walks are a great way to share stories inspired by our exhibit galleries! These dementia-friendly Memory Walks highlight objects on display while we share our own stories of Monroe County.
Memory Walks are a part of the Living with History program initiative in partnership with the Alzheimer’s and Dementia Resource Service at IU Health.
Time
(Monday) 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Location
Monroe County History Center
202 E 6th Street
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29nov9:00 am11:00 amWhat's in the Photo?
Event Details
Help us identify uncaptioned images from the Herald-Times Archive Collection. You might even find yourself in the collection! This program is made possible by support from Indiana
Event Details
Help us identify uncaptioned images from the Herald-Times Archive Collection. You might even find yourself in the collection!
This program is made possible by support from Indiana Humanities.
Time
(Wednesday) 9:00 am - 11:00 am
Location
Monroe County History Center
202 E 6th Street
december
09dec11:00 am12:00 pmSaturday's Child
Event Details
WFHB’s long-running monthly concert series in front of a live audience at the Monroe County History Center. Every second Saturday! To find out this month’s performers, check out WFHB’s
Event Details
WFHB’s long-running monthly concert series in front of a live audience at the Monroe County History Center. Every second Saturday! To find out this month’s performers, check out WFHB’s Facebook page.
Time
(Saturday) 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location
Monroe County History Center
202 E 6th Street
13dec9:00 am11:00 amWhat's in the Photo?
Event Details
Help us identify uncaptioned images from the Herald-Times Archive Collection. You might even find yourself in the collection! This program is made possible by support from Indiana
Event Details
Help us identify uncaptioned images from the Herald-Times Archive Collection. You might even find yourself in the collection!
This program is made possible by support from Indiana Humanities.
Time
(Wednesday) 9:00 am - 11:00 am
Location
Monroe County History Center
202 E 6th Street
18dec10:00 am11:00 amMemory Walk
Event Details
Our Memory Walks are a great way to share stories inspired by our exhibit galleries! These dementia-friendly Memory Walks highlight objects on display while we share our own stories of
Event Details
Our Memory Walks are a great way to share stories inspired by our exhibit galleries! These dementia-friendly Memory Walks highlight objects on display while we share our own stories of Monroe County.
Memory Walks are a part of the Living with History program initiative in partnership with the Alzheimer’s and Dementia Resource Service at IU Health.
Time
(Monday) 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Location
Monroe County History Center
202 E 6th Street
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january
13jan11:00 am12:00 pmSaturday's Child
Event Details
WFHB’s long-running monthly concert series in front of a live audience at the Monroe County History Center. Every second Saturday! To find out this month’s performers, check out WFHB’s
Event Details
WFHB’s long-running monthly concert series in front of a live audience at the Monroe County History Center. Every second Saturday! To find out this month’s performers, check out WFHB’s Facebook page.
Time
(Saturday) 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location
Monroe County History Center
202 E 6th Street
22jan10:00 am11:00 amMemory Walk
Event Details
Our Memory Walks are a great way to share stories inspired by our exhibit galleries! These dementia-friendly Memory Walks highlight objects on display while we share our own stories of
Event Details
Our Memory Walks are a great way to share stories inspired by our exhibit galleries! These dementia-friendly Memory Walks highlight objects on display while we share our own stories of Monroe County.
Memory Walks are a part of the Living with History program initiative in partnership with the Alzheimer’s and Dementia Resource Service at IU Health.
Time
(Monday) 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Location
Monroe County History Center
202 E 6th Street
RSVP Now
Make sure to RSVP to this amazing event!
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