Our Favorite Event - Holiday Author Fair

On Saturday, Dec. 5, mix and mingle with more than 70 Indiana authors from noon to 4 p.m. Admission is free!

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Festival of Trees

The History Center is transformed into a winter wonderland through Jan. 2. Admire 50 elaborately decorated themed trees and take part in activities sure to get you into the holiday spirit.

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You Are There 1816: Indiana Joins the Nation

You can be part of the debate over the Hoosier State's first constitution in Corydon.

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Grave Matters Bicentennial Cemetery Tour

Register today for a special two-day trip from Vincennes to Corydon, June 2 and 3.

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The Carter Journals

Time travel through early U.S. history with an adventurous teenager.

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Thousands of Images, Hundreds of Journeys, One Destination

Our new Destination Indiana website lets you explore Indiana history through images. It's history as you've never seen it before. Click to visit today.

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Our 2015 Living Legends

IHS is proud to honor Jack Everly, Dick and Rita Eykamp, Jerry and Rosie Semler, and Jeanne White-Ginder.

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You Are There: That Ayres Look

We pay homage to L.S. Ayres and Company in our latest exhibition.

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Indiana Photo Studios Looked Beyond the Portrait

The Indiana Historical Society has many collections of portraits of the city of Indianapolis taken by local photographers that were used to record community life before there was an economical system of film processing and printing. These ...

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Crown Hill: History, Spirit, Sanctuary

This beautiful coffee table book is a finalist for ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year in the Regional category.

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Destination Indiana Grows by 13 Journeys

We've added 13 new virtual journeys to Destination Indiana from the Leedy Drum Manufacturing Company and Ball State University to women artists and the Jefferson Proving Ground.

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Advertising Art Finds Home in IHS Collections

Artist and illustrator Betty R. Shaefer's commercial ads illustrations are available in the library. The collection follows Betty's life from childhood through art school and her professional career.

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New Technology Reveals Document Secrets

A new photographic technology, reflective transforming imaging, is allowing us to find undiscovered details hidden in historical documents.

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IHS Launches Online Access to Historic Newspaper Pages

You can now easily search more than 700 historic Indiana newspapers and newspapers from all 50 states online in our library for free.

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A Billy the Kid Mystery Solved

A "new" Billy the Kid letter is discovered in the IHS collections.

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A Home in Our Keeping

Historic Twin Oaks serves as IHS's hospitality center.

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A Life in Public History: A Conversation with John Herbst

John talks to the Indiana Magazine of History in the June 2011 issue.

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Civil War Home Front Collections Now Online

A digital Civil War Home Front collection of more than 1,200 documents provides insight to the feelings of both Indiana soldiers and their loved ones as they dealt with both the major events of the Civil War and more mundane activities such as ...

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Extensive Hoosier Family Collection Lands at IHS

Bartholomew County has seen eight generations of the Irwin, Sweeney and Miller families – families who trace their roots in this country to before the American Revolution and in Indiana to before it was a state.

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Harrison Letter Added to Extensive IHS Collection

A rare Sept. 23, 1812, letter signed by “Willm. Henry Harrison” as Commander of the Army of the Northwest is our newest find.

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A Glimpse of Carthage on Glass

Last summer, two Collections staff members drove to northern Indiana to retrieve some real treasures.

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A Peek into the Big Four Shops of Beech Grove

Black-and-white photographs capture the lives of railroad employees in 1919 and 1923.

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Canal Collection Returns to Indiana

An East Coast dealer acquired the White Water Valley Canal Co. papers when they went up for auction in Ohio last year.

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Riley's Image Comes Home

Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley is best known for his characters such as Little Orphant Annie and for writing in a country dialect. Karen Celestino-Horseman of Indianapolis donated a rare collection of James Whitcomb Riley images to IHS last year. ...

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What Is a Hoosier?

It’s safe to conclude the Hoosher and Hoosier nickname adopted by Indiana residents and for them by their nearby neighbors was derived from the dialect term (probably traceable from England) not uncommon among southern immigrants to Indiana and the ...

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Postcards Send Glimpse of Past

A collection of 41 postcards from 1909 to 1953 joins the approximately 15,000 postcards in the IHS collection.

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The Native Americans

Native American ancestors inhabited the land of Indiana from around 9500 B.C.

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Glamour in the Collection

Retired news anchor Howard Caldwell credits his grandmother and parents for instilling in him a love of movies and the theater, but the English Theatre holds a special place in his heart. “It was Broadway in Indianapolis,” he says.

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One-of-a-Kind WWII Collection

In early 1945, Master Sgt. Robert J. (Bob) Kennedy was in an area south of Manila awaiting reassignment after his unit was nearly wiped out in the retaking of Philippines.

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Did You Know Uneeda Biscuit?

Included in the Indiana Historical Society’s collection is a cache of historical advertising material.

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