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Note: issues are listed in order, beginning with the oldest issue.

Winter 1990, vol. 2, no. 1

  • "Mayor Bunch and the Sporting Life in Middletown," byDwight W. Hoover
  • "Thomas Hart Benton's Indiana Murals: A Dream Fulfilled,"by Kathleen A. Foster
  • "Eating, Drinking, and Paying for It in the Frontier Tavern,"by Mary Kupiec Cayton
  • "The Eagle Village Hotel on the Michigan Road," by JoanP. Lyons
  • "Shadows of the Past: The Photographs of Otto Ping,"by W. Douglas Hartley


Spring 1990, vol. 2 no. 2

  • "Appointment at the End of the World: The Journey of PrinceMaximilian and Karl Bodmer," by Leigh Darbee and Thomas Gentry
  • "The Story of a Western Home:Eunice Beecher in Indiana," by Jeanette Vanausdall
  • "The Great Wizard of the North: John Banvardand His Floating Theaters," by John Hanners
  • "Ruins and Old Routes: Tracking the Remains of Indiana's1836 Internal Improvement Program," by John Lauritz Larson


Fall 1990, vol. 2, no. 4

  • "A Child at Heart: The Fanciful World of Johnny Gruelle," by Patricia Hall
  • "The Triumph of Old Tip: William Henry Harrison and the Electionof 1840," by Kenneth R. Stevens
  • "Anna Symmes Harrison: First Lady of the West," by CarlSferrazza Anthony
  • "Indianapolis," text by Howard Caldwell, photographsby Darryl Jones
  • "Amalia Kussner: High Priestess of the Daintiest of Arts,"by Frances E. Hughes


Spring 1991, vol. 3, no. 2

  • "Pops Whitesell: A Hoosier in the Vieux Carre," by Anne E. Peterson
  • "Quilts of Indiana:Crossroads of Memories," by Indiana Quilt Registry Project
  • "Marie Webster: Marion's Master Quilter,"by Rosalind Webster Perry
  • "Keep on Tracking: A Short History of the Eel River Railroad,"by Richard S. Simons
  • "Hughes and Voorhees: Two Western Pettifoggers and the TemporaryInsanity Plea," by Allen D. Spiegel


Summer 1991, vol. 3, no. 3

  • "The Hoosier Group: Painters of the Indiana Landscape," by Judith V. Newton
  • "Forums," by Martin Krause
  • "Pretty Pinching Times: Lincoln's Hoosier Home, 1816-1830,"by Don Davenport
  • "Sorrow and Sympathy: Lincoln's Youth, 1818, Age 9," by Louis A. Warren
  • "Celebrating Statehood: Indiana's 1916 Centennial," by Ray Boomhower
  • "Roads, Rocks, and Recreation: The Legacy of the WPA inIndiana," by Glory-June Greiff


Fall 1991, vol. 3, no. 4

Special issue commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Indiana'sinvolvement in World War II.

  • "Memory and History," by Peter T. Harstad
  • "Hoosiers at War, 1941-1945," by James H. Madison
  • "'For the Duration': Memories of the Hoosier Home Front"
  • "Boom! The World War II Home Front in the Calumet Region," by Stephen G. McShane
  • "The Evansville Economy and the Second World War," by Darrel E. Bigham
  • "'Somewhere in ETO': Hoosiers in the European Theater of Operations"
  • "'In the Hot Pacific Sun': Hoosiers in the Pacific Theater


Summer 1992, vol. 4, no. 3

  • "Bosse Field: Evansville's Field of Dreams," by CarolineNellis
  • "Aunt Tiny's Denominational Garden," by Mary Boewe
  • "A Half Century of Public Art: The Heritage of the Indiana Post Office Murals," by John C. Carlisle
  • "Zerelda Wallace: Indiana's Conservative Radical," by Susan Vogelgesang


Fall 1992, vol. 4, no. 4

  • "Robert Louis Stevenson's Hoosier Wife: A Love Story," by Catherine E Forrest Weber
  • "Rube, Hick, and Pioneer Recording Artist: Uncle Josh ofthe Phonograph," by Daniel Resneck
  • "Nineveh," by Susan Neville
  • "'A Worthy History': The Indianapolis Retirement Home, 1867-1992,"by Jeanette Vanausdall
  • "The 1992 List of the Ten Most Endangered Landmarks in Indiana,"by Liz Joss


Winter 1993, vol. 5, no. 1

  • "Major General Lew Wallace: Savior of Washington, D.C.,"by Ray Boomhower
  • "The William Conner House, 1823-1993;" "Between Two Worlds: William Connerof Indiana," by Timothy Crumrin; "New Life: Eli Lilly and the First Restoration," byStephen Cox; "Back to the 1820s: The Re-Restoration," by StephenCox
  • "'A Genius in the Best Sense': John Muir, Earth, and Indianapolis,"by Catherine E Forrest Weber


Spring 1993, vol. 5, no. 2

  • "The Dunking of General Cass: A Hoosier Myth," by GeorgeP. Clark
  • "The Hoosier Slide: 'Monument of Never Ending Sand,'"by Ray Boomhower
  • "Moon Valley," by David Hoppe
  • "Women in Baseball: Indiana's Dynamic Heritage,"by Barbara Gregorich
  • "Small Town U.S.A.: Alexandria Speaks for America,"by Nancy Norris
  • "SOS! Save Outdoor Sculpture," by Glory-June Greiff


Summer 1993, vol. 5, no. 3

  • "Fighting Chance: Harry Truman's Midwestern Whistle-StopCampaign," by David McCullough
  • "John C. Templeton: Artist and Steelworker," by GingerRodriguez
  • "George Donaldson: Spring Mill's Eccentric Naturalist,"by Steven Higgs
  • "'Nobody Wanted Us': Black Aviators at Freeman Field,"by Ray Boomhower


Fall 1993, vol. 5, no. 4

  • "Everett Case Conquers Dixie: Hoosier Basketball in NorthCarolina," by Jim L. Sumner
  • "Memories of Hoosier Homemakers," by Eleanor Arnold
  • "West to Indiana on the Orphan Trains," by Marilyn Irvin Holt
  • "A 'Dapper Dan with the Soul of an Imp': Kin Hubbard, Creator of Abe Martin," by Ray Boomhower


Winter 1994, vol. 6, no. 1

Celebrates the arts and crafts movement.

  • "Utility Embellished by Skilled Hands: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Indianapolis," by Robert M. Taylor Jr. and Barry Shifman
  • "A Magazine 'Perilously Fine': Joseph Moore Bowles and Modern Art," by Harriet G. Warkel
  • "Truth to Material: Janet Payne Bowles, Metalworker," by Barry Shifman
  • "Work Worth Doing: Brandt Steele, Designer and Potter," by Barry Shifman
  • "'Some Special Object': The Arts and Craft Society of Indianapolis," by Robert M. Taylor Jr.
  • "The Selridge Pottery of Shortridge High School," by Robert M. Taylor Jr.
  • "Liberating the Creative Spirit: China Painters of Indiana," by Ellen Paul Denker
  • "The Pictorialism of Mary Lyon Taylor," by Joan Hostetler
  • "The House Beautiful in Indianapolis," by Susan Slade
  • "'An Aire of Definite Sincerity': Indiana Hickory Furniture," by Ralph Kylloe


Spring 1994, vol. 6, no. 2

Commemorates one hundred years of automotive history in Indiana.

  • "Made in Indiana," by Paul Brockman
  • "The Man from Kokomo: Elwood Haynes and the Origins of the Automobile Industry in Indiana," by Ralph D. Gray
  • "'As Good as a Buick?': The Ridgeville Senator, 1906-1912," Robert M. Taylor Jr.
  • "Carl G. Fisher: The Hoosier Barnum," by Ray Boomhower
  • "He's Gone on Ahead: Harry Ostermann and the Lincoln Highway," by Peter T. Harstad
  • "'The Car That Made Good in a Day': Stutz Motor Company of Indiana," by William M. Gardner
  • "The Cord That Binds: E. L. Cord and the Auburn Automobile Company," by Lee Beck
  • "Avanti: Sherwood Egbert's Dream Car," by Patrick J. Furlong
  • "Want to Buy a Hoosier HUMMER?" by Patrick J. Furlong


Summer 1994, vol. 6, no. 3

  • "Star Dust Memories: Hoagy Carmichael and Indiana's Gennett Records,"by Rick Kennedy
  • "Mr. Weichmann and the Ghost of Mrs. Surratt," by Erich L. Ewald
  • "The Ideal Sketching Ground: The Early Art Colony of Brown County," by Rachel Perry
  • "The Statues Speak: In Search of Indiana's Sculpture," by Glory-June Greiff
  • "Shade of the Raintree," by Larry Lockridge
  • "The Aviatrix and the University:Amelia Earhart at Purdue," by Ray Boomhower
  • "Writer Jessamyn West: The Storyteller's Daughter," by Catherine E Forrest Weber


Fall 1994, vol. 6, no. 4

  • "Desperate Hope: The Story of Florence Taggart," by James Philip Fadely
  • "Economy of Design: Round Barns in Indiana," by John T. Hanou
  • "This Eternal Beauty: Celebrating the Art of the Hoosier Salon," by Judith V. Newton
  • "'We'll Stick with Dick': Earl Landgrebe, Watergate, and the Vocal Minority," by Stephen G. McShane
  • "Reaching Across a Continent: The Story of the Golden Hill Totem Pole," by Richard D. Feldman and Judith E. Scherer


Winter 1995, vol. 7, no. 1

  • "Annie & Albion: Reformers of Riverville," by Mary Boewe
  • "The Fatal Cocktail:Vice President Charles Warren Fairbank's 'Liquor Problem,'" by Ray Boomhower
  • "Alexander Lawrieand His Gift for Indiana," by Richard S. Skidmore
  • "The Bock Brothers & Their 'Splendid Little War,'" by Erich L. Ewald
  • "Johnny Appleseed: Cutting to the Core," by Hank Fincken


Spring 1995, vol. 7, no. 2

  • "'I'll Have to Ask Indianapolis,'" by William Styron
  • "Ordeal and Renewal: David Laurance Chambers, Hiram Haydn, and Lie Down in Darkness," by J. Kent Calder
  • "'Always the Other Spring!': The Life and Nature Writing of Edwin Way Teale," by Catherine E Forrest Weber
  • "The Country Contributor: Rockville's Juliet V. Strauss," by Ray Boomhower


Summer 1995, vol. 7, no. 3

  • "Heroes Carved in Ebony: Indiana's Black Civil War Regiment, the 28th USCT," by George P. and Shirely E. Clark
  • "I Barely Knew Magoo: Remembering Judge Floyd J. Mattice," by Harry V. Huffman
  • "Defending the Indefensible," by Peter T. Harstad
  • "The 'Last Sad Act': The Public Hanging of Nathaniel Bates, 26 August 1886," by Carolyn Lafever
  • "Persistence of Memory: French Furniture in Indiana," by Douglas A. Wissing
  • "The Tragedy of the Indianapolis, Fifty Years Later," by Paul Brockman


Fall 1995, vol. 7, no. 4

  • Editors' Page, by J. Kent Calder
  • "Dear Dream: The Love Letters of James Whitcomb Riley and Clara Louise Bottsford," edited by Robert M. Taylor Jr., J. Kent Calder, and Elizabeth Van Allen
  • "On Stage and Off with James Whitcomb Riley and Mark Twain," by Mary Boewe
  • "The Lockerbie Home of James Whitcomb Riley," by Ray Boomhower
  • "Alice Hamilton, M.D.: Crusader Against Death on the Job," by Catherine E Forrest Weber
  • "Hoopole County: Hard to Find, Harder to Forget," by George Blakey


Winter 1996, vol. 8, no. 1

  • Editors' Page, by J. Kent Calder
  • "Sacred Space in Ordinary Times," essay by Susan Neville, photographs by Kim Charles Ferrill
  • "Josef Gingold: A Life in Music," by Peter Jacobi
  • "Pilgrims on the Ohio: The River Journey and Photographs of Reuben Gold Thwaites, 1894," by Robert L. Reid
  • "Democracy in the Making: Max Bretton and Hammond's Beth-El Open Forum," by Arthur S. Meyers
  • "A Shared Heritage: The Art of William E. Scott, John W. Hardrick, and Hale A. Woodruff," by Harriet G. Warkel


Spring 1996, vol. 8, no. 2

  • Editors' Page, by J. Kent Calder
  • "The Lost Astronaut: Virgil I. 'Gus' Grissom of Mitchell, Indiana," by Ray Boomhower
  • "Removal: An Excerpt from The Miami Indians of Indiana: A Persistent People, 1654-1994," by Stewart Rafert
  • "Down to Earth in the Midwest: Scott Russell Sanders and Writing from the Center," by David Hoppe
  • "From 'The Common Life,' in Writing from the Center," by Scott Russell Sanders
  • "'Scraps from My Army Life': The Remembrances of Private Lewis King," by Wilbur D. Jones Jr.
  • "King of the Coney Men: Master Counterfeiter Peter McCartney," by Peter F. Stevens
  • "Destination Indiana: Ruthmere," by Ray Boomhower


Summer 1996, vol. 8, no. 3

  • Editors' Page, by J. Kent Calder
  • "Ike, Beetle, and D-Day: The Hoosier at Supreme Headquarters," by Stephen E. Ambrose
  • "Indiana's Lifeline: The Monon Railroad," by Richard S. Simons
  • "The Secret Life of Building 314," by Linda Weintraut and Jane R. Nolan
  • "Forms of the Fatherland: Indiana Germans and Their Handmade Furniture, 1835-1860," by Douglas A. Wissing
  • "At My Father's Grave," by Robert Kettler


Fall 1996, vol. 8, no. 4

  • Editors' Page, by J. Kent Calder
  • "When a Party was a Party: Indiana in the Heyday of Partisanship," by Nicholas von Hoffman
  • "Destination Indiana: The Indiana State Capitol," by Ray Boomhower
  • "Indiana in the Upper House," by U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar
  • "Benjamin Harrison," by George Geib
  • "James D. Williams," by Rebecca S. Shoemaker
  • "Wendell Willkie," by James H. Madison
  • "John L. Niblack," by Nancy Niblack Baxter
  • "Matthew E. Welsh," by Ralph D. Gray
  • "Mattie Coney," by Ray Boomhower


Winter 1997, vol. 9, no. 1

  • Editor's Page, by J. Kent Calder
  • "A Chant of Middle America: Theodore Dreiser, A Hoosier Holiday, and the Birth of the Road Book," by Douglas Brinkley
  • "Focus: The Art of Franklin Booth," by Leigh Darbee
  • "A Sharp Mind and a Clever Pen: Indianapolis Postcard Designer Cobb Shinn," by Sylvia C. Henricks
  • "The Cowboy Comes to Miami County: Tom Mix and the Circus," by Marilyn Coppernoll
  • "The Biggest Little Wild West Show on Earth: Buckskin Ben Stalker and Family," by Carolyn Lafever
  • "A Major League Friendship: Carl Erskine Remembers Jackie Robinson and the Brookly Dodgers," by Robert L. Gildea


Spring 1997, vol. 9, no. 2

  • Editor's Page, by J. Kent Calder
  • "A Voice for Those from Below: John Bartlow Martin, Reporter," by Ray Boomhower
  • "'The Most Rabid of Hoosiers': Meredith Nicholson," by Ralph Gray
  • "Child of the Northwest Wind: Alice Gray and 'Diana of the Dunes,'" by David Hoppe
  • "Focus: Sketching the Dunes: The Life and Work of Earl H. Reed," by Leigh Darbee
  • "Anakapia: 'Our Protector' of the Treaty of Greenville," by Stewart Rafert
  • "The Club with a Reputation: A History of the DeKalb County Boxing Club," by Rachel S. Roberts


Summer 1997, vol. 9, no. 3

  • Editor's Page, by J. Kent Calder
  • "The Shot," by Randy Roberts
  • "Destination Indiana: Levi Coffin: President of the Underground Railroad," by Ray Boomhower
  • "Subtle Grace, Radiant Color: The Life of Hoosier Artist Lucy Taggart," by James P. Fadely
  • "'The Master Plan': An Excerpt from Larry Conrad of Indiana," by Raymond H. Scheele
  • "Ben Winans's Brookville," by Donald L. Dunaway
  • "Dr. Lillian Gilbreth and the One Best Way," by Catherine E Forest Weber
  • "Focus: A Daguerrean View of Fort Wayne," by Stephen J. Fletcher


Fall 1997, vol. 9, no. 4

  • Editor's Page, by J. Kent Calder
  • "The Slippery Slopes of Fame: Paul Dresser and the Centennial of 'One the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away,'", by Clayton W. Henderson
  • "Always a People: Oral Histories of Contemporary Woodland Indians," by Rita Kohn
  • "The Transcontinental Career of Edwin B. Crocker," by Allen Sharp
  • "'A New Standard for Living': The Lustron Home," by Jean Nabors
  • "Elmer Davis: Defender of American Liberties," by Ray Boomhower
  • "Focus: Rowland Allen, Indiana's Gentleman Volunteer," by Paul Brockman


Winter 1998, vol. 10, no. 1

  • Editor's Page, by J. Kent Calder
  • "The Grand Old Master: Pioneer Hoosier Artist Jacob Cox," by Tiffany C. Sallee
  • "Red Skelton: The Last Vaudevillian," by Douglas Wissing
  • "Children and Sunlight: The Life and Work of Ada Walter Schulz," by Rachel Perry
  • Calvin Fletcher at Two Hundred, 1798-1998
  • "The Diary of Calvin Fletcher and the Historians," by George Geib
  • "The Diary of Calvin Fletcher," Excerpts from Volume One, 1817-1838"
  • "Reflections by the Rivers," by Robert R. Archibald
  • "Focus: William Forsyth Papers: A Love of Hoosierdom," by Christopher Harter


Spring 1998, vol. 10, no. 2

  • "Industrial-Strength History," by Leigh Darbee
  • "Cutting: From In Limestone Country," by Scott Russell Sanders, Photographs by Jeffrey A. Wolin
  • "A State in the Making: Indiana Manufacturers and the 1840 Census," by Jodie Beatty and Lisa Lewis
  • "'A Terrible and Beautiful Thing': From Industrial Landscape and Steel," text and photographs by David Plowden
  • "Silo Dreams," by Susan Neville
  • "Plowmakers for the World," by Patrick J. Furlong
  • "An American Pompeii: The Ben Schroeder Saddletree Factory," by John M. Stacier
  • "Focus: Strictly First-Class Tiles," by Leigh Darbee


Summer 1998, vol. 10, no. 3

  • "Editing the Civil War Commanders: Robert Underwood Johnson and the Century," by Catherine E Forrest Weber
  • "For Gold and Glory," by Todd Gould
  • "Moonlight in Duneland: Illustrating the South Shore Line," by Ronald D. Cohen and Stephen G. McShane
  • "Lost in Lake Michigan: The Wrecks of the Muskegon and J.D. Marshall," by Dennis R. Duncan Jr.
  • "Detente with Kentucky: A History of the Clark Maritime Centre," by Ralph D. Gray
  • "Focus: 'The Doings Will be Gorgeous': George Ade and the Indiana Society of Chicago," by Leigh Darbee


Fall 1998, vol. 10, no. 4

  • "Editor's Page: 'Accurate and Appetizing': Traces at Ten", by Megan McKee
  • "Will Geer: Frankfort's Supporting Actor," by Evan Finch
  • "Twist the Tiger's Tail: Casino Gambling in the Springs Valley and the State of Indiana," by Douglas Wissing
  • "Focus: Finding Paradise in Fort Wayne," by Leigh Darbee
  • "The Smash-Up Kid: Fort Wayne Aviator Art Smith," by Rachel Sherwood Roberts
  • "Max Parry: Indiana's Forgotten Playwright," by Milton Rubincam and Richard D. Feldman
  • "Destination Indiana: Luxury on the Ohio: Culbertson Mansion State Historic Site," by Ray Boomhower


Winter 1999, vol. 11, no. 1

Tenth Anniversary Issue
  • Editor's Page: "Illumination," by Megan McKee
  • "Keeping Our Collective Feet on the Ground," by J. Kent Calder
  • Beginnings: Nancy Niblack Baxter, Timothy Crumrin, Stephen J. Fletcher, George R. Hanlin, Marilyn Irvin Holt, Harry V. Huffman, Kenneth R. Stevens, Catherine E Forrest Weber
  • Early Years of the Twentieth Century: Eleanor Arnold, Leigh Darbee, Kim Charles Ferrill, Larry Lockridge, Judith Vale Newton, Dale Ogden, Elizabeth Van Allen
  • Interwar Years: George T. Blakey, Patricia Hall, Dwight W. Hoover, Arthur S. Meyers, Caroline Nllis, Rachel Perry, Rachel Sherwood Roberts, Brenda Wineapple
  • Modern Indiana: Ray E. Boomhower, Douglas E. Clanin, George P. Clark, Kathleen A. Foster, George Geib, Todd Gould, Ralph D. Gray, Frances E. Hughes, James H. Madison, Stewart Rafert, Jeannette Vanausdall
  • "Representing and Redeeming," by Robert M. Taylor Jr.
  • "The Next Decade," by Ray E. Boomhower

Spring 1999, vol. 11, no. 2

  • "Editors' Page: Sounds of Wonder," by Ray E. Boomhower
  • "A Living Room for Indiana: The New Indiana Historical Society Headquarters," by C. Ronald Ostberg
  • "Sustaining a Creative Spirit: Women Artists in Indiana," by Judith Vale Newton
  • "Focus: North Meets South," by Leigh Darbee
  • "A Window on the World: From 'In the Public Interest': Oral Histories of Hoosier Broadcasters," by Linda Weintraut and Jane R. Nolan
  • "Destination Indiana: The House of the Singing Winds: The T.C. Steele State Historic Site"
  • "Indiana Bookshelf: Slaughterhouse-Five: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.," by Ray E. Boomhower


Summer 1999, vol. 11, no. 3

  • "Editors' Page: The Historian as Detective," by Ray E. Boomhower
  • "Stalking the Elusive Hoosier's Nest," by George T. Blakey
  • "An American Sports Icon: Indiana's Dan Patch," by Gerald Waite
  • "'The Struggle Makes You Strong': From All We Had Was Each Other: The Black Community of Madison, Indiana," by Don Wallis
  • "Destination Indiana: Indiana's Savior: J.F.D. Lanier and His Mansion on the Ohio." by Ray E. Boomhower
  • "The 'Star' of the Otwell Star: Beulah B. Gray, Editor," by Ralph D. Gray


Fall 1999, vol. 11, no. 4

  • "Editors' Page: Riley, Poe, and 'Leonainie,'" by Ray E. Boomhower
  • "The Indianapolis ABCs: The Pride of the Negro Leagues," by Paul Debono
  • "Hero and Villain: William Henry Harrison and the Indian Land Treaties," by M. Teresa Baer
  • "Destination Indiana: Sometimes I Wonder: The Hoagy Carmichael Room," by Ray E. Boomhower
  • "My Life with Riley," by Elizabeth J. Van Allen
  • "A Fellow Poet Ponders the Great One," by Jared Carter
  • "I Remember When: The Bel-Air Drive-in," by Bill Whorrall
The following are back issues of the IHS history magazine Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History. Individual issues cost $5, plus $1 postage for each issue ordered, and are available from the IHS, 450 W. Ohio St., Indianapolis,IN 46202; or by calling 1-800-IHS-1830. Please include date, volume and number when ordering.
   
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