Table of Contents

Preface Preface to The Hoosier State Introduction Indiana: The Land and the People/William E. Wilson A Poetic Question/William Herschell Indiana: A New Perspective/Peter T. Harstad 1. The First Inhabitants Indian Achievements IndianaOs Prehistoric Culture/James H. Kellar The First Europeans The Failure of French Policy/George Rawlyk The French Fort at Vincennes/August Derleth 2. The Era of the American Revolution, 1763-1789 A HistorianOs View The Characters of Henry Hamilton and George Rogers Clark Compared/Bernard W. Sheehan A Participant Writes Our March Upon Vincennes/George Rogers Clark An Enlightened Western Policy The Northwest Ordinance, 1787/Theodore Calvin Pease 3. Harrison, Tecumseh, and Territorial Politics Contrary Patterns in Territorial Life Democratic Influences in Territorial Indiana/John D. Barnhart Slavery in the Indiana Territory/Jacob Piatt Dunn A Classic Confrontation Tecumseh, Harrison, and the War of 1812/Marshall Smelser The Battle of Tippecanoe An Eyewitness Account of Tippecanoe/Judge Isaac Naylor Chief ShaboneeOs Account of Tippecanoe/Shabonee The Nineteenth State Statehood Achieved/John D. Barnhart and Dorothy L. Riker 4. Life on the Indiana Frontier Pioneers The Settlers/L.C. Rudolph Senator SmithOs Reminiscences/Oliver H. Smith Cultural Centers of the 1820s Robert OwenOs New Harmony/Roger D. Branigin William ConnerOs Farm/Lorna Lutes Sylvester Establishing the Public Schools/Val Nolan, Jr. Transportation Problems and Plans The Wabash and Erie Canal/Ralph D. Gray Beginning the Railroad Network/Victor M. Bogle Pioneer Agriculture The Farming Seasons/Logan Esarey The First State Fair/George S. Cottman 5. The Era of the Civil War Political Developments The Fugitive Slave Law in Operation/Emma Lou Thornbrough Birth of the Republican Party in Indiana/Roger H. Van Bolt The Impact of War upon Indiana Indiana in the Civil War/John D. Barnhart MorganOa Raid into Southern Indiana, July 1863/William E. Wilson Postwar Patterns The 1870s in Context/Walter T.K. Nugent Governor OBlue JeansO Williams/Rebecca Shepherd Shoemaker 6. Into the Modern Era Natural Gas The Gas Boom/John Bartlow Martin Life in the Capital City Indianapolis and Midwestern Culture/Meredith Nicholson Manufacturing and Industry The Growth of Manufacturing/Clifton J. Phillips A New Industry/Elwood Haynes 7. The New Century Politics and Prohibition The Riddle of Governor Hanly/Jan Shipps Roads and Rails Farmers, Postmen, and the Good Roads Movement/Wayne E. Fuller IndianaOs Interurban System/Jerry Marlette Inventions Stellite: ONot Steel but Its MasterO/Ralph D. Gray The State Centennial Centennial Legacy: The State Park System/Richard Lieber 8. Indiana Writers Practitioners of the Art Hoosier AuthorsO Who and Why/Howard H. Peckham A Cartoonist and a Humorist/George Ade Autobiographical Excerpts GrandfatherOs Pants/Booth Tarkington An Ernie Pyle Sampler/Ernie Pyle The Tradition Continues Kurt Vonnegut/Dan Wakefield Jean Shepherd/Joseph F. Trimmer 9. Hoosier Life after 1920 The Ku Klux Klan in Indiana The Klan and a Congressman/William E. Wilson The Rise and Fall of D.C. Stephenson/John Bartlow Martin Higher Education Professor Kinsey at Indiana/Thomas D. Clark Politics and Society during the Depression Depression Governor/I. George Blake The WPA in Indiana/Glory-June Greiff The Revival of the Republican Party/William B. Pickett Tenant Farming Life During the Depression/Julia Hedge 10. War, and Cold War The Urban Home Front IndianaOs Mobilization for War/Lynn W. Turner Race Relations in Indiana A Summary View/Emma Lou Thornbrough Political Issues following 1945 Senator William E. Jenner/Irving Leibowitz House Resolution No. 2/Charles F. Fleming Repeal of the Resolution/S. Hugh Dillin 11. Recent Trends Economic Issues The Struggle for Burns Harbor/Ralph D. Gray Indianapolis on the Rebound/Robert G. Barrows Politcal Issues The 1964 Primary Election/Matthew E. Welsh One Person, One Vote?/Justin E. Walsh High School and Collegiate Sports IndianaOs Cinderella Basketball Team/Phillip M. Hoose Small College Rivalry: Wabash vs. DePauw/John Underwood The Hoosier Character Indiana in the 1950s/Hugh Willoughby A Bicentennial View/Howard H. Peckham Index