Eddie Whitehead: Breaking I.U.’s Color Barrier in Baseball
Throughout 2019, Major League Baseball will honor the centennial of Jackie Robinson’s birth. Robinson made history in 1947 when he ...
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How Do You Succeed in Business? By Taking Classes in Literature, Music, Fine Arts, and International Issues!
In the summer of 1952, IU’s Graduate School of Business launched an intensive summer program for business executives. For three ... -
Dancing the Night Away: Student Life in the 1950s
Margaret Albersmeyer Werling graduated with a bachelor’s in Education in 1953, and, according to her personal scrapbook, attended every sporting event, theater ... -
Carolyn Fink: Wife, Student, Cat Owner
Like many young couples at IU after World War II, Carolyn and John Fink took advantage of the G.I. Bill ... -
IU’s Contemporary Dance Program
Indiana University’s Contemporary Dance Program dates back to 1927. Dancer Jane Fox, a graduate of Columbia University (NY), came to ... -
Risks and Rewards
What’s the greatest risk you’ve ever taken? How old were you when you chose to take this risk? For pianist ... -
The Indiana University School of Letters and the Mid-Century Transformation of Literary Studies
James E. Dobson, PhD ’14 recently defended his dissertation “The Awkward Age of Autobiography: Modernization, Temporality, and American Self-Representation, 1865-1914” in ... -
Hoosiers in Thailand: Indiana University and International Development
When you think about a university situated in a small city in south-central Indiana, chances are, Thailand is the furthest ... -
Winter Sledding Advice – In the Words of William Henry Tecumseh Michaelmas
In my opinion there are few things which make winter “worth it,” the first one being waking up to fresh ...