Sincerely Yours: Linen dresses and infernal machines
Last spring, the IU Archives was contacted by a kind couple in Lafayette, Indiana who just by happenstance discovered a ...
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In 1988 “The World’s Greatest College Weekend” Got Even Better
The Little 500 began in 1951 and students throughout campus were involved from the beginning. Women, however, were excluded from ... -
No Men Allowed: A Look Inside the Mysterious Panthygatric Dances of the Early 1900s
The word Panthygatric looks and sounds unappealing. However, the women it involved would tell you otherwise. In the late 1890s ... -
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 ... -
Frances Morgan Swain and the League of Extraordinary (IU) Women
After 110 years of existence, the IU Student Building is being renamed in honor of Frances Morgan Swain (Miller). But ... -
Mail Call: Correspondence at IU during WWII
“Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on that strange voyage ... -
“Aviation Adventures”: Amelia Earhart’s Lecture at IU
Eighty-eight years ago today, Amelia Earhart departed from Trepassy, Newfoundland in a Fokker F7b-3M named Friendship to begin her successful ... -
Dr. Emma J. Phillips: Lifelong scholar
Emma Julia Phillips just couldn’t keep herself away from Indiana University. Over a period of nearly 50 years, Emma earned ... -
British Suffragist Emmeline Pankhurst’s Visit to Bloomington, May 3, 1916
100 years ago Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928), the British political activist and leader of the suffragist movement, spoke to a packed ... -
Sincerely Yours – Letters from the Archives: A Viennese Jewish Refugee of WWII, Charlotte (Lotte) Lederer
Born in Zistersdorf, Austria on September 7, 1919, Charlotte (Lotte) Lederer arrived in New York, New York on August 28, ...