To Be Hoosiers
Historic Stories of Character and Fortitude
Published on 3. February 2020
183 pages
978-1-4396-6890-0 (ISBN)
Description
Since Indiana joined the Union in 1816, residents and visitors alike have pondered the essential question: "What is a Hoosier?" The final answer may never be determined, but there are, at least, ways to understand the Hoosier character. It was African American pilots taking a stand for equal rights. It was a speech by a presidential candidate that helped keep peace on a tragic night. It was the triumph and near tragedy involving a Mercury Seven astronaut. And it was a sacrifice that ensured a crucial American victory in the Pacific during World War II. As Kurt Vonnegut once said, "I don't know what it is about Hoosiers, but wherever you go there is always a Hoosier doing something very important there." Award-winning biographer Ray E. Boomhower tells us why.
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A native Hoosier and former newspaper reporter, Ray E. Boomhower has worked at the Indiana Historical Society since 1987, serving as editor of the society's quarterly popular history magazine, Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History, since 1999. He is the author of numerous articles and books on the nineteenth state, including biographies of such notable Hoosiers as Benjamin Harrison, Gus Grissom, Ernie Pyle, Lew Wallace, May Wright Sewall, John Bartlow Martin, Jim Jontz and Alex Vraciu. In 1998, he received the Hoosier Historian Award from the HIS, and in 2010, he was named winner of the Regional Author Award in the annual Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Awards.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface. What Is a Hoosier?
- Balloons Over the Speedway
- Indiana's Favorite Son: Benjamin Harrison
- Celebrating Statehood: Indiana at 100
- "Old Faithful" on Lake Michigan
- The Father of Indiana History and the Lake Monster
- Amelia Earhart at Purdue University
- "Nobody Wanted Us": Black Aviators at Freeman Field
- The Other Hoosier Poet: William Herschell
- John Huddleston and the National Road
- Indiana and the Civil War
- The American Diplomat: John Hay
- The People's Choice: Congressman Jim Jontz
- Swamped: Marquis de Lafayette on the Ohio River
- Ring Lardner, South Bend and Baseball
- Saving Washington: Lew Wallace and the Battle of Monocacy
- "The Last Enemy Is Destroyed": May Wright Sewall and Spiritualism
- The Speech: Robert F. Kennedy and Indianapolis
- Gus Grissom and the Flight of Liberty Bell 7
- The Hoosier Slide
- Lost at Sea: Norman H. Vandivier and the Battle of Midway
- A Gathering of Posey: The Western Association of Writers
- Bibliography
- About the Author
