Indiana Historical Society

In March of 2020, historian Nicole Martinez-LeGrand published an article on the Indiana Historical Society’s blog, titled The Lost Barrio of Indianapolis. The story shared the history of a small community of Mexican immigrants living on the east side of downtown Indianapolis during the mid-20th Century.

The deal follows concerns raised during the 2025 legislative session over propose budget language that could have stripped the nonprofit of its biggest asset.

Provisions in the state’s draft budget could leave the Indiana Historical Society in a bind, possibly without a building.

The Indiana Historical Society has added more than 5,000 new scans to its Indiana Jewish Historical Society digital collection.

A lot of Americas most important music was recorded in a one-story studio that sat in a Richmond river gorge. The records from those sessions have continued to reverberate for almost a century, influencing Nat King Cole, John Coltrane, Pete Seeger and countless others. But those who study Gennett have found that many still dont know how important the Richmond studio is to the history of jazz, blues, gospel and popular music. The Gennett studio building exists only in photos and record grooves now, but the Indiana Historical Society is drawing together these threads with You Are There 1927: Gennett Studio. The exhibit, which reopened Tuesday, re-creates the recording room and shows photos of musicians and documents like Carmichaels recording contract.

The historical society that's been documenting the state's past since 1830 is for the first time collecting documents at the exact time the historic event is unfolding.

WFYI's Taylor Bennett talks with Jordan Ryan about the Indianapolis History Collecting initiative.

Former Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning and Holocaust survivor Eva Kor of Terre Haute head the Indiana Historical Society's 2019 class of Living Legends.

The Indiana Historical Society will explore the century-old question about the 16th President of United States on Sept. 28.

Medical and law history in Indiana will be documented and preserved, thanks to grants from the Indiana Historical Society.