In-person program

Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center
450 W. Ohio Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202

Friday, October 22, 2021
7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

$22, $18 IHS Members, $25 at the door

Was it the farmer with the rake? Or the mistress with a tire iron?

Get ready for a new murder mystery. Put on your detective hat, gather your crew and hone your sleuthing skills for a life-size Clue-inspired experience at the History Center.

In this game, based on a real historic Indiana murder – no, we’re not giving any hints – you’ll try your hand at solving a notorious crime.  
You and your fellow gumshoes will interview the suspects – each cagier than the next – and follow the clues to find the who, where, why, and with what. You’ll be rewarded for cracking the case with fabulous prizes. Come 1920s-style if you want.  

Cash bar and light refreshments available.
Costumes encouraged!

Fonseca Theater
2508 W. Michigan Street, Indianapolis, IN 46222

Friday, November 5, 2021
7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

$15 | $10 Student
(scholarships available)

Witness Susan B. Anthony’s struggle with an iron façade between racism and feminism during a reading and discussion of Hoosier playwright Daphne White’s play Susan B. 

Part of the 2021 Spirit and Place Festival
A Partnership between Women4Change Indiana and the Fonseca Theatre Company with League of Women Voters of Indianapolis, Indiana Historical Society, Equality Indiana, and Hoosier Organized People Energized (H.O.P.E.) 

Kan Kan Cinema and Brassiere 
1258 Windsor St., Indianapolis, IN 46201

Tuesday, November 9, 2021
7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

$5/guest

Good history doesn’t always make for good drama. Share your feelings about the best (and worst) portrayals of the past on screen through clips and conversation with our panel of local filmmakers and historians.

Part of the 2021 Spirit and Place Festival
A partnership between Indiana Historical Society, Kan-Kan Cinema and Brasserie and the ACLU of Indiana. 

Virtual Workshop

Tuesday, November 16, 2021
7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.(EST)

Free Program. Registration is required.
Additional opportunities available to support IHS as we continue collecting, preserving, and sharing Indiana’s history. 

Registration closes 2 hours prior to the start of the program.

Indiana’s constitution declares “that all people are created equal.” Though this revolutionary idea is a foundational principle of our state, it is marred by a myriad of contradictions. This ongoing series of interdisciplinary conversations examines our collective definition of equality at key moments in Indiana’s history to better understand who is considered a citizen, who gets a seat at the table, and who maintains power in our society.  

For the first conversation of Equal: A Work in Progress we will discuss the complexities of equality through the lens of indigeneity. Starting around the time of forced removal of the Miami and Potawatomi, learn about the inequalities in citizenship through race, land, culture, and language. 

Featuring: 
Alex Wesaw, Tribal Council Member of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi 
Diane Hunter, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma 
John Bickers, Miami Tribe of Oklahoma citizen and scholar and doctoral candidate in early American history

Program  presented by OneAmerica.

Virtual Program

Friday, November 19, 2021
7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Free program, registration required

The Thornbrough Lecture in African American History 

Between 2003 and 2004, nine black women from Peoria, Illinois were either disappeared or their bodies were found discarded in rural areas surrounding the city. A local man was eventually convicted of killing eight of the nine women and is currently serving a life term in prison.

In this talk, scholar, University of Minnesota Professor, and Peoria native Terrion Williamson will discuss how this series of murders impacted her community and has continued to shape the course of her work nearly twenty years later. She will also use the Peoria case as an illustration of the need to place the lives of marginalized black women and girls at the center of ongoing struggles for social justice and black liberation. 

 Presented in partnership with the Indiana Association of Historians, Indiana Historical Society, and IUPUI Center for Africana Studies and Culture.