Project MUSE®: Indiana Magazine of History - Latest Articles
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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Indiana Magazine of History.daily12026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 114 (2018) through current issueLatest Articles: Indiana Magazine of HistoryTWOProject MUSE®Indiana Magazine of History1942-97110019-6673Latest articles in Indiana Magazine of History. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Omne Mali Avertam O Deus: The Civil War Diary of Theophilus A. Wylie, 1861–1862
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987435
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Theophilus Adam Wylie (1810–1895) was born in Philadelphia. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1830 and studied theology in the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary. He was licensed to preach by the Reformed Presbyterian Church in 1836. In 1837 he moved to Bloomington, Indiana, invited by his cousin Andrew Wylie, president of the young Indiana University, to join the faculty as Professor of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry. In 1838, he married Rebecca Dennis, a native of Pennsylvania. The couple had eight children: Louise, Richard, Margaret, Susan (died at age 2), Samuel (died at age 3), Theophilus Andrew, Samuel, and Theodore. In 1859, Theophilus and his family purchased and moved into Wylie
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/826/image/coversmallOmne Mali Avertam O Deus: The Civil War Diary of Theophilus A. Wylie, 1861–18622026-04-10text/htmlen-USOmne Mali Avertam O Deus: The Civil War Diary of Theophilus A. Wylie, 1861–18622026-04-102026TWOProject MUSE®2025162026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-10"The Movement Isn't Abstract Theory": A Conversation with Cleve Jones
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987436
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Cleve Jones is a human rights and gay liberation activist who founded the AIDS Foundation in 1983, and the NAMES project AIDS Memorial Quilt in 1985. He was inspired to create the quilt by seeing the names of loved ones lost to AIDS on placards affixed to the San Francisco Federal building during a candlelight march for his mentor Harvey Milk. Each panel of the quilt commemorates someone who died of AIDS. It was first displayed on the National Mall in 1987, and has since toured around the country, including in Indiana. The quilt is a living memorial, growing from an initial 1,920 panels in 1987 to over 50,000 panels today.1 Jones was born in Indiana in 1954, and while he is perhaps best remembered for his
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/826/image/coversmall"The Movement Isn't Abstract Theory": A Conversation with Cleve Jones2026-04-10text/htmlen-US"The Movement Isn't Abstract Theory": A Conversation with Cleve Jones2026-04-102026TWOProject MUSE®600332026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-10Mound City: The Place of the Indigenous Past and Present in St. Louis by Patricia Cleary (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987437
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Not long ago, a Diné student and a Choctaw-Chickasaw student at Washington University in St. Louis together drew attention to the lack of institutional support for the study of the Native past, present, and future. They characterized the inclusion of Native peoples and topics at one of the leading higher-education institutions in the U.S. Midwest as a failure. The students' intervention raises an important question: what are the implications when St. Louis institutions ignore the historical conditions of their emergence and their ongoing presence on Native lands? With the campus just twenty miles from the Cahokia mounds on the opposite side of the Mississippi River, it is entirely possible for students, educators
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/826/image/coversmallMound City: The Place of the Indigenous Past and Present in St. Louis by Patricia Cleary (review)2026-04-10text/htmlen-USMound City: The Place of the Indigenous Past and Present in St. Louis by Patricia Cleary (review)2026-04-102026TWOProject MUSE®58652026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-10A Place in Common: Rethinking the History of Early Detroit ed. by Karen L. Marrero and Andrew K. Sturtevant (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987438
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The editors of A Place in Common have assembled a body of newer scholarship to rethink the early history of Detroit. After a brief introduction, they organize this slim volume into two parts. The first, consisting of four chapters, "explores the history of Detroit, reconstructing the narrative of groups and individuals" and attending to both change and continuity (p. xvi). Part two comprises five chapters that emphasize how Detroit history has been remembered from different perspectives. Rather than merely summarize the contents of each chapter here, I take the liberty of highlighting a few of the personages and threads that might interest Indiana historians.Several of the chapters feature the French protagonist
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/826/image/coversmallA Place in Common: Rethinking the History of Early Detroit ed. by Karen L. Marrero and Andrew K. Sturtevant (review)2026-04-10text/htmlen-USA Place in Common: Rethinking the History of Early Detroit ed. by Karen L. Marrero and Andrew K. Sturtevant (review)2026-04-102026TWOProject MUSE®62812026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-10Ports to Posts: Latter-day Saint Gathering in the Nineteenth Century by Fred E. Woods (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987439
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Fred M. Woods's Ports to Posts: Latter-day Saint Gathering in the Nineteenth Century is a thorough examination of the immigration and emigration journeys of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS, Mormons) throughout the nineteenth century. As Woods explains, this work is built upon "over a quarter century of research in Latter-day Saint immigration/emigration narratives," and "reveals the purpose and process by which Latter-day Saints gathered to designated areas in America to build what they called 'Zion'" (p. xiii).Building on his impressive source base, Woods explains that his book is unique because "first, it features more first-person accounts than any other work about the LDS
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/826/image/coversmallPorts to Posts: Latter-day Saint Gathering in the Nineteenth Century by Fred E. Woods (review)2026-04-10text/htmlen-USPorts to Posts: Latter-day Saint Gathering in the Nineteenth Century by Fred E. Woods (review)2026-04-102026TWOProject MUSE®55692026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-10When Slavery and Rebellion Are Destroyed: A Michigan Woman's Civil War Journal ed. by Jack Dempsey (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987440
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Annotated primary source collections are increasingly crucial to Civil War scholarship because they provide scholars with access to archival material in an era of declining research funding. When Slavery and Rebellion Are Destroyed represents the very best of this genre. Jack Dempsey, former president of the Michigan Historical Commission, draws the reader's attention to the wartime perspective of Ellen Woodworth, a farmer's wife in rural Michigan. This collection includes letters from Ellen to her husband Samuel, which survived his wartime travels, and nearly an equal amount to Ellen from Samuel, who wrote from his various camp locations with Company M of the 1st Michigan Engineers & Mechanics Volunteer Regiment
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/826/image/coversmallWhen Slavery and Rebellion Are Destroyed: A Michigan Woman's Civil War Journal ed. by Jack Dempsey (review)2026-04-10text/htmlen-USWhen Slavery and Rebellion Are Destroyed: A Michigan Woman's Civil War Journal ed. by Jack Dempsey (review)2026-04-102026TWOProject MUSE®67172026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-10Black Americans in Mourning: Reactions to the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln by Leonne Hudson (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987441
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"How miserably things seem to be arranged in this world," Abraham Lincoln told his good friend Joshua Speed in 1842. "If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss" (Abraham Lincoln to Joshua F. Speed, February 25, 1842). A little over two decades later, nearing the end of the cataclysmic American Civil War, as Lincoln lay dead at the hands of John Wilkes Booth's derringer pistol, African Americans, as Leonne Hudson shows in this splendid monograph, had lost a friend in the sixteenth president and found themselves doubly pained by their loss.Black Americans in Mourning "tells the story of a race in mourning through an analysis of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/826/image/coversmallBlack Americans in Mourning: Reactions to the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln by Leonne Hudson (review)2026-04-10text/htmlen-USBlack Americans in Mourning: Reactions to the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln by Leonne Hudson (review)2026-04-102026TWOProject MUSE®66162026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-10Watchman, Tell Us: John J. Bird and Black Politics in Post-Civil War Illinois by Wayne T. Pitard (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987442
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Rediscovery projects have long been a significant aspect of Black American history. Important Black men and women, who may have been well-known in their own times, have been selectively forgotten and disregarded for a variety of reasons—notably American racism. Wayne T. Pitard has written a significant monograph on John J. Bird, a prominent political figure in Cairo, Illinois, during the post-Civil War years. Watchman, Tell Us provides excellent details about this underappreciated leader who served as the state's first Black judge, a university trustee, and a newspaper editor.Pitard's central goal is to reconstruct Bird's compelling life and career, arguing it "fills a significant lacuna in our understanding of the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/826/image/coversmallWatchman, Tell Us: John J. Bird and Black Politics in Post-Civil War Illinois by Wayne T. Pitard (review)2026-04-10text/htmlen-USWatchman, Tell Us: John J. Bird and Black Politics in Post-Civil War Illinois by Wayne T. Pitard (review)2026-04-102026TWOProject MUSE®57462026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-10Black Movement: African American Urban History Since the Great Migration ed. by Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987443
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This edited volume presents a comprehensive collective exploration of Black urban life in America since 1970. Divided into five thematic but untitled sections—Black municipal power, Black popular culture and social spaces, Black suburbanization and Latinx relations, the carceral state, and cities in flux—the volume traces the continued transformation of Black life across ten U.S. cities. The end of the Great Migration serves as a starting point, framing the past half-century as an era of shifting Black political power, class mobility, and spatial reorganization. Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar defines the book's disciplinary lens as historical but leaves open what qualifies as "urban"—resulting in a volume that explores cities
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/826/image/coversmallBlack Movement: African American Urban History Since the Great Migration ed. by Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar (review)2026-04-10text/htmlen-USBlack Movement: African American Urban History Since the Great Migration ed. by Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar (review)2026-04-102026TWOProject MUSE®72632026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-10Clout City: The Rise and Fall of the Chicago Political Machine by Dominic Pacyga (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987444
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Dominic Pacyga in Clout City tells the compelling story of the communal, social, cultural, and political forces responsible for the rise and fall of the Chicago political machine. This is still relevant and important as the post-machine era unfolds in Chicago and other American cities and states.The "Chicago Machine" is not just any political organization or system. Rather, as Pacyga writes, it "was a particular and distinctive institution that emerged in a specific time and place, shaped by historical context, to hold power for several generations" (p. 9). It was a political system based upon patronage precinct workers who received their jobs for their political work rather than ability to do government work
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/826/image/coversmallClout City: The Rise and Fall of the Chicago Political Machine by Dominic Pacyga (review)2026-04-10text/htmlen-USClout City: The Rise and Fall of the Chicago Political Machine by Dominic Pacyga (review)2026-04-102026TWOProject MUSE®50802026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-10Midwest Unrest: 1960s Urban Rebellions and the Black Freedom Movement by Ashley Howard (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987445
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Ashley Howard's Midwest Unrest is a meticulously researched study that reorients our understanding of the Black Freedom Movement by centering on the urban Midwest. Moving beyond the well-documented narratives of the Jim Crow South and northern metropolises like Chicago and Detroit, Howard brings into sharp relief the experiences of Black communities in mid-sized midwestern cities such as Omaha, Cincinnati, and Milwaukee. The result is a deeply insightful, forcefully argued, and beautifully written account that challenges conventional notions of where and how the struggle for Black liberation unfolded in the twentieth century.Despite the legislative triumphs of the 1960s, namely the Civil Rights Act and Voting
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/826/image/coversmallMidwest Unrest: 1960s Urban Rebellions and the Black Freedom Movement by Ashley Howard (review)2026-04-10text/htmlen-USMidwest Unrest: 1960s Urban Rebellions and the Black Freedom Movement by Ashley Howard (review)2026-04-102026TWOProject MUSE®69902026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-10I Didn't Come Here to Lie: My Life and Education by Karen Lewis and Elizabeth Todd-Breland (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987446
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Arguably, there was no more important labor leader in the United States over the past quarter century than Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) president Karen Lewis. Though Lewis's tenure was cut tragically short by an ultimately fatal battle with cancer, the years she presided over the CTU reinvigorated one of the largest teachers unions in the country, brought new possibilities to Chicago politics, and established a template for educator unions across the country.Lewis's autobiography, I Didn't Come Here to Lie: My Life and Education, like her career in labor leadership, was left unfinished at the time of her death. Fortunately, historian Elizabeth Todd-Breland capably filled in the gaps in Lewis's manuscript, and the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/826/image/coversmallI Didn't Come Here to Lie: My Life and Education by Karen Lewis and Elizabeth Todd-Breland (review)2026-04-10text/htmlen-USI Didn't Come Here to Lie: My Life and Education by Karen Lewis and Elizabeth Todd-Breland (review)2026-04-102026TWOProject MUSE®74672026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-10