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WFIU-FM: WFIU: Moment of Indiana History Podcast
WFIU-FM: WFIU: Moment of Indiana History Podcast
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Weekly 2-minute program on Indiana History produced by WFIU Public Media in association with the Indiana Public Broadcasting Stations. |
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2005-2009
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All podcasts by this publisher
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1. Rolling-And Journalling-On The River
| Faced with limited local and regional markets for their grain and livestock, enterprising Indiana farmers shipped their products by flatboat to New Orleans.
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| Published on Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:47:23 -0500 - 1 MB Format: MPEG Audio
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2. A Young Girl"s Brush With The Civil War
| In the summer of 1863, a young woman wrote her cousin about the "visit paid to the citizens of Corydon and vicinity by Morgan and his herd of horse thieves."
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| Published on Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:42:19 -0500 - 1 MB Format: MPEG Audio
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3. A Methodist Circuit Rider On The Indiana Frontier
| On the frontier of the young state of Indiana, formal church buildings and trained pastors were few and far between. That"s where circuit riders came in.
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| Published on Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:42:14 -0500 - 1 MB Format: MPEG Audio
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4. A Woman"s Bid For The Highest Post
| In 1984, Virginia Dill McCarty became the first Hoosier woman to run for governor.But it was not Virginia Dill McCarty"s first "first."
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| Published on Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:42:03 -0500 - 1 MB Format: MPEG Audio
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5. Hoosier Justice At Nuremberg
| Two Indiana Supreme Court Justices were recruited into the grim business of holding Nazis accountable for their crimes against humanity during World War II.
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| Published on Tue, 25 Oct 2011 04:49:47 -0400 - 1 MB Format: MPEG Audio
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6. The Great Cornfield Conference
| At a moment when pundits wondered whether the GOP was on its deathbed, Hoosier entrepreneur Homer E. Capehart hosted a "cornfield rally" for 20,000 on his farm.
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| Published on Tue, 11 Oct 2011 22:31:28 -0400 - 1 MB Format: MPEG Audio
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7. The Vote Felt "Round The World
| When a DeKalb County farmhand hurried to Kendallville on election day in 1842, he cast a vote that may have that forever changed the fates of two nations
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| Published on Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:40:05 -0400 - 1 MB Format: MPEG Audio
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8. Reenvisioning The City Of Streams
| Urban planner George Kessler raved about the Circle City"s diagonal thoroughfares and plentiful waterways, but bemoaned its hands-off attitude toward growth.
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| Published on Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:15:53 -0400 - 1 MB Format: MPEG Audio
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9. Aspiring Towards Utopia: Blue Spring Community
| New Harmony wasn"t the state"s only community inspired by the utopian visions of 19th-century social reformer Robert Owen.
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| Published on Tue, 13 Sep 2011 03:05:01 -0400 - 1 MB Format: MPEG Audio
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10. The Divorce Mill Of The Midwest
| Indiana lawmakers in the 1850s were accused of having "practically legalized Free Love and its endless and nameless abominations" through liberal divorce laws.
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| Published on Thu, 08 Sep 2011 01:15:40 -0400 - 1 MB Format: MPEG Audio
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