Backtrack

For these boys and girls, the most important car race of the year isn’t the Indianapolis 500; it’s the Soap Box Derby.

The female “Miller” behind Miller House & Garden.

How a top Indianapolis florist planted the seeds of her own destiny.

“Steele’s page, on the other hand, was considered both beautiful and educational, teaching young readers tolerance and important topics of the day.”

The first designer to win the Coty Award, fashion’s equivalent of the Oscars, when it was introduced in 1943.

Lined up for a Thanksgiving parade, the neatly attired Station K newsboys in this photograph look like fresh-faced youngsters straight out of central casting.

An officer and a gentleman.

Indy’s first public pool made quite a splash.

The tune didn’t really take off in the major leagues until Chicago sportscaster Harry Caray began singing it in the 1970s.

Indianapolis Brewing Company took the gold ribbon at every World’s Fair between 1900 and 1915.

“It was like being on the moon.”

Indiana has a lengthy history of patriotism. We’re headquarters to the American Legion; second only to Washington, D.C., in the number of war memorials; and at the heart of our city, the Soldiers and Sailors Monument stretches into the sky. One month to the day after the United States declared war on Japan, an Indianapolis […]

Before political campaigning was a big dollar national venture, Benjamin Harrison addressed more than 300,000 people in 80-plus speeches from his front porch.

Irvington has a storied history of spooks and scares—and a much more sinister saga of true-life horror.

Tiffany Benedict Browne of Historic Indianapolis remembers when Arsenal Tech was once a master printers’ mecca.