history

Magnavox Odyssey, the first-ever commercial home video-game console, was born in a Fort Wayne boardroom 50 years ago and changed home entertainment forever.

How Klan membership cards from the 1920s remained out of sight for almost 100 years in Noblesville.

During a smallpox epidemic, Indianapolis built its first hospital—in the middle of a swamp.

What it’s like being one of those historical re-enactors at Conner Prairie.

From that first weekend to the 11-day extravaganza it is today, Black Expo has blossomed.

The details of Jim Jones’s wedding to Marceline Baldwin belied the bizarre twists their life together would take.

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 permanent memorial center holds more than 700 artifacts, as well as a replica of a historic Holocaust site.

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.

Liveried coachman await guests at the ferry dock on Mackinac Island and transport them to the hotel by carriage.

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

It was the early years of the Great Depression, and parents were struggling to make ends meet. So Fannie Caldwell Stewart, owner and publisher of the Indianapolis Recorder, and her son, Marcus C. Stewart, decided that the city’s African-American newspaper was going to throw a picnic for its carriers and their families. That August 1930 […]

There is a massive difference between someone saying they grew up on the baseball diamond, and someone actually being raised on a baseball diamond. Gift Ngoepe embodies the latter. Born in Pietersburg, South Africa, Ngoepe and his two brothers were raised by their single mother in one room in the clubhouse of their local Randburg […]

Named the “all-time greatest work of American architecture” by the American Institute of Architects, Fallingwater in southwestern Pennsylvania sits perched, as its name suggests, on the precipice of a waterfall in a pristine wooded setting.