Pendleton and North Vernon have been named finalists for Indiana’s PreservINg Main Street program, a statewide initiative focused on sustainable historic preservation and downtown revitalization.
Read MoreThe Office of Lt. Governor Micah Beckwith and the Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs announced the PreservINg Main Street program is open for applications.
Read MoreDozens of cultural institutions, libraries, universities and other nonprofit organizations in nearly 60 communities across the state received grants from Indiana Humanities to provide public humanities programs this year.
Read MoreNews Release INDIANAPOLIS — The Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street, in partnership with Indiana Humanities, is bringing its traveling exhibition “Voices and Votes: Democracy in America” to small towns across the Hoosier state in 2026. Applications are now open for small towns interested in hosting the traveling exhibition … Read More
Nine titles by Indiana authors have been awarded 2024 Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Awards.
Read MoreIndiana Humanities urges high schools to get involved with Poetry Out Loud, a national poetry contest with cash prizes.
Read MoreIndiana Humanities recently announced the winners of the state contest of Poetry Out Loud.
Read MoreMore than 50 cultural institutions, libraries, universities and other nonprofit organizations across the state have received grants from Indiana Humanities to provide public humanities programs in their communities this year.
Read MoreIndiana Humanities and the Indiana Center for the Book recently announced the awardees for the 2023-2025 “One State/One Story” statewide reading program.
Read MoreIndiana Humanities and Indiana Center for the Book announced their selections for the 2023-2025 One State/One Story statewide reading program.
Read MoreNorth Webster Community Public Library, in partnership with The Watershed Foundation, has been selected by Indiana Humanities to host a Smithsonian-curated traveling exhibit called “Water/Ways” as part of the “Museum on Main Street” program, which brings exhibitions and programs to rural communities.The exhibition, which dives into water — an essential component of life on planet, environmentally, culturally, and historically — will be on display at the library in North Webster from June 26 to Aug. 8.
Read MoreTo celebrate the centennial anniversary of Congress ratifying the right of women to vote, many programs have and will take place in Syracuse jointly sponsored by Chautauqua-Wawasee, the Syracuse-Wawasee Historical Museum, Syracuse Public Library, Syracuse-Wawasee Chamber and Indiana Humanities. To bring children into the fold, the Syracuse Public Library will host a special children’s program from 10-11 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 29.
Read MoreThe women’s suffrage movement spanned decades. In 1911, the Woman’s Franchise League of Indiana was formed and became the propelling force for the right to vote. Women from all walks of life participated in the many marches, campaigns and demonstrations that finally resulted in the passage of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote.
Read MoreHelen Mar Jackson Gougar (1843-1907) was an advocate for women’s suffrage as a lawyer, writer and lecturer.
Read MoreThe power and the enticement of the right to vote brought over three hundred men and women to the tiny hamlet of Seneca Falls, N.Y., in the summer of 1848 to attend the first women’s rights convention organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, two abolitionists who had met at the 1840 Anti-Slavery Convention in London. These women realized early that to achieve reform, women needed to win the right to vote.
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