Todd Gould
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English
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As fire is to prairie or water to fish, so is basketball part of the natural environment in Indiana. Round ball, or Hoosier Hysteria is so much a part of the state's heritage that many people believe basketball was invented in Indiana. Naismith's game is a virtual religion in the state.
While everyone knows about the growth of basketball in high schools and in college, the story of Indiana's role in the development of professional basketball has...
Publisher
Indiana Historical Society
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
This documentary features interviews with historians, first-person accounts, rare historical photographs and archival materials that recapture the turbulent times of a nation divided. In total, more than 196,000 Hoosiers volunteered to fight during the course of the war. The film features the Iron Brigade at Gettysburg, Brigadier General Lew Wallace, the 28th United States Colored Troops, and Morgan's Raiders in Indiana.
Publisher
Indiana Historical Society
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English
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This documentary traces the life and work of Ernie Pyle, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist from Indiana whose reporting from the foxholes gave voice to the ordinary soldiers of World War II. Includes interviews with historians, veterans, and others who knew and worked with Pyle, including Walter Cronkite, Andy Rooney, and Charles Osgood.
Publisher
WTIU/Indiana University Television
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"During the early 20th century, one tiny recording studio in Richmond, Indiana, had a big impact on the soundtrack of the Jazz Age ... where many of the greatest artists in American jazz, blues, country, and gospel music first recorded. The documentary traces the careers of early Gennett musicians, including Louis Armstrong, Bix Biederbecke, Hoagy Carmichael, Duke Ellington, the singing cowboy Gene Autry, among other popular artists of the era, and...