Little Orphant Annie - Discovery, Preservation, and Restoration Eric Grayson is a nationally renowned film preservation expert, specializing in silent movies. Eric will be presenting the 1918 original film of Little Orphant Annie. This unusual surviving film features a rare film appearance by James Whitcomb Riley - the Hoosier poet and close friend of […]
Dr. Howard Miller Lecture Series at the General Lew Wallace Study & Museum presents... Reconstructing Henry S. Lane: Redefining Political Legacy Amidst Reconstruction Ambiguity. Owen Bennett, Assistant Director of the Montgomery County Historical Society, will give a lecture on the vague and misleading historiography of Henry S. Lane’s role during the era of reconstruction […]
Dr. Howard Miller Lecture Series at the General Lew Wallace Study & Museum presents… The Man Who Saved Cincinnati Peter Bronson is a newsman, editor, magazine writer and author. He has written eight books, including The Man Who Saved Cincinnati (2023), Not in Our Town (2022), and Forbidden Fruit (2020). He was an editor and […]
Dr Howard Miller Lecture Series presents...The United States Colored Troops from Montgomery County by Shannon Sullivan Hudson. A science teacher by day and a history buff by night, Shannon Hudson is the author of Abolitionists of the Underground Railroad: Legends from Montgomery County, Indiana. Shannon will speak on the United States Colored Troops from Montgomery […]
Hoosier Public Enemy: A Life of John Dillinger - John A. Beineke See https://www.ben-hur.com/programs/hoosier-authors-book-club/ for more information
You Should See Me in a Crown - Leah Johnson See https://www.ben-hur.com/programs/hoosier-authors-book-club/ for more information
Hoosier Authors Book Club - An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
Hoosier Authors Book Club - The Magic Garden by Gene Stratton-Porter Physical copies of The Magic Garden by Gene Stratton-Porter will not be available for loan. The kindle version of the book is available for .99c here.
The Hoosier Authors Book Club for 2025 begins on Thursday, April 17 with Hawaii and a Revolution by Mary Hannah Krout. Krout, a native of Crawfordsville, details her personal experience as a journalist and correspondent for the Chicago Inter-Ocean covering the 1893 revolution in Hawaii. The book is available for purchase here. We hope you can join us!
