By CONNIE ZEIGLER / Contributing editor The Indianapolis News gave 20-year-old J. Franklin Booth his first break in November 1899 when it published his Thanksgiving poem illustrated by his own …
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By CONNIE ZIEGLER / Contributing editor The United States declared war on Japan on Dec. 8, 1941, the day after Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. On Dec. 11, 1941, …
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By CONNIE ZEIGLER / Contributing editor Rudolph Schwarz, the sculptor of the stone figures of the city’s most famous landmark, the Soldiers and Sailors Monument, died “practically penniless,” on April …
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By CONNIE ZEIGLER, Contributing editor In 1958 Indiana University’s Kinsey Institute published a report titled Pregnancy, Birth and Abortion. In the report, according to February 1958 coverage in The Indianapolis …
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This story appeared in the October 2024 print edition of Urban Times. By CONNIE ZEIGLER, Contributing editor I’ve been writing this monthly history column in Urban Times since 2007. Nine …
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By CONNIE ZEIGLER, Contributing editor On March 26, 1945, not for the first time, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – the youngest son of a well-known architect from a well-known Indianapolis family …
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By CONNIE ZEIGLER Contributing editor In 1969 one of the once-most-respected architects of European modernism moved to Indianapolis to take a job at a local development/architecture firm. The architect was …
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By CONNIE ZEIGLER Contributing editor For six years in the 1950s the name of former Shortridge High School student Madelyn Pugh was in 11 million homes every week, thanks to …
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By connie zeigler Contributing editor This report was originally published in the April 2013 edition of Urban Times. This reprint was prompted by the global coronavirus outbreak. This year’s (2013) …
Read More By CONNIE ZIEGLER Contributing editor, Urban Times George Pogue was one of the first, perhaps the first, white settler in what would become Indianapolis. Pogue, for whom Pogue’s Run was …
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