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Item Barred Progress: Indiana Prison Reform, 1880-1920(2008) Clark, Perry R.; Barrows, Robert G. (Robert Graham), 1946-; Coleman, Annie Gilbert; Kelly, Jason M.On January 9, 1821, the Indiana General Assembly passed a bill authorizing the construction of the state’s first prison. Within a century, Indiana’s prison system would transform from a small structure in Jeffersonville holding less than twenty inmates into a multi-institutional network holding thousands. Within that transition, ideas concerning the treatment of criminals shifted significantly from a penology focused on punishment, hard labor, and low cost, to a one based on social science, skill-building, education, and public funding. These new ideas were not always sound, however, and often the implementation of those ideas was either distorted or incomplete. In any case, by the second decade of the twentieth century, Indiana’s prisons had developed into the large, organized, highly-regulated—yet very imperfect—system that it is today. This study focuses on the most intense period of organization and reform during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Item Conservation and Indiana Gubernatorial Politics, 1908-1916(2006) Hackerd, Jeremy Lynn; Scarpino, Philip V.; Coleman, Annie Gilbert; Blomquist, WilliamItem Employers' Liability Law and the Indiana Railroads, 1880-1915(2002) Hutchinson, Heather; Monroe, Elizabeth Brand, 1947-; Barrows, Robert G. (Robert Graham), 1946-; Coleman, Annie GilbertItem Historical Film and the Assassination of President Lincoln: The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936) and The Lincoln Conspiracy (1977)(2002) Savarino, Malia Dorothy; Coleman, Annie Gilbert; Snodgrass, Michael; McKivigan, John R.Item Hysteria on the Hardwood: A Narrative History of Community, Race, and Indiana's "Basketbrawl" Tradition(2012) Eskew, Kelly R.; Morgan, Anita J.; Barrows, Robert G. (Robert Graham), 1946-; Coleman, Annie GilbertIn 1964, Muncie Central High School got the “death penalty” at the hands of the Indiana High School Athletic Association’s (IHSAA) new commissioner, Phil N. Eskew, after post-game brawling at a boys basketball game led to a broader investigation of the entire program. In the closing moments of the game, a Muncie Central opponent was bloodied by an inbound pass to the face and fans erupted in violence, swarming the floor. The ensuing investigation revealed racial tensions, issues of sexual mores, political discord, and deep problems in the web of interrelationships that make up the phenomenon of Hoosier Hysteria. After a closed-door hearing and two days of deliberations, Eskew and the IHSAA Board of Control announced their decision, and the punishment prescribed made front page headlines across the state and beyond.Item Indianapolis Amusement Parks, 1903-1911: Landscapes on the Edge(2007) Zeigler, Connie J.; Coleman, Annie Gilbert; Barrows, Robert G.; Dwyer III, Owen J.In May 1906, Wonderland Amusement Park opened its gates on East Washington Street in Indianapolis to reveal its 125-foot tall “Electric Tower,” a tree-top “Scenic Railway,” and dozens of other thrilling and fantastical attractions. Indianapolis now had a Coney Island of its own. Even more amazing, by the end of the month, two more Coney-Island-style amusement parks had opened in the city. This thesis examines three Indianapolis parks: Wonderland Amusement Park, White City Amusement Park and Riverside Amusement Park and their impacts on the city of Indianapolis in the first years of the twentieth century.Item Infrastructure, Separation, and Inequality: The Streets of Indianapolis Between 1890 and 1930(2008) Reichard, Ruth Diane; Coleman, Annie Gilbert; Barrows, Robert G.; Kelly, Jason M.Between 1890 and 1930 in the city of Indianapolis, people in charge made certain decisions regarding infrastructure—the character and condition of streets and sidewalks, the provision of sewer services and garbage collection, the location of the city’s dump, and the placement of the city’s sewage treatment plant—that resulted in long-term health and safety consequences. In Indianapolis, as in most modern American cities, some neighborhoods are less healthy for their inhabitants than others. The least healthy neighborhoods—those with the highest rates of cancer, for example—are situated on the city’s southwest side. The southwest side of Indianapolis is also the location of the landfill, the sewage treatment plant, and much heavy industry. The entire city is at the mercy of an ill-designed sewer system, a system that taxpayers are spending millions annually to repair. The years from 1890 to 1930 saw the genesis of this state of affairs. In the city of Indianapolis since 1890, infrastructure has separated people from nature and from each other on two levels: its operational level, wherein it was an objective entity that performed according to its design, and its subjective level, where it operated as a social and hygienic barrier. Streets, curbs, sewers, and sidewalks are useful and necessary elements of public health and safety. We both want and need these elements to ensure our separation from things that are dangerous, such as speeding cars and contaminated water. When government officials exercise power to declare what parts of the city street are accessible to whom, or which neighborhoods will have a wastewater treatment plant, a landfill, or heavy industry nearby, infrastructure can work to separate people.Item The Issue Now is Open Occupancy: The Struggle for Fair Housing in Indianapolis, 1890-1968(2001) Drenovsky, Rachael L.; Barrows, Robert G. (Robert Graham), 1946-; Coleman, Annie Gilbert; de Boer, WietseItem Jack Tar Revealed: Sailors, Their Worldview, and Their World(2010) Spoden, Elizabeth Christine; Kelly, Jason M.; Coleman, Annie Gilbert; Robertson, Nancy Marie, 1956-The sailors in the British Navy during the Napoleonic Wars are largely unknown to us. This thesis explores their worldview, as revealed through songs, memoirs, plays and broadsides. Through interactions with women and working-class men on shore and officers at sea, these men developed a collective identity rooted in working class masculinity. Ultimately, this thesis refutes the idea that sailors occupied a world completely removed from land and were, rather, actively influenced by ideologies and culture on shore.Item Mysterious Saucer Sighted! End of World Imminent? American Flying Saucer Belief and Resistance to the Cold War Order 1947-1970(2003) Gulyas, Aaron John; Coleman, Annie Gilbert; McKivigan, John R.; Cramer, Kevin