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INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY Press 2020 CATALOGshop.indianahistory.org (317) 232-1882 | IHS PRESS 1 About Indiana Historical Society Press With more than a century of experience, the Indiana Historical Society Press publishes books—from biographies to academic titles, such as the History of Indiana series, to beautiful coffee-table books, such as Mapping Indiana: Five Centuries of Treasures from the Indiana Historical Society. The Press also publishes historical fiction for children, youth biographies, and family history books. Educator resources are also available for many of the youth titles. About Indiana Historical Society Since 1830, the Indiana Historical Society has been Indiana’s Storyteller™, connecting people to the past by collecting, preserving and sharing the state’s history. A private, nonprofit member- ship organization, IHS maintains the nation’s premier research library and archives on the history of Indiana and the Old Northwest and presents a unique set of visitor experiences called the Indiana Experience. IHS also provides support and assistance to local museums and historical groups; publishes books and periodicals; sponsors teacher workshops; produces and hosts art exhibitions, museum theater and outside performance groups; and provides youth, adult, and family programs. IHS is a Smithsonian Affiliate and a member of the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience. Smithsonian Aliate Cover image from "We Must Be Fearless": The Womans Suffrage Movement in Indiana. On July 2, 1917, the Miami County "Flying Squadron" for women's registration sponsored by the Woman's Franchise League of Indiana made automobile tours through the county urging all women to register to vote. Courtesy Indianapolis News IndianaHistory www.indianahistory.org Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center 450 West Ohio Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202 CONTENTS NEW TITLES . 4 ART, MUSIC, and PHOTOGRAPHY . 6 BIOGRAPHY and MEMOIR . 7 CHILDREN and YOUNG ADULT . 10 FAMILY and ETHNIC HISTORY . 14 INDIANA and LOCAL HISTORY . 15 POETRY and STORYTELLING . .. 19 WAR and MILITARY HISTORY . 20 ORDERING INFORMATION. 22 E-book editions are available and Marilyn Glick Indiana History for many IHS Press titles. Center in downtown Indianapolis or Check with your favorite online at shop.indianahistory.org. provider or go to www.indianahistory.org/e-books Find more ordering information, for a full list and vendor links. including for school, library, and wholesale orders, at the end of the Find all these and other titles at the catalog. Basile History Market at the Eugene shop.indianahistory.org (317) 232-1882 | IHS PRESS 3 NEW TITLES Yours: The Civil War, a Love Triangle and the Steamboat Sultana LILA JEANNE ELLIOTT SYBESMA Sarah Sutton and the Elliott brothers, Gabe and Joseph, grew up together. The brothers vie for Sarah’s attention. But the Civil War intervenes, and the brothers enlist in the Union army. Sarah accompanies her father, an army surgeon, and serves as a nurse in battlefield hospitals. They reunite on the Sultana, a steamboat returning thousands of soldiers home. Tragedy strikes when the boat explodes and sinks in the Mississippi River. What will happen next? Lila Jeanne Elliott Sybesma based Yours on the 1913 Indiana Historical Society publication The Sultana Disaster, written by her great-granduncle Joseph Taylor Elliott, a survivor of the 1865 disaster in which almost 2,000 $9.95 soldiers and civilians perished. ISBN 978-0-87195-431-2 E-book available, $7.96 Paperback 307 pp., b/w illustrations More children and young adult titles on page 10. Pickin’ Cotton on the way to Church The Life and Work of Father Boniface Hardin, OSB NANCY VAN NOTE CHISM Father Boniface Hardin intended to call his autobiography Pickin’ Cotton on the way to Church, referring to his experience as an African American Catholic. This biography uses his title to honor his memory. Excluded from seminaries in Kentucky because of his race, he enrolled in Saint Meinrad Seminary in Spencer County, Indiana. After Hardin completed his studies, he took his vows as a monk and was ordained a priest in 1959. In 1965 Father Hardin accepted the position of associate pastor at Holy Angels Catholic Church, a predominately Black parish in Indianapolis. He became widely known for speaking out against poverty, segregation, and police brutality, engaging in social activism that was considered inappropriate for a priest. He went on to found the Martin Center and Martin University. $24.95 Nancy Van Note Chism moved to Indiana in 1999. She was a professor of ISBN 978-0-87195-433-6 higher education and student affairs at Indiana University and associate vice Hardcover, 175 pp., b/w chancellor for academic affairs at IUPUI. She retired in 2012 and currently is illustrations, index chair of the board of trustees of Martin University. More biography and memoir titles on page 7. 4 IHS PRESS | shop.indianahistory.org (317) 232-1882 NEW TITLES Gentleman in the GENTLEMAN Gentleman in the Shadows is a biography of Benjamin C. Evans Jr., a Central Intelligence Agency executive who operated at the top levels of the U.S. intel- ligence community during the darkest days of the Cold War. After serving as a covert case officer in revolutionary Havana, Cuba, and then managing The Asia COMING SOON Foundation, a sprawling CIA front organization, Evans was promoted to the Shadows: Benjamin C. CIA headquarters’ seventh floor, where the executive directorate team managed world-changing intelligence missions. A socially adept administrator, Evans was the CIA Executive Secretary for seven Directors of Central Intelligence under four presidential administrations. Evans Jr. and the Central Evans was part of the tumultuous period that included America’s crusade to democratize Occupied Japan, the THE Korean War, nuclear standoffs with the Soviet Union, IN the anti-Castro counterrevolutionary movement that climaxed in the Bay of Pigs invasion, the Vietnam War, SHADOWS Intelligence Agency Watergate, and the Family Jewels furor after the CIA’s dirty secrets were revealed. Through his marriage, Evans was a member of America’s elite, which figured so GENTLEMAN IN THE prominently in the U.S. intelligence services. Born and raised in a prosperous family in Crawfordsville, Indiana, Evans was imbued with conservative Hoosier DOUGLAS A. WISSING values that celebrated servant-leadership. Following his graduation from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Evans’s social savvy and encultured values stood him in good stead in Occupied Japan, where he served as aide-de-camp to General Eugene Harrison, a decorated World War II intelligence officer and SHADOWS Occupation administrator. It was in Occupied Japan that Evans and the general’s CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY BENJAMIN C. EVANS JR. AND THE stepdaughter, Jan King, fell in love; they later married. BENJAMIN C. Benjamin C. Evans Jr., was a Central When President Harry Truman recognized he needed a foreign intelligence EVANS JR. AND service, General Harrison was on the commission that established what came to be the CIA. Not too many years later, Harrison and his cohorts insured that his THE CENTRAL Intelligence Agency executive who son-in-law Evans, by then a respected military intelligence officer, was offered a position in the agency. INTELLIGENCE CIA families not uncommonly led double lives of sequestered thoughts, unasked AGENCY questions, and intimate deception. An empathetic family man, Evans paid a operated at the top levels of the psychological price for his emotionally isolated life in the clandestine service. DOUGLAS A. WISSING Douglas A. Wissing is an award-winning journalist and author of numerous U.S. intelligence community during books, including Indiana: One Pint at a Time and Crown Hill: History, Spirit, Sanctuary. He has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, CNN.com, Fox.com, Salon.com, and Time.com, among other publications. WISSING the darkest days of the Cold War. See our complete catalog at www.indianahistory.org PRINTED IN THE Stacy Simmer | Art direction and cover design UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Isabelle Kroeker | Page layout His story starts in Crawfordsville, Not Final Cover ISBN 978-0-87195-436-7 U.S. $24.95 Indiana. Author Douglas Wissing follows him through West Point, “We Must Be Fearless” World War II, and his marriage to The Womans Suffrage $24.95 Jan King, part of the old Washington, Movement in Indiana D.C., aristocracy. ISBN 978-0-87195-436-7 ANITA MORGAN Hardcover, 264 pp., Douglas A. Wissing is an b/w illustrations, index This popular history of the award-winning journalist and author womans suffrage movement of numerous books, including IN More biography and memoir in Indiana tells the story of the Writing: Uncovering the Unexpected sixty-nine-year struggle for the titles on page 7. Hoosier State and Crown Hill: History, right to vote in the state. The Spirit, Sanctuary. He has written for people who acted, what they the New York Times, Washington did, and the results of their Post, Los Angeles Times, CNN.com, efforts are the focus. Through Fox.com, Salon.com, and Time.com, this story, it also places the state’s women more firmly among other publications. in the history of Indiana, the Midwest, and the nation. A Heart Divided: A Shaker COMING SOON Available March 2020 Teen During the Civil War ELIZABETH O’MALEY A Heart Divided is the story of Anna Stewart, who was raised by Shakers in Pleasant Hill, Kentucky, after being orphaned at age eight. At sixteen, she is restless, pushing the boundaries of her cloistered life. Then, during the Civil War Battle of Perryville, more than one thousand Union and Confederate soldiers come through her village, and she meets James Cunningham, a young soldier who was a neighbor and playmate in her past. Anna and James Not Final Cover talk and become close, even though it is forbidden by her Shaker religion.