Indiana

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  8/1/2022
  

  Historian Among Critics of Indiana U President's Weak Support for Ob-Gyn Faculty in Abortion Controversy

  Marcia Bucur created a petition calling for the administration to publicly defend reproductive freedom and denounce the harassment of Dr. Caitlin Bernard after she described performing an abortion to aid a preteen rape victim.

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• SOURCE: Lakeland (FL) Ledger
  9/20/2020
  

  Black and White Polk Pastors Overcome Racism in Show of Forgiveness and Grace

  Richard Harris and Kenneth Stephens committed to Christian demands for forgiveness and reconciliation, and have shared their personal stories in an effort to heal racial divisions. 

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• 2-5-17
  

  Why Indiana Is Feeling Plucky Again!

  by Jeff Tenuth

  With Pence’s ascension, it’s back where the action is – and that’s where it was for a long long time.

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• 4-13-15
  

  Why Indiana Republicans Blundered so Badly on Gay Rights

  by Victoria Saker Woeste

  They relied on analysis by a dozen law school professors that ignored the historical progression towards including gay rights among civil rights.

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• SOURCE: Indy Star
  3-30-15
  

  Here's a look at history of 'religious freedom' laws

  Citing the Supreme Court's decision in the Hobby Lobby case, Pence said Indiana needs its own version of the federal law to "ensure that religious liberty is fully protected under Indiana law."

• SOURCE: Lafayette Journal-Courier
  7-29-13
  

  Sam Wineburg: Mitch, Here's Where We Split Ways on Howard Zinn

  Sam Wineburg is the Margaret Jacks Professor of Education and History at Stanford University and the author of Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past. Dear Mitch, I hope you don’t mind the informality. I’ve felt like we share something in common ever since learning that you not only read my article about Howard Zinn but quoted from it approvingly in your press release.

• SOURCE: NYT
  7-29-13
  

  NYT: Historians defend Zinn against Daniels

  The historian Howard Zinn won a dubious prize of sorts last year when his best-selling “People’s History of the United States” came in second in an informal online poll to determine the “least credible history book in print.”But now some of Mr. Zinn’s strongest scholarly critics have rushed to his defense, following the revelation that former Gov. Mitch Daniels of Indiana had, while in office, sent e-mails to a state education official asking for assurance that Mr. Zinn’s “truly execrable, antifactual piece of disinformation” was “not in use” in Indiana classrooms....

• 7-25-13
  

  OAH: Daniels/Zinn Controversy a "Teachable Moment"

  by David Austin Walsh

  Even among traditionally liberal academe, Howard Zinn has been a lightning rod of controversy.

• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  7-22-13
  

  AHA issues statement criticizing Mitch Daniels

  The American Historical Association on Friday released a statement criticizing the way Mitch Daniels (when he governor of Indiana, prior to becoming president of Purdue University) exchanged e-mail messages with staff members criticizing the work of the late Howard Zinn. "Whatever the strengths or weaknesses of Howard Zinn’s text, and whatever the criticisms that have been made of it, we believe that the open discussion of controversial books benefits students, historians, and the general public alike. Attempts to single out particular texts for suppression from a school or university curriculum have no place in a democratic society," said the statement....

• SOURCE: jconline.com
  7-20-13
  

  Howard Zinn student: "He would teach the controversy" with Mitch Daniels

  What would the late historian Howard Zinn have been doing in the classroom last week after being called out as a fraud, his name dragged around three years ago by a man who was then Indiana’s governor and now president of one of the state’s major research universities?“He would teach the controversy,” said Nadine Dolby, a Purdue University professor watching as a beloved teacher from her days at Boston University was publicly upbraided by the president of her present university. “That’s just what he’d do.”...To Dolby, a curriculum studies professor in the College of Education, her professor’s story is one of dissent. She calls Zinn a role model when it comes to professors. And she recounts several stories about her time in class and beyond with Zinn in her 2011 book, “Rethinking Multicultural Education for the Next Generation.” Here’s her take.