INTRODUCTION
PART I Before There Was a State
i Peoples and Empires before the Americans
Prehistory and Prehistoric Peoples
The Land
Contests for Empire
The British Empire in the West, 1763-1776
ii The American Nation and the West, 1776-1800
The American Revolution in the West, 1776-1783
The New Nation and the Northwest Territory, 1783-1800
iii Indiana Territory and Statehood, 1800-1816
Treaties and Conflicts with Indians
Government and Politics in Indiana Territory, 1800-1810
Statehood and the Constitution of 1816
PART II Pioneer Indiana, 1816-1850
iv On the Indiana Frontier
Migration and Settlement Patterns
Land and the Frontier Family Home
Food, Clothing, and Health
v The Evolving Pioneer Economy
Rivers and Roads
Canals and the System of 1836
Merchants, Bankers, and Manufacturers
Town Building
vi Pioneer Community Life
The Protestant Frontier
Morality, Scoial Order, and Reform
Pioneer Education
The New Harmony Communities
vii Pioneer Government and Politics
Land Acquisiton and Indian Removal
Government and the General Welfare
Pioneer Politics
The Constitutional Convention of 1850-1851
The Pioneer Legacy
PART III Indiana in Transition, 1850-1920
viii Making a Living, 1850-1920
Life on the Farm
The Railroad Age
Industrialization and the Rise of Big Business
Labor and the Worker's World
ix Hoosiers Together, 1850-1920
Black Hoosiers
Ethnic Hoosiers
Urban and Small-Town Hoosiers
Educating Hoosier
Religious Hoosiers
Culture and Leisure
x The Politics of the Civil War Era, 1850-1873
The Politics of the 1850s
A Civil War at Home
Reconstruction, 1865-1873
xi The Indiana Way of Politics, 1873-1920
Politics, Indiana Style, 1873-1896
The Politics of Moderate Reform, 1890-1916
A Golden Age?
PART IV Continuity and Change since 1920
xii The People since 1920
Many Kinds of Hoosiers
Black Hoosiers and the Civil Rights "Revolution"
The Continuing Challenges of Public School Reform
Basketball and Other Forms of Leisure and Culture
xiii The Economy since 1920
Agriculture and Farm Life
The Automobile Age
The Industrial Economy
Government, Labor, and the Economy
xiv The Politics of a State
The Klan and the Politics of Mediocrity: The 1920s
Liberalism, Ambition, and the New Deal: The 1930s
Party Politics since 1940
State Government since 1940
xv Hoosiers Past and Present
Appendixes
Notes
A Guide to Further Reading
Index
