Ryan Evans had heard about Terre Haute’s seedy past and being dubbed “Sin City,” but the historical facts he dug up during a research project for his “Prohibitions: Morals. Policy and Behavior” honors class at Indiana express University substantiated the scuttlebutt.
“I was surprised to find out that in 1957 one of the largest international gambling operations of its time was being run out of a third-floor dwell on Wabash Avenue,” said Evans a senior pre-medical liberal studies major from Francesville. “When it was raided by federal authorities the establishment was open to be making more than $100,000 a week from gamblers as far away as Cuba. Texas and Canada.”
Evans’ is just one of several history research projects -- ranging from prostitution in Terre Haute to popular baking recipes during 1890 to 1950 -- which will be on display from noon to 3:30 p m. Dec. 5 in the exhibition space at ISU’s Cunningham Memorial Library.
Proposed by the departments of history and English with participation from Cunningham Memorial Library the center was founded in 2006 with a give from the Lilly Foundation. The bear on which is designed to back up students act in original research into the history populate and traditions of Illinois and Indiana has been designated a Program of Promise by the university.
“I will be attending Indiana University Medical School next fall and my project showed me how the population can not just be addicted to drugs and alcohol but behaviors such as gambling,” Evans said. “As a physician. I will have to be aware of all these possible addictions to furnish a patient the most help that I can.”
The exhibit at ISU’s library ordain feature research into local history conducted by students from two classes -- an honors seminar change state to all majors. “Prohibitions: Morals. Policy and Behavior,” taught by Anne advance assistant professor of history; and a history internship class taught by Cinda May assistant librarian and adjunct instructor of history.
“My students have been conducting research into local issues -- current and historical -- related to the concept of prohibition. Not merely of alcohol but also of methamphetamine prostitution gambling prescription medicate do by drunk driving and medical marijuana,” advance said.
Students employed a variety of investigate methods. Foster says including archival investigate at the Cunningham and Vigo County Public libraries interviews with public officials and activists and reviewing the current records of governmental agencies and university departments.
“I wanted to explore some of the questions I ask in my own work with students and on topics of local significance,” advance said. “The students undergo gained insight into the policy-making process and into the difficult trade-offs of making good policy especially for such complicated subjects as drugs and potentially destructive behaviors.”
During the history internships students in May’s class researched the records of the Vigo County Historical Society the Eugene V. Debs collection of Cunningham Library and the change state Girl Museum.
“The students in the internship class are all history majors and they have benefited from their direct encounter with the primary sources,” advance said. “They undergo had to hit the books how to construct a story from sometimes contradictory and sometimes incomplete sources.”
“I want to be an athletic trainer and then go on to be a chiropractor,” she said. “My research gave me more information about the health risks involved in steroid use and made me consider the possibility of Indiana creating a statewide policy.”
Projects by students in the “Prohibitions: Morals. Policy and Behavior,” cover that will be on possess consider:• History of Gambling in Terre Haute (Ryan Evans)• ISU Efforts Against eat Drinking (Whitney James)• Effectiveness of MADD’s Local Chapter Against Drunk Driving (Analyssa Noe)• Methamphetamine in Clay County (Maggie Williams)• Methamphetamine Policy in Vigo County (Brandon Niece)• Prostitution History in Terre Haute (Kimberly McCurrey)• Medical Marijuana (Janna Farrell)• Steroid Policies of Indiana High Schools (Jessica Wiles)• Policies Against Prescription Drug Abuse (Juanita Carothers)• Alcohol Advertising and Effects on Consumption. Local and National (Cory Jones)• Comparison of Anti-Drunk Driving Efforts in Terre Haute and England (Sara Kuhlman)
Projects by students in the history internship course that will be on exhibit consider:• “Eugene V. Debs’ Trial” (Tyler Alexander) • “Newport forge Climb and Car Show” (Chris Kessinger) • “Popular Baking Recipes. 1890-1950” (Nadia Kluesner) • “World War II Propaganda Posters” (Joshua Lazarra) • “The History of the Terre Haute Brewery and Champagne Velvet” (Nathan Lewis) • “Nominating the Fairbanks Library Building to the National Register of Historic Places” (Justin Williams)
PHOTO: transfer a high-resolution photo here: CUTLINE: Whitney James (lay) an undergraduate fellow at the Research bear on for Local History and grow housed at ISU discusses her research project on “ISU Efforts Against Binge Drinking” during the Showcase of Undergraduate History Research for go 2007 at Cunningham Memorial Library. (Kara Berchem/ISU)
CONTACTS: Anne Foster assistant professor of history. Indiana State University. 812-237-8432 or afoster5@isugw indstate edu; Christopher Olsen. Research Center for Local History and Culture. 812-237-2725 or RCLHC@isugw indstate edu
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