We’ve got civics on the brain today; Casey and Regan look at the long history of women practicing law and their fight for the right to practice law in Indiana. Then we look at Harry Truman’s famous whistle-stop campaign, which helped him win the presidency in a race he was predicted to lose.

A Century of Change: Indiana's Women Lawyers
Fighting Chance: Harry Truman's Midwestern Whistlestop - Campaign

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Harriette Bailey Conn
Law Student, Sherri Hayes
Mahala Ashley Dickerson, second African American woman admitted to the Indiana bar
Truman on the train
Crowd for the whistle-stop campaign

ALL ABOARD! Casey and Regan explore the story of the expansive interurban network that ran all through Indiana and beyond. Then they will examine a streetcar system which connected Terre Haute and became a source of recreation for those in the community.

Trials and Tribulations: The Interurban in Indiana

I Remember When: Riding the Rails in Terre Haute

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Image of the South Shore
Collage of Interurban Lines
Construction of Interurban Cars
Traction Terminal Building
Union Traction Co. Freight House
Indiana Railway Co. and Motormen
Electric streetcar, Terre Haute

The afterlife is explored in this death-defying episode of Unbound, Casey and Regan dive into the story of May Wright Sewall. A famous spiritualist from Indiana who wrote the book on spiritualism and how she used it to speak with her husband who had passed. Then we will look into the evolution of cemeteries to public green spaces.

An Elegant Vision: Indiana’s Landscape Architecture
“The Last Enemy is Destroyed” May Wright Sewall and Spiritualism

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May Wright Sewall
Booth Tarkington
Riverside Park
Crown Hill Cemetery
Garfield Park
Brookside Park
Oldfields
Landon Wedding