Today's Hours
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Events Area
Cunningham Memorial Library, 5-7 PM
An opening reception for the exhibit, Binding Wounds, Pushing Boundaries: African Americans in Civil War Medicine. There will be remarks about the importance of the display: being only one of two locations in Indiana this year to host it, the importance of the steps these brave souls took in adverse conditions to practice medicine. The timing of the exhibit coincides with the 40th anniversaries of the African-American Studies Program and the African America Cultural Center.
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Events Area
Cunningham Memorial Library, 5-6.30 PM
Speaker: Mary Lee Hagan, Director of Vigo Historical Society Museum
This program will discuss the many different styles of Civil War dress of the era, which were influenced by Europe. Such as extremely full-skirted women's fashions relying on crinolines and hoops and the emergence of "alternative fashions" under the influence of the Artistic Dress Movement.
These events took place on campus during the exhibit at Indiana State University.
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Events Area
Cunningham Memorial Library, 5.30-7.30 PM
Speaker: Ryan Rokicki, Director of the Red Skelton Museum
Prior to joining the Red Skelton Foundation, Ryan served for six years as Curator of Collections at the National Museum of Civil War Medicine in Frederick, Maryland. Ryan also completed internships at Pamplin Historical Park in Petersburg, Virginia and the Museum of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery in Boston. Join Ryan for an overview of the state of the medical field at the beginning of the war, the challenges surgeons faced in the opening months of the conflict, and how these challenges were overcome. He will also explain the nature of the wounds that medical officers encountered at the field dressing stations and field hospitals and how they treated these wounds with the best knowledge and resources available.
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Cunningham Memorial Library, Room 028, 3-5 PM
Speaker: Wilma Moore, Senior Archivist African-American History at the Indiana Historical Society Library & Archive
The history of African Americans in Indiana during the Civil War will provide a rich insight into their contributions in the war efforts. Highlights include African American settlements in Indiana, Hoosier attitudes toward African Americans and the Abolitionist Movement, the issues surrounding the formation of African American troops, and the involvement of the 28th United States Color Troops (USCT) that included Hoosier African American soldiers.
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Events Area
Cunningham Memorial Library, 5.30-7 PM
Speaker: Connie McCammon, Publication Manager for Sisters of Providence
Less than a month after the April 12, 1861, attack on Fort Sumter, N.C., then Governor Oliver Perry Morton of Indiana requested that the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, IN., provide assistance in the administration of City Hospital in Indianapolis. The hospital, which had been turned over to the federal government for the care of soldiers, soon became known as Military Hospital. The Sisters of Providence, who were well-suited for this task, provided all the necessary management and nursing support. They became known as "Angels of Mercy" to Union and Confederate soldiers alike.