Library unit · 4th grade
Mississippian peoples built a farming town of earthen mounds at Angel Mounds near Evansville, Indiana, then abandoned it by AD 1450.
Library unit · 4th grade
The Miami nation builds wealth trading furs at Kekionga in Indiana, then loses the site to American forces after the Battle of Fallen Timbers and the Treaty of Greenville.
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Library unit · 4th grade
George Rogers Clark leads American volunteers on a freezing winter march to capture the British fort at Vincennes in 1779, securing the western frontier.
primary-source lab
Library unit · 4th grade
Indiana grows from an appointed-governor territory into the 19th U.S. state in 1816, led by Jonathan Jennings toward a democratic constitution.
primary-source lab
Library unit · 4th grade
Pioneer families settle Indiana's forests in the early 1800s, clearing land, battling malaria, and building farms, towns, and neighborly communities by the 1850s.
primary-source lab
Library unit · 4th grade
Abraham Lincoln's Indiana boyhood and Indiana's massive contribution of soldiers under Governor Oliver Morton during the Civil War.
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Library unit · 4th grade
Carl Fisher builds the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and pushes for the Lincoln and Dixie Highways, spurring Indiana's road-building movement and earning it the nickname Crossroads of America.
primary-source lab
Library unit · 4th grade
Julia Nelson campaigns door to door in Muncie and becomes the first woman elected to the Indiana General Assembly in 1921.
Member-made · 7th grade
Axl Rose grows up in Lafayette, Indiana, moves to Los Angeles in 1982, and rises to fame fronting Guns N' Roses.
judgment lab
Member-made · 4th grade
Larry Bird grows up poor in French Lick, Indiana, and rises from being cut from his middle school team to NBA stardom with the Boston Celtics and later success as a coach and executive.
judgment lab
Pallas