On Sunday, April 14, at 2 pm, join the Evansville Museum’s 2024 Historian in Residence Dr. Nicole Etcheson for her talk for “The Goodly Land of Hoosier: How the Civil War Changed Indiana.” In this presentation, Etcheson will examine the impact of the Civil War on Indiana by exploring the lives of three ordinary Hoosiers—John Applegate who served in the Sixth Indiana Cavalry and survived imprisonment at Andersonville; Alice Chapin, a young wife and mother who struggled with family duties and relationships at home while her husband served in the Union Army; and Robert Townsend who enlisted and served in Indiana’s only African American regiment, the 28th United States Colored Troops.

Bio:

Dr. Nicole Etcheson is the Alexander M. Bracken Professor of History at Ball State University and author of “A Generation at War: The Civil War Era in a Northern Community”, “Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era” and “The Emerging Midwest: Upland Southerners and the Political Culture of the Old Northwest, 1787-1861”. Etcheson is currently working on a project about suffrage in the post-Civil War era.

The talk is free and regular admission may also be purchased to enjoy the rest of the Evansville Museum.

The Historian in Residence in Presented in Partnership with

Kathy and Bill Bartelt

Margaret Dennis in Memory of her Parents, Jim and Ana Ward

Bill & Patricia Vaughan Theby