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The Ku Klux Klan in the Heartland: A Talk by James H. Madison
Hosted by Evansville Museum of Arts, History and ScienceJoin preeminent Indiana historian James H. Madison as he discusses his latest book, The Ku Klux Klan in the Heartland, and shares insights into the Indiana Klan of the 1920s, its goals and methods, its members and opponents and its place in larger contexts down to our own times.
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Dr. James H. Madison’s most recent book, The Ku Klux Klan in the Heartland, begins with this sentence: “The Ku Klux Klan was as dark as the night and as American as apple pie.” In this talk—presented in a partnership of the Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science, the Evansville African American Museum and the Vanderburgh County Historical Society—Madison will attempt to explain that seemingly contradictory statement. He will focus on Indiana’s Klan of the 1920s, its goals and methods, its members and opponents and its place in larger contexts down to our own time. This program explores this regrettable and all-too-often-glossed-over history.
Madison is the Thomas and Kathryn Miller professor emeritus of history at Indiana University Bloomington. He’s the author of several books, including Eli Lilly: A Life; Slinging Doughnuts for the Boys: An American Woman in World War II; Hoosiers: A New History of Indiana; and A Lynching in the Heartland: Race and Memory in America. The Midwestern History Association recently honored him with the Frederick Jackson Turner Lifetime Achievement Award.
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For more information, call the Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science at 812.425.2406 or email Tom Lonnberg at lonnberg@emuseum.org.
This program received support from an Indiana Humanities INcommon Grant.