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Students, Teachers, and Citizen Historians! Help Us Find Out What Hoosiers Knew About the Holocaust

WHAT: History Unfolded Research Sprint
WHEN: Thursday, February 1, anytime between 9 a.m. and noon
WHERE: Indiana State Library
Fourth Floor
315 West Ohio Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202 (Map) (Parking)
QUESTIONS: jweiss@history.IN.gov

Please join us next Thursday, February 1 ( anytime between 9 a.m. and noon) in the Indiana State Library for a History Unfolded “Research Sprint.” Our coordinated research over just a few hours has the potential to impact a nationally significant project.

History Unfolded is a project of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. It asks students, teachers, and citizen historians throughout the United States what was possible for Americans to have known about the Holocaust as it was happening and how Americans responded.

For the “Research Sprint” we’ll be using Newspapers.com to find articles in the Indianapolis News and the Indianapolis Star (which were the most widely read newspapers at the time) reporting on 34 different Holocaust-era events that took place in the United States and Europe. We will then submit our findings to the History Unfolded database, providing resources and raising questions for scholars that will inform the USHMM’s initiatives. Basically, it’s up to us to contribute information on what the average Hoosier would have read about the events leading up to the Holocaust.

This event is open to citizen historians, teachers, and students of all levels. Indiana Historical Bureau staff will be there to help you:

  1. Create a History Unfolded log-in.
  2. Choose and briefly learn about an event that interests you.
  3. Find two relevant articles on the event, one in the Indianapolis Star and one in the Indianapolis News using Newspapers.com.

  4. Submit your topic to History Unfolded
  5. Tweet if you can @HolocaustMuseum and @HS_Chronicles #HistoryUnfolded
  6. Repeat!

Follow Hoosier State Chronicles on Twitter to see examples of the articles we’ve already found. Or check out our more in-depth History Unfolded series on the HSC blog to see how we are using  these newspapers to analyze what Hoosiers knew about the Holocaust and how they responded.

You can even make your History Unfolded profile now and get started! Hope to see you on February 1.