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Indiana and Bloomington have a unique connection to World War II. Join historian Ronald P. May as he explores the places, people, and preservation of World War II legacy in Indiana. Age 18 and up.
Although Indiana is 38th in state size and represents less than .01% of the United States in area, its place in World War II significance is large. Indianapolis has more war memorials than anywhere in the country except Washington, D.C., and the rest of the state, from the flat farmland of the north to the hills of the south region, is rich with monuments, memorials, and museums dedicated to preserving Hoosier World War II history. Beloved World War II correspondent, Ernie Pyle, had his origins in Dana, Indiana. The Tuskegee Airmen trained briefly at Freeman Army Airfield in Seymour, Indiana. Indiana University Bloomington is part of that historical landscape as well. It is the site of the Japanese Ban Marker that offers a public apology to the dozen Japanese-American students whose enrollments were denied by IU during the war years.
The Downtown Library is in the heart of Downtown Bloomington, located right on Kirkwood Avenue. It provides a variety of meeting rooms, spaces for children and teens, a digital creativity center, and much more.
