Easily Overlooked, Connections Really Are Important Good morning, Class! Our word for today is “connection.” In terms of personal...

In 1884, two years after Robert Jefferson died, the Indiana State Sentinel published a full broadsheet page of articles and pieces of...

JOHN G. BRITTAN/BRITTON (1) The man who claims to be the oldest living colored citizen, in point of length of residence in Indianapolis,...

James Sidney Hinton "A man of great influence among his own people, and occupying a prominent place in Indiana politics as well, is James...

On Tuesday, Jan. 6, 1880, the Indianapolis Journal, published 4,500-word essay on prominent Black citizens living in the Circle City....

In early August 2022, I had the honor of meeting and spending time with Margaret “Peggy” Anderson, one of the Robert Jefferson...

William Neff "Bill" Roberson, 84, of Los Angeles, California, poses with a portrait of his father, William Anthony Roberson – a 1986...

Dreams do come true. This summer, I am receiving grants that will allow me to travel to do more research on Robert Jefferson and his...

So, I have a hypothesis about Harriet Christian and who her family was. Using the few clues I’ve found in the various legal ads that I’ve...

Searchable databases of digitized pages of American newspapers are literal goldmines when it comes to historical research. If it wasn’t...

So, by renewing my subscription to GenealogyBank, another site that offers searchable content from old newspapers, I was amazed to find...

In the fall of 2020, when I began to research the events and people mentioned in the 1879 article published in the Indianapolis Journal...

Why did Robert Jefferson travel north to Canada after receiving his freedom papers, signed by then-Mississippi State Senator Otho R....

There are several men in the periphery of Robert Jefferson’s story. These include Thomas Jefferson Catchings, M.D., who had owned...

"Fasten, your seatbelts, kids; it's gonna be a bumpy ride." (With my sincerest apoligies to Bette Davis in "All About Eve" and devout...

CAUTION: SPECULATION INCLUDED! When searching at Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org, not a lot of information seems to exist telling the...

Asa Dearing was born around 1785 and died suddenly in 1826, only a few years after he’d married a woman named Margaret Pasture or Pasteur...

Paradise was an antebellum home that fronted the west side of the 100 block of North George Street, the unpaved street seen in the...

For about three years, I've had somewhat of a love affair with a man who has been dead nearly 140 years. And yes, my husband knows all...

In 1839, a group of white abolitionists formed the Neil's Creek Anti-Slavery Society in Lancaster, Ind., once a thriving town and now...