June 8 – Dr. Michella Marino and Jill Weiss Simins from the Indiana Historical Bureau present “How Did We Get Here?: Why History Matters and How to Start Researching It”.  Register here. 

You’ve got real-life issues like bills and yardwork, and there’s a thousand things like Netflix to keep you entertained, so why should you even care about history and our past? But we want to ask this, how do you know where you are if you don’t know where you’ve been?  Join real life historians in their natural setting, the Indiana State Library, to answer these and other questions, like: Does history matter? Why would anyone want to do history? How should you even get started? What should we think about changing interpretations? Dr. Michella Marino and Jill Weiss Simins will tackle some of these big questions and share insightful stories from their twenty five-ish combined years of experience looking at the past to determine how the heck we got to this present.

Join us at the Indiana State Library, as we host a series of lectures on our open Saturdays during the months of June, July, and August.  The lectures are free and open to the public.  Parking is available in the Senate Avenue parking garage across from the library.  Please bring your Senate Avenue garage parking ticket with you to be validated.  Light snacks will be provided.  All talks will begin at 11:00 a.m.  Each lecture is worth 1 LEU.  Registration required.  

Registration deadline is Wednesday, June 5.