Professional Activities

Polly and Darrel Bigham at the Indiana Historical Society,

January 17, 2003--after ceremony in which he was named

Hoosier Historian for 2002.

CURRICULUM VITAE

Darrel E. Bigham

Professor of History and Director, Historic Southern Indiana

University of Southern Indiana

8600 University Boulevard

Evansville, Indiana 47712

Telephone: (812) 465-7014 (office); 963-6147 (home)

E-Mail dbigham@usi.edu

Web http://www.usi.edu/hsi/dbigham

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Professor of History, University of Southern Indiana, 1981 - present (assistant professor, 1970 - 1975; associate professor, 1975- 1981). Director of Historic Southern Indiana, University of Southern Indiana, 1986 – present.
Teaching and research interests: American history since 1815, with emphasis on race, ethnicity, religion, and urbanization, especially in the Ohio Valley and the Midwest; the Civil War era, especially Abraham Lincoln; war and peace.

EDUCATION

Ph.D., The University of Kansas, 1970 (United States history)

Rockefeller Fellow, Harvard Divinity School, 1964-1965

B.A., Messiah College, 1964 (history)

PUBLICATIONS

Books

On Jordan's Banks: The Aftermath of Emancipation in the Ohio River Valley (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2005).

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Images of America: Evansville: The World War II Years (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2005).

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(Editor) Proceedings of the Indiana Territory Bicentennial Symposium, June 2000 (Indianapolis, IN: Indiana Historical Society, 2001).

Images of America: Southern Indiana (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2000).

(Co-Author, with Connie Weinzapfel and Susan Branigan) Images of America: New Harmony

(Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 1999).

Images of America: Evansville (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 1998).

Towns and Villages of the Lower Ohio (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998).

(Co-Author) Shared Lives, One Community. (Fort Wayne: Indiana Jewish Historical Society, 1998).

An Evansville Album: Perspectives on a River City, 1812-1988 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988).

We Ask Only a Fair Trial: A History of the Black Community of Evansville, Indiana (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987).

Reflections on a Heritage: The German Americans in Southwestern Indiana (Evansville: Indiana State University Evansville, 1980).

Articles

"The New Lincoln Collections of the Indiana Historical Society," Indiana Magazine of History, 101 (March, 2005): 58-70.

"The Jewish Experience in Evansville: From the Formative Years to the 1880s." Indiana Jewish History,

no. 32 (October, 1998).

"The Evansville Economy and the Second World War," Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History, 3 (Fall, 1991): 26-31.

"The Evansville Argus and Black Evansville, 1938-1943," Black History News and Notes, 24 (February, 1986): 4-8.

"The Black Family in Evansville and Vanderburgh County: A 1900 Postscript," Indiana Magazine of History, LXXVIII (June, 1982): 154-69.

"German and Black Families in Evansville and Vanderburgh County in 1880: A Comparative Study," The Old Northwest, VII (Fall, 1981): 255-75.

"War as Obligation in the Thought of American Christians, 1898-1920," Peace and Change, VIII (Winter, 1981): 45-57.

"Work, Residence, and the Origins of the Black Ghetto in Evansville, 1865-1900,"

Indiana Magazine of History, LXXVI (December, 1980): 187-318.

"The Black Family in Evansville and Vanderburgh County, Indiana, in 1880," Indiana Magazine of History, LXXV (June, 1979): 117-46.

"The New History and Neglected Hoosiers: A Case Study of Blacks in Vanderburgh County, 1850- 1880," Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences, Third Series, XII (1978): 88-97.

"Charles Leich and Company of Evansville: A Note on the Dilemma of German Americans during World War I," Indiana Magazine of History, LXX (June, 1974): 95-121.

"From the Green Mountains to the Tombigbee: Henry Hitchcock in Territorial Alabama," Alabama Review, 26 (July, 1973): 209-28.

3. Chapters in books

"The Ohio River," The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia, ed.

Richard Sisson, Christian Zacher, and Andrew Cayton (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006).

"What Is to be Done? The State of History Education in Indiana," The State of History in Indiana, ed. Paula Corpuz (Indianapolis, IN: Indiana Historical Society, 2001).

"Indiana since the End of the Civil War," Renaissance in the Heartland: The Indiana Experience, ed.

John E. Oliver (Indiana, Pennsylvania: National Council for Geographic Education, 1998).

"The Black Press in Indiana," The Black Press in the Middle West, ed. Henry Lewis Suggs (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996), pp. 51-70.

Contributor, The Encyclopedia of Indianapolis, ed. David J. Bodenhamer and Robert M. Barrows

(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994).

"The Evansville Argus and Black Evansville," Indiana's African-American Heritage: Essays from Black

History News and Notes, ed. Wilma Dulin (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1993).

"River of Opportunity: The Economic Consequence of the Ohio," Always a River: An Anthology, ed. Robert L. Reid (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991).

"Evansville as Willard Carpenter Knew It," Where There's a Willard (Evansville: Friends of Willard Library, 1986).

"The Other LaFollette: Charles M. LaFollette and the Fate of Liberal Republicanism

in Indiana, 1942-1951," Their Infinite Variety: Essays on Hoosier Politicians (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Bureau, 1981).

Contributor to Dictionary of Internationalists, ed. Warren Kuehl (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1983), and A Dictionary of the Christian Church (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1974).

4. Book Reviews

Book reviews in Journal of American History, Indiana Magazine of History, Michigan Historical Review, American Historical Review, The Public Historian, Annals of Iowa, Ohio Valley History, Tennessee Historical Quarterly, and The Old Northwest, 1971-present.

5. Textbooks

Indiana Resource Book (New York: Glencoe/McGraw Hill, 1997). (Glencoe Social Studies: Middle School)

Indiana (Orlando: Harcourt Brace, 1997; 2002) (Historical Consultant; Fourth Grade Textbook)

6. Other

Reviewer of manuscripts for possible publication—University of Illinois Press and University Press of Kentucky, fall 2003; Routledge, fall 2005.

Guest Editor, OAH Magazine of History, (forthcoming Feb. 2008—"Lincoln and Race")

PAPERS /PANEL PRESENTATIONS

Lincoln Colloquium, September 2004 ("From Whig to Republican: What Historians Have Said about Abraham Lincoln and the Consequences of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.")

Organization of American Historians, St. Louis, March 2000 (Panelist: Can We Teach the History of Religion in America in the K-12 Grades?)

Indiana Association of Historians, New Harmony, March 4, 2000 (Chair of Panel, Interpreting New Harmony).

Organization of American Historians, Indianapolis, April 4, 1998 (Chair of Panel on African American History in Indianapolis).

Indiana Association of Historians, Greencastle, February 28, 1998 (Chair of Panel: "History Education at Indiana Historic Sites").

Indiana Association of Historians, Terre Haute, February 26, 1995 (Chair of Panel: "Implementing the

National History Standards").

Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, November 5, 1994 (Panel: "The State of African American History in Indiana").

American Association for State and Local History, Omaha, October 1, 1994 (Panel: "Heritage Tourism: Lessons Learned").

Indiana Association of Historians, New Harmony, February 26, 1994 (Panel Chair: "A Progress Report on the Religious History in the Indiana Schools Initiative").

Indiana Historical Society, Evansville, July 31, 1992 ("The Impact of the First World War on the German Americans of Evansville").

Indiana Association of Historians, Earlham College, February 29, 1992 (Panel Chair: "The Future of the Past in Indiana: The State of History Education in the Hoosier State).

American Association for State and Local History, Flint, Michigan, August 23, 1991 (Panel Chair: "Historic Southern Indiana: Regional Heritage as an Economic Development Strategy").

National Council for the Social Studies, Anaheim, November 19, 1990 (Panel Chair: "Integrating State,

Regional History into the K-12 Curriculum").

Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, November 3, 1990 ("An Overview of the African American Press in Indiana").

Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, November 4, 1989 (Panel Chair: "Marketing Historical Resources: The Historic Southern Indiana Example").

Midwest Archives Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio, November 4, 1988 ("Revisiting The Urban Frontier: the Indiana Experience").

Southern Historical Association, Louisville, November 4, 1984 ("The Impact of World War II on the Black Community of Evansville, Indiana").

Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, November 5, 1983 ("The Evansville Argus and Black Evansville, 1938 - 1943").

Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis, February 24, 1983 ("The German Americans of Southwest

Indiana").

Indiana Black History Conference, IUPUI, April 23, 1982 (""Employment Patterns among Evansville Blacks, 1870-1970").

Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, November 3, 1979 ("Problems and Challenges in the Study of Hoosier Blacks, 1870-1930").

Midwest Archives Conference, Indianapolis, November 9, 1978 ("Area Resources of Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio").

Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences, Muncie, October 7, 1977 ("The New History and Neglected Hoosiers").

American Association for State and Local History, Midwest Workshop, New Harmony, November 10, 1975 ("Historic Sites and the Teaching of History").

American Association of Teachers of German, Indianapolis, October 24, 1975 ("Some Joint Projects for Teachers of German and History").

Great Lakes Regional History Conference, Grand Rapids, May 1, 1975 ("The Rise and Fall of Indiana Klan No. 1, 1921-1929").

Missouri Valley History Conference, Omaha, March, 1973 ("Indiana's First Klan: the KKK in Evansville").

Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, April 14, 1972 ("The German Americans of Evansville: Problems of Wartime Loyalty, 1914-1918").

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

1. Current

Member, Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission (appointed by President Clinton, October 2000); chair, ALBC Education Committee; past president and member of the council, Indiana Association of Historians; Indiana Council for History Education (founder and chair, 1991-2002) *; member, Historical Marker Advisory Committee, Indiana Historical Bureau; Board of Directors, Vanderburgh Co. Historical Society; Vanderburgh County Historian (appointment by the Indiana Historical Society).

Member: Organization of American Historians, American Historical Association, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Indiana Association of Historians, Indiana Historical Society, National Council for Social Studies, and Indiana Council for Social Studies.

2. Previous

Director of a two-year grant project, "Indiana and the New Nation," funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities ($272,000) to improve history teaching in Indiana; Indiana Coordinator, National Council for History Education, 1994-2003; Conference Committee Chair, 1994,Indiana Association of Historians; Chair, Advisory Committee, Teaching the Impact of Religion in American History (Indiana Humanities Council)**;Chair of the Organizing Committee, and first president, Vanderburgh County Historical Society (1981-1984); editorial board, Indiana Magazine of History (1982-1986); president, Society of Indiana Archivists, 1977-1979; board of directors, Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences, 1978-1981; Advisory Committee for Indiana, National Historical Publications and Records Commission, 1978-1983; chairperson, advisory committee, Indiana Oral Labor History Project, 1981-1982; co-director, Regional Archives, Indiana State University Evansville, 1972-1975; past president of the Vanderburgh County Historical Society, 1993-1996, 1997-1998.

Other grants administered: "Growing Up in Evansville," an oral history project funded by the Indiana Humanities Council (1982-1983); "Reflections on a Heritage," on oral history project on German Americans funded by the Indiana Humanities Council (1979-1980); co-director of a Lilly Endowment grant to develop a regional archives at USI (1972-1975).

Other: participant in Newberry Library Family and Community History Workshop, January 1978, and Newberry Institute on Quantitative History, September 1981; member of the planning

committee, NEH planning grant to the Indiana Library Association, January-December 1977; committee member, Resource Policy Planning Committee, Division of Historic Preservation, Indiana Department of Natural Resources, 1981; member, Museum Advisory Committee, Indiana Arts Commission, 1981-1983; planning committee member for Indiana Humanities Council project on black history (1981-1982) and adult reading (1984); member, Indiana Commission on the Bicentennial of the Constitution, 1986-1988; advisory committee, Children's Museum exhibition development (1990).

AWARDS AND HONORS

Recipient of the 1989 Distinguished Professor Award, USI; recipient of the 1987 Faculty Recognition Award given by the USI Alumni Association; listed in Who's Who in America and Who’s Who in the Midwest; named Paul Harris Fellow by Rotary Club of Evansville, June 1992; named Rotarian of the Decade, Rotary Club of Evansville, Fall 1997; named Tall Sagamore of the Wabash by Governor Frank O’Bannon, 2000.

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

1. Current:

Director, Historic Southern Indiana (1986- ); chair and/or member, several History Department committees; co-chair, North Central accreditation review committee on university outreach.

2. Previous:

Chair of the following: Berger Lectureship Committee (1988-1990), USI Constitution Bicentennial Committee (1987-1989), Social Science Faculty Development Committee (1985-1987), Social Science Promotions Committee (1983-1985). Also served as executive director, Leadership Evansville (1976-1979, a quarter-time administrative assignment). Member of the USI Faculty Council, 1972-1974, 1981-1983, and of various university standing committees, 1970- (promotions, curriculum, etc.). Chair, Faculty Council, 1973-1974.

COMMUNITY SERVICE

1. Current:

Member, Evansville Rotary Club Education Committee; Advisory Council, Evansville Museum of Arts and Science; member, the Rotary Club of Evansville, 1974-present; Board of Directors, Vanderburgh County Historical Society.

2. Previous:

Chair, Evansville's 175th Anniversary Committee, 1986-1987; Chair, Metropolitan Evansville Progress Committee, 1983-1985; Chair, Evansville Bicentennial Council, 1974-1977; President of the Board of Directors of the following: Volunteer Action Center, 1983-1985; Evansville Arts and Education Council, 1985-1986; Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, 1979-1981; Democrats for Better Government, 1982-1984.

Board member: Evansville Museum, 1972-1990 (advisory committee, 1990 - ) ; Conrad Baker Foundation, 1971-1980; Evansville-Vanderburgh County Public Library, 1971-1980; editorial advisory board, The Evansville Press,1984- 1986.

* ICHE Home Page: http://www/ihc4u.org/iche

** Religion in America Home Page: http://www.ihc4u.org/relhist.htm

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