Currently, Black newspapers are found in Ft. Wayne, Gary, and Indianapolis. We have a good representation of Prohibitionist Party papers from the 180s to 1920s, and Union newspapers from early 1900 to the present. Our collection even holds penal press publications from the State Reformatory and the Boys School. The Ku Klux Klan was a strong political and community influence in Indiana in the early 1920s, and we have a Klan newspaper, The Fiery Cross , as well as newspapers that supported the Klan and those that opposed it.
University newspapers are available.
We have Indiana, Purdue, Notre Dame, and Ball State Universities' available on microfilm. Other instutions are Indiana State University and Vincennes University. These can be searched for university activities, club and fraternity events, and university sports. Indexes and Sources for Newspaper Holdings Newspaper indexes are held both in the Indiana Division and the Genealogy Division of the Indiana State Library. These have been compiled by volunteers, library staff, and through WPA projects at various times.