| Preface | |
| Preface to The Hooster State | |
| Indiana: The Land and the People | p. 1 |
| A Poetic Question | p. 7 |
| Indiana: A New Perspective | p. 8 |
| Indian Achievements | p. 16 |
| Indiana's Prehistoric Cultures | p. 17 |
| The First Europeans | p. 22 |
| The Failure of French Policy | p. 22 |
| The French Fort at Vincennes | p. 29 |
| A Historian's View | p. 37 |
| The Characters of Henry Hamilton and George Rogers Clark Compared | p. 38 |
| A Participant Writes | p. 45 |
| Our March Upon Vincennes | p. 45 |
| An Enlightened Western Policy | p. 52 |
| The Northwest Ordinance, 1787 | p. 53 |
| Contrary Patterns in Territorial Life | p. 61 |
| Democratic Influences in Territorial Indiana | p. 62 |
| Slavery in the Indiana Territory | p. 67 |
| A Classic Confrontation | p. 70 |
| Tecumseh, Harrison, and the War of 1812 | p. 71 |
| The Battle of Tippecanoe | p. 77 |
| An Eyewitness Account of Tippecanoe | p. 78 |
| Chief Shabonee's Account of Tippecanoe | p. 82 |
| The Nineteenth State | p. 87 |
| Statehood Achieved | p. 88 |
| Pioneers | p. 96 |
| The Settlers | p. 96 |
| Senator Smith's Reminiscences | p. 100 |
| Cultural Centers of the 1820s | p. 106 |
| Robert Owen's New Harmony | p. 107 |
| William Conner's Farm | p. 112 |
| Establishing the Public Schools | p. 116 |
| Transportation Problems and Plans | p. 121 |
| The Wabash and Erie Canal | p. 122 |
| Beginning the Railroad Network | p. 126 |
| Pioneer Agriculture | p. 134 |
| The Farming Seasons | p. 134 |
| The First State Fair | p. 141 |
| Political Developments | p. 145 |
| The Fugitive Slave Law in Operation | p. 145 |
| Birth of the Republican Party in Indiana | p. 148 |
| The Impact of War upon Indiana | p. 155 |
| Indiana in the Civil War | p. 155 |
| Morgan's Raid into Southern Indiana, July 1863 | p. 164 |
| Postwar Patterns | p. 171 |
| The 1870s in Context | p. 173 |
| Governor "Blue Jeans" Williams | p. 180 |
| Natural Gas | p. 186 |
| The Gas Boom | p. 186 |
| Life in the Capital City | p. 192 |
| Indianapolis and Midwestern Culture | p. 192 |
| Manufacturing and Industry | p. 200 |
| The Growth of Manufacturing | p. 201 |
| A New Industry | p. 208 |
| Politics and Prohibition | p. 214 |
| The Riddle of Governor Hanly | p. 214 |
| Roads and Rails | p. 221 |
| Farmers, Postmen, and the Good Roads Movement | p. 221 |
| Indiana's Interurban System | p. 228 |
| Inventions | p. 235 |
| Stellite: "Not Steel but Its Master" | p. 235 |
| The State Centennial | p. 244 |
| Centennial Legacy: The State Park System | p. 245 |
| Practitioners of the Art | p. 250 |
| Hoosier Authors: Who and Why | p. 250 |
| A Cartoonist and a Humorist | p. 260 |
| Autobiographical Excerpts | p. 263 |
| Grandfather's Pants | p. 263 |
| An Ernie Pyle Sampler | p. 269 |
| The Tradition Continues | p. 276 |
| Kurt Vonnegut | p. 276 |
| Jean Shepherd | p. 285 |
| The Ku Klux Klan in Indiana | p. 291 |
| The Klan and a Congressman | p. 292 |
| The Rise and Fall of D. C. Stephenson | p. 302 |
| Higher Education | p. 312 |
| Professor Kinsey at Indiana | p. 313 |
| Politics and Society during the Depression | p. 323 |
| Depression Governor | p. 325 |
| The WPA in Indiana | p. 331 |
| The Revival of the Republican Party | p. 335 |
| Tenant Farming Life During the Depression | p. 341 |
| The Urban Home Front | p. 352 |
| Indiana's Mobilization for War | p. 352 |
| Race Relations in Indiana | p. 357 |
| A Summary View | p. 357 |
| Political Issues following 1945 | p. 360 |
| Senator William E. Jenner | p. 362 |
| House Resolution No. 2 | p. 371 |
| Repeal of the Resolution | p. 375 |
| Economic Issues | p. 379 |
| The Struggle for Burns Harbor | p. 380 |
| Indianapolis on the Rebound | p. 384 |
| Political Issues | p. 390 |
| The 1964 Primary Election | p. 392 |
| One Person, One Vote? | p. 403 |
| High School and Collegiate Sports | p. 406 |
| Indiana's Cinderella Basketball Team | p. 407 |
| Small College Rivalry: Wabash vs. DePauw | p. 412 |
| The Hoosier Character | p. 420 |
| Indiana in the 1950s | p. 421 |
| A Bicentennial View | p. 430 |
| Index | p. 437 |
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