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| Preface | |
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| Preface to The Hooster State | |
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| Indiana: The Land and the People | |
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| A Poetic Question | |
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| Indiana: A New Perspective | |
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| Indian Achievements | |
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| Indiana's Prehistoric Cultures | |
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| The First Europeans | |
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| The Failure of French Policy | |
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| The French Fort at Vincennes | |
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| A Historian's View | |
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| The Characters of Henry Hamilton and George Rogers Clark Compared | |
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| A Participant Writes | |
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| Our March Upon Vincennes | |
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| An Enlightened Western Policy | |
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| The Northwest Ordinance, 1787 | |
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| Contrary Patterns in Territorial Life | |
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| Democratic Influences in Territorial Indiana | |
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| Slavery in the Indiana Territory | |
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| A Classic Confrontation | |
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| Tecumseh, Harrison, and the War of 1812 | |
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| The Battle of Tippecanoe | |
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| An Eyewitness Account of Tippecanoe | |
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| Chief Shabonee's Account of Tippecanoe | |
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| The Nineteenth State | |
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| Statehood Achieved | |
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| Pioneers | |
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| The Settlers | |
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| Senator Smith's Reminiscences | |
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| Cultural Centers of the 1820s | |
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| Robert Owen's New Harmony | |
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| William Conner's Farm | |
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| Establishing the Public Schools | |
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| Transportation Problems and Plans | |
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| The Wabash and Erie Canal | |
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| Beginning the Railroad Network | |
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| Pioneer Agriculture | |
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| The Farming Seasons | |
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| The First State Fair | |
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| Political Developments | |
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| The Fugitive Slave Law in Operation | |
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| Birth of the Republican Party in Indiana | |
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| The Impact of War upon Indiana | |
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| Indiana in the Civil War | |
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| Morgan's Raid into Southern Indiana, July 1863 | |
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| Postwar Patterns | |
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| The 1870s in Context | |
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| Governor "Blue Jeans" Williams | |
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| Natural Gas | |
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| The Gas Boom | |
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| Life in the Capital City | |
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| Indianapolis and Midwestern Culture | |
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| Manufacturing and Industry | |
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| The Growth of Manufacturing | |
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| A New Industry | |
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| Politics and Prohibition | |
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| The Riddle of Governor Hanly | |
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| Roads and Rails | |
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| Farmers, Postmen, and the Good Roads Movement | |
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| Indiana's Interurban System | |
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| Inventions | |
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| Stellite: "Not Steel but Its Master" | |
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| The State Centennial | |
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| Centennial Legacy: The State Park System | |
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| Practitioners of the Art | |
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| Hoosier Authors: Who and Why | |
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| A Cartoonist and a Humorist | |
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| Autobiographical Excerpts | |
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| Grandfather's Pants | |
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| An Ernie Pyle Sampler | |
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| The Tradition Continues | |
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| Kurt Vonnegut | |
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| Jean Shepherd | |
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| The Ku Klux Klan in Indiana | |
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| The Klan and a Congressman | |
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| The Rise and Fall of D. C. Stephenson | |
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| Higher Education | |
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| Professor Kinsey at Indiana | |
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| Politics and Society during the Depression | |
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| Depression Governor | |
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| The WPA in Indiana | |
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| The Revival of the Republican Party | |
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| Tenant Farming Life During the Depression | |
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| The Urban Home Front | |
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| Indiana's Mobilization for War | |
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| Race Relations in Indiana | |
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| A Summary View | |
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| Political Issues following 1945 | |
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| Senator William E. Jenner | |
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| House Resolution No. 2 | |
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| Repeal of the Resolution | |
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| Economic Issues | |
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| The Struggle for Burns Harbor | |
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| Indianapolis on the Rebound | |
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| Political Issues | |
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| The 1964 Primary Election | |
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| One Person, One Vote? | |
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| High School and Collegiate Sports | |
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| Indiana's Cinderella Basketball Team | |
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| Small College Rivalry: Wabash vs. DePauw | |
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| The Hoosier Character | |
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| Indiana in the 1950s | |
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| A Bicentennial View | |
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| Index | |