Events

Don't miss the Historic Eleutherian College's Fall Gathering. Join us on October 21 for a day filled with music and history. See you there! ..

As part of its 2023 celebration of Juneteenth, Madison-Jefferson County Public Library in Madison, Indiana, will host a presentation about a formerly enslaved black family from Mississippi that moved to Jefferson County in the early 1850s. Phyllis Codling McLaughlin will present "Robert Jefferson: A Case of Black and...

Join the Madison community for a weekend of celebration marking the 158th anniversary of the day enslaved people in Texas found out that they had been freed. This year also marks the 160th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, which was issued on January 1, 1863...

J. Michael Raley, Hanover College professor of history, will present his latest research on the prominent 19th-century African-American pastor Rev. Moses Broyles during a special Black History Month presentation of the annual Daryl R. Karns Lecture.J. Michael...

The Indiana Historical Society is bringing it’s “Underground Railroad Tour” to Jefferson County March 21 and March 28, 2019. This is the third year for the event and the first time the tour has come to the Madison area. Historian Jeannie Regan-Dinius of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources...