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Indiana University Libraries Publishing is a open-access publisher of books and other long-form works written by members of the Indiana University Bloomington community. This program is overseen by IU's Digital Publishing Librarian.

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    Making Indiana University: History, Landscape, and a Sense of Place
    (Indiana University Bloomington Libraries Publishing, 2026) Capshew, James
    This book sheds light on the creation of Indiana University’s institutional identity and image over its two centuries of existence by investigating the role of historians, archivists, and others in documenting its historical record. As such, it is an exercise in historiography, or the study of the history of IU history. The first part presents a rationale for an inclusive view of contributors to IU history, including not only historians and archivists but also architects, groundskeepers, and other members of its academic community. Essays on the contributions of the first professor as well as the invention of the genre of Indiana University history provides a useful provenance. The second section supplies a chronological study of the history of IU’s distinctive campus design, from its beginning in 1885 to 2020, to illustrate the essential role that place plays in university culture. The third and final part are essays that uncover hidden efforts to sustain the university’s historical record in publications, faculty memorials, and historic preservation. By its interrogation of the sources and methods that construct the historical record, this book makes a unique contribution to the study of Indiana University history and culture.
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    Afterthought: A Family Story
    (Indiana University Bloomington Libraries Publishing, 2025) Akou, Heather
    Afterthought: A Family Story focuses on the life of my grandmother, Lila Slaback, who grew up in a dysfunctional, working-class family in La Crosse, Wisconsin, in the 1930s. In her short adult life, she gave birth to seven children with at least four different men and died in 1958 at age thirty-six. She was a real person, but her family was not proud of her story. This book is my best attempt to recover it. This work of historical fiction can be read like a memoir. With extensive notes and resources, it can also be read as inspiration for researching and writing historical fiction, especially in the United States. As an educational text, it would be appropriate for courses on fashion history, American history, gender roles, family, poverty, healthcare, and generational trauma.
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    Through the Looking Glass: I. Why Cross-Fertilize?
    (IU Libraries Publishing: Grey Literature, 2024) Lively, Curtis M.; Dinges, Zoe
    The following pages represent the first volume of a book. The main goal is to introduce the evolutionary problem of sexual reproduction with a focus on competition between sexual and asexual females. But I also incorporate some ideas on genetic polymorphism and phenotypic plasticity with the goal of exploring variation strategies more generally. Finally, I try to weave in some history of the field along with some philosophy of science.