| Editor's Note | Indiana Magazine of History, 100.1

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Editor's Note

Studying history connects us to our past.	1
Such was the thinking that led to the creation of this magazine ninety-nine years ago. Editor George Cottman and his contributors believed themselves engaged in a vital battle against forgetfulness and aimless change—a battle to rescue obscure documents and preserve fading memories. Around them industry, large-scale agriculture, urbanization, and a growing population of immigrants threatened the rural and small-town Indiana that they and other longtime Hoosiers recalled. With their artistic and literary contemporaries, the new generation of Indiana historians crafted a picture of a bygone place of self-sufficient craftsmen and farmers, of simple folk wisdom, and shared moral values.	2
One of the ironies of studying history is that it opens our eyes to the inconsistency of the record of the past—a record that is for the most part one of change and disagreement. Things—to modify the old cliché—never were what they used to be. In the years since our first issue in 1905, the changes that turn-of-the-century Indianans lamented have themselves become the subject of historical analysis, even of sentimental longing.	. . .

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