Dr. Randy Mills to Receive 2018 Dorothy Riker Hoosier Historian Award

By Andrea Turner | October 23, 2018 | Comments Off on Dr. Randy Mills to Receive 2018 Dorothy Riker Hoosier Historian Award

IHS Presents Oakland City University Professor with 2018 Dorothy Riker Hoosier Historian Award Oakland City, Ind.—Over more than three decades,…

Holiday Authors’ Fair

By Andrea Turner | October 22, 2018 | Comments Off on Holiday Authors’ Fair

Roxanne and I will be two of the featured authors at the Indiana Historical Society’s Holiday Authors’ Fair on December 1,…

The Walkout

By Randy Mills | October 15, 2018 | Comments Off on The Walkout

Digging through the artifacts in the Oakland City University library archives can be enlightening, sometimes dredging up little mysteries to…

Religion & the Divided Frontier

By Randy Mills | September 25, 2018 | Comments Off on Religion & the Divided Frontier

On September 19th, Danny Dunivan and I had the exciting opportunity to represent Oakland City University as guess panelists at…

Recent Article Publications

By Andrea Turner | September 21, 2018 | Comments Off on Recent Article Publications

Randy has published two new articles so far this year. One is “Bound for the Admiralty Islands,” the final installment…

Book Signing at Dubois County Museum

By Andrea Turner | August 1, 2018 | Comments Off on Book Signing at Dubois County Museum

Roxanne and I will be doing a book signing for our book, Summer Wind: A Soldier’s Road from Indiana to…

High School Basketball

By Randy Mills | July 24, 2018 | Comments Off on High School Basketball

This photo, taken from the 1969 Webber Township (Bluford) High School yearbook, shows me as a rather solemn looking senior…

Interview on WFYI’s ‘No Limits’

By Randy Mills | July 9, 2018 | Comments Off on Interview on WFYI’s ‘No Limits’

Roxanne and I were recently interviewed on Indianapolis NPR station, WFYI by John Krull. John hosts the show No Limits. It always such…

Wherefrom the General Baptists of the Midwest and Upper South?

By Randy Mills | June 26, 2018 | Comments Off on Wherefrom the General Baptists of the Midwest and Upper South?

In 1994, the Indiana Historical Society awarded me a generous CLIO Grant to carry out research and write about a…

Dear Dad…

By Randy Mills | June 16, 2018 | Comments Off on Dear Dad…

I found this photo in Mary Frances’ worn brown scrapbook, the one filled with the letters you sent her when…

An Officer of Admirable Courage

By Randy Mills | June 11, 2018 | Comments Off on An Officer of Admirable Courage

Lyles Station, Indiana native Aaron Fisher was Indiana’s most highly decorated African American soldier of WWI.  I wrote an article about…

If These Walls Could Talk: The Story of Cockrum Hall

By Randy Mills | June 4, 2018 | Comments Off on If These Walls Could Talk: The Story of Cockrum Hall

Cockrum Hall is the oldest building on the Oakland City University campus. Many dramatic legends abound concerning this grand and…