Robert W White

Research by Robert W. White, Professor of Sociology. The causes and consequences of political violence and historical studies of the State of Indiana.

Articles related to Indiana and Indiana History​

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Madison Regatta Photo taken by Robert White

White, Robert W. “The Greensburg Race Riot of 1907: Race and a ‘Sundown Town.’” 2023. Indiana Magazine of History 119 (March): 27-78. 
White, Robert W. and Steven J. Schmidt. 2018. “‘Who Ya Gonna Call?’ Ghosts and Spirits of the Indiana State Library and Historical Bureau.” Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History, 30 (Summer): 46-55.

White, Robert W. and Andrew J. Baker. 2012. “The Indy Racing League and the Indianapolis 500: Increasing Competition in Open-Wheeled Racing in the United States,” with Andrew J. Baker. Magazine Americana: Sports.

White, Robert W. 2010. “Hoosier Genealogy and Indiana History: Using each to inform the other.” The Hoosier Genealogist: Connections 50 (Spring/Summer): 14-21.

White, Robert W. and Thomas H. White. 2010. “Part 2: Second and Third Hoosier Generations of White-Eggleston Family in Decatur County, Indiana, Indianapolis, and Places West, 1821-1947.” The Hoosier Genealogist: Connections 50 (Spring/Summer): 48-55.

White, Robert W. and Thomas H. White. 2009. “Part 1: First Hoosier Generations of White and Eggleston Families in Ohio and in Dearborn County, Indiana, 1630-1853.” The Hoosier Genealogist: Connections 49 (2) Fall/Winter: 114-119.

Robert White at the Decatur County grave of his 4th great-grandfather, Thomas Fortune (1772-1853)
Robert White at the Decatur County grave of his 4th great-grandfather, Thomas Fortune (1772-1853)