Author: Amanda Read Sheik

Harvey Wiley featured in “Indiana’s 200”

I’m now a published biographer of Harvey Wiley, thanks to an invitation to contribute to a…

On June 30th, 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt signed into law the Pure Food and Drug…

Dr. George B. Loring was Commissioner of Agriculture and in search of a new chemist…

We are quite aware of Harvey Wiley’s poetic abilities by now. But his poems about…

September 22, 2014 / Amanda Read Sheik / Literature on Wiley

In 2016, in honor of the Hoosier State’s 200th anniversary, the Indiana Historical Society Press will…

The Prelinger Archives house what some have called “the first 35 mm film ever that…

The Crusading Chemist screenplay has been officially copyrighted by Amanda Read via the Library of…