The Octofoil, October/November/December 2010,
2010
College of the Holy Cross
The Octofoil, October/November/December 2010, Ninth Infantry Division Association
The Octofoil
The Octofoil is the offical publication of the Ninth Infantry Division Association, Inc., an organization formed by the officers and men of the 9th Infantry Division in order to perpetuate the memory of fallen comrades, preserve the esprit de corps of the Division, promote peace and serve as an information bureau about the 9th Infantry Division. The Association is made up of 9th Infantry veterans from WWII and Vietnam, spouses, widows and lineal descendants.
Forgy, James Monroe, 1820-1895 (Sc 2354),
2010
Western Kentucky University
Forgy, James Monroe, 1820-1895 (Sc 2354), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2354. Partial account book of James Monroe Forgy, Morgantown, Kentucky, recording his work as pension agent for Civil War veterans. Includes some miscellaneous personal accounts. Also includes biographical data.
Stanley, William (Sc 2353),
2010
Western Kentucky University
Stanley, William (Sc 2353), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2353. Morning report of Captain William Stanley's Company G, 6th Regiment, Kentucky Infantry, a Confederate regiment. The report shows numbers present, absent, and sick, but does not name individual members.
Rigsby, James Edward, 1845-1930 (Sc 2351),
2010
Western Kentucky University
Rigsby, James Edward, 1845-1930 (Sc 2351), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2351. Certificate appointing James E. Rigsby as Corporal, Company C, 52nd Kentucky Volunteer Mounted Infantry, 1 November 1863; and Rigsby's certificate of discharge from military service, 17 January 1865.
Tolle, Donald James, 1918-1993 (Sc 2344),
2010
Western Kentucky University
Tolle, Donald James, 1918-1993 (Sc 2344), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Typescripted World War II diary of Donald James Tolle, kept 1942-1945 while serving in England, Italy and North Africa with the Army Air Corps, 47th Bombardment Group (Light). Includes diary annotations made in 1988, materials from a 1979 reunion of the Bombardment Group, biographical data on Tolle, his obituary, and a colleague's remarks at his memorial service.
Gatliff, Charles, 1745-1838 (Sc 2336),
2010
Western Kentucky University
Gatliff, Charles, 1745-1838 (Sc 2336), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2336. Materials relating to the pension applications of Charles Gatliff and, later, his widow. Includes his descriptions of his Revolutionary War military experiences.
History Of Communication And Its Application In Multicultaral,Multilingual Social System In India Across Ages,
2010
India Today Group
History Of Communication And Its Application In Multicultaral,Multilingual Social System In India Across Ages, Ratnesh Dwivedi Mr
Ratnesh Dwivedi
The history of communication dates back to the earliest signs of cavemen.Communication can range from very subtle processes of exchange, to full conversations and mass communication. Human communication was revolutionized with speech perhaps 200,000 years ago, Symbols were developed about 30,000 years ago and writing about 7,000. On a much shorter scale, there have been major developments in the field of telecommunication in the past few centuries.
Stevens Family Papers (Sc 2310),
2010
Western Kentucky University
Stevens Family Papers (Sc 2310), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 2310. Sundry papers, including letters written by Albert L. Stevens from a military hospital in Russellville, Kentucky, to his brother William J. Stevens during the Civil War (Click on "Additional Files" below for scans and typescripts). The bulk of the collection consists of deeds and indentures of various Stevens family members, particularly William J., Robert W., and William W. Stevens of Hopkins County, Kentucky. Also includes fifty Bowling Green, Kentucky city operational licenses for the Broadway Roller Mills, 1923-1974.
World War Ii, 1939-1945 - Letters (Mss 330),
2010
Western Kentucky University
World War Ii, 1939-1945 - Letters (Mss 330), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 330. Letters written to parents, friends, faculty and staff of Western Kentucky University by students during their service in World War II. Includes some press releases, newspaper articles, photos. Also includes a history, travel log and publications of the U.S.S. Stevens.
World War Ii, 1939-1945 - Letters (Mss 330),
2010
Western Kentucky University
World War Ii, 1939-1945 - Letters (Mss 330), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Letters written to parents, friends, faculty and staff of Western Kentucky University by students during their service in Word War II. Includes some press releases, newspaper articles and photos. Also includes a history and travel log of the U.S.S. Stevens.
Smith, Furman A., 1834-1918 - Collector (Sc 2299),
2010
Western Kentucky University
Smith, Furman A., 1834-1918 - Collector (Sc 2299), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 2299. Chiefly incoming letters which concern an estate settlement for Abraham Smith and family news. Civil War-era letters written by William Riley Smith (Click on "Additional Files" below) contain comments about the war and contain expressions of his attitudes toward African Americans. Also includes a church letter of transfer for Furman Smith and his wife and a small amount of genealogical information about the Smith family.
Smith Family Papers (Sc 2302),
2010
Western Kentucky University
Smith Family Papers (Sc 2302), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 2302. Chiefly letters from Barnett Smith, Fort Sill, Oklahoma Territory and Camp Wheeler, Huntsville, Alabama to his mother in Hadley, Warren County, Kentucky, 1898. He describes his military training and ponders being shipped to Cuba. Also includes (Click on "Additional Files" below for scans) an 1865 letter from Union soldier James W. Howard of Butler County, Kentucky, Howard’s discharge certificate, an 1863 slavery bill of sale, and an 1873 receipt for a coffin.
Sprowl, Wilson (Sc 2308),
2010
Western Kentucky University
Sprowl, Wilson (Sc 2308), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2308. Brief World War I letters from Wilson Sprowl to family members in Monroe County, Kentucky while he was stationed at Camp Zachary Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky and Camp Custer in Battle Creek, Michigan. Also, a welcoming letter from King George V to American troops, and a billet for a bunk on the U.S.S. Florida that includes instructions for troop conduct.
Warren County, Kentucky - World War Ii Servicemen (Mss 326),
2010
Western Kentucky University
Warren County, Kentucky - World War Ii Servicemen (Mss 326), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 326. Data and newspaper clippings on U.S. military personnel from Warren County, collected during their service in World War II. The seventy pages of names includes women and African Americans.
Shattered Communities: Soldiers, Rabbis, And The Ostjuden Under German Occupation: 1915-1918,
2010
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Shattered Communities: Soldiers, Rabbis, And The Ostjuden Under German Occupation: 1915-1918, Tracey Hayes Norrell
Doctoral Dissertations
“Shattered Communities: Soldiers, Rabbis, and the Ostjuden during Occupation: 1915-1918" addresses the interethnic experience in Poland during the German occupation of 1915-1918. This dissertation demonstrates that the German design for 'modernization' of the East began with the First World War, which envisioned the Jews as a critically vital component, rather than an obstacle to their success. The German military made its connection to the peoples in the East via its own army rabbis and Jewish administrators. This work examines the role of the German Army rabbis, in 1915, in establishing a Jewish press and Jewish schools, along with Jewish relief …
Behind The Shield-Wall: The Experience Of Combat In Late Anglo-Saxon England,
2010
Clemson University
Behind The Shield-Wall: The Experience Of Combat In Late Anglo-Saxon England, Jordan Poss
All Theses
Most studies of the Anglo-Saxon military examine its structural ties to economic and social structures, rarely investigating Anglo-Saxon battle itself. This paper asks the question 'What was it like to have been in battle with the Anglo-Saxon army?' After introducing the topic in a study of the 991 Battle of Maldon and describing the development of the Anglo-Saxon military system between the fifth and eleventh centuries, this paper relies on case studies of the most thoroughly-documented Anglo-Saxon battles, those of 1066--Fulford Gate, Stamford Bridge, and Hastings--to reconstruct the conditions of Anglo-Saxon combat and their effects on the men who fought …
Metallurgy In The Roman Forts Of Scotland: An Archaeological Analysis,
2010
Rhode Island College
Metallurgy In The Roman Forts Of Scotland: An Archaeological Analysis, Scott S. Stetkiewicz
Honors Projects Overview
Investigates the presence of metalworking in thirty-seven Roman forts in Scotland during the Flavian, Antonine, and Severan occupations largely through analysis of published documentation concerning relevant archaeological excavations.
Modernity, Capitalism, And War: Toward A Sociology Of War In The Nineteenth Century, 1815-1914,
2010
University of Tennessee
Modernity, Capitalism, And War: Toward A Sociology Of War In The Nineteenth Century, 1815-1914, Eric Royal Lybeck
Masters Theses
The academic discipline of Sociology has rarely broached the subject of war and its recursive relationship with society. This paper addresses three major approaches in several disciplines that can be deemed ‘economically deterministic’: Marxist, Liberal, and Realist. These approaches can be useful for certain questions, but also leave out, or cloud other non-economic variables in understanding war – notably culture and military variables themselves. By using Karl Polanyi’s thesis regarding the “Myth of the Hundred Years’ Peace” (1815-1914) as a foil, the historical case of war in the nineteenth century is used to highlight the nature of war in European …
Robertson, Gabrielle, 1889-1970 (Mss 323),
2010
Western Kentucky University
Robertson, Gabrielle, 1889-1970 (Mss 323), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 323. Chiefly letters to Gabrielle Robertson, History Department faculty member, Western Kentucky University, 1916 to 1960. Of particular interest are those letters from former students serving in the military during World War II. Also includes genealogical materials and family photographs.
Pearson, Murl D., 1920-1970 (Sc 2285),
2010
Western Kentucky University
Pearson, Murl D., 1920-1970 (Sc 2285), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2285. Letters sent from Murl D. Pearson, England, to his parents, Dewey and Cora Pearson, Bowling Green, Kentucky, in which he relates information about his service in the U.S. Army in World War II. Pearson was working at a desk job in England during the course of these letters.
