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Hines, Clara Ursula (Wright) Nahm, 1904-1983 (Mss 561), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2015

Hines, Clara Ursula (Wright) Nahm, 1904-1983 (Mss 561), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 561. Personal diaries of Clara (Wright) Hines, Bowling Green, Kentucky, kept during her marriage to food critic Duncan Hines and after his death. Includes some correspondence, travel itineraries, and miscellaneous papers.


Barnes, Emma Lily, 1929-2014 - Letters To, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2015

Barnes, Emma Lily, 1929-2014 - Letters To, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding Aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2934. Letters to Emma Lily Barnes, written to her in Beaver Dam and Carlisle, Kentucky, by future husband Allen Cloud during his military service in Japan, and by classmates at the University of Kentucky. Included are several describing travel in Israel


Carpenter, Sidney Crider, 1914-2014 (Sc 2884), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2015

Carpenter, Sidney Crider, 1914-2014 (Sc 2884), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2884. Digital images of photographs, passports, Kentucky Senate resolution related to 100th birthday, certificate from the Cumberland Trace Chapter of the Military Officers Association, four pieces of currency—Japanese (3) and Russian (1); military identification, from Sidney Crider Carpenter of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Most of the material relates to Carpenter's military career and his role as a coach for several national and international marksmanship teams. Also digital copies of a Korean War photograph album and a 1929 Boy Scout diary kept by Carpenter.


Current Events Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 543), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2015

Current Events Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 543), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 543. Minutes, yearbooks, administrative papers and program information relating to the Current Events Club, a ladies literary club in Bowling Green, Kentucky, that was founded in 1902.


Responding To “Comfort Woman” Denial At Central Washington University, Mark J. Auslander, Chong Eun Ahn Jun 2015

Responding To “Comfort Woman” Denial At Central Washington University, Mark J. Auslander, Chong Eun Ahn

Anthropology and Museum Studies Faculty Scholarship

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Drake, Louise (Carson), 1894-1979 (Mss 536), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2015

Drake, Louise (Carson), 1894-1979 (Mss 536), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 536. Correspondence, notebooks, family histories, photocopies of wills, deeds, and other genealogical research of Louise (Carson) Drake of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes her roster of Revolutionary War soldiers who died in Kentucky.


The Atomic Bombings Of Japan - Right Or Wrong?, William Weiss May 2015

The Atomic Bombings Of Japan - Right Or Wrong?, William Weiss

ERAU Prescott Aviation History Program

Few Presidential actions have generated more controversy than Truman’s decision to use atomic bombs against Japan to end WW II. Local historian Bill Weiss examines the issues based on recently released information from formerly secret American and Russian archives. Learn what the last months were like in the Pacific; American preparations for a possible invasion and Japan’s mindset at this crucial time that lead to the life-saving decision.


Textbooks And Their Portrayal Of Japan In World War Ii, Harry Lah May 2015

Textbooks And Their Portrayal Of Japan In World War Ii, Harry Lah

History Class Publications

“Good morning everyone, now if you’ll turn in your books with me to page...” drones the voice of the teacher, it can be any teacher, teaching history in a typical high school. Those words dreaded by students of all ages and from all generations that attended schools within the public school system of their respective states. Many students dreaded these classes, but they were no doubt influenced by them. By sitting in them they were presented with information both new and old about their state and country from their teacher, and perhaps more significantly, whatever textbook they had in school. …


Baker, Walter Arnold, 1937-2010 (Mss 539), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2015

Baker, Walter Arnold, 1937-2010 (Mss 539), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 539. This small collection contains material related to legislative matters of interest to Kentucky legislator and jurist Walter A. Baker, Glasgow, Kentucky. Also includes files about several trips abroad and family material.


Jackson Family Letters (Sc 2883), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2015

Jackson Family Letters (Sc 2883), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2883. V-mails to Aph P. Jackson, Eminence, Kentucky from her sons, Eli O. Jackson and Laban P. Jackson, written during their military service in World War II. Laban comments on a new birth in the family, on news of German and Japanese atrocities, and on the domestic peace movement; Eli asks about their farm and requests some twists of chewing tobacco.


Lone Wolves And Stray Dogs: The Japanese Crime Film, 1931-1969, Aaron Gerow, Rea Amit, Samuel Malissa, Noriko Morisue, Hsin-Yuan Peng, Stephen Poland, Grace Ting, Takuya Tsunoda, Justine Wiesinger, Young Yi, Inuhiko Yomota, Jō Ōsawa, Phil Kaffen Jan 2015

Lone Wolves And Stray Dogs: The Japanese Crime Film, 1931-1969, Aaron Gerow, Rea Amit, Samuel Malissa, Noriko Morisue, Hsin-Yuan Peng, Stephen Poland, Grace Ting, Takuya Tsunoda, Justine Wiesinger, Young Yi, Inuhiko Yomota, Jō Ōsawa, Phil Kaffen

Film Series Commentaries

“Lone Wolves and Stray Dogs: The Japanese Crime Film, 1931–1969” is a continuing collaboration between the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University and the National Film Center of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. Ever since the success of the French crime film Zigomar in 1911, the Japanese film industry has produced numerous movies depicting criminals and the detectives who try to apprehend them. Chivalric yakuza, modern mobsters, knife-wielding molls, hardboiled gumshoes, samurai detectives, femme fatales, and private eyes populate Japanese cinema, from period films to contemporary dramas, from genre cinema to art film, from the …