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Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Mss 552), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2016

Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Mss 552), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 552. Personal and professional correspondence and papers of Margie Helm, Auburn, Kentucky native and longtime Western Kentucky University head librarian. Includes ancestral and family correspondence and papers, photographs, and genealogical research on the Helm, Carson, Porter, Blakey and related families.


Myers, Rodes Kirby, 1900-1960 (Mss 567), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2016

Myers, Rodes Kirby, 1900-1960 (Mss 567), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 567. Correspondence, speeches and scrapbooks related to the life of Rodes Kirby Myers, Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky from 1939 to 1943. Includes clippings and speeches from political campaigns. Also includes three scrapbooks of clippings related to the trial of Henry Herman Denhardt for the murder of Verna Garr Taylor in 1936.


The Long Red Scare: Anarchism, Antiradicalism, And Ideological Exclusion In The Progressive Era, Adam Quinn Jan 2016

The Long Red Scare: Anarchism, Antiradicalism, And Ideological Exclusion In The Progressive Era, Adam Quinn

Graduate College Dissertations and Theses

From 1919 to 1920 the United States carried out a massive campaign against radicals, arresting and deporting thousands of radical immigrants in a matter of months, raiding and shutting down anarchist printing shops, and preventing anarchists from sending both periodicals and personal communications through the mail. This period is widely known as the First Red Scare, and is framed as a reaction to recent anarchist terrorism, syndicalist unionizing, and the Bolshevik Revolution. Though the 1919-20 First Red Scare was certainly unprecedented in its scope, it was made possible through a longer campaign against radicals, throughout which the US government constructed …