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Procter Family (Sc 2077), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Procter Family (Sc 2077), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2077. Genealogical notes and correspondence relating to the Procter, Carson and Dinwiddie families. Includes a certified copy of the will of Evan Shelby, father of Isaac Shelby, the first governor of Kentucky.
Moore-Mulligan-Brown Collection (Mss 219), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Moore-Mulligan-Brown Collection (Mss 219), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 219. This collection consists chiefly of correspondence of the Moore, Mulligan, Brown and Johns families, who are interrelated. The correspondence deals chiefly with family matters and events occurring in Trigg County, Kentucky and Allen County, Kentucky.
Jubal Early’S Trains: The Battle Of Lynchburg In Historical Memory, John G. Marks
Jubal Early’S Trains: The Battle Of Lynchburg In Historical Memory, John G. Marks
Undergraduate Theses and Capstone Projects
On June 18, 1901, Charles Minor Blackford, brother of Battle of Lynchburg veteran Eugene Blackford, made a speech commemorating the thirty-five year anniversary of the Lynchburg Campaign. In the Battle of Lynchburg, as a part of the wider Shenandoah Valley campaign of 1864, General Jubal Early and the Confederate force defended the city from General David Hunter and the Union in a two-day engagement, marked mostly by skirmishing. Blackford stated in this speech that, “During the night of the 17th, a yard engine, with box cars attached, was run up and down the Southside Railroad, making as much noise as …
Van Valin Family (Sc 2043), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Van Valin Family (Sc 2043), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 2043. Reminiscence about the Civil War Wilderness Campaign written by Waldo C. Van Valin, 1864? (Click on "Additional Files" below for scan); also includes articles and correspondence related to ethnological work done in Alaska, 1912-1919, by William B. Van Valin.
Sumpter, Irene Malone (Moss), 1902-1996 (Mss 273), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sumpter, Irene Malone (Moss), 1902-1996 (Mss 273), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 273. Genealogical research material compiled by Mrs. Sumpter and her husband, Ward Cullin Sumpter. The focus of the collection is on their ancestral families, particularly the Morgan, Moss, Sumpter and Ward families.
Jackson Family Papers (Sc 2011), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jackson Family Papers (Sc 2011), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2011. Legal papers of the Jackson family of Allen County, Kentucky, relating chiefly to property owned by Samuel Jackson. Includes wills and accounts, a teacher's register from 1881, and copies of family photographs.
Hamilton, Andrew Graff, 1835-1895 (Sc 1858), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hamilton, Andrew Graff, 1835-1895 (Sc 1858), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1858. Information, chiefly published items, related to Hamilton's role in the escape of Union prisoners from Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia in 1864. Also, details concerning his 1895 death.
"To Educate, Agitate, And Legislate": Baptists, Methodists, And The Anti-Saloon League Of Virginia, 1901-1910, Mary Beth Mathews
"To Educate, Agitate, And Legislate": Baptists, Methodists, And The Anti-Saloon League Of Virginia, 1901-1910, Mary Beth Mathews
Classics, Philosophy, and Religion Articles
Organized in 1901, the Anti-Saloon League of Virginia (ASLVA) became the leading statewide association in battling the liquor forces. The league claimed to be nonpartisan and nonpolitical; its motto was "The saloon must go."3 A variety of white Protestant clergy and laymen staffed the ASLVA, and these leaders kept up a unified front as they promoted their sale stated goal, the eradication of the saloon.
On The Record : The Visibility Of Race, Class, Gender, And Age In Richmond, Virginia's Newspaper Coverage Of 1960'S Sitdown Movement, Jill Eisenberg
On The Record : The Visibility Of Race, Class, Gender, And Age In Richmond, Virginia's Newspaper Coverage Of 1960'S Sitdown Movement, Jill Eisenberg
Honors Theses
This research project is an analysis of the representation of race, class, gender, and age in local newspapers during the early 1960 civil rights' sitdown movement in Richmond, Virginia. Political figures and heads of media were predominantly older, elite, white- and male-oriented and -dominated. Through studying both white Richmond and African American Richmond newspapers, this thesis explores how these interlocking and interdependent systems of oppression and privilege affected the portrayal of groups and individuals in the media. Gender, race, class, and age cannot be studied in isolation from one another when analyzing the Civil Rights Movement and newspapers as primary …