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Knott Family Papers (Mss 675), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Knott Family Papers (Mss 675), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 675. Papers and photographs of James Proctor Knott, Lebanon, Kentucky, and his wife Sarah "Sallie" (McElroy) Knott. Includes two journals of Sallie Knott covering the first eight years of their marriage (Click on "Additional Files" below to view typescripts), and miscellaneous papers of a related family, the Clarks.
Traces Volume 46, Number 2, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Traces Volume 46, Number 2, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Traces, the Southern Central Kentucky, Barren County Genealogical Newsletter
Traces, the South Central Kentucky Genealogical Society's quarterly newsletter, was first published in 1973. The Society changed its name in 2016 to the Barren County Historical Society. The publication features compiled genealogies, articles on local history, single-family studies and unpublished source materials related to this area.
Pond, Noah Sherman, 1815-1892 (Sc 3203), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Pond, Noah Sherman, 1815-1892 (Sc 3203), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full text of letters (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3203. Four letters, 1836-1837, of Noah S. Pond to his sister and brother-in-law in Washington, Connecticut. Writing from New Design, Trigg County, Kentucky, where he is working as a peddler, Pond describes many aspects of life in frontier Kentucky: changeable weather, agricultural practices and prices, lay preaching, voting, and the lives of slaves, who he believes are well treated and better off than the poor in the North. He describes selling to a Dutchman who dislikes “Yankees,” notes recent political developments, and finds Kentucky …
Traces Volume 45, Number 1, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Traces Volume 45, Number 1, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Traces, the Southern Central Kentucky, Barren County Genealogical Newsletter
Traces, the South Central Kentucky Genealogical Society's quarterly newsletter, was first published in 1973. The Society changed its name in 2016 to the Barren County Historical Society. The publication features compiled genealogies, articles on local history, single-family studies and unpublished source materials related to this area.
Mcreynolds, Benjamin, 1769-1845 (Mss 603), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcreynolds, Benjamin, 1769-1845 (Mss 603), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scans of selected items (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 603. Manuscript books of sermons, religious, medical and other writings created by Benjamin McReynolds, a Butler County, Kentucky Methodist minister. Includes family history and records of schools operated by McReynolds.
Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter Volume 38, Numbers 1 & 2, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter Volume 38, Numbers 1 & 2, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter
This issue contains a topical Index to articles in the Longhunter 2001-2012 and a history of the Little Muddy church in Butler County, KY
Traces Volume 43, Number 2, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Traces Volume 43, Number 2, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Traces, the Southern Central Kentucky, Barren County Genealogical Newsletter
Traces, the South Central Kentucky Genealogical Society's quarterly newsletter, was first published in 1973. The Society changed its name in 2016 to the Barren County Historical Society. The publication features compiled genealogies, articles on local history, single-family studies and unpublished source materials related to this area.
Traces Volume 42, Number 3, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Traces Volume 42, Number 3, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Traces, the Southern Central Kentucky, Barren County Genealogical Newsletter
Traces, the South Central Kentucky Genealogical Society's quarterly newsletter, was first published in 1973. The Society changed its name in 2016 to the Barren County Historical Society. The publication features compiled genealogies, articles on local history, single-family studies and unpublished source materials related to this area.
Arts & Letters: The Magazine Of Potter College At Western Kentucky University, David Lee, Dean, Kelly Scott, Managing Editor, Potter College Of Arts & Letters, Western Kentucky University
Arts & Letters: The Magazine Of Potter College At Western Kentucky University, David Lee, Dean, Kelly Scott, Managing Editor, Potter College Of Arts & Letters, Western Kentucky University
PCAL Publications
No abstract provided.
Arts & Letters: The Magazine Of Potter College At Western Kentucky University, David Lee, Dean, Kelly Scott, Managing Editor, Western Kentucky University
Arts & Letters: The Magazine Of Potter College At Western Kentucky University, David Lee, Dean, Kelly Scott, Managing Editor, Western Kentucky University
PCAL Publications
No abstract provided.
Mammoth Cave, Slavery, And Kentucky: Overcoming The Chains That Bind, Susan Farmer
Mammoth Cave, Slavery, And Kentucky: Overcoming The Chains That Bind, Susan Farmer
The Student Researcher: A Phi Alpha Theta Publication
No abstract provided.
Bryant, David Lee, 1923-2000 (Sc 2799), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bryant, David Lee, 1923-2000 (Sc 2799), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan for Manuscripts Small Collection 2799. Typescripted personal history of David Lee Bryant (1923-2000) describing his upbringing in Todd County, Kentucky, his World War II military service, his capture by the Germans and liberation by the Russian Army, his subsequent work for a wholesale grocery firm, and his wife and three sons. Includes article about Bryant published 5 February 1986 in the (Greenville, Kentucky) Leader-News, and explanatory letter of his son Gary L. Bryant, 21 November 2013.
Young, Bennett Henderson, 1843-1919 (Sc 2725), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Young, Bennett Henderson, 1843-1919 (Sc 2725), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scanned copy (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2725. Paper titled “Division of the Presbyterian Church in Kentucky,” in which Bennett Henderson Young describes how the church split during the turbulent 1860s.
Tabor, Sharon - Collector (Sc 2704), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Tabor, Sharon - Collector (Sc 2704), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of contents (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2704. Calendar of events, historic walking tour information, and Pioneer Cemetery Lantern Tour scripts and supporting research, all relating to Civil War Sesquicentennial commemorations in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes information on Civil War-era burials in Pioneer Cemetery.
Interview With Pearl Perguson Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Pearl Perguson Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Oral Histories
Transcription of an interview with Pearl Perguson conducted by Kevin Eans for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Perguson discusses her life and times, including information about social life and reactions to national events in the small town of Horse Branch, Ohio County, Kentucky.
Tosh, Ted Rockwell (Sc 2462), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Tosh, Ted Rockwell (Sc 2462), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full text of manuscript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2462. Compact disc with electronic copy of "Benjamin Helm Bristow," a biography of the Elkton, Kentucky native, state senator and U.S. Solicitor General by Ted Rockwell Tosh. The 494-page biography includes bibliography and index.
"Is Kentucky A Southern State?", Leah Dale Pritchett
"Is Kentucky A Southern State?", Leah Dale Pritchett
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
his paper explores the cultural identity of Kentucky. Many people have asked, “Is Kentucky as Southern State?” Being the borderland between the North and the South, the Commonwealth has been viewed as Southern, as part of the Midwest, and something completely unique. To define Kentucky as Southern, I have examined the literary works of different regional authors. Looking at the character traits those authors have relegated to their manufactured people, I have decided, from the evidence provided, whether that author considers his or her setting as part of the South. One can tell whether the author identifies with the South …
Henry Hardin Cherry: The Early Period Of A Life's Work, Kevin T. Smiley
Henry Hardin Cherry: The Early Period Of A Life's Work, Kevin T. Smiley
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
The first fifty years of Henry Hardin Cherry show a very formative period of his life. Born in 1864, Cherry left his family farm at the age of 21 to pursue his own education and by 1892 become head of a school in Bowling Green that was in trouble financially and and also had a shrinking enrollment. He began the transformation of this school and it became his life's work. This work included keeping the Southern Normal School afloat in its assorted difficulties, getting the school installed as a state-supported normal school and gaining adequate funding from the state to …
Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter Volume 31, Number 3 & 4, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter Volume 31, Number 3 & 4, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 22, Wku Student Affairs
Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 22, Wku Student Affairs
WKU Archives Records
WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.
Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 8, Wku Student Affairs
Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 8, Wku Student Affairs
WKU Archives Records
WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.
Traces Volume 33, Number 1, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Traces Volume 33, Number 1, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Traces, the Southern Central Kentucky, Barren County Genealogical Newsletter
Traces, the South Central Kentucky Genealogical Society's quarterly newsletter, was first published in 1973. The Society changed its name in 2016 to the Barren County Historical Society. The publication features compiled genealogies, articles on local history, single-family studies and unpublished source materials related to this area.
Traces Volume 32, Number 2, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Traces Volume 32, Number 2, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Traces, the Southern Central Kentucky, Barren County Genealogical Newsletter
Traces, the South Central Kentucky Genealogical Society's quarterly newsletter, was first published in 1973. The Society changed its name in 2016 to the Barren County Historical Society. The publication features compiled genealogies, articles on local history, single-family studies and unpublished source materials related to this area.
Ua1d We Were One And Two Teammates, Vernon Hornback
Ua1d We Were One And Two Teammates, Vernon Hornback
WKU Archives Records
Undated autobiographical sketch written by Ted Hornback. He includes his experiences as a Hilltopper basketball player under E. A. Diddle, work as coach at Elkhorn and experiences working as Diddle's as assistant coach.
Jeremiah Osborn (And Some Descendants) Of Hampshire County (West) Virginia, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Jeremiah Osborn (And Some Descendants) Of Hampshire County (West) Virginia, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Research Collections
No abstract provided.
Kentucky Humanities Council Catalog 2001-2002, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Kentucky Humanities Council Catalog 2001-2002, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Kentucky Humanities Council Catalog
The Kentucky Humanities Council is an independent, nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities committed to providing programs and services that facilitate an understanding and appreciation of Kentucky’s cultural heritage and future. The Council’s program catalog features scholars from across the Commonwealth who make presentations on a myriad of humanities topics. Later, costumed actors, who delivered dramatic monologues about Kentucky’s famous, infamous, and composite personalities, were added. The catalog has gone by various titles over the years: Kentucky Humanities Resource Center, Kentucky Humanities Council Speakers Bureau, Whole Humanities Catalog, and Humanities Catalog. This …
Traces Volume 27, Number 1, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Traces Volume 27, Number 1, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Traces, the Southern Central Kentucky, Barren County Genealogical Newsletter
Traces, the South Central Kentucky Genealogical Society's quarterly newsletter, was first published in 1973. The Society changed its name in 2016 to the Barren County Historical Society. The publication features compiled genealogies, articles on local history, single-family studies and unpublished source materials related to this area.
Traces Volume 26, Number 3, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Traces Volume 26, Number 3, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Traces, the Southern Central Kentucky, Barren County Genealogical Newsletter
Traces, the South Central Kentucky Genealogical Society's quarterly newsletter, was first published in 1973. The Society changed its name in 2016 to the Barren County Historical Society. The publication features compiled genealogies, articles on local history, single-family studies and unpublished source materials related to this area.
Traces Volume 25, Number 1, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Traces Volume 25, Number 1, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Traces, the Southern Central Kentucky, Barren County Genealogical Newsletter
Traces, the South Central Kentucky Genealogical Society's quarterly newsletter, was first published in 1973. The Society changed its name in 2016 to the Barren County Historical Society. The publication features compiled genealogies, articles on local history, single-family studies and unpublished source materials related to this area.
Muhlenberg County Heritage Volume 19, Number 1, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Muhlenberg County Heritage Volume 19, Number 1, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Muhlenberg County Heritage
“The Muhlenberg County [Kentucky] Heritage” was published four times a year by the Muhlenberg County Genealogical Society in Greenville, Kentucky, from 1978 to 2001. The cover title sometimes appears as “The Heritage.” The publication’s purpose was to support the society and to publish information about the genealogy, culture, and history of Muhlenberg County. A separate annual index was printed each year for volumes 1-14. Afterwards, each issue was indexed separately. Generally, the index is to surnames only.