Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Discipline
-
- History (47)
- United States History (46)
- Military History (13)
- Education (4)
- Architecture (3)
-
- Social History (3)
- Social and Behavioral Sciences (3)
- Business (2)
- Civil and Environmental Engineering (2)
- Engineering (2)
- Historic Preservation and Conservation (2)
- Law (2)
- Legal Profession (2)
- Modern Languages (2)
- Playwriting (2)
- Sociology (2)
- Theatre and Performance Studies (2)
- Women's History (2)
- Accounting (1)
- African American Studies (1)
- American Politics (1)
- Art Practice (1)
- Art and Design (1)
- Civil Engineering (1)
- Criminology (1)
- Cultural Resource Management and Policy Analysis (1)
- Interior Architecture (1)
- Latin American Languages and Societies (1)
- Medicine and Health Sciences (1)
Articles 1 - 30 of 49
Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Tolle Collection (Mss 524), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Tolle Collection (Mss 524), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 524. Correspondence and papers of the Tolle family of Barren County, Kentucky. Includes data on the Tolle, Snoddy and Bransford families, William Daniel Tolle’s history of Barren County, and materials relating to his work as a veteran’s pension claims agent.
Jarvis, George P., B. 1843? (Sc 2874), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jarvis, George P., B. 1843? (Sc 2874), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full text (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2874. Letter, 18 February 1862, of George P. Jarvis to L.R. Jarvis and friends in Athens County, Ohio, written while he was serving with the 3rd Ohio Infantry. He describes in detail the advance of his and other regiments on Bowling Green, Kentucky, their engagements with Confederate forces, and the destruction wrought by the Confederates during their retreat. Writing from one of the “principal houses” in town, Jarvis praises the taking of Bowling Green, calling it “one of the strongholds of this state” and the “Gibraltar …
Duncan, Kate Northcott (Clagett), 1892-1983 (Mss 520), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Duncan, Kate Northcott (Clagett), 1892-1983 (Mss 520), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 520. Correspondence, diaries, genealogical research, and Browning Club programs of Bowling Green, Kentucky native Kate (Clagett) Duncan. Includes her writings on the history of Bowling Green’s Presbyterian Church and some correspondence and papers of her husband, Carroll Allen Duncan.
Jackson, Harry Lucellus, 1907-1985 (Sc 2872), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jackson, Harry Lucellus, 1907-1985 (Sc 2872), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2872. Two letters of Harry L. Jackson, Bratenahl, Ohio, to Jane (Hines) Morningstar, Bowling Green, Kentucky, regarding selection of an artist to create murals for Bowling Green’s Hobson House. He also discusses his health treatments at Hot Springs, Virginia, and mourns the death of his cousin Mary Neal. Includes a clipping about his retirement.
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Nov. 2014), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Nov. 2014), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Martin, Jerry W. (Sc 2871), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Martin, Jerry W. (Sc 2871), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2871. “A Dark and Bloody Ground: A Synopsis of the Lives of Micajah and Wiley Harpe,” by Dr. Jerry W. Martin. The illustrated paper, the basis for a presentation to the E.Q.B. Club of Bowling Green, Kentucky, recounts the lives of Kentucky outlaws Micajah and Wiley Harpe.
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Oct. 2014), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Oct. 2014), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Sept. 2014), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Sept. 2014), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Hays, Joseph Stephen, B. 1956 - Collector (Mss 510), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hays, Joseph Stephen, B. 1956 - Collector (Mss 510), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 510. Correspondence, business records, account books, and miscellaneous personal papers of members of the Allen, Barner, Savage and Mallory families of Edmonson, Hart and Warren counties in Kentucky.
Alexander Family Papers (Mss 505), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Alexander Family Papers (Mss 505), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only Manuscripts Collection 505. Correspondence, business and estate papers, deeds and miscellaneous records of the Alexander, Fontaine, Lucas, Graham and associated families, principally of Henry County, Virginia; Cumberland, Metcalfe and Warren counties in Kentucky; and Pontotoc County, Mississippi. Includes letters of Martha (Lucas) Graham written from Bowling Green, Kentucky during the Civil War (Click on "Additional Files" below).
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Aug. 2014), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Aug. 2014), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Jfk Memory Project At Wku (Mss 491), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jfk Memory Project At Wku (Mss 491), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full text of remembrances (Click on Additional Files), photographs, and oral history interviews for Manuscripts Collection 491. Materials collected during a commemorative project related to a campaign visit John F. Kennedy made to Bowling Green, Kentucky in October 1960 and to his November 1963 assassination. The core of the collection is a set of remembrances that were sent into the Department of Library Special Collections, WKU about both events. Other items include oral history interviews (8), photos (36), contemporary news clippings as well as clippings about the project, a scrapbook of post-assassination clippings, and assorted other ephemera …
Miller, Russell Hale, 1905-1968 (Mss 498), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Miller, Russell Hale, 1905-1968 (Mss 498), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 498 and full text of "Shakertown Revisited" (click on "Additional File" below). Working copies of scripts for two plays, “This Fair Land” and “Shakertown” by Russell Miller, a faculty member of WKU’s Department of Speech and Theater. Also includes working copies of “The Emperor’s New Clothes” by Herbert Kanzell and “The Boor” by Anton Chekhov, two plays that were staged by Miller.
Hines, John, 1771-1853 (Mss 496), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hines, John, 1771-1853 (Mss 496), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 496. Indentures, deeds and financial records chiefly of John Hines of Warren County, Kentucky. Includes material related to the settlement of his extensive estate that was executed by his son, Pleasant Hines. Contains many receipts from Bowling Green businesses in the 1870s and an undated plat map of the city showing owners of lots 71-122.
Bates, James Preston, 1810-1877 - Relating To (Sc 2850), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bates, James Preston, 1810-1877 - Relating To (Sc 2850), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2850. Resolution of sympathy of a committee of the Bowling Green, Kentucky bar on the death of James P. Bates on 30 November 1877. Includes a sketch of Bates’s life.
Beauchamp, Hiram Jett, 1833-1881 - Relating To (Sc 2849), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Beauchamp, Hiram Jett, 1833-1881 - Relating To (Sc 2849), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2849. Resolution of sympathy, 5 January 1881, by officers and members of the Bowling Green, Kentucky bar on the death of Hiram J. Beauchamp on 1 January 1881. Includes a sketch of Beauchamp’s life.
Kimbrough, Mary Alice (Sexton), 1907-1991 (Mss 495), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kimbrough, Mary Alice (Sexton), 1907-1991 (Mss 495), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 495. Letters written by Mary Kimbrough, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to Clara Gregory and Mildred (Gregory) Pugh, Nashville, Tennessee, related to a rental property owned by Clara Gregory at 720 State Street in Bowling Green. The newsy letters contain information about maintenance to the property and remarks about current events in Bowling Green as well as comments about national affairs.
Lissauer, Mildred Wallis (Potter), 1897-1998 - Collector (Mss 482), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lissauer, Mildred Wallis (Potter), 1897-1998 - Collector (Mss 482), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 482. Correspondence, scrapbooks, journals, diaries, photographs and miscellaneous papers of Mildred (Potter) Lissauer of Bowling Green and Louisville, Kentucky and of her family, especially her mother, Martha (Woods) Potter and her aunt, Elizabeth Moseley Woods. Includes a World War I scrapbook created for and about Mildred's brother John (Click on "Additional Files" below).
Battey Family Letters (Sc 2840), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Battey Family Letters (Sc 2840), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid, scans and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2840. Letters of brothers Peter, Alfred and George Battey to a sister and a brother James, written during their Civil War service in the Union Army. From the “Colo Barracks” in Bowling Green, Kentucky, Peter describes his duties as a teamster, criticizes the length of the war, and relays news of the killing of John Hunt Morgan by one “Gillman” and the capture of his men. Alfred writes from a hospital in New Orleans, and George writes from Bowling Green, where he and Peter continue on …
Where's Jonesville? How The Destruction Of Jonesville Left A Legacy Of Housing Discrimination In Bowling Green, Ky, George Carpenter
Where's Jonesville? How The Destruction Of Jonesville Left A Legacy Of Housing Discrimination In Bowling Green, Ky, George Carpenter
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
Jonesville was a small tight-knit African-American community in Bowling Green, Kentucky with a unique cultural identity. Family-oriented and extremely self-sufficient, Jonesville thrived as a prime example of southern black culture in the mid 20th century. However, Jonesville did not stand a chance placed against a powerful local institution. In the late 1950s and early 1960s the community was destroyed to create space for an expanding Western Kentucky University. Fueled by the entirely unjust urban renewal legislation, Kentucky Project R-31, Jonesville was wiped from the Bowling Green map. Due to locally sanctioned discriminatory action, the displaced citizens of Jonesville were …
Hispanic Health Initiative: Creating A Sustainable Health Fair For An Immigrant Community, Chaz Arnold
Hispanic Health Initiative: Creating A Sustainable Health Fair For An Immigrant Community, Chaz Arnold
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
Previous demographic and social interest research conducted in Bowling Green, Kentucky has prompted concern for access to quality healthcare for immigrant populations, specifically for the Hispanic community. The missions of the preliminary investigation and subsequent implementation of a sustainable health fair for the Spanish-speaking community were to assess the primary health concerns that many Hispanics face and offer long-term solutions to collectively resolve these health issues. Preliminary investigation involved researching population-specific health statistics in order to quantify prevalence of certain conditions which were, in turn, prioritized in terms of necessity to address. Further research reflected personal concern from the target …
Les Villes Jumelées: Finding Bowling Green A Francophone Sister City, Sarah Kinnicutt
Les Villes Jumelées: Finding Bowling Green A Francophone Sister City, Sarah Kinnicutt
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
The Villes Jumelées Project seeks to encourage the study of French language and culture in Bowling Green by creating a relationship with a francophone country. To do this, we have paired with a French-speaking high school in Porrentruy, Switzerland. WKU students of French are participating in virtual exchanges via a class webpage. Eventually, a cultural exchange of regional products and perhaps historical documents will take place. Ultimately, this project could serve as the groundwork for a new sister city relationship between Bowling Green and Porrentruy. As Western Kentucky University strives to become a university with international reach, it is important …
Sons Of The American Revolution - Charles Duncan Chapter - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 540), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sons Of The American Revolution - Charles Duncan Chapter - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 540), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection MSS 540. Administrative papers, a detailed history (1967-1986), minutes and agendas for meetings, correspondence, newsletters, financial records, and photographs for the Charles Duncan chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (May 2014), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (May 2014), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Burris, Donald A. - Collector (Sc 2836), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Burris, Donald A. - Collector (Sc 2836), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2836. Printed list, with explanatory note, of African American deaths or burials in Warren County, Kentucky. Information includes name, death date, and death certificate number where known. The list is stated to cover 1911 “to present.” Also includes a short list of African American cemeteries in south central Kentucky prepared by Leonetta Strange.
Cartwright, Frederick Dean, Sr., 1876-1929 (Sc 2833), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cartwright, Frederick Dean, Sr., 1876-1929 (Sc 2833), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2833. Diploma for attendance and good deportment issued to Fred D. Cartwright by the public schools of Bowling Green, Kentucky, 11 June 1891. The diploma is signed by teacher Alice Barre.
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (April 2014), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (April 2014), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Lanier Collection (Mss 488), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lanier Collection (Mss 488), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full text of post-World War II pen pal letters and selected images from ciphering book of Collins Lanier from Manuscripts Collection 488. Collection consists chiefly of letters written to Deanna June (Linville) Lanier by friends and her family, particularly her mother Lena (Harris) Linville. Includes some interesting pen pal letters with a German child, 1948 to 1950. Includes genealogical material about the Lanier and Linville families. Also includes early Warren County, Kentucky material from brothers, Byrd Lanier and Collins Lanier, including a little correspondence, bills and notes, receipts, and property records.
Kirby, Isaac Minor, 1835-1917 (Sc 2815), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kirby, Isaac Minor, 1835-1917 (Sc 2815), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2815. Letter of Isaac M. Kirby, a captain in the 15th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, written on 10 March [1862] to his aunt from Camp Andy Johnson near Nashville, Tennessee. He reports on his activities over the past month, including a march north toward Fort Donelson, a mock skirmish with some local bird life, a march to Bowling Green, Kentucky and two-day encampment there, and current conditions at Camp Andy Johnson. He also comments on the greater number of Union sympathizers in Kentucky than Tennessee, and on attacks …
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 1328), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 1328), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1328. Letters, written by South Union, Kentucky Shaker leaders, to leaders of the Hancock Shaker Society, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, discussing the building of mills and dam, economic conditions, and religious affairs. The original letters are in the Library of Congress.