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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.
Henderson, Wathen Board, 1877-1957 (Mss 516), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Henderson, Wathen Board, 1877-1957 (Mss 516), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 516. Typescripts of “‘Old Timer’s’ Timely Topics,” a column by Wathen B. Henderson that appeared in the Breckinridge (Kentucky) News. The columns chiefly look back on the people, families and history of Breckinridge County and include Henderson’s own reminiscences.
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.
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.
Gettysburg's New Dawn, 1864, John M. Rudy
Gettysburg's New Dawn, 1864, John M. Rudy
Interpreting the Civil War: Connecting the Civil War to the American Public
The first few days of January are usually crisp and cold in Gettysburg. Sometimes there is frost or snow, sometimes not. Sometimes there is a bitter wind, sometimes not. Sometimes there is sun bleeding across the horizon and splashing a cloudless sky, sometimes there is not. But the new year here, like everywhere else, stands as a symbol of promise and hope for the future. [excerpt]
Reporting The Irish Famine In America: Images Of "Suffering Ireland" In The American Press, 1845-1848, James M. Farrell
Reporting The Irish Famine In America: Images Of "Suffering Ireland" In The American Press, 1845-1848, James M. Farrell
Communication
This chapter is a study of American newspaper reporting on the Great Irish Famine. The study examines six master narratives that constrained the image of Ireland and the Irish people presented to American readers. Those narrative constraints predisposed Americans to respond with hostility when Irish Famine refugees began to arrive in the United States.
The News We Lose When We Cut Local Newspapers, Shawn Burns
The News We Lose When We Cut Local Newspapers, Shawn Burns
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
I remember the day I started work at what was then The Imlay Magnet in Eden. It was 1991 and I had taken the job straight out of my journalism degree at the Canberra College of Advanced Education (now the University of Canberra). The desk was clear, all but for the IBM and the flashing green cursor on its otherwise blank black screen