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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
The Southern Gentleman And The Idea Of Masculinity: Figures And Aspects Of The Southern Beau In The Literary Tradition Of The American South, Emmeline Gros
English Dissertations
The American planter has mostly been presented as the epitome of the romantic cavalier legend that could be found in the fiction of John Pendleton Kennedy to Thomas Nelson Page: a man of chivalric manners and good breeding; a man of good social position; a man of wealth and leisure (Concise Oxford Dictionary). A closer scrutiny of the cavalier and genteel ethos of the time, however, reveals the inherent ideological inconsistencies with the idea of the gentleman itself, as the ideal came to be more and more perceived as an illusion and as challenges to traditional gender stereotypes came to …
France As A Negative Influence On The Côte D’Ivoire: The Consequences Of Foreign Interference, Courtney P. Conroy
France As A Negative Influence On The Côte D’Ivoire: The Consequences Of Foreign Interference, Courtney P. Conroy
Pell Scholars and Senior Theses
The Côte d’Ivoire, like many African nations, has been greatly influenced by the presence of foreign powers. However, the case of the Côte d’Ivoire is unique because of the country’s contemporary and continuous relations with France – despite the many negative consequences that this relationship has produced. By examining the presence of the European colonial power throughout the history of the Côte d’Ivoire, it is clear that a direct link between the French and the modern problems of the Côte d’Ivoire, specifically when addressing unfair and authoritative rulers, weighted social stratifications, issues with economy, trade, and the Ivoirian Civil War …
Green Collection (Mss 49), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Green Collection (Mss 49), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 49. Correspondence of the Green family, Falls of Rough, Grayson County, Kentucky, including business papers and account books, and correspondence for several generations of the Robert Wilmot Scott family, originally of Frankfort, Kentucky.
Tanner, James Freeman, B. 1906 (Sc 2367), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Tanner, James Freeman, B. 1906 (Sc 2367), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2367. "The Louisville and Nashville Railroad to 1866" by James Freeman Tanner, a thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Master of Arts degree, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1932.
Wise Family Papers (Mss 341), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wise Family Papers (Mss 341), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 341. Correspondence of the Wise family of Ohio County, Kentucky, and related families. Includes letters of Levi Franklin Wise, serving with Union forces in Bowling Green, Kentucky 1864. A few letters have been typescripted. Click on "Additional Files" to see several of the typescripts.
Sublett, Metta Maurine (Sc 2378), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sublett, Metta Maurine (Sc 2378), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2378. “The Role of the Confederate Veteran in the Industrial Development of Kentucky,” a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Philosophy degree, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, 1945.
Coffman, Edward Mckenzie (Sc 2391), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Coffman, Edward Mckenzie (Sc 2391), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2391. "The Civil War Career of Thomas Henry Hines," a thesis presented by Edward M. Coffman in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 1955.
Faught Family Papers (Sc 2382), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Faught Family Papers (Sc 2382), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2382. Correspondence, deeds, and sundry other items of the Faught family of Ohio County, Kentucky, chiefly Marion F. and Alice M. Faught. Includes Civil War military discharge for Bagges M. Faught, 17th Regiment of Kentucky Infantry Volunteers. Also includes a baby diary for Juanita Chloris Faught.
Allen, Mary Bernard (Sc 2369), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Allen, Mary Bernard (Sc 2369), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2369. "Joseph Holt, Judge Advocate General (1862-1875): A Study in the Treatment of Politcal Prisoners by the United States Government During the Civil War," by Mary Bernard Allen, a dissertation submitted for the Doctor of Philosophy degree, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1927.
Robertson, Gabrielle, 1889-1970 (Sc 2370), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Robertson, Gabrielle, 1889-1970 (Sc 2370), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2370. "James Guthrie," by Gabrielle Robertson, a dissertation submitted in candidacy for the degree of Master of Arts, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1920.
Sanders, Robert Lee, B. 1912 (Sc 2368), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sanders, Robert Lee, B. 1912 (Sc 2368), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2368. "The Military Career of Don Carlos Buell During the Civil War," by Robert Lee Sanders, a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Arts degree, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 1937. Includes a biographical sketch of the author.
Miller, Russell Hale, 1905-1968 (Sc 2360), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Miller, Russell Hale, 1905-1968 (Sc 2360), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2360. "Giants Lie Sleeping," by Russell Hale Miller, a thesis submitted for the Doctor of Education degree from the Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, New York. The thesis takes the form of a play based on the history of the cave region of western Kentucky's Green River valley.
Dickerson-Venable Family Papers (Mss 334), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Dickerson-Venable Family Papers (Mss 334), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 334. Correspondence, clippings and genealogical data relating to the Dickerson and Venable families of Warren County, Kentucky, and related families. Includes military papers from the War of 1812 and the Civil War.
Warren County, Kentucky - Wills (Mss 54), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Warren County, Kentucky - Wills (Mss 54), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 54. Original wills, made mostly in Warren County, Kentucky from 1798-1881, but including wills made elsewhere. Also includes some legal documents relating to wills. A name index is included in the finding aid. The is only a small portion of the original wills filed at the Warren County courthouse form 1798 to 1915.
Bowker, Lewis Gray, 1840-1863 (Sc 2349), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowker, Lewis Gray, 1840-1863 (Sc 2349), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2349. Letters (5) of Lewis Gray Bowker, written from Ohio and Bowling Green, Kentucky while serving in Company F of the 111th Infantry Regiment Ohio Volunteers during the Civil War. Includes biographical data, an image of Bowker, service records, and a letter sent to a family friend reporting on Bowker's death.
Ms-116: 1864 Diary Of Corporal Robert Ridge, Thomas P. Lester
Ms-116: 1864 Diary Of Corporal Robert Ridge, Thomas P. Lester
All Finding Aids
The diary contains information on the activities of Robert Ridge during 1864, and the first two months of 1865. It contains daily entries, list of proverbs, important events and dates, mail sent, mail received, members of Company B 95th Illinois Volunteers, money sent home, clothing acquired, addresses, rations, and Army Corps commanders.
Special Collections and College Archives Finding Aids are discovery tools used to describe and provide access to our holdings. Finding aids include historical and biographical information about each collection in addition to inventories of their content. More information about our collections can be found on our website http://www.gettysburg.edu/special_collections/collections/ …
Forgy, James Monroe, 1820-1895 (Sc 2354), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Forgy, James Monroe, 1820-1895 (Sc 2354), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2354. Partial account book of James Monroe Forgy, Morgantown, Kentucky, recording his work as pension agent for Civil War veterans. Includes some miscellaneous personal accounts. Also includes biographical data.
Stanley, William, 1832-1921 (Sc 2353), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stanley, William, 1832-1921 (Sc 2353), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2353. Morning report of Captain William Stanley's Company G, 6th Regiment, Kentucky Infantry, a Confederate regiment. The report shows numbers present, absent, and sick, but does not name individual members.
Rigsby, James Edward, 1845-1930 (Sc 2351), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rigsby, James Edward, 1845-1930 (Sc 2351), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2351. Certificate appointing James E. Rigsby as Corporal, Company C, 52nd Kentucky Volunteer Mounted Infantry, 1 November 1863; and Rigsby's certificate of discharge from military service, 17 January 1865.
Green, William J., 1838-1867 (Sc 2345), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Green, William J., 1838-1867 (Sc 2345), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2345. Letters, 10 and 26 January 1862, written by William J. Green, Paducah, Kentucky, to his brothers John Henry and Samuel Ford Green, presumably in Illinois, describing military life and maneuvers in western Kentucky. Green was serving in Company B, 2nd Regiment Illinois Cavalry. He describes his tent with a homemade chimney in one letter and makes some disparaging comments about the “Secesh” in Murrary, Kentucky.
Settle-Dewitt Family Papers (Mss 332), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Settle-Dewitt Family Papers (Mss 332), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans of Folders 2 and 3 relating to genealogy (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 332. Includes correspondence, genealogical materials; wills, deeds and other legal documents of the Settle and DeWitt families; and the memoir of Marcus Bearden DeWitt, a minister in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church and a Civil War chaplain (Click on "Additional Files" below). Also of interest is information related to the Settle rifle makers of Barren County, Kentucky.
Underwood, Joseph Rogers, 1791-1876 (Sc 2328), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Underwood, Joseph Rogers, 1791-1876 (Sc 2328), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2328. Typescript of a diary kept by Joseph Rogers Underwood, 1834-1850, in which he records everyday occurrences at home in Bowling Green, Kentucky and in Washington, D.C., where he served in the U.S. House of Representatives,1835-1843, and the U.S. Senate, 1847-1853. Interspersed throughout are comments by his second wife, Elizabeth (Cox) Underwood. Also includes a document containing information about Thomas Rogers and an “Account of the Escape of Prisoners from Fort Warren, Boston Harbor” written by Douglas Gordon.
Morningstar, Jane (Hines), 1904-1989 (Mss 225), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Morningstar, Jane (Hines), 1904-1989 (Mss 225), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 225. Correspondence, chiefly of the Covington family of Bowling Green, Kentucky, particularly that of Dr. Albert G. and Josephine (Wells) Covington. Also includes reference letters written to Jane (Hines) Morningstar about local history topics, including steamboats and the Hobson House Association.
Mcchord, William Caldwell, 1850-1928 (Sc 2323), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcchord, William Caldwell, 1850-1928 (Sc 2323), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2323. Paper by William Caldwell McChord titled "Memoirs of William Caldwell McChord, Springfield, Kentucky." The paper details McChord's upbringing, education, experience in the Civil War, and legal and political career in Washington County, Kentucky. Includes an account of the claim that Washington County was Abraham Lincoln's true birthplace. Also includes genealogical information on the McChords and related families.
Smith, Furman A., 1834-1918 - Collector (Sc 2299), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Smith, Furman A., 1834-1918 - Collector (Sc 2299), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 2299. Chiefly incoming letters which concern an estate settlement for Abraham Smith and family news. Civil War-era letters written by William Riley Smith (Click on "Additional Files" below) contain comments about the war and contain expressions of his attitudes toward African Americans. Also includes a church letter of transfer for Furman Smith and his wife and a small amount of genealogical information about the Smith family.
Smith Family Papers (Sc 2302), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Smith Family Papers (Sc 2302), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 2302. Chiefly letters from Barnett Smith, Fort Sill, Oklahoma Territory and Camp Wheeler, Huntsville, Alabama to his mother in Hadley, Warren County, Kentucky, 1898. He describes his military training and ponders being shipped to Cuba. Also includes (Click on "Additional Files" below for scans) an 1865 letter from Union soldier James W. Howard of Butler County, Kentucky, Howard’s discharge certificate, an 1863 slavery bill of sale, and an 1873 receipt for a coffin.
Dickerson, Rosa Belle (Praigg), 1843-1902 (Mss 327), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Dickerson, Rosa Belle (Praigg), 1843-1902 (Mss 327), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 327. Stories, poems and lyrics written by Rosa Belle (Praigg) Dickerson, a native of Boyle County, Kentucky and resident of Warren County, Kentucky for magazines and newspapers under her name and the pen name "Violet Woods" or "Violette Woods." Includes unpublished material, correspondence, photographs, biographical information, and speeches she delivered at her college graduation.
Walker, Dorian (Fa 165), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Walker, Dorian (Fa 165), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 165. "Beauty of the Southland": Interviews with former railroad employees, local historians, and a Louisville & Nashville Railroad historian for a film on the impact of the railroad station and the Louisville & Nashville Railroad on Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes a visual/audio script.
Underwood, Johanna Louisa, 1840-1923 (Sc 2295), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Underwood, Johanna Louisa, 1840-1923 (Sc 2295), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2295. Diary of Johanna Louisa "Josie" Underwood, the daughter of a prominent Bowling Green, Kentucky family. She records her experiences while living in Scotland, where her father was serving as consul, from 1862 to 1864. She also describes her travel through several European countries and her return to the United States in 1864, when the family spent a year in San Francisco. She writes observantly about places and people, news of the Civil War, and family events. The diary includes a few early entries by her mother and summaries of family members's whereabouts …
Bell, Cincinnatus Douglas, 1833-1884 (Mss 234), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bell, Cincinnatus Douglas, 1833-1884 (Mss 234), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid, scans and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 234. Letters of Cincinnatus Douglas Bell, written from Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia while serving in Woodward's 2nd Kentucky Cavalry (C.S.A.) during the Civil War, and two diaries kept mostly during his service in Tennessee. Also includes other correspondence of Bell, his wife Anne, and members of the Bell family. Several letters extend sympathy on the death of Bell's daughter Minnie.