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Rice, Laban Lacy, 1870-1973 (Mss 605), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rice, Laban Lacy, 1870-1973 (Mss 605), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 605. Correspondence, writings, photographs, clippings, and papers of Laban Lacy Rice, a Webster, County, Kentucky native, educator, author, lecturer, poet, and president of Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee. Includes his scientific writing, principally on astronomy, relativity and cosmology, as well as fiction, poetry, and autobiographical writing. Also includes some correspondence and papers relating to his brother, poet and dramatist Cale Young Rice, and sister-in-law, author Alice Hegan Rice.
''Get Your Asphalt Off My Ancestors!'': Reclaiming Richmond's African Burial Ground, Mai-Linh Hong
''Get Your Asphalt Off My Ancestors!'': Reclaiming Richmond's African Burial Ground, Mai-Linh Hong
Faculty Journal Articles
By treating spatial conflict as one way communities wrestle with the memory and legacy of slavery, this article unites critical landscape analysis, a tool of legal geography, with legal and cultural analysis and recent scholarship on African American reparations. A slave cemetery lay beneath a parking lot in Shockoe Bottom, a neighborhood of downtown Richmond that was once a major slave-trading hub. In recent years, controversy arose over the site’s use, generating racially charged local debate and two failed lawsuits seeking to preserve the site. This article examines the significance of the African Burial Ground controversy by analyzing its symbolic, …
Victim Of A Revolution: Nicholas Cresswell's American Odyssey, 1774-1777, Matthew Exline
Victim Of A Revolution: Nicholas Cresswell's American Odyssey, 1774-1777, Matthew Exline
Masters Theses
The diary of Nicholas Cresswell, a young Englishman who traveled in America from 1774-1777, has long been an important primary source on the American Revolution. Cresswell's travels took him from the eastern seaboard (and Barbados) to Kentucky and Ohio, and from Williamsburg, Virginia to New York City. The people he met encompassed almost the entire political spectrum of the day, ranging from William Howe and Loyalist operatives such as John Connolly to grassroots patriot activists on the Committees of Public Safety and founding luminaries such as George Rogers Clark, Thomas Jefferson, and Patrick Henry. He rubbed shoulders with people from …
Clark, Otis Vernon, Jr., 1926-2006 (Mss 428), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Clark, Otis Vernon, Jr., 1926-2006 (Mss 428), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 428. Chiefly letters from Otis Vernon Clark, Jr., while studying in Lexington, Virginia, to his parents Otis and Susie, Bowling Green, Kentucky, detailing university social life. Also included in the collection are miscellaneous photos, postcards, and biographical information.
Meriwether Family Papers (Mss 44), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Meriwether Family Papers (Mss 44), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 44. Typed copies of personal and legal papers, 1791-1840 (43) of Charles Meriwether, a pioneer doctor of Christian County, Kentucky; family letters of Caroline Gordon Tate, author and educator, 1938-1947 (18); and family letters of newspaper columnist Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer (“Dorothy Dix”), 1930-1949 (13).
Warren, Robert Penn Oral History Collection, 1977-1982 (Mss 383), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Warren, Robert Penn Oral History Collection, 1977-1982 (Mss 383), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 383. Transcripts, notes, and cassette tapes for interviews conducted by Dr. Wilford Fridy with individuals who knew or knew about John Wesley Venable, Jr., the person on whom Robert Penn Warren based the character Bolton Lovehart in his novella "Circus in the Attic." Interviews mention other people and places that Warren knew in Todd County, Kentucky. Also includes tapes of Robert Penn Warren giving a speech, reading some of his work, and an interview with Warren.
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.
Letter To Jennie Guiney, 1864 April 7, Patrick Guiney
Letter To Jennie Guiney, 1864 April 7, Patrick Guiney
Col. Patrick Guiney Letters
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Letter To Jennie Guiney, 1864 April 5, Patrick Guiney
Letter To Jennie Guiney, 1864 April 5, Patrick Guiney
Col. Patrick Guiney Letters
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Letter To Jennie Guiney, 1864 March 31, Patrick Guiney
Letter To Jennie Guiney, 1864 March 31, Patrick Guiney
Col. Patrick Guiney Letters
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Letter To Jennie Guiney, 1864 January 21, Patrick Guiney
Letter To Jennie Guiney, 1864 January 21, Patrick Guiney
Col. Patrick Guiney Letters
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Letter To Jennie Guiney, 1863 November 19, Patrick Guiney
Letter To Jennie Guiney, 1863 November 19, Patrick Guiney
Col. Patrick Guiney Letters
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Letter To Jennie Guiney, 1863 November 15, Patrick Guiney
Letter To Jennie Guiney, 1863 November 15, Patrick Guiney
Col. Patrick Guiney Letters
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Letter To Jennie Guiney, 1863 November 12, Patrick Guiney
Letter To Jennie Guiney, 1863 November 12, Patrick Guiney
Col. Patrick Guiney Letters
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Letter To Jennie Guiney, 1863 November 1, Patrick Guiney
Letter To Jennie Guiney, 1863 November 1, Patrick Guiney
Col. Patrick Guiney Letters
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Letter To Jennie Guiney, 1863 October 4, Patrick Guiney
Letter To Jennie Guiney, 1863 October 4, Patrick Guiney
Col. Patrick Guiney Letters
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Letter To Jennie Guiney, 1863 September 29, Patrick Guiney
Letter To Jennie Guiney, 1863 September 29, Patrick Guiney
Col. Patrick Guiney Letters
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Letter To Jennie Guiney, 1863 September 28, Patrick Guiney
Letter To Jennie Guiney, 1863 September 28, Patrick Guiney
Col. Patrick Guiney Letters
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Letter To Jennie Guiney, 1863 September 20, Patrick Guiney
Letter To Jennie Guiney, 1863 September 20, Patrick Guiney
Col. Patrick Guiney Letters
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Letter To Jennie Guiney, 1863 September 19, Patrick Guiney
Letter To Jennie Guiney, 1863 September 19, Patrick Guiney
Col. Patrick Guiney Letters
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Letter To Jennie Guiney, 1863 September 15, Patrick Guiney
Letter To Jennie Guiney, 1863 September 15, Patrick Guiney
Col. Patrick Guiney Letters
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Letter To Jennie Guiney, 1863 September 11, Patrick Guiney
Letter To Jennie Guiney, 1863 September 11, Patrick Guiney
Col. Patrick Guiney Letters
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Letter To Jennie Guiney, 1863 September 9, Patrick Guiney
Letter To Jennie Guiney, 1863 September 9, Patrick Guiney
Col. Patrick Guiney Letters
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Letter To Jennie Guiney, 1863 September 2, Patrick Guiney
Letter To Jennie Guiney, 1863 September 2, Patrick Guiney
Col. Patrick Guiney Letters
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Letter To Jennie Guiney, 1863 August 26 (2), Patrick Guiney
Letter To Jennie Guiney, 1863 August 26 (2), Patrick Guiney
Col. Patrick Guiney Letters
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Letter To Jennie Guiney, 1863 August 26 (1), Patrick Guiney
Letter To Jennie Guiney, 1863 August 26 (1), Patrick Guiney
Col. Patrick Guiney Letters
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Letter To Jennie Guiney, 1863 August 18, Patrick Guiney
Letter To Jennie Guiney, 1863 August 18, Patrick Guiney
Col. Patrick Guiney Letters
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Letter To Jennie Guiney, 1863 August 16, Patrick Guiney
Letter To Jennie Guiney, 1863 August 16, Patrick Guiney
Col. Patrick Guiney Letters
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Letter To Jennie Guiney, 1863 August 15 (2), Patrick Guiney
Letter To Jennie Guiney, 1863 August 15 (2), Patrick Guiney
Col. Patrick Guiney Letters
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Letter To Jennie Guiney, 1863 August 15 (1), Patrick Guiney
Letter To Jennie Guiney, 1863 August 15 (1), Patrick Guiney
Col. Patrick Guiney Letters
No abstract provided.