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I Come Creeping: Remembering The Battle Of Blair Mountain In Graphic Narrative, Ellie James

Senior Honors Theses

Between August 24 and September 4 of 1921, approximately 10,000 West Virginia coal miners marched to Blair Mountain in Logan County in a militant stand for their right to unionize. Despite its status as the largest labor uprising in United States history, few know or understand the impact of the Battle of Blair Mountain today, even within the borders of West Virginia. This creative project aims to contribute to ongoing efforts to memorialize this period of the West Virginia Mine Wars through the creation of a 10-page comic, titled I Come Creeping, which depicts and is informed by the …

Coal, Land, And Ideology: Inventions Of Appalachia In The Mind Of The American Ruling Class, Zachary Harris

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Appalachia, itself a difficult to resolutely define region, has undergone the economic forces of colonialism and industrializing capitalism which allow for an excellent case study to apply Gramsci’s theory of cultural hegemony. No American region’s national conception is likely to have been as varied and often misrepresented as that of Appalachia. From the Revolutionary American State’s invention of early white settlers as the virtuous yeoman of the Republic to the modern perception of Appalachia as backwards, conservative, and drug-addled, shifting national economic conditions resulted in a constant invention of Appalachia in congruence. Whenever the people residing in Appalachia, whether Black, …

Exploring Rockingham County’S Past: Recapturing Local History And Promoting Accessibility, Kayla Heslin

Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

In 2018 Exploring Rockingham’s Past (ERP) launched. ERP is an online repository created to house local records from the Rockingham County, Virginia circuit court. Just a little over a year before its launch, Clerk of the Court, Chaz Haywood entreated facility and graduate students within the history department of James Madison University to help develop community access to the records housed within his institution. Sadly, over the decades the records of the courthouse had fallen into disarray, rendering them useless. Seeing this as a significant loss of culture and heritage, Haywood and James Madison University began developing a platform that …

Vertical File Index, 1970s-2000, Marshall University Special Collections

Miscellaneous Inventories

Meriam-Webster defines vertical file as, “a collection of articles (pamphlets and clippings) that is maintained (as in a library) to answer brief questions or to provide points of information not easily located.”

Vertical files were very popular in libraries before internet searching as a way to collate like materials found on specific subjects. The Special Collections vertical files contain clippings, pamphlets, articles, booklets and other literature that is too insignificant to catalog. This index serves as a guide to the folders contained within the collection.

The bulk of this collection was curated from the 1970s-2000 and is broken into two …

Bourbon County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick

Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection

Place names for Bourbon County, Kentucky.

0847: John Hawes Miller, Jr. West Virginia Postcard Collection, 1910s-2000s, Marshall University Special Collections

Guides to Manuscript Collections

This collection consists of 1,346 postcards arranged in five binders. Binder 1 contains 237 postcards of various locations in West Virginia. Binder 2 contains 294 postcards of various locations in West Virginia. Binder 3 contains 241 postcards of various locations in West Virginia. Binder 4 contains 308 postcards of various locations in West Virginia. Binder 5 contains 266 postcards various locations in Huntington, West Virginia. Postcard subjects include buildings, sights, nature scenes, and people from all areas of the state.

To view materials from this collection that are digitized and available online, search the John Hawes Miller, Jr. West Virginia …

Progressive Education In Appalachia: East Tennessee State Normal School And Appalachian State Normal School, Holly Heacock

Undergraduate Honors Theses

In this thesis, I am examining how East Tennessee State Normal School in East Tennessee and Appalachian State Normal School in Western North Carolina interpreted progressive education differently in their states. This difference is that East Tennessee State began as a state funded school to educate future teachers therefore their school and their curriculum was more rounded and set to a structured schedule. Appalachian State Normal School was initially founded to educate the uneducated in the “lost provinces” therefore, curriculum was even more progressive than East Tennessee State’s – based strongly on the practices of farming, woodworking, and other practical …

0838: Huntington Urban Renewal Authority Records, 1962-2003, Marshall University Special Collections

Guides to Manuscript Collections

Documents produced by the Huntington (West Virginia) Urban Renewal Authority (HURA). Bulk of the documents are related to the development of the downtown area of Huntington known as 'The Superblock'. Also included are by-laws for the HURA, Land Use and Marketability Studies. The largest single document is The Urban Renewal Plan, Downtown Project No.1, Urban Renewal Project No. W. VA. R-18, dated October 1, 1968 with amendments through May 23, 1977.

0837: Cora P. Teel Mintner Research Papers, 2010, Marshall University Special Collections

Guides to Manuscript Collections

This collection consists of a photocopy of a 1916 Mintner Homes Corporation Catalog and research notes compiled by Ms. Teel during her research for the following article cited here: Teel, Cora P. "Minter Homes." e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia. 20 October 2010. Web. 16 August 2017. https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2001

A Cartographic History Of Huntington, West Virginia, 1871-1903, Brooks Bryant

Manuscripts

Excerpt:

Maps provide a visual representation of the space that surrounds us, revealing how streets, towns, cities, states and countries developed physical boundaries. Plotting change over time through maps allows people to study and reflect on the environment leading to a better understanding of spatial reality. Just like any other primary source, maps are a creation of their social and cultural context conveying certain details while omitting others.

Lincoln County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick

Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection

Place names of Lincoln County, Kentucky.

Green County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick

Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection

Place names of Green County, Kentucky.

Whitley County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick

Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection

Place names of Whitley County, Kentucky.

Wolfe County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick

Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection

Place names of Wolfe County, Kentucky.

Woodford County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick

Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection

Place names of Woodford County, Kentucky.

X - Miscellaneous Kentucky Place Names, Robert M. Rennick

Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection

Miscellaneous Kentucky place names.

X - Kentucky Community Nicknames, Robert M. Rennick

Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection

Kentucky community nicknames.

Webster County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick

Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection

Place names of Webster County, Kentucky.

Rowan County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick

Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection

Place names of Rowan County, Kentucky.

Scott County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick

Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection

Place names of Scott County, Kentucky.

Rockcastle County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick

Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection

Place names of Rockcastle County, Kentucky.

Simpson County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick

Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection

Place names of Simpson County, Kentucky

Shelby County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick

Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection

Place names of Shelby County, Kentucky.

Spencer County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick

Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection

Place names of Spencer County, Kentucky.

Todd County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick

Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection

Place names of Todd County, Kentucky.

Warren County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick

Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection

Place names of Warren County, Kentucky.

Union County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick

Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection

Place names of Union County, Kentucky.

Washington County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick

Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection

Place names of Washington County, Kentucky.

Robertson County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick

Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection

Place names of Robertson County, Kentucky.

Trigg County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick

Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection

Place names of Trigg County, Kentucky.