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Bibliography, Donna C. Parker
Bibliography, Donna C. Parker
Faculty/Staff Personal Papers
Bibliography of publications by Donna Parker.
Bibliography, Anthony Harkins
Bibliography, Anthony Harkins
Faculty/Staff Personal Papers
Bibliography of publications by Anthony Harkins.
An Ethnic Cultural Landscape: German Breweries And Social Institutions In Covington, Kentucky, 1860-1920, Andrew Jones
An Ethnic Cultural Landscape: German Breweries And Social Institutions In Covington, Kentucky, 1860-1920, Andrew Jones
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
A useful marker for recognizing the impact that ethnic groups make to the social and cultural characteristics of a city are the institutions and material landscapes created by those groups. In northern Kentucky, during the 19th and early 20th centuries, German immigrants and their descendants in the city of Covington established institutions such as breweries, saloons, social associations, and churches that became the heart of ethnic neighborhoods and shaped the form of the landscape. This research examines institutional and cultural landscape markers of German cultural identity in the city of Covington, Kentucky, from 1860 to 1920. Demographic and spatial data …
1850 Monroe County, Kentucky Slave Census, Kentucky Library Research Collections
1850 Monroe County, Kentucky Slave Census, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Research Collections
Slaves were listed by owner, not individually. Listed by column number, enumerators recorded the following information:
Name of owner
Number of slave
Each owner's slave was only assigned a number, not a name. Numbering restarted with each new owner Age Sex
Color: "B" if the slave was Black and an "M" if they were Mulatto.
Listed in the same row as the owner, the number of uncaught escaped slaves in the past year Listed in the same row as the owner, the number of slaves freed from bondage in the past year Is the slave "deaf and dumb, blind, insane, …
The Southern Baptist Convention “Crisis” In Context: Southern Baptist Conservatism And The Rise Of The Religious Right, Austin R. Biggs
The Southern Baptist Convention “Crisis” In Context: Southern Baptist Conservatism And The Rise Of The Religious Right, Austin R. Biggs
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
From the late 1970s through the early 1990s, a minority conservative faction took over the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). This project seeks to answer the questions of how a fringe minority within the nation’s largest Protestant denomination could undertake such a feat and why they chose to do so. The framework through which this work analyzes these questions is one of competing worldviews that emerged within the SBC in response to decades of societal shifts and denominational transformations in the post-World War II era. To place the events of the Southern Baptist “crisis” within this framework, this study seeks to …
A Soviet Parade Of Horribles: Conservatism In Glasnost-Era Discourses On Sex, 1987-1991, Svetlana Yuriyevna Ter-Grigoryan
A Soviet Parade Of Horribles: Conservatism In Glasnost-Era Discourses On Sex, 1987-1991, Svetlana Yuriyevna Ter-Grigoryan
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Between 1987 and 1991, Soviet filmmakers and journalists utilized Gorbachev’s glasnost reform policy to depict or discuss sexuality in cinema and the popular press. I argue that Soviet film and popular press discourses on sex in this period reveal a continuity of conservative sexual mores, which were interwoven with social and moral conservatism regarding the centerpiece of Soviet society, the Soviet family. Furthermore, these discourses take on a fundamentally misogynistic tone, in that women are tasked with defending sexual purity, and thus familial integrity, while simultaneously being cast as those most susceptible to the power of sexual enticement. Thus, the …
Leap Year: Chance, Chase, Or Curse?, Sue Lynn Mcdaniel
Leap Year: Chance, Chase, Or Curse?, Sue Lynn Mcdaniel
SCL Faculty and Staff Publications
Based on a popularized legend in which St. Patrick granted to St. Bridget the right for all single women to propose marriage during leap years, the custom has produced ephemera as evidence of stereotypical old maids and bachelors and created vinegar valentines, ball invitations, dance cards, sheet music and calling cards. Between 1904 and 1916, at least 54 publishing houses created Leap Year postcards illustrated by more than 17 of the most talented artists of the day. Despite possible good intentions, the majority of the ephemera stereotypes single women as so desperate to marry that even unsuitable spouses, including alcoholics, …
Did French Women Love Their Children? The Contentious Image Of Exotic Maternity In Early Modern French Travel Narratives, Anna Young
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
Throughout the period of early French colonization in the New World, travel writers commented extensively on Native American childrearing practices. Early modern French colonialists were particularly fascinated by the fact that native women almost always nursed their own children, unlike their French counterparts, who typically outsourced the labor of reproduction to wet nurses. French writers consistently pointed to the tendency of Native American women to nurse their own children as evidence of a superior sense of maternal duty, vehemently criticizing the custom of wet-nursing in France and the moral deficiencies of European women who participated in it.
Travel writers participated …
The “Fatty” Arbuckle Scandal, Will Hays, And Negotiated Morality In 1920s America, Aaron T. Whitehead
The “Fatty” Arbuckle Scandal, Will Hays, And Negotiated Morality In 1920s America, Aaron T. Whitehead
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
In the autumn of 1921, silent film comedian Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle was arrested for the rape and murder of a model and actress named Virginia Rappé. The ensuing scandal created a firestorm of controversy not just around Arbuckle but the entire motion picture industry. Religious and moral reformers seized upon the scandal to decry the decline of “traditional” moral values taking place throughout American society in the aftermath of World War I. The scandal created a common objective for an anti-film coalition representing diverse social and religious groups, all dedicated to bringing about change in the motion picture industry through …
Colonels, Hillbillies And Fightin’: Twentieth-Century Kentucky In The National Imagination, Anthony Harkins
Colonels, Hillbillies And Fightin’: Twentieth-Century Kentucky In The National Imagination, Anthony Harkins
History Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Confucius Institute 2015 Annual Report, Dr. Wei-Ping Pan
Confucius Institute 2015 Annual Report, Dr. Wei-Ping Pan
The Confucius Institute Publications
No abstract provided.
Is Russia A Block Of Ice Floating Back Into The 16th Century, Marko Dumančić
Is Russia A Block Of Ice Floating Back Into The 16th Century, Marko Dumančić
History Faculty Publications
Editorial published in The Moscow Times and The Huffington Post
Wku Libraries: Using Pastperfect To Open Hidden Collections, Nancy Richey
Wku Libraries: Using Pastperfect To Open Hidden Collections, Nancy Richey
SCL Faculty and Staff Publications
Traditionally, access records for the Department of Special Collections were produced in analog forms which limited their use to in-house researchers.
The author chronicles the library/museum decision to purchase, PastPerfect, collection management software and reviews the product from a librarian’s point of view
Confucius Institute Spring 2014 Publication (Report), Dr. Wei-Ping Pan Director
Confucius Institute Spring 2014 Publication (Report), Dr. Wei-Ping Pan Director
The Confucius Institute Publications
No abstract provided.
Tennessee’S Black Postwar Emigration Movements, 1866–1880, Selena Sanderfer
Tennessee’S Black Postwar Emigration Movements, 1866–1880, Selena Sanderfer
History Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Factoring Guilt: Determining Blame During The Salem Witch Trials, John R. Bergman Jr.
Factoring Guilt: Determining Blame During The Salem Witch Trials, John R. Bergman Jr.
The Student Researcher: A Phi Alpha Theta Publication
No abstract provided.
Mammoth Cave, Slavery, And Kentucky: Overcoming The Chains That Bind, Susan Farmer
Mammoth Cave, Slavery, And Kentucky: Overcoming The Chains That Bind, Susan Farmer
The Student Researcher: A Phi Alpha Theta Publication
No abstract provided.
Ua68/1/3 Arts & Letters, Vol. 4, No. 2, Wku Potter College Of Arts & Letters
Ua68/1/3 Arts & Letters, Vol. 4, No. 2, Wku Potter College Of Arts & Letters
WKU Archives Records
Magazine created by WKU Potter College of Arts & Letters regarding faculty and student research, events and programs.
Went Off To The Shakers: The First Converts Of South Union, William R. Black
Went Off To The Shakers: The First Converts Of South Union, William R. Black
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
In 1807 the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (Shakers)
established a society near the Gasper River in Logan County, Kentucky. The society was soon named South Union, and it lasted until 1922, the longest-lasting Shaker community west of the Appalachians. Most of the first Shaker converts in Logan County had only a few years beforehand participated in a series of evangelical Presbyterian camp meetings known collectively as the Kentucky Revival, the Revival of 1800, or the Great Revival.Though Presbyterian revivalism and Shakerism shared certain characteristics (particularl millennialism and enthusiastic forms of worship), there were many differences between …
Ua12/2/33 Whips & Chains, Wku Association For The Study Of African American Life & History
Ua12/2/33 Whips & Chains, Wku Association For The Study Of African American Life & History
WKU Archives Records
Invitation to first WKU Association for the Study of African American Life & History event entitled Whips & Chains.
Confucius Institute Fall 2013 Publication (Report), Dr. Wei-Ping Pan Director
Confucius Institute Fall 2013 Publication (Report), Dr. Wei-Ping Pan Director
The Confucius Institute Publications
No abstract provided.
Preserving Our Cemeteries_ Action Steps To Making It Happen.Jpg, Sue Lynn Mcdaniel
Preserving Our Cemeteries_ Action Steps To Making It Happen.Jpg, Sue Lynn Mcdaniel
SCL Faculty and Staff Publications
This article resulted from attending Preservation Kentucky's "Our History Rests Here: Preservation and Restoration of Historic Cemeteries" workshop. As a member of the Warren County Cemetery Board, the author gives 15 practical steps for cemetery enthusiasts, property owners and family members. It informs its readers how to get in touch with the author and encourages local citizens to get involved.
Ruff, Joseph Carl (Fa 166), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ruff, Joseph Carl (Fa 166), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 166. Project titled “African American education in south central Kentucky, 1920-1960.” Interviews with twenty-nine African Americans regarding their experiences as students and teachers in fourteen Kentucky counties.
Miller, Carl Haskell, 1889-1964 (Sc 2587), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Miller, Carl Haskell, 1889-1964 (Sc 2587), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2587. Daily diary and journal of Carl Haskell Miller, Tompkinsville, Kentucky. A manager on the Chautauqua circuit, Miller writes in a detailed but lighthearted way of his family, his life at home and of his travels in the United States and Mexico. He also reproduces some of his personal and professional correspondence, and writes of his mother’s death in 1927.
Hast, Louis H., Sr., 1827-1890 (Sc 2588), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hast, Louis H., Sr., 1827-1890 (Sc 2588), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2588. Bound volume of selected works, short biography, and miscellaneous items and tributes to Louis H. Hast, Sr., Louisville, Kentucky. This volume was compiled by his daughter Emma Wilder Hast, and presented to the Filson Club by Lisette Hast, both of Louisville, Kentucky.
Hal Lindsey's The Late, Great Planet Earth And The Rise Of Popular Premillennialism In The 1970s, Cortney S. Basham
Hal Lindsey's The Late, Great Planet Earth And The Rise Of Popular Premillennialism In The 1970s, Cortney S. Basham
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
How people think about the end of the world greatly affects how they live in the present. This thesis examines how popular American thought about “the end of the world” has been greatly affected by Hal Lindsey’s 1970 popular prophecy book The Late, Great Planet Earth. LGPE sold more copies than any other non-fiction book in the 1970s and greatly aided the mainstreaming of “end-times” ideas like the Antichrist, nuclear holocaust, the Rapture, and various other concepts connected with popular end-times thought. These ideas stem from a specific strain of late-nineteenth century Biblical interpretation known as dispensational premillennialism, which …
Nelson, James S. (Fa 161), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Nelson, James S. (Fa 161), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 161. This collection contains a master’s thesis entitled “Hillbilly Music and Early Live Radio Programming In Bowling Green and Glasgow, Kentucky: Country Music as a Local Phenomenon,” written by James Nelson in January 1994 for the department of Modern Languages and Intercultural Studies at Western Kentucky University. Also included is a cassette tape of old-time music from south central Kentucky entitled “Railroad Through the Smoky Mountains,” by Jim Bowles, as well as an obituary for Jonell F. Simunick.
Strange Collection (Mss 42), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Strange Collection (Mss 42), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 42. Correspondence, 1864-1878 (8); journal, 1852-1883; scrapbooks (2); Manuscript: “House of Madison and McDowell in Kentucky,” 1888; family genealogical data; slave records; etc., of Agatha (Rochester) Strange, 1832-1896, a lifelong resident of Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Wayne County, Kentucky Project (Fa 23), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wayne County, Kentucky Project (Fa 23), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid for Folklife Archives Project 23. Oral history interviews with various residents of Wayne County, Kentucky, conducted by Western Kentucky University folk studies students. Topics include the oil industry, folk medicine, water witching, one-room schools and banjo playing.
Confucius Institute Fall 2012 Publication (Report), Dr. Wei-Ping Pan Director
Confucius Institute Fall 2012 Publication (Report), Dr. Wei-Ping Pan Director
The Confucius Institute Publications
No abstract provided.