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Our Trickster, The School, Adrea Lawrence May 2014

Our Trickster, The School, Adrea Lawrence

Education's Histories

This serialized essay examines the school as a trickster in the history of education, calling upon the history of American Indian education as a test case.


Cartwright, Frederick Dean, Sr., 1876-1929 (Sc 2833), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2014

Cartwright, Frederick Dean, Sr., 1876-1929 (Sc 2833), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2833. Diploma for attendance and good deportment issued to Fred D. Cartwright by the public schools of Bowling Green, Kentucky, 11 June 1891. The diploma is signed by teacher Alice Barre.


Darden, Addie A., 1856-1931 (Sc 1283), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2014

Darden, Addie A., 1856-1931 (Sc 1283), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1283. Graduation speech delivered at Cedar Bluff Female College in Woodburn, Kentucky by salutatorian Addie Darden on 7 June 1877. Includes an essay read in Latin.


Kirkland, Jesse C., 1866-1937 (Sc 1248), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2014

Kirkland, Jesse C., 1866-1937 (Sc 1248), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1248. Letter written by Jesse Kirkland, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to his cousin John Milstead, Crossland, Kentucky, while attending school at Southern Normal School and Business College in Bowling Green. He describes a trip he took on the Green River and of seeing the landscape lit by electricity.


Hebbardsville High School - Hebbardsville, Kentucky (Sc 1242), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2014

Hebbardsville High School - Hebbardsville, Kentucky (Sc 1242), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1242. Script titled “Senior Sentiments,” for 1945 class night exercises at Hebbardsville High School in Henderson County, Kentucky.


Bowling Green Academy - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1233), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2014

Bowling Green Academy - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1233), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1233. Letters written to Elizabeth Coombs, of the Kentucky Library, Western Kentucky University, answering her inquiries about the Bowling Green Academy, a school for African Americans sponsored by the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.


Dotson, Allene Dooley (Sc 2780), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2013

Dotson, Allene Dooley (Sc 2780), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2780. Paper titled "History of the Bowling Green Female Academy" written by Allene Dooley Dotson for a history class at Western Kentucky University.


Langston, Luke Alvah Leigh, 1870-1965 (Mss 479), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2013

Langston, Luke Alvah Leigh, 1870-1965 (Mss 479), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 479. Teacher’s registers with lists of pupils, accounts, and school regulations, kept by Luke A.L. Langston for various schools in Calloway County Kentucky, from 1890-1913.


Cox, Floyd W., 1925-1981 (Sc 1086), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2013

Cox, Floyd W., 1925-1981 (Sc 1086), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1086. School paper, “My First Punishment in School” written by Floyd W. Cox for an English class in 1942. He relates the punishment he received as a seven-year old student at the one-room Oakwood Mills school in Warren County, Kentucky.


Kimberlin, Nettie, 1877-1957 (Sc 1087), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2013

Kimberlin, Nettie, 1877-1957 (Sc 1087), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1087. Two cards of honor awarded to Nettie for good deportment and perfect lessons by the Texas School in Texas, (Washington County), Kentucky. Each card features a colorful pastoral scene on the back.


Briggs, Analee, 1905-1989 - Letter To (Sc 1046), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2013

Briggs, Analee, 1905-1989 - Letter To (Sc 1046), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1046. Letter, 9 September 1952, to Analee Briggs, a teacher at Rich Pond School, Warren County, Kentucky, from her former student, Wilma Mae Green, Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina. Green praises Miss Briggs’ positive influence on her and offers to send any needed items to her former school.


Daviess County High School - Owensboro, Kentucky (Sc 2699), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Daviess County High School - Owensboro, Kentucky (Sc 2699), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2699. Last will and testament of the Daviess County High School Class of 1939.


Cedar Bluff Female College - Woodburn, Kentucky (Sc 2695), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Cedar Bluff Female College - Woodburn, Kentucky (Sc 2695), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2695. Invitations to the 1886, 1887 and 1888 commencement exercises of Cedar Bluff College, a school for young ladies in Woodburn, Kentucky. The members of the graduating classes are listed, and the 1888 invitation includes the program for the event.


Helm, Harold Holmes, 1900-1985 (Sc 658), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Helm, Harold Holmes, 1900-1985 (Sc 658), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 658. Certificate of attendance awarded by Auburn Seminary, Auburn, Kentucky, to Harold Holmes Helm for not being absent or tardy during the quarter ending 4 June 1909.


Robinson, Mollie B., B. 1860 (Sc 656), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Robinson, Mollie B., B. 1860 (Sc 656), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan of diploma (click on "Additional Files") for Manuscripts Small Collection 656. Mistress of Science diploma conferred upon Mollie B. Robinson by Cedar Bluff Female College, Woodburn, Kentucky. Mollie was the niece of the college's president, William F. Whitesides.


Johnson, Richard Mentor, 1781-1850 (Sc 831), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Johnson, Richard Mentor, 1781-1850 (Sc 831), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan of original and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 831. Letter, 24 May 1847, from Richard Mentor Johnson to Secretary of the Treasury Robert James Walker regarding the removal of Creek Indian students from Johnson’s school in White Sulphur, Scott County, Kentucky. Also included are notes relating to White Sulphur, Johnson, and Walker.


Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 816), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 816), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 816. Photocopies of letters, 1849-1881 (12); agreement to place children with the Shakers, 1812; school merit awards, n.d. (4); and business receipts, etc., 1810-1879 (15). Also, letters regarding collection, 1984, n.d. (2).


Scott, Lavinia Rutherford, 1912-1960 (Sc 804), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Scott, Lavinia Rutherford, 1912-1960 (Sc 804), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 804. Paper entitled “Early Schools of Bowling Green [Kentucky],” written by Lavinia R. Scott. Includes information about the Southern College of Kentucky, Mary Kendall Jones’ Female Seminary, Samuel Moore Gaines’ Presbyterian School for Young Ladies, and George Edgar’s Bowling Green Female College.


Ground, Frankie, 1930-2020 (Sc 822), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Ground, Frankie, 1930-2020 (Sc 822), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 822. Three autograph albums of Frankie Ground, Warren County, Kentucky, containing signatures of classmates, teachers, friends, and family from Three Forks Schools, 1941-1944 (two separate albums), and North Warren High School, 1949.


Textbooks, Teachers, And Compromise: The Political Work Of Freedmen Education, Ashley Marie Swarthout Jan 2013

Textbooks, Teachers, And Compromise: The Political Work Of Freedmen Education, Ashley Marie Swarthout

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

After the end of the Civil War, Northerners flooded into the South in order to participate in the education of freedmen. While many, perhaps most, of the individuals who worked in freedmen education had the best interests of the freedmen in mind, freedmen education in of itself was inherently political; therefore, all contributors to freedmen education were also sponsors of Southern Reconstruction politics. It is my argument that the aid organizations (particularly the American Missionary Association and the American Freedmen's Union Commission), the writers and printers of freedmen-specific textbooks (the American Tract Society and Lydia Maria Child), and the teachers …


Middleton, Amanda (Sc 817), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Middleton, Amanda (Sc 817), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 817. Letter, 10 December 1865, of Amanda Middleton of Smiths Grove, Kentucky, a student at the Russellville Female Academy, to Charlie R. Bagby of Smiths Grove. She comments on school life and anticipated Christmas activities while at home during the holidays.


Smiths Grove College - Smiths Grove, Kentucky (Sc 2649), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2012

Smiths Grove College - Smiths Grove, Kentucky (Sc 2649), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 2649. Subscription lists, receipts and other financial records related to the operation of Smiths Grove College in Smiths Grove, Kentucky. Includes a debate outline demanding equal rights for women (Click on "Additional Files" below for scan).


Hall's Chapel School District - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 64), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2012

Hall's Chapel School District - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 64), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below)for Manuscripts Small Collection 64. A subscribers' list giving amount of money pledged to pay to John W. Sharrer to teach a three-months school at Hall's Chapel, Warren County, Kentucky.


Allen County, Kentucky - Schools (Sc 600), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2012

Allen County, Kentucky - Schools (Sc 600), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 600. Advertisements of school sessions of Allen Male and Female College, Scottsville, Kentucky, 1888, and Literary and Business School, Stony Point School House, Allen County, 1891. Faculty, rates of tuition, subjects, etc., are listed.


Southern College Of Kentucky - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 780), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2012

Southern College Of Kentucky - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 780), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 780. Letter, 8 September 1825, of Henry Grider and A. W. Graham, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to Governor Joseph Desha, requesting his assistance in funding the Southern College of Kentucky, which had been operating for three years in Bowling Green. Also included are photocopies of a (Bowling Green) Times-Journal article, 21 July 1937, concerning the educational history of Bowling Green and a 1969 paper by Ward C. Sumpter titled “Early Schools and Colleges of Warren County.”


Ruff, Joseph Carl (Fa 166), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2012

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.


Tynes, Lillian Iona, 1925-2010 (Mss 431), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2012

Tynes, Lillian Iona, 1925-2010 (Mss 431), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 431. Sundry items from Lillian Iona Tynes’s childhood and adolescence in Russellville, Kentucky, including greeting and holiday cards, correspondence, diaries, report cards, programs from school functions, news clippings, church programs, and more.


Sandidge, Hattie Mcmillan (Williams), 1876-1942 (Sc 742), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Sandidge, Hattie Mcmillan (Williams), 1876-1942 (Sc 742), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 742. Typescript of 1941 letter written by Hattie McMillan (Williams) Sandidge, Burkesville, Kentucky, to school friend Bessie McMillan (whose father, J. P. McMillan, was president of Alexander College in Burkesville), reminiscing and relating information about Burkesville and mutual friends.


Never Stop Working: Examining The Life And Activism Of Howard Fuller, Sarah Barber Aug 2012

Never Stop Working: Examining The Life And Activism Of Howard Fuller, Sarah Barber

Theses and Dissertations

Howard Fuller, a long-time community activist born in Shreveport, Louisiana and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has become a nationally renowned advocate for school choice. Coming from humble beginnings, Fuller learned from his tight-knit community growing up that he could be anything he wanted to be if he worked hard enough and focused on his education. Wanting future generations of black Americans to have the same opportunities he had, Fuller would dedicate his life work to uplifting his people through education. How Fuller approached that work, however, led to seemingly contradicting approaches and ideas. This thesis attempts to make sense of …


Jones, Mary (Kendall), 1806?-1884 (Sc 488), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Jones, Mary (Kendall), 1806?-1884 (Sc 488), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 488. Photocopy of paper entitled “Reminiscences of the Life and Teachings of Mary Kendall Jones while a Resident of this City,” written by a former student, of Bowling Green, Kentucky, sometime during the period 1883-1887.