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Religion - Letters Of Recommendation (Sc 1228), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Religion - Letters Of Recommendation (Sc 1228), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1228. Letters of recommendation of various individuals given by the following Baptist churches in Allen County, Kentucky: Bethel, 1836, 1861; Bethlehem, 1851; Liberty, 1852; and by Rocky Spring in Warren County, Kentucky, 1852.
Peter's Creek Baptist Church - Barren County, Kentucky (Mss 487), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Peter's Creek Baptist Church - Barren County, Kentucky (Mss 487), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 487. Minutes, membership lists, constitution and rules of decorum for Peter’s Creek Baptist Church in Barren County, Kentucky. This material was typescripted by Eva Coe Peden, Glasgow, Kentucky, and bound into two volumes.
Harris, Christine Louise, 1914-2011 (Sc 1200), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Harris, Christine Louise, 1914-2011 (Sc 1200), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1200. World War II letters (5) written to Christine Louise Harris, Bowling Green, Kentucky, and to the Fifth Street Baptist Church, Bowling Green, where Harris was secretary.
Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church - Barren County, Kentucky (Sc 2770), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church - Barren County, Kentucky (Sc 2770), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2770. Minutes of Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church in Barren County, Kentucky. Also includes “Articles of Faith” and the church “Covenant.” Transcribed by Eva C. Peden. “Book I and II.”
Hopewell Baptist Church - Allen County, Kentucky (Mss 466), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hopewell Baptist Church - Allen County, Kentucky (Mss 466), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 466. Minutes, including lists of both white and African American members, of Hopewell Baptist Church, Allen County, Kentucky.
Vick, Velma Gertrude (Brown), 1892-1978 (Sc 2741), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Vick, Velma Gertrude (Brown), 1892-1978 (Sc 2741), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2741. Paper titled “The History of the First Baptist Church of Russellville, Kentucky, 1818-1958.”
Woman's Missionary Union - Gasper River (Kentucky) Association (Sc 2731), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Woman's Missionary Union - Gasper River (Kentucky) Association (Sc 2731), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2731. Minutes, programs, financial reports, and administrative papers for the Gasper River (Kentucky) Association’s Woman’s Missionary Union.
Martin, Grace Lee 1883-1968 (Sc 2718), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Martin, Grace Lee 1883-1968 (Sc 2718), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2718. Paper titled “Brief History of David’s Fork Baptist Church,” dated 1876, and transcribed by Grace Lee Martin, historian of the Bryan Station Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Lexington, Kentucky.
Active Religion: James Ireland, The Separate Baptists, And The Great Awakening In Virginia, 1760-1775, Cooper Pasque
Active Religion: James Ireland, The Separate Baptists, And The Great Awakening In Virginia, 1760-1775, Cooper Pasque
Masters Theses
In the mid-eighteenth century, the religious fervor of the Great Awakening entered Virginia. Evangelical Baptists soon threatened to undermine the authority of the Anglican Church and its planter patrons. Despite their efforts to quiet the Baptists, evangelical religion took root in Virginia by the end of the American Revolution. Historical works on these events offer valid but incomplete explanations. Puzzling dynamics in the Virginian context require a more complex interpretation. The life of James Ireland provides a unique window into possible answers. His autobiography provides evidence for what appears to be the most fundamental reason for evangelicalism's successes in Virginia. …
Mcelroy, Sallie (Atkins), 1872-1955 (Sc 942), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcelroy, Sallie (Atkins), 1872-1955 (Sc 942), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 942. Compilation of papers titled “History of the Churches of Bowling Green, KY.,” by Sallie Atkins McElroy, which includes data about Baptist, Catholic, Christian, Church of Christ, Church of God, Episcopal, Methodist, Nazarene, Presbyterian, and Seventh-Day Adventist churches.
Skaggs, William C. - Collector (Sc 981), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Skaggs, William C. - Collector (Sc 981), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 981. Receipts, marriage records, and notes collected by William C. Skaggs of Edmonson County, Kentucky.
Gasper River Bible Society (Sc 700), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gasper River Bible Society (Sc 700), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 700. Minutes of the 18th annual meeting of the Gasper River Bible Society of the Baptist Church, held at Salem meeting house, Butler County, Kentucky in August 1856.
Baptists - Hart & Larue Counties, Kentucky (Sc 907), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Baptists - Hart & Larue Counties, Kentucky (Sc 907), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 907. Church papers consisting of 1825 constitution of the Boiling Springs United Baptist Church, Hart County, listing founding members; a history of the Boiling Springs church,1825-1865; request of Bethabara (?) Baptist Church, Hart County, for ordination assistance, 1877; letter of dismissal given by Oak Hill Baptist Church, Larue County, Kentucky, to James Brooks, 1886.
Suydam, Louise Twyman, 1915-1991 (Sc 833), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Suydam, Louise Twyman, 1915-1991 (Sc 833), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 833. Chiefly correspondence between Louise Twyman Suydam, Fort Pierce, Florida, and WKU Kentucky Building faculty concerning Suydam’s memories of Bowling Green during the 1920s, and biographical information about the Wright family. Includes a typescript copy of Suydam’s reminiscence, "The Best of Times?”
Active Religion: James Ireland, The Separate Baptists, And The Great Awakening In Virginia, 1760-1775, Cooper Pasque
Active Religion: James Ireland, The Separate Baptists, And The Great Awakening In Virginia, 1760-1775, Cooper Pasque
Cooper Pasque
In the mid-eighteenth century, the religious fervor of the Great Awakening entered Virginia. Evangelical Baptists soon threatened to undermine the authority of the Anglican Church and its planter patrons. Despite their efforts to quiet the Baptists, evangelical religion took root in Virginia by the end of the American Revolution. Historical works on these events offer valid but incomplete explanations. Puzzling dynamics in the Virginian context require a more complex interpretation. The life of James Ireland provides a unique window into possible answers. His autobiography provides evidence for what appears to be the most fundamental reason for evangelicalism's successes in Virginia. …