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Forggett, Essie (Fa 1104), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Forggett, Essie (Fa 1104), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1104. Student paper titled “Slavery in Green County” in which Essie Forggett details the history of the settlement of Green County and its eventual dependence upon slave labor. Forggett also includes stories of slave auctions, punishments, attempted escapes, and religious practices of slaves throughout the region. Paper is based on information collected by Forggett from county clerk records and in-person interviews with slave descendants.
Ua12/2/1 Wkuherald321, Wku Student Affairs
Ua12/2/1 Wkuherald321, Wku Student Affairs
WKU Archives Records
Newsletter recapping the top stories of the week.
Ua3/9/5 Hall Of Distinguished Alumni Speech, Wku President's Office
Ua3/9/5 Hall Of Distinguished Alumni Speech, Wku President's Office
WKU Archives Records
Speech written and delivered by Gary Ransdell on his and his wife, Julie Ransdell's induction into the WKU Hall of Distinguished Alumni.
Ua12/2/1 Wkuherald321, Wku Student Affairs
Ua12/2/1 Wkuherald321, Wku Student Affairs
WKU Archives Records
Newsletter recapping the top stories of the week.
Southern Kentucky Paddlers Society - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 619), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Southern Kentucky Paddlers Society - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 619), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 619. Administrative papers and programming material from the Southern Kentucky Paddlers Society which was headquartered in Warren County, Kentucky, although some members came from adjoining counties. The group formed for educational, recreational, and conservation purposes in 1980 and disbanded sometime around 2009.
The Truth About Disney Princesses: Ted Talk Annotated Resource List, Amanda Poole
The Truth About Disney Princesses: Ted Talk Annotated Resource List, Amanda Poole
Undergraduate Research Award
No abstract provided.
Ua12/2/1 Wkuherald321, Wku Student Affairs
Ua12/2/1 Wkuherald321, Wku Student Affairs
WKU Archives Records
Newsletter recapping the top stories of the week.
Ua12/2/1 Wkuherald321, Wku Student Affairs
Ua12/2/1 Wkuherald321, Wku Student Affairs
WKU Archives Records
Newsletter recapping the top stories of the week.
Ua12/2/1 Wkuherald321, Wku Student Affairs
Ua12/2/1 Wkuherald321, Wku Student Affairs
WKU Archives Records
Newsletter recapping the top stories of the week.
Ua3/10/2 Remembering 9/11, Wku President's Office - Caboni
Ua3/10/2 Remembering 9/11, Wku President's Office - Caboni
WKU Archives Records
Email from WKU president Timothy Caboni to faculty & staff regarding the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Farley, Seth Thomas, Jr., 1917-1999 (Mss 617), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Farley, Seth Thomas, Jr., 1917-1999 (Mss 617), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 617. Correspondence, documents, news clippings and ephemera from Seth Thomas Farley, Jr., a life-long educator. This collection includes a good deal of information about Farley’s teaching career prior to his work as a professor at WKU, his involvement in organizations that fought alcoholism and gambling (particularly the lottery in Kentucky), his church work, and his service on a committee to choose a federal magistrate for the western district of Kentucky. The collection includes an entire box of assessment related material related to Fort Knox Dependent Schools in the mid-1960s.
Logan, Mary Middleton (Curd), 1915-2019 - Collector (Sc 3137), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Logan, Mary Middleton (Curd), 1915-2019 - Collector (Sc 3137), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3137. Chiefly invitations, Christmas cards and brief letters from Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt to James and Mary Logan, Hyde Park, New York. Includes a photograph of Mrs. Roosevelt’s Hyde Park cottage, Val-Kill, and of prominent mourners at her funeral. Also includes invitations to Roosevelt memorials and social occasions from the Roosevelts’ son John, and birthday greetings to Mary from President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton.
Same-Sex Marriage - Law And Legislation (Sc 3131), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Same-Sex Marriage - Law And Legislation (Sc 3131), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3131. Letters to Brian Coutts, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from Congressman Ron Lewis (R-KY) and Senator Jim Bunning (R-KY), outlining their support of the Marriage Protection Act, a bill to amend the U.S. Constitution to define marriage as a union between a man and woman. The bill failed to pass in either the House or Senate.
Ua68/8 History Alumni Newsletter, Wku History
Ua68/8 History Alumni Newsletter, Wku History
WKU Archives Records
Newsletter created by and about the WKU History Department.
Green, Frank Henry (Sc 3125), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Green, Frank Henry (Sc 3125), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan (click on "Additional Files" below) of Manuscripts Small Collection 3125. “Glacier National Park, Montana, United States of America (Part of Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park): A Few Stories as Told by Frank Henry Green, Season Park Ranger at Avalanche Creek Campground.” The text is liberally illustrated with photos.
Ua42/4/3 Commencement Program, Wku Owensboro
Ua42/4/3 Commencement Program, Wku Owensboro
WKU Archives Records
Commencement program listing graduates with order of exercises for WKU Owensboro.
Winchel, Beulah Rhea, 1912-2015 (Mss 609), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Winchel, Beulah Rhea, 1912-2015 (Mss 609), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 609. Correspondence, photographs, travel materials, genealogy, and other personal papers of Beulah R. Winchel, a Breckinridge County, Kentucky, native and a teacher and librarian who served in Japan, Germany and France with the U.S. Army Special Services and the Department of Defense Dependents Schools.
Tennessee Valley Authority, Division Of Forestry (Sc 3100), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Tennessee Valley Authority, Division Of Forestry (Sc 3100), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3100. Report on the forestry reconnaissance of the proposed Gilbertsville, Kentucky, reservoir area. Prepared by the Tennessee Valley Authority, Division of Forestry, November, 1936. Contains black and white photographs.
Embric, E. P. - Relating To (Sc 3107), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Embric, E. P. - Relating To (Sc 3107), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3107. Finding signed by 12 jurors on letterhead of a Lebanon, Kentucky law firm adjudging E. P. Embric to be a lunatic. The finding states that Embric exhibited the first symptoms of an unsound mind on 21 April 1880, that his place of birth, residence and parents are unknown, and that he is incapable of laboring for his support.
Purdy, James K., 1857-1929 - Relating To (Sc 3106), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Purdy, James K., 1857-1929 - Relating To (Sc 3106), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3106. Finding signed by 12 jurors adjudging James Purdy of Marion County, Kentucky to be a lunatic. The finding states that Purdy became of unsound mind two years earlier, “supposed to be from self abuse,” that his mother resides in the county, and that he is incapable of laboring for his support.
The Incredible Inventions Of Intuitive Ai: Ted Talk Annotated Resource List, Dylan Duckworth
The Incredible Inventions Of Intuitive Ai: Ted Talk Annotated Resource List, Dylan Duckworth
Undergraduate Research Award
No abstract provided.
Ua68/1/3 Arts & Letters, Wku Potter College Of Arts & Letters
Ua68/1/3 Arts & Letters, 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.
Teaching Assistant [Career Paper], Madelynn Williams
Teaching Assistant [Career Paper], Madelynn Williams
Undergraduate Research Award
No abstract provided.
Davis, Jefferson Finis, 1808-1889 - Letter To (Sc 3099), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Davis, Jefferson Finis, 1808-1889 - Letter To (Sc 3099), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3099. Letter, 9 October 1861, from Kentucky secessionists James W. Moore, J. M. Burns, and Nathaniel M. Menifee to Confederate president Jefferson Davis requesting an urgent meeting to discuss Kentucky’s political situation. Research notes relating to this letter and its circumstances, referencing The Diary of Edmund Ruffin, are also included.
Crossland, Edward, 1827-1881 (Sc 3097), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Crossland, Edward, 1827-1881 (Sc 3097), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3097. Autobiographical sketch by Edward Crossland, Democratic Congressman from Kentucky, in which he provides details about his public and political career. The sketch omits any reference to his Confederate military service.
Turpin, James, B. 1828? - Relating To (Sc 3092), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Turpin, James, B. 1828? - Relating To (Sc 3092), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3092. Record of proceedings in Commonwealth of Kentucky v. James Turpin, wherein the defendant was adjudged a lunatic and ordered taken to the asylum in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. The record of the Garrard County, Kentucky court provides names of jurors as well as the circumstances contributing to Turpin’s condition, most notably his killing of a neighbor.
Bowling Green Woman's Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 601), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Woman's Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 601), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 601. Minutes, membership lists, publications, press books, event programs, and other records of the Bowling Green Woman’s Club, a civic organization in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes some materials relating to its affiliation with the Kentucky Federation of Women’s Clubs.
Ua12/2/1 Wkuherald321, Wku Student Affairs
Ua12/2/1 Wkuherald321, Wku Student Affairs
WKU Archives Records
Newsletter recapping the top stories of the week.
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 600), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 600), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 600. Typescript of the South Union, Kentucky, Shaker Necropolis, a compilation of deaths at the colony from 1810-1918. The deceased’s name, place and date of birth, date of death and age at death are provided. An index of men's and women's names is included.
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 599), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 599), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 599. Shaker Record D, a journal of the activities of the Shaker colony at South Union, Kentucky. The journal has been typescripted from the original, held at the Shaker Museum at South Union. Click on "Additional Files" below for an index of names.