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Jesse Stuart & Education, Mae Dixon
Jesse Stuart & Education, Mae Dixon
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
The purpose of this study is to bring to the attention of the public the educational life and contributions of Jesse Stuart
Alexander Campbell In Kentucky, Leo Ashby
Alexander Campbell In Kentucky, Leo Ashby
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
The question of religion has caused much strife among mankind in the past, and even the present is not without its spiritual prejudices. In any phase of life the individual who departs too far from the accepted order is almost certain to be brought up sharply against the criticism and even ridicule of his contemporaries.
Alexander Campbell is no exception to this rule. His life was one of strife and conflict in the field of religion. His leadership in the “Reformation Movement” of the early Nineteenth Century has left an indelible impression upon the minds of thousands of men and …
Nancy Huston Banks: Her Life & Works, Velma Hines
Nancy Huston Banks: Her Life & Works, Velma Hines
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Several books have been written about the various natural resources of the state of Kentucky. A number of excellent histories of the state have been published with descriptions of the pioneer and outlaw days when the state numbered its inhabitants by the very few thousands. The industrial, economic, and social activities of the Kentucky people have been written about for several years. But Kentucky literature has had practically no recognition. The average person has known very little about Kentucky writers who probably have deserved to be placed among those in the Hall of Fame. From the pen of Kentucky writers …
Matthew Lyon In Kentucky, Lyda Smith
Matthew Lyon In Kentucky, Lyda Smith
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
“Men at some time are masters of their fate:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.”
Thus Shakespeare has the wily Cassius speak, and thus Matthew Lyon must have believed; else he had not contended so fiercely, so incessantly, and so interminably against such adverse circumstances as the average individual would have submitted to sooner or later. Many may have thought so; the facts often indicated so; yet never in a true sense was Matthew Lyon an underling. His fierce spirit was supreme over material things. Even while an indentured servant …