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Full-Text Articles in History
Franco-American Newspapers And Periodicals In The Northeast: An Inventory, Susan Pinette, Jacob Albert
Franco-American Newspapers And Periodicals In The Northeast: An Inventory, Susan Pinette, Jacob Albert
Franco-American Centre Franco-Américain Faculty Scholarship
Franco-American newspapers and periodicals occupy an overlapping space between primary and secondary literature, and their shadow looms large over the collective body of historic Franco-American sources. Their significance to the Franco-American community is hard to overstate. These periodical publications complicate issues of identity in the U.S. Northeast and are an integral part of Québec history itself. This article details current work to inventory newspaper and periodical titles (currently over 400) and makes accessible our collectively built, evolving inventory of Franco-American newspapers. Les journaux et périodiques franco-américains occupent un espace entre la littérature primaire et la littérature secondaire, et leur ombre …
Searching Historical Newspapers, Leigh Rupinski
Searching Historical Newspapers, Leigh Rupinski
Handouts
This handout guides students through the process of finding and using historical newspapers using University Libraries' databases. The handout includes how to use the History Subject Guide and tips for searching.
0875: Mike Jones President Barack Obama Media Collection, 2008-2013, Marshall University Special Collections
0875: Mike Jones President Barack Obama Media Collection, 2008-2013, Marshall University Special Collections
Guides to Manuscript Collections
This collection is predominantly newspapers from 2008-2011 and magazines from the same time period. Other items include campaign paraphernalia such as a t-shirt, campaign signs (one covered in anti-Obama graffiti), campaign buttons, bumper stickers, and an advertisement for the coverage of the 2008 election by Arizona Daily Star, and VHS recordings of the election, inauguration of President Obama, and President Obama’s first 100 days in office
Lulac's Founding And The Lower Rio Grande Valley (Powerpoint), Cynthia E. Orozco
Lulac's Founding And The Lower Rio Grande Valley (Powerpoint), Cynthia E. Orozco
Fall Workshop November 2020
No abstract provided.
G. William Bouldin, More Than A Businessman, Mario M. Gutierrez
G. William Bouldin, More Than A Businessman, Mario M. Gutierrez
Methods of Historical Research: Spring 2020
When the average person thinks about African American history, the two major historical subjects that possibly comes to their mind are slavery and the civil rights movement. I believe this is the case because African American history is a subject with a limited curriculum in the history classes of our public schools. Possible causes for this problem could be budget restrictions, limited amounts of time in classes, or even to ‘soften’ the reality of American history. Despite these reasons, the undeniable fact is that African American History has many unresearched areas within the subject. For instance, the historical study of …
America's Last Great Newspaper War [Table Of Contents], Mike Jaccarino
America's Last Great Newspaper War [Table Of Contents], Mike Jaccarino
Cinema & Media Studies
A from-the-trenches view of New York Daily News and New York Post runners and photographers who would stop at nothing to break the story and squash their tabloid arch rivals.
When author Mike Jaccarino was offered a job at the Daily News in 2006, he was asked a single question: “Kid, what are you going to do to help us beat the Post?” That was the year things went sideways at the News, when The New York Post surpassed its nemesis in circulation for the first time in the history of both papers. Tasked with one job—crush the …
Green Family Papers (Mss 674), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Green Family Papers (Mss 674), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 674. Business and personal correspondence, as well as business records (chiefly invoices and statements from Louisville suppliers) for the Green family at Falls of Rough, Grayson County, Kentucky. Green operated a number of businesses, including saw mills, a grist mill, woolen mill, and a general store. He also operated a large farm raising tobacco and livestock, as well as a herd of Shetland ponies. Although his businesses are covered extensively in the correspondence and records, politics and local economic development is also discussed.
Memento Mori: Victorian Death Culture Through Murder, Morbidity, And Mourning, Jemma M. Kloss
Memento Mori: Victorian Death Culture Through Murder, Morbidity, And Mourning, Jemma M. Kloss
History Honors Projects
Death loomed large in Victorian London. Murder dominated not only headlines but also popular media such as fiction and theater, as London grappled with regular outbreaks of disease, and personal mourning turned into a show of fashion and wealth. Where did this preoccupation with death come from, and what can it tell us about Victorian society as a whole? While these specific changes resulted from cultural accumulations, many of them stemmed from how London itself grew during this period. The industrialization, urbanization, and overall development of London into a thriving metropolis changed the ways its citizens interacted with death.
Stone, Laurence Lobert "Larry," 1914-1993 (Sc 3361), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stone, Laurence Lobert "Larry," 1914-1993 (Sc 3361), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3361. Letters to retired WKU faculty member Frances Richards from former student Larry Stone, co-editor and columnist for The (Central City, Kentucky) Times-Argus. A 1972 letter recalls his visits to her at the WKU campus, mentions other former teachers, and reports on his work and family. A 1975 letter reports on recent awards from the National Newspaper Association given to him and other WKU alumni.
Grise, George Calvin, 1918-1961 (Sc 3359), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Grise, George Calvin, 1918-1961 (Sc 3359), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3359. Letters and cards to WKU faculty member Frances Richards and her parents, and writings of George C. Grise. The WKU graduate, English professor at Austin Peay University, and author thanks the Richards for gifts, including a loom, and describes his life in the country near Lewisburg, Kentucky. He sends Frances Richards notices regarding the publication of his 1956 book Life With Hezzie and a 1960 writer’s workshop at Austin Peay. Includes an essay about editing WKU’s College Heights Herald newspaper, and a published article about school discipline stories. Also includes clippings about …
Sanders, William Willard "Whitey," 1930-2021 (Mss 659), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sanders, William Willard "Whitey," 1930-2021 (Mss 659), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 659. Correspondence, articles and miscellaneous material documenting the career of newspaper editorial cartoonist Bill “Whitey” Sanders. Includes letters from readers, public figures and fellow cartoonists, video of programs and appearances, and material related to Sanders’ books and his participation in professional organizations.
The Intermedial Politics Of Handwritten Newspapers In The 19th-Century U.S., Mark A. Mattes
The Intermedial Politics Of Handwritten Newspapers In The 19th-Century U.S., Mark A. Mattes
Faculty Scholarship
Handwritten newspapers appeared in a variety of social contexts in the 19th-century U.S.1 The largest extant portion of 19th-century handwritten newspapers emerged from home and school settings. More far-flung examples include those written aboard ships during exploratory and military voyages. Others were produced within institutions such as hospitals and asylums. Such works were written during times of privation, including life in an army regiment or a prisoner-of-war camp during the Civil War. At other times, handwritten newspapers accompanied efforts at westward settlement and transcontinental railway journeys. Impromptu papers could follow in the wake of natural disasters that knocked out print-based …
Cox, Hilda-Gay (Fa 1239), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cox, Hilda-Gay (Fa 1239), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1239. Student folk studies project titled “Sequent Occupance of the Main Business District of Hodgenville, Kentucky,” which includes a list of illustrations with brief descriptions of residents and buildings in the main business district of Hodgenville, LaRue County, Kentucky. List entries may include a brief description of building, resident, location, donor, and photo.
Online Archive Of The Jewish Chronicle, Robert H. Ellison, Larry Sheret
Online Archive Of The Jewish Chronicle, Robert H. Ellison, Larry Sheret
English Faculty Research
The Jewish Chronicle (JC), a weekly newspaper based in London, England, offers free access to the text and video content on its website and subscription-based access to its full-text archive, which dates back to its founding in 1841. The search interface and the OCR underlying the page scans can be problematic at times, but this is nonetheless a valuable resource; over 175 years’ worth of material on Jewish history and the larger social culture will be of interest to scholars in a variety of fields.
Selby, Isabella M. (Sc 3208), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Selby, Isabella M. (Sc 3208), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3208. Letter to an editor, apparently drafted by Isabella M. Selby or a member of her family. Likely in reference to the “Eaton affair” or “Petticoat affair,” the letter complains of “abuse” of President Andrew Jackson and his cabinet by newspapers that are patronized “by the Clay & Adams party in this part of Kentucky”; specifically, the letter objects to characterizing the Administration’s replacement of some officeholders as “sin” or “anti-republican.”
Scott, James Mcmillian, 1870-1907 (Mss 628), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Scott, James Mcmillian, 1870-1907 (Mss 628), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 628. Letters of James McMillian Scott, a native of Cumberland County, Kentucky, to Sarah Elizabeth “Ellie” Garnett of Adair County, Kentucky, written before and after their marriage. Frequently separated from his wife because of his work on his family’s Texas farm and his editorial positions on newspapers in Texas, Kentucky and Arkansas, Scott writes of his family, his social and religious activities, his Spanish-American War service, and his newspaper work. He is frequently resentful of local attacks on his reputation arising from unspecified indiscretions committed while living in Kentucky. Full-text scans of several Spanish-American War …
“When One Shingle Sends Up Smoke”: The Summit Beacon Advises Akron About The Epidemic Cholera, 1849, Elizabeth Hall
“When One Shingle Sends Up Smoke”: The Summit Beacon Advises Akron About The Epidemic Cholera, 1849, Elizabeth Hall
Nineteenth-Century Ohio Literature
Elizabeth Hall explains the American cholera epidemic of 1849, with special attention to how cholera afflicted Akron, a booming canal town in Northeast Ohio. The article presents the full text of 1849 Akron newspaper articles on cholera and explains how their mix of good and bad information was published right before scientific breakthroughs in cholera research.
Tyler Daily Courier-Times, January 1925-December 1929, Vicki Betts
Tyler Daily Courier-Times, January 1925-December 1929, Vicki Betts
By Title
Article level index to the Tyler Daily Courier-Times, published in Tyler, Texas, for January 1925-December 1929. Indexing is limited to articles related to Smith County, Texas.
Hanes, Dorothy (Taylor) - Collector (Sc 2997), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hanes, Dorothy (Taylor) - Collector (Sc 2997), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2997. Miscellaneous papers consisting of a 1919 subscription solicitation from the Louisville (Kentucky) Herald; a 1932 letter from their daughter to Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Board, Rockfield, Kentucky; and an uncorrected transcript of a 1973 interview with Mrs. Ruby Taylor, Lowenburg, North Carolina, regarding her husband Otis B. Taylor, his family, and his career as an agronomist, biologist and wildlife technician with the National Park Service.
Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Mss 552), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Mss 552), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 552. Personal and professional correspondence and papers of Margie Helm, Auburn, Kentucky native and longtime Western Kentucky University head librarian. Includes ancestral and family correspondence and papers, photographs, and genealogical research on the Helm, Carson, Porter, Blakey and related families.
Missouri Democrat [St. Louis], January-December 1864, Vicki Betts
Missouri Democrat [St. Louis], January-December 1864, Vicki Betts
By Title
Selected articles from the Missouri Democrat, published in St. Louis, Missouri, taken from the period January through December, 1864.
Mobile Daily Register, January-June 1860, Vicki Betts
Mobile Daily Register, January-June 1860, Vicki Betts
By Title
Selected articles from the Mobile Daily Register, published in Mobile, Alabama, covering the months January through December, 1860.
Tyler State Park In The Tyler Morning Telegraph, 1934-1946, Vicki Betts
Tyler State Park In The Tyler Morning Telegraph, 1934-1946, Vicki Betts
Special Topics
Bibliography of articles from the Tyler Morning Telegraph, 1934-1946, dealing with the construction of Tyler State Park by Civilian Conservation Camp 2888, as well as with proposed CCC construction at the Camp Ford Civil War POW site. Also articles on activities during the early years of Tyler State Park.
Tyler Morning Telegraph, January 1942-December 1946, Vicki Betts
Tyler Morning Telegraph, January 1942-December 1946, Vicki Betts
By Title
Chronological article level index to the Tyler Morning Telegraph, January 1942 through December 1946.
The Changing Nature Of Catastrophe: A History Of Semantic Shift, Justine Von Arb
The Changing Nature Of Catastrophe: A History Of Semantic Shift, Justine Von Arb
Honors Program Projects
Catastrophe, and the reporting of catastrophe, is prevalent in the present age, and catastrophic events are a part of the cultural memory. For America, events such as 9/11, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Hurricane Katrina, and the Challenger explosion, along with many other events, have filled newspapers and books, inspired documentaries and memorials, and, in many ways, reshaped the country. This paper investigated the changing nature of the word "catastrophe" and discovered the context of and the reasons for the shift in its meaning in 1748, as recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary. The Greek roots of the word, …
Brigham, Clarence Saunders, 1877-1963 (Sc 2941), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Brigham, Clarence Saunders, 1877-1963 (Sc 2941), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2941. Letter, 2 November 1944 of Clarence S. Brigham, Director of the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts, to Mrs. Vincent R. Jones, Glasgow, Kentucky. He encloses the manuscript pages from his book History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820 that refer to Glasgow newspapers, and acknowledges receipt of information from a thesis on the subject written by Eva Mae Barton at George Peabody College for Teachers, Nashville, Tennessee.
Smith, Elvin, Jr. - Collector (Mss 534), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Smith, Elvin, Jr. - Collector (Mss 534), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection MSS 534. Collected research of Elvin Smith, Jr. relating to the Civil War in Kentucky and consisting mostly of typescripted soldiers’ diaries and letters. Also includes compiled data on regiments stationed in Bowling Green, Kentucky and at Lost River Cave near Bowling Green, and lists of soldiers’ deaths at Bowling Green.
Tolle Collection (Mss 524), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Tolle Collection (Mss 524), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 524. Correspondence and papers of the Tolle family of Barren County, Kentucky. Includes data on the Tolle, Snoddy and Bransford families, William Daniel Tolle’s history of Barren County, and materials relating to his work as a veteran’s pension claims agent.
Henderson, Wathen Board, 1877-1957 (Mss 516), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Henderson, Wathen Board, 1877-1957 (Mss 516), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 516. Typescripts of “‘Old Timer’s’ Timely Topics,” a column by Wathen B. Henderson that appeared in the Breckinridge (Kentucky) News. The columns chiefly look back on the people, families and history of Breckinridge County and include Henderson’s own reminiscences.
Hines, John, 1771-1853 (Mss 496), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hines, John, 1771-1853 (Mss 496), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 496. Indentures, deeds and financial records chiefly of John Hines of Warren County, Kentucky. Includes material related to the settlement of his extensive estate that was executed by his son, Pleasant Hines. Contains many receipts from Bowling Green businesses in the 1870s and an undated plat map of the city showing owners of lots 71-122.