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Ua37/29 Gary Ransdell - Fed. Reserve Board - Bernanke Speech To Economic Club Of Washington, St. Louis Federal Reserve Board
Ua37/29 Gary Ransdell - Fed. Reserve Board - Bernanke Speech To Economic Club Of Washington, St. Louis Federal Reserve Board
WKU Archives Records
Email sent to members of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Board of speech given by Ben Bernanke at the Economic Club of Washington.
Ua37/29 Gary Ransdell - Fed. Reserve Board - Ben Bernanke's Confirmation Hearing Testimony, St. Louis Federal Reserve Board
Ua37/29 Gary Ransdell - Fed. Reserve Board - Ben Bernanke's Confirmation Hearing Testimony, St. Louis Federal Reserve Board
WKU Archives Records
Email sent to members of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Board regarding Ben Bernanke's confirmation hearing testimony.
Procter Family (Sc 2077), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Procter Family (Sc 2077), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2077. Genealogical notes and correspondence relating to the Procter, Carson and Dinwiddie families. Includes a certified copy of the will of Evan Shelby, father of Isaac Shelby, the first governor of Kentucky.
Folklore Collection, 1964-1972 (Fa 471), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklore Collection, 1964-1972 (Fa 471), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Collection 471. Miscellaneous folklore collection relating to legends and beliefs about subjects such as lost gold, Daniel Boone, Indian raids, venomous snakes, and ghosts. Items collected chiefly in the Kentucky counties of Green, Taylor and Lincoln.
Hodges, Patricia Ann (Morgan), B. 1931 - Letters To (Sc 2065), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hodges, Patricia Ann (Morgan), B. 1931 - Letters To (Sc 2065), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2065. Letters from various Kentucky politicians to Patricia and Paul Hodges, Bowling Green, Kentucky, chiefly related to policies concerning same-sex marriage and immigration.
Bell, Charles Rowan, 1891-1976 (Sc 2064), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bell, Charles Rowan, 1891-1976 (Sc 2064), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2064. Letter, 18 December 1963, from William A. Stevens, Washington, D.C., to Bowling Green, Kentucky lawyer Charles R. Bell with comments on Congressman William H. Natcher and other mutual acquaintances. Also includes information about Bell’s law career.
Bowling Green, Kentucky - City Ordinances (Mss 285), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green, Kentucky - City Ordinances (Mss 285), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscript Collection 285. Ordinances passed by the City of Bowling Green, Kentucky during the years 1914 to 1944. Includes list of ordinances; all the ordinances are not included with the collection. Also includes copies of various deeds and easements granted to the City of Bowling Green from 1885 to 1958.
Barkley, David M., 1906-1983 (Sc 2051), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Barkley, David M., 1906-1983 (Sc 2051), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 2051. Three letters to David M. Barkley, Paducah, Kentucky, from Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, thanking him for good wishes and expressing regard for Barkely's father, Vice President Alben W. Barkley. An image of one of the letters, dated 14 November 1970 , can be found as an additional file.
Harlin, Maxey B., Jr., 1915-2003 (Mss 262), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Harlin, Maxey B., Jr., 1915-2003 (Mss 262), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and some full-text scans of items (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 262. Correspondence of Maxey B. Harlin, Jr., a Bowling Green, Kentucky attorney and member of the Constitution Revision Assembly; also, minutes of the Constitution Review Commission, a paper, and texts of speeches favoring revision of Kentucky's constitution.
Bowling Green, Kentucky - City Council (Mss 276), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green, Kentucky - City Council (Mss 276), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 276. Minute books of Bowling Green, Kentucky Board of Councilmen (1948-1967), Board of Aldermen (1952-1967), and Board of Commissioners (1967-1987).
Eversole, Margaret B., B. 1927 (Sc 1941), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Eversole, Margaret B., B. 1927 (Sc 1941), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1941. Brief interview with Margaret B. Eversole conducted by Sue Lynn McDaniel about her remembrances of U S. Congressman William H. Natcher.
Warren County, Kentucky - New Deal Programs, 1934-1935 (Mss 253), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Warren County, Kentucky - New Deal Programs, 1934-1935 (Mss 253), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 253. Documents related to New Deal relief programs in Warren County, Kentucky and surrounding counties; correspondence of Ida Leighton Hodges, Bowling Green, Area Administrator of the Kentucky Emergency Relief Administration.
Cooper, John Sherman, 1901-1991 (Sc 1906), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cooper, John Sherman, 1901-1991 (Sc 1906), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1906. Letters from U.S. Senator John Sherman Cooper of Kentucky to constituents dealing with various political issues. He mentions then-senator Lyndon Baines Johnson blocking one of his bills.
Forgy, Samuel Walton, 1866-1927 (Mss 254), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Forgy, Samuel Walton, 1866-1927 (Mss 254), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 254. Correspondence related to the legal career of Forgy, of Todd County, Kentucky, as well as to his personal business dealings. Includes political correspondence related to Kentucky’s 1915 governor’s race.
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 1882-1945 (Sc 79), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 1882-1945 (Sc 79), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 79. Letter, 21 November 1932, written by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Martha Washington Jackson, Bowling Green, Kentucky, which expresses his thanks for her loyalty to the Democratic party; also notes given on the history of Bowling Green by Jackson.
Why Has The United States Never Ratified The Un Convention On The Elimination Of All Forms Of Discrimination Against Women?, Hannah Elizabeth Kington
Why Has The United States Never Ratified The Un Convention On The Elimination Of All Forms Of Discrimination Against Women?, Hannah Elizabeth Kington
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), adopted by the United Nations in 1979, has now been ratified by 185 countries, consisting of more than ninety percent of all UN members. The United States, however, has never ratified the Convention. The history of the Convention provides evidence of global support for women’s rights. While there are complex reasons behind the United States’ failure to ratify CEDAW, the United States’ commitment to unilateralism, an attitude of “American exceptionalism” and the long-term inequality and discrimination against women in the U.S. all contribute to the stifling of …