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Harbison, Robert Glen (Fa 160), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Harbison, Robert Glen (Fa 160), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 160. This collection contains a paper entitled “The Strange Little Stone House: The History Of The Underwood Home – 1529 State Street,” written by Robert Harbison as a part of a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University in the fall of 1992. Also included is a Kentucky Historic Resources Inventory sheet detailing the Underwood Home.
To Make A Better World Tomorrow: St. Clair Drake And The Quakers Of Pendle Hill, Andrew Rosa
To Make A Better World Tomorrow: St. Clair Drake And The Quakers Of Pendle Hill, Andrew Rosa
History Faculty Publications
This article is part of a larger project by the author to record St. Clair Drake’s contribution to the black radical tradition. Here he examines Drake’s involvement with the Quakers in the early years of the Depression. Drawing on writings in African American and Popular Front periodicals of the time, it considers how a Quaker community shaped Drake’s identity as an intellectual activist and how his encounter suggests the ways in which black intellectuals engaged with non-violence as a philosophy and strategy for social change before he civil rights movement. Drake’s participation in non-violent campaigns for workers’ rights, world peace …
Ua68/8/1 History Alumni Newsletter, Wku History
Ua68/8/1 History Alumni Newsletter, Wku History
WKU Archives Records
Newsletter created by the WKU History Department regarding activities in the department, students and alumni.
Thornberry, Martine (Calhoun), 1905-1972 (Sc 609), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Thornberry, Martine (Calhoun), 1905-1972 (Sc 609), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and representative scans of over 200 items (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 609. Papers relating to Martine (Calhoun) Thornberry’s position as postmaster at Livermore, McLean County, Kentucky; papers relating to the duties as postmaster and to keeping the position when a change in political parties occurred in 1954. Also some references to her work as a teacher on Indian reservations, 1927-1938, 1947-1950, and as the first woman from Kentucky to become a Marine officer, 1943-1945, 1954.
User Expectations Of Library Genealogy Databases V. What They Actually Get, Rosemary L. Meszaros, Katherine Pennavaria
User Expectations Of Library Genealogy Databases V. What They Actually Get, Rosemary L. Meszaros, Katherine Pennavaria
DLPS Faculty Publications
An analysis and comparison of two genealogical databases: Ancestry.com and Heritagequest.com.
Supernatural Experiences (Fa 74), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Supernatural Experiences (Fa 74), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scans of two out of thirteen papers (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 74. [Supernatural Experiences] Project completed by Western Kentucky University students for a folk studies class taught by Lynwood Montell. Collection focuses on short supernatural events experienced by informants. Subjects include dreams, ghosts, Ouija boards, sleepovers, church experiences and others.
Ua52/1 Snowball Express Memories, Wku Archives
Ua52/1 Snowball Express Memories, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Records
Memories regarding the Snowball Express train which was stranded in the snow solicited by WKU Archives.
Galloway, Ewing, 1881-1953 (Sc 2502), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Galloway, Ewing, 1881-1953 (Sc 2502), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2502. Correspondence of Ewing Galloway, a native of Henderson, Kentucky and the owner of a photography agency in New York City, with Mary Marks, a geography professor at Western Kentucky University, related to a gift of photographs made to the Kentucky Library & Museum at WKU. Also includes clippings, chiefly related to Galloway’s return to Henderson, Kentucky and the gift to WKU.
Mitchell, Eleonore Beck (Fa 70), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mitchell, Eleonore Beck (Fa 70), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 70. “History of ROTC.” Collection contains interviews, field notes indexes and cassettes of project completed with Frank Allen Minner by Eleonore Beck Mitchell. Collection was completed for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University. Interview covers topics such as the history of ROTC, the ROTC program at Western Kentucky University, recruitment, and differences in training between ROTC and military academies.
Ua94/6/11 Student / Alumni Personal Papers Wku Darwin Newton, Wku Archives
Ua94/6/11 Student / Alumni Personal Papers Wku Darwin Newton, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Notebooks, notes and papers written by Darwin Newton during his time as a student at WKU.
The Roots And Routes Of "Imperium In Imperio": St. Clair Drake, The Formative Years, Andrew Rosa
The Roots And Routes Of "Imperium In Imperio": St. Clair Drake, The Formative Years, Andrew Rosa
History Faculty Publications
Marking the centenary of St. Clair Drake's birth, this examination begins the project of recovering one of the most underrated minds of the twentieth century by situating him within the community(s) that initially served to form him. Illustrative of the social theory of a black community outlined in Black Metropolis, Drake's lineage and formative years suggests that his was a cultural identity rooted in and routed through a series of racially constructed, semi-autonomous black life worlds, each held together by the collective desires of those made most vulnerable by the upheavals of capitalism and the caste-enforcing structures of segregation …
Ua64/25/5/3 College Of Education & Behavioral Sciences Military Science Student Organizations 321st Detachment, Wku Archives
Ua64/25/5/3 College Of Education & Behavioral Sciences Military Science Student Organizations 321st Detachment, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Publications created by and about the 321st Detachment of Army Air Force cadets.
Ua68/8/2 Potter College Of Arts & Letters History Oral History Committee, Wku Archives
Ua68/8/2 Potter College Of Arts & Letters History Oral History Committee, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Records created by the Oral History Committee. Series includes oral history interview tapes and transcriptions.
Ua94/6/7 Student / Alumni Personal Papers Wku Irene Gullette, Wku Archives
Ua94/6/7 Student / Alumni Personal Papers Wku Irene Gullette, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Records created by and about Irene Gullette. This collection contains correspondence with WKU librarians and administrators regarding her time at WKU and her later accomplishments in the field of Library Science.
Ua68/8/3/1 Potter College Of Arts & Letters History Student Organizations Phi Alpha Theta, Wku Archives
Ua68/8/3/1 Potter College Of Arts & Letters History Student Organizations Phi Alpha Theta, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Records created by Eta Pi chapter of Phi Alpha Theta history honor society. Includes correspondence, publications and scrapbook.