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Intro To Folk Studies Oral History Project (Fa 1206), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2018

Intro To Folk Studies Oral History Project (Fa 1206), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1206. Collection consists of interviews conducted by students in Barry Kaufkins’ Introduction to Folk Studies (FLK 276) class at WKU. Students conducted interviews with various family members, friends, and coworkers. Topics include childhood memories, cultural traditions, professional responsibilities, and other issues relating to personal narratives. Collection also contains brief summaries of subjects covered in the interviews. Audio recordings of the interviews that were recorded and submitted are stored in the WKU Sound Archives.


Foodways (Fa 1202), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2018

Foodways (Fa 1202), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1202. Collection of papers written by students in Professor Barry Kaufkins’ Foodways class (FLK/ANTH 388) at Western Kentucky University. While a majority of the papers focus on Easter traditions, other topics of note include immigrant foodways traditions, fundraising efforts, community organizations, tailgating, and sorority life. Papers also include photographs taken by students.


Ua3/2/1 President's Office-Garrett Correspondence/Subject File, Wku Archives Jan 2015

Ua3/2/1 President's Office-Garrett Correspondence/Subject File, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

General correspondence and subject files regarding Western Kentucky University.


Ua68/1/2 Potter College Of Arts & Letters Dean, Assistant Deans, Committees Events, Wku Archives Jan 2014

Ua68/1/2 Potter College Of Arts & Letters Dean, Assistant Deans, Committees Events, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by the Potter College of Arts & Letters Dean's Office regarding events, performances, series, conferences, and lectures sponsored or produced by Potter College for faculty, staff, students and general public.

Includes records related to the Cultural Enhancement Committee, Fine Arts Festival, Faculty Lecture Series, Visual & Performing Arts and Kentucky Heritage Project.


Supernatural Experiences (Fa 74), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2012

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.


Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 8, Wku Student Affairs Sep 2007

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 8, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.


General Index To Research Notes For: A History Of Blacks In Kentucky, Part Iii, Marion B. Lucas Jan 1992

General Index To Research Notes For: A History Of Blacks In Kentucky, Part Iii, Marion B. Lucas

Kentucky History

This index, general in nature, is organized under seventeen larger topics:

  • Camp Nelson
  • Slavery
  • Slave Hiring
  • Free Blacks
  • Underground Railroad - Fugitives
  • Post-Civil War Living Conditions
  • Society & Culture - Medical Care
  • Professions - Employment
  • Freedmen's Bureau
  • Civil Rights
  • Politics
  • Recreation
  • Population
  • Segregation- Changes in the 1890s
  • Civil War
  • Education
  • Religion

Under these general headings, there are numerous subtopics. The research notes are numbered and presented in numerical order, and they are searchable by note numbers, names, dates, events, and topics (occasional hand-written numbers may not appear in searches). There are no missing notes, but there are occasional missing numbers, …


General Index To Research Notes For: A History Of Blacks In Kentucky, Part Iv, Marion B. Lucas Jan 1992

General Index To Research Notes For: A History Of Blacks In Kentucky, Part Iv, Marion B. Lucas

Kentucky History

This index, general in nature, is organized under seventeen larger topics:

  • Camp Nelson
  • Slavery
  • Slave Hiring
  • Free Blacks
  • Underground Railroad - Fugitives
  • Post-Civil War Living Conditions
  • Society & Culture - Medical Care
  • Professions - Employment
  • Freedmen's Bureau
  • Civil Rights
  • Politics
  • Recreation
  • Population
  • Segregation- Changes in the 1890s
  • Civil War
  • Education
  • Religion

Under these general headings, there are numerous subtopics. The research notes are numbered and presented in numerical order, and they are searchable by note numbers, names, dates, events, and topics (occasional hand-written numbers may not appear in searches). There are no missing notes, but there are occasional missing numbers, …


General Index To Research Notes For: A History Of Blacks In Kentucky, Part I, Marion B. Lucas Jan 1992

General Index To Research Notes For: A History Of Blacks In Kentucky, Part I, Marion B. Lucas

Kentucky History

This index, general in nature, is organized under seventeen larger topics:

  • Camp Nelson
  • Slavery
  • Slave Hiring
  • Free Blacks
  • Underground Railroad - Fugitives
  • Post-Civil War Living Conditions
  • Society & Culture - Medical Care
  • Professions - Employment
  • Freedmen's Bureau
  • Civil Rights
  • Politics
  • Recreation
  • Population
  • Segregation- Changes in the 1890s
  • Civil War
  • Education
  • Religion

Under these general headings, there are numerous subtopics. The research notes are numbered and presented in numerical order, and they are searchable by note numbers, names, dates, events, and topics (occasional hand-written numbers may not appear in searches). There are no missing notes, but there are occasional missing numbers, …


Ua37/30/2 Wku Research Notecards - F Topics, Lowell Harrison Jan 1985

Ua37/30/2 Wku Research Notecards - F Topics, Lowell Harrison

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Notecards created by Lowell Harrison while researching his book Western Kentucky University. The cards transcribed below are for 259 topics beginning with F ranging from Faculty - Hunt to Future of Education.


Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program Jan 1978

Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program

WKU Archives Records

Papers representative of the variety of scholarly research conducted at WKU.

  • Adams, Kathy. The Appalachian Language
  • Barnett, Philip. A Study of Deviant Behavior of XYY Individuals in Regard to Environment and Genotype
  • Bell, Brooks. Loving, Loyal Linda Loman: An Interpretive Note
  • Danhauer, Janice. Motivating Workers Through Job Design
  • Davis, Barbara. The Transformation of a Man into a Man of Understanding in Murinbata Society
  • Davis, Diane. The Argot of the Homosexual
  • Jewell, Teresa. The Life Story of the Hero of World War I - Sergeant Alvin C. York
  • Lanham, Wayne. Das Knarrenschiff and a Ship of Fools: A Study in Influence …


Ua68/1 Forum, Wku Potter College Of Arts & Letters Oct 1975

Ua68/1 Forum, Wku Potter College Of Arts & Letters

WKU Archives Records

WKU Potter College of Arts & Letters faculty newsletter regarding faculty research and publications. This issue includes:

  • Clarke, Kenneth. Snake Handling & Plato: Identifying Academic Folklore
  • Mayhew, Larry. John T. Stahl, obituary


Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Vol. Ii, Wku Honors Program Jan 1974

Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Vol. Ii, Wku Honors Program

WKU Archives Records

Articles written by honors program students. They were originally research projects, class papers or essays written for academic credit, but in each case the student has done further work editing and improving his or her manuscript for this publication. The articles represent a broad range of interests and disciplines, and they indicate a healthy attempt on the part of at least some students to dig for deeper knowledge and understanding than is usually associated with undergraduate study.

  • Greene, Bruce. The Traditional Fiddle Music of South-Central Kentucky
  • Moody, Marlin. Some Effects of the Herbicide Glyphosate on Johnson Grass Rhizomes
  • Jones, Larry. …


Ua35/11 Student Honors Bulletin, Vol. I, No. 1, Wku Honors Program Jan 1973

Ua35/11 Student Honors Bulletin, Vol. I, No. 1, Wku Honors Program

WKU Archives Records

Articles written by honors program students. They were originally research projects, class papers or essays written for academic credit, but in each case the student has done further work editing and improving his or her manuscript for this publication. The articles represent a broad range of interests and disciplines, and they indicate a healthy attempt on the part of at least some students to dig for deeper knowledge and understanding than is usually associated with undergraduate study.

  • Harris, James. The Trent Affair; Restraint vs. Irresponsibility
  • Massey, Scott. Foolishness
  • Oskins, Doug. Reuse of Sewage as a Potable Water Supply
  • Alvey, Richard. …


Ua68/10/1 Sociological Symposium No. 8 – Childbirth & Infancy Life Cycle Series, Wku Sociology Apr 1972

Ua68/10/1 Sociological Symposium No. 8 – Childbirth & Infancy Life Cycle Series, Wku Sociology

WKU Archives Records

Table of Contents:

  • Hernandez, Pedro F. Catholic Church & Birth Control in Latin America
  • Kovit, Leonard. Labor is Hard Work: Notes on the Social Organization of Childbirth
  • McNurlen, Lewis J. Childbirth: A Family Affair
  • Miller, Rita Seiden & Ron Miller. Social Values Supporting Pregnancy: Dilemma for Population Control
  • Newman, John F. & William L. Graves. Neo-Natal Mortality & Socio-Economic Status
  • Newman, Lucille F. The Anthropology of Birth
  • Rutzen, S. Robert. Urban Life & Breast Feeding: A Sociological Analysis
  • Schulz, Barbara & Richard Schulz. Family Size Preferences & Sex Composition
  • Steinhoff, Patricia G., Roy G. Smith & Milton Diamond. Characteristics & …


Ua68/10/1 Sociological Symposium No. 1 – The Sociology Of Death, Wku Sociology Oct 1968

Ua68/10/1 Sociological Symposium No. 1 – The Sociology Of Death, Wku Sociology

WKU Archives Records

Table of Contents

  • Fulton, Robert L. & Gilbert Geis. Social Change & Social Conflict: The Rabbi & the Funeral
  • Kane, John J. The Irish Wake: A Sociological Appraisal
  • Loveland, Glenn G. The Effects of Bereavement on Certain Religious Attitudes & Behaviors
  • Morgan, Al. The Bier Barons
  • Porter, William H., Jr. Some Sociological Notes on a Century of Change in the Funeral Business
  • Salomone, Jerome J. An Empirical Report on Some Controversial American Funeral Practices
  • Spilka, Bernard, Robert J. Pelligrini & Kathryn Dailey. Religion, American Values & Death Perspectives
  • Strauss, Anselm L., Barney G. Glaser & Jeanne C. Quint. The Nonaccountability …