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Averitt, Lewis H., 1812-1872 (Sc 710), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Averitt, Lewis H., 1812-1872 (Sc 710), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 710. Manuscript book of 30 poems written by Dr. Lewis H. Averitt physician of Caledonia, Trigg County, Kentucky, between 1840-1872. Several of the poems are about the Whig Party in Kentucky, 1842-1843.
Patterson, F. Youree, 1869-1936 (Sc 246), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Patterson, F. Youree, 1869-1936 (Sc 246), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 246. Campaign letter, 25 July 1913, written by F. Youree Patterson, Bowling Green, Kentucky, concerning his candidacy for the Warren County Clerk’s office in the primary election on the dry ticket.
Davis, Jefferson Finis, 1808-1889 (Sc 280), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Davis, Jefferson Finis, 1808-1889 (Sc 280), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 280. Photostat of a letter written at Washington, D.C. on 20 January 1861 by Jefferson Davis to President Frankin Pierce advising of his resignation from the U.S. Senate and his intention to return to Mississippi. Davis also comments on the unsettled conditions following Mississippi's secession from the Union. Original in Library of Congress.
Humphreys, George Gary, B. 1949 (Fa 564), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Humphreys, George Gary, B. 1949 (Fa 564), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 564. Interview conducted by George Gary Humphreys with Lexington attorney and political memorabilia collector Julius Edward Rather. Rather discusses 20th century politicians he knew and how he got involved in collecting political memorabilia.
Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program
Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program
WKU Archives Records
The WKU Student Honors Research Bulletin is dedicated to scholarly involvement and student research. These papers are representative of work done by students from throughout the university.
- Basham, Penny. The Ritalin Controversy: Hyperactive Children and Medication
- Buote, Kim. The Transmission of Negative Feedback: Obstacles, Effects and Suggestions
- Cowan, James. The 1988 Presidential Primaries: Search for Bandwagons
- Durfey, Suzanne. AIDS: Nutrition and Its Implications
- Felty, Jeff. Gay and Lesbian Couples
- Gilliland, Linda. Muffins and Aspartame or Sucrose
- Graham, Ken. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
- Grubbs, Morris. Conflicts and Synthesis in Robert Penn Warren's Blackberry Winter
- Medeiros, Lynne. Problems of Democratic Republicism in …
Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program
Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program
WKU Archives Records
The WKU Student Honors Research Bulletin is dedicated to scholarly involvement and student research. These papers are representative of work done by students from throughout the university.
- Albin, Bettye. Hawthorne's Narrator in the Blithedale Romance: A New Cover for an Old Friend
- Allen, Christopher. With Just Pride: The Naval History of the Warships USS Enterprise
- Barrett, Shelly. Structuralism
- Bolton, Joe. Wallace Stevens and Twentieth Century Aesthetics
- Bush, Paul. The Acceptance of Grace in Flannery O'Connor's Short Stories
- Gasparello-Moore, Nina. A Comparison of a Naïve and Simple Regression Forecasting Model for the Dow Jones Industrial Average
- Henry, Lynn. The Bureaucratic and …
The Masterless Society: Observations On American Democracy By Alexis De Tocqueville, James Tyrie Jr.
The Masterless Society: Observations On American Democracy By Alexis De Tocqueville, James Tyrie Jr.
Government theses
French political theorist Alexis de Tocqueville’s views concerning American democracy were examined in order to discern key aspects of democratic thought and practice in America. Tocqueville found certain fundamental premises such as individual freedom and “equality of conditions” at the base of democracy in America. From these basic premises come several paradoxical results, namely the masterless society, economic materialism and “tyranny of the majority.” These paradoxes are controlled by safeguards of associations, the press and the judiciary within the system. It was found that Tocqueville’s detachment and foresight give his thought greater meaning than that of many contemporary social and …