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Dickinson, W. H. (Sc 263), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Mansucripts Small Collection 263. Receipt book of W. H. Dickinson, Sheriff of Barren County, Kentucky.

Thruston, Rogers Clark Ballard, 1858-1946 (Sc 312), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Mansucripts Small Collection 312. Letter to Mrs. C. W. Thompson, Glasgow, Kentucky, from Thruston, President of the Filson Club, Louisville, requesting information about Rogers family genealogy and the precise location of a stream, salt lick and buffalo trace in the region of Kentucky known as the Barrens.

Wooten, William H. (Sc 262), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 262. Two account books of William H. Wooten, carpenter and blacksmith in Bowling Green, Kentucky. One, 1857-1862, contains orders and lists work of hired hands. The second, 1857-1861, is a customer account book, 313p.

Godby, Coye Perkins, 1918-2004 (Mss 453), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 453. Chiefly World War II correspondence between Coye Perkins Godby, Elihu, Pulaski County, Kentucky, and his mother, Pearl Godby. Also, letters that his mother wrote to him. Godby was stationed in Orlando, Florida before being sent to England, France, the Rhineland, etc. in 1944. Topics include family news, relationships, and military life.

Procter, Benjamin Franklin, 1849-1944 (Sc 313), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 313. Letter written by Benjamin F. Procter, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to U.S. Representative Isaac Hershel Goodnight, Washington, D.C., suggesting that Goodnight seek an appropriation to open up the Barren River to more extensive traffic.

Auburn Seminary - Auburn, Kentucky (Sc 314), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 314. Items relating to Auburn Seminary, Auburn, Kentucky: shares of stock, 1885 (2); letters, 1900-1968 (3); teacher’s contract, 1907; 1956 histories of seminary (2); and letters and article about the Auburn Seminary Alumni Association, 1963-1966 (3).

Interpretive Vernacular: Pop Culture Is A Language, John M. Rudy

Interpreting the Civil War: Connecting the Civil War to the American Public

I trust people who sound like me. I trust people who speak the same language as me. Part of this comes from a simple fact of understanding. I speak very little Spanish, even less French.

But I also speak other languages, and trust people who speak to me in those languages. [excerpt]

Todd, George Davidson, 1856-1929 (Sc 311), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 311. Typed copy of speech delivered on 7 March 1898 by George Davidson Todd at Filson Club, Louisville, Kentucky, entitled "The First Cotton Factory in the West."

Naccs 39th Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies

NACCS Conference Programs

NACCS@40 Celebrating Scholarship and Activism
March 14-17, 2012
Palmer House Hilton

Gadd, Joseph Edwin, 1877-1968 (Sc 380), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 380. Memories of Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1880-1900, as recorded by Gadd in the 1960s. He lists residences, businesses, businessmen, professional people, and other historical data in his notes and accompanying letters. Includes related information, also.

Obenchain, Lida (Calvert), 1856-1935 (Sc 261), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 261. Handwritten, pencil manuscript of “The Reformation of Sam Amos” by Lida Calvert Obenchain (Eliza Calvert Hall). This was one of nine stores published by Little Brown & Co. in The Land of Long Ago, 1909.

Kentucky - Anniversary, 175th (Sc 379), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 379. Commonwealth anniversary speeches (3). Speeches of Gov. Breathitt (2) dealing with the rededication of the Jefferson Davis Monument, Fairview, and of the John Breathitt Marker, Russellville, and speech of J. Granville Clark, Russellville, concerning history of Logan County with accompanying letter (2).

John P. Morton And Company - Louisville, Kentucky (Sc 310), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 310. Schoolbook orders and remittances sent to the John P. Morton Company, Louisville, Kentucky, by George M. Edgar, Franklin Female College, Franklin, Kentucky, and by W. F. Easterling from Russellville and Greensburg, Kentucky.

Obenchain, William Alexander, 1841-1916 - Letters To (Sc 309), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 309. Letters (3) to William A. Obenchain, president of Ogden College, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from George J. Ramsey (1892), the Navy League of the United States (1903), and the American Protective Tariff League (1903), regarding publications.

Confederates In The Dorm: Hidden In Plain Sight, John M. Rudy

Interpreting the Civil War: Connecting the Civil War to the American Public

You can imagine the terror in the young 21-year-old's eyes as he realized who was charging down the Cashtown Pike into Gettysburg on the 26th of June. You can feel the chill that might have run down his spine as he realized that the rebel army he had deserted, the one he had escaped by running to the Federal lines, was crashing down upon him again. And the deserter's fate during this war was simple: execution. [excerpt]

Smith, Mollie (Sc 2515), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2515. Letters from Mollie Smith of Randolph, Metcalfe County, Kentucky, to her cousin Callie Hubbard in Auburn, Nebraska, with news of family, weather conditions and social life. Also enclosed are two letters from “Flora” to Callie’s daughters Lucy and Daisy.

A Little History Of Santa Fe, Nm, Kevin J. Comerford

Archive of CNMS Site

Santa Fe is the capital of the U.S. state of New Mexico. It is the fourth-largest city in the state and is the seat of Santa Fe County. Santa Fe (literally 'holy faith' in Spanish) had a population of 67,947 in the 2010 census. It is the principal city of the Santa Fe, New Mexico Metropolitan Statistical Area which encompasses all of Santa Fe County and is part of the larger Santa Fe-Española Combined Statistical Area. The city's full name when founded was "La Villa Real de la Santa Fé de San Francisco de Asís" ("The Royal Town of the …

Citing Primary Sources Found Online, Kathleen Ferris

Archive of CNMS Site

Libraries and archives around the world are making historic documents available for research from anywhere by digitizing original, primary source materials and putting them online. Using primary sources online is a great way to give your research more depth and make your resulting paper or project more interesting.

Session C-1: The U .S. Civil War: Global Perspectives, Steven Buenning

Professional Learning Day

In Lincoln’s words, the Civil War would preserve the United States as “the last, best hope of earth”. A crucial turning point in U.S. history, the Civil War, was also an important global event. Viewed from broader economic, political, cultural, and social perspectives, the causes and consequences of the Civil War resonated worldwide. By using recent scholarship, this session will provide a context for helping students understand the place of the Civil War in global history. An original, document-based question will be presented, along with teaching methods developed by an AP history exam reader.

Session B-1: The Prize: Teaching Early Illinois History To Secondary School Students, Claiborne A. Skinner Jr.

Professional Learning Day

This presentation will outline ways in which Illinois can be placed at the center of the story of colonial America and the events which triggered the Revolutionary War. The discussion will be accompanied by a bibliography of relevant secondary readings for instructors, lists of public domain primary sources for students, websites where these can be obtained, lists of Illinois historical sites connected to these materials, and suggestions as to how to interpret these sites for students.