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Bowles, John (Sc 593), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2011 Western Kentucky University

Bowles, John (Sc 593), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 593. Ciphering book kept by John Bowles of Granville County, North Carolina. Bowles used "Pike's Arithmetic" in making his ciphering book.


Hart, Nathaniel, Jr., 1770-1844 (Sc 182), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2011 Western Kentucky University

Hart, Nathaniel, Jr., 1770-1844 (Sc 182), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 182. Letter, 25 April 1813, from Nathaniel Hart, Jr., Spring Hill, Woodford County, Kentucky to Henry Clay, Washington, D.C., asking Clay to present a claim for him to the Secretary of the Treasury for reimbursement for a trip he made in October 1812 to deliver treasury notes to banks in Chillicothe, Ohio and Frankfort, Kentucky.


Bains, Samuel, 1783-1836 (Sc 183), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2011 Western Kentucky University

Bains, Samuel, 1783-1836 (Sc 183), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 183. Typescripts and photocopies of two 1813 letters written by Samuel Bains serving at Fort Strother and Fort Deposit in Alabama to his wife Christiana, Dixons Creek, Smith County, Tennessee, describing battles against the Indians and military life.


King, John (Sc 594), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2011 Western Kentucky University

King, John (Sc 594), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 594. Ciphering book of John King including mathematical exercises, numeration of money, simple and compound reduction, weights and measures, and word problems.


Lincoln, Thomas, 1778-1851 (Sc 184), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2011 Western Kentucky University

Lincoln, Thomas, 1778-1851 (Sc 184), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 184.  Photographs of a $500 bond posted by Thomas Lincoln as constable of Cumberland County, Kentucky.  In addition to Lincoln, bond signed by Jesse Gee and Moses Kirkpatrick.  Scholars disagree as to whether the signer of this bond was President Abraham Lincoln's father or a cousin.


A Museum In A Book: Analyzing Culture Through Decolonizing Arts-Based Methodologies, Sharon Verner Chappell, Drew Chappell 2011 California State University, Fullerton

A Museum In A Book: Analyzing Culture Through Decolonizing Arts-Based Methodologies, Sharon Verner Chappell, Drew Chappell

Theatre Faculty Articles and Research

This paper explores the positivist, museum-based, and touristic constructions of indigenous cultures in the Americas, as represented in the DK Eyewitness series, and then overturns these constructions using an artist book created by the authors. In our analysis of the nonfiction series, we identified three trajectories: cataloguing, consignment to the past, and pleasurable display. Using techniques borrowed from "new historiography" and the decolonizing methodologies of Linda Tuhiwai Smith (1999), we suggest ways in which adults and young people might "speak back" to these positivist paradigms.


Curd, Spencer, 1788-1832 (Sc 966), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2011 Western Kentucky University

Curd, Spencer, 1788-1832 (Sc 966), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full text (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 966. Ciphering book (94 p.), focusing chiefly on surveying and navigating rules for solving problems as well as giving specific problems, of Spencer Curd, Logan County, Kentucky, with accompanying genealogical data.


Webster, William Stewart Cross, 1844-1922 (Sc 135), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2011 Western Kentucky University

Webster, William Stewart Cross, 1844-1922 (Sc 135), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 135. Letter from William Stewart Cross Webster, Paris, Kentucky, to G. Fred Ziegler in London, England. Writing to his former Princeton classmate, Webster, a Presbyterian minister, tells of his pastorate in Paris, speculates on his future plans, including his hopes to marry, and gives news of other school friends.


The Grizzly, February 10, 2011, Katie Callahan, Traci Johnson, Allison Nichols, Michael Delaney, Lisa Jobe, Joshua C. Walsh, Sarah Bollert, Katie Haldeman, James Shelton, Kyu Chul Shin, Jason K. Mullins, Nick Pane, Shane Eachus 2011 Ursinus College

The Grizzly, February 10, 2011, Katie Callahan, Traci Johnson, Allison Nichols, Michael Delaney, Lisa Jobe, Joshua C. Walsh, Sarah Bollert, Katie Haldeman, James Shelton, Kyu Chul Shin, Jason K. Mullins, Nick Pane, Shane Eachus

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Bonners Give Insight on Organization • Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity to Participate in Spring Intake • Future UC President Dr. Bobby Fong Receives National Award • Ursinus College Plays Host to W. R. Crigler • GRE Makeover and Helpful Hints to Ace the Test • Calvin Levels Performs One Man Show in the Blackbox • New Program Brings Students and Professors Closer • Internship Profile: Matt Angle • Opinion: UC Town Hall Meeting Proved a Bit Disappointing; Letter to a Writer; A Multicultural Ursinus Campus on the Way; Upheaval in the Middle East: Why Students Should Care • Murren Adds …


Lee Chapel: Lost Cause Artifact And Culture Shock, John M. Rudy 2011 Gettysburg College

Lee Chapel: Lost Cause Artifact And Culture Shock, John M. Rudy

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

I had the privilege to accompany a group of undergraduate students recently on a whirlwind tour of the Wilderness, Richmond and Appomattox. Our tour took us along the I-81 corridor on the way back to Gettysburg, so why not stop in Lexington for a Civil War two-fer. [excerpt]


Payne Family Papers (Sc 136), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2011 Western Kentucky University

Payne Family Papers (Sc 136), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 136. Papers of the Payne family of Warren County, Kentucky, including letter from Civil War prison at Camp Douglas, Illinois; letter describing the death of Halley Payne; 1874 letter from a Glasgow teacher referring to unrest among African Americans; promissory note; remedies for piles and rheumatism; and a letter detailing with the prevention and treatment of cholera.


Ingram, James Maurice, 1905-1976 (Sc 2414), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2011 Western Kentucky University

Ingram, James Maurice, 1905-1976 (Sc 2414), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2414. Drafting project featuring architectural elements with an emphasis on shading executed by James Maurice Ingram for an architecture class at Notre Dame University, South Bend, Indiana.


Eddington, Rachel (Sc 134), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2011 Western Kentucky University

Eddington, Rachel (Sc 134), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid, scans and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 134. Letters (1857-1863) of a freed slave, Rachel Eddington of Clay Ashland, Liberia, written to Charlotte Belt, her former owner in Ohio County, Kentucky, Belt’s brother Henry Stevens, and her husband Sandy. She writes of her and her children’s illnesses and the lack of sufficient food, housing and employment in Liberia. Includes Barren County, Kentucky, slave bill of sale (1843) for Sandy; script for a radio drama (1936) based on Rachel’s letters; and correspondence (1936-1947) with the donor of the letters, who was a descendant of …


Kleijnen, Maria Jozefina, 1926-2010 (Mss 353), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2011 Western Kentucky University

Kleijnen, Maria Jozefina, 1926-2010 (Mss 353), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 353. Correspondence of Maria Jozefina "Mia" Kleijnen and her family in the Netherlands with the Grise family of Bowling Green, Kentucky. She writes of family matters, conditions in the Netherlands following World War II, and of Dutch life and customs. Also included are letters to the Grises from other European correspondents.


The Grizzly, February 4, 2011, Katie Callahan, Allison Nichols, Liz Kilmer, Lisa Jobe, Stephen Harris, Kristen Wampole, Eva Bramesco, Sara Hourwitz, Joshua C. Walsh, Sarah Bollert, Sara Sherr, James Shelton, Kyu Chul Shin, Carly Siegler, Jessica Orbon 2011 Ursinus College

The Grizzly, February 4, 2011, Katie Callahan, Allison Nichols, Liz Kilmer, Lisa Jobe, Stephen Harris, Kristen Wampole, Eva Bramesco, Sara Hourwitz, Joshua C. Walsh, Sarah Bollert, Sara Sherr, James Shelton, Kyu Chul Shin, Carly Siegler, Jessica Orbon

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Hate Crime Discussed During Meeting • "What is Love" Course has Students Talking • Dolce Suono Ensemble Performs at Ursinus • Community Survey Results • UC-Rising Debuts • Presenting the Best and Worst of Ursinus College • Campus Activities Board Packs Semester with Great Fun • First African-American Graduate to be Honored • Internship Profile: Maria Linder • Winter Birthright Trip Proves to be Worthwhile • Recent Winter Weather is Anything But a Wanted Wonderland • Opinions: President Obama Attempts to Reach out to U.S. • UC Basketball Seniors Approaching End of Season


Goodman, Julian, B. 1922 (Ct 1968), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2011 Western Kentucky University

Goodman, Julian, B. 1922 (Ct 1968), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Cassette Tape 1968. Recording of a speech delivered by Julian Goodman to the Kentucky Broadcasters Association on 23 October 1975. He outlines his life story and his rise to the presidency of the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) and the history of broadcasting with particular emphasis on the de-regulation of the radio industry and lessons learned from it.


"And You May Ask Yourself: Am I Right? Am I Wrong?", John M. Rudy 2011 Gettysburg College

"And You May Ask Yourself: Am I Right? Am I Wrong?", John M. Rudy

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

This blogging endeavour is dangerous. Blogging, I believe, should be a personal medium, where you wear your heart on your sleeve and let the real "you" hang out. That's scary. [excerpt]


Howard, K. (Sc 2413), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2011 Western Kentucky University

Howard, K. (Sc 2413), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2413. Notebook containing genealogical notes by K. Howard, the great-grandchild of Richard Howard (b. 1780) and grandchild of James Wesley Howard (1803-1893). The notebook contains genealogical information on the Howard, Daugherty, Taylor, Crabb, and realted families of western Kentucky.


Little Founders On The Small Screen: Interpreting A Multicultural American Revolution For Children’S Television, Andrew M. Schocket 2011 Bowling Green State University

Little Founders On The Small Screen: Interpreting A Multicultural American Revolution For Children’S Television, Andrew M. Schocket

History Faculty Publications

From 2002 to 2004, the children’s animated series Liberty’s Kids aired on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), the United States’ public television network. It runs over forty half-hour episodes and features a stellar cast, including such celebrities as Walter Cronkite, Michael Douglas, Yolanda King, Whoopi Goldberg, Billy Crystal, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Liam Neeson, and Annette Bening. Television critics generally loved it, and there are now college students who can trace their interest in the American Revolution to having watched this series when they were children. At the turn of the twenty-first century, it is the most extended and in-depth encounter with …


Acropolis Of The Middle-West: Decay, Renewal, And Boosterism In Cleveland’S University Circle, J. Mark Souther 2011 Cleveland State University

Acropolis Of The Middle-West: Decay, Renewal, And Boosterism In Cleveland’S University Circle, J. Mark Souther

History Faculty Publications

In the mid-twentieth century, Cleveland, Ohio’s University Circle exemplified an emerging trend in which urban universities and other private institutions engaged in urban renewal. Situating the story of University Circle within the context of contemporary concerns about urban decay, deindustrialization, and suburbanization, the author argues that University Circle institutions were not simply trying to facilitate their own expansion. Rather, they were equally determined to create a setting appropriate to their regional, national, and even international reputations, as well as to advance the idea that an educational, medical, and cultural district could help reposition and rebrand a …


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