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Shipboard Insurrections, The British Government And Anglo-American Society In The Early 18th Century, James Buckwalter 2010 Eastern Illinois University

Shipboard Insurrections, The British Government And Anglo-American Society In The Early 18th Century, James Buckwalter

2010 Awards for Excellence in Student Research & Creative Activity - Documents

Captain Francis Messervy, first time captain on the slave ship Ferrers and perhaps overly ecstatic after his most recent successes at sea, maneuvered unprotected below deck to inspect his newly purchased Africans. As he lurched further down into the Ferrers, Messervy would have seen sailors whose duty it was to guard against insurrection and the three hundred or more Africans he had recently purchased following a war between two neighboring polities near Cetre-Crue. What Messervy perceived as good fortune, fellow captain William Snelgrave saw as cause for concern, noting that controlling "many Negroes of one Town and Language" had its …


Bowling Green, Kentucky - Water Works (Sc 2248), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2010 Western Kentucky University

Bowling Green, Kentucky - Water Works (Sc 2248), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2248. Report of engineer Pierce Butler to Bowling Green, Kentucky Mayor Gilson E. Townsend on condition of the city's water pumping station. The 1910 report includes exhibits (1906-1908) detailing a proposal to install a new pumping engine, specifications for the engine, and the subsequent contract dispute and settlement with the engine's supplier.


T. C. Cherry Elementary School - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 2247), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2010 Western Kentucky University

T. C. Cherry Elementary School - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 2247), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2247. Application to secure historical highway marker for T.C. Cherry Elementary School located at 1001 Liberty Street in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Prepared by Kate C. Cline. Includes completed application and supporting material.


Hickey, Frankie (Fa 511), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2010 Western Kentucky University

Hickey, Frankie (Fa 511), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Foklife Archives Project 511. This collection contains a tape recorded interview conducted by Frankie Hickey with Ida Ellington Williams. It also contains short written life stories for Williams and several other African Americans from southcentral Kentucky and middle Tennessee.


Smith, C. Jason - Compiler (Sc 2242), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2010 Western Kentucky University

Smith, C. Jason - Compiler (Sc 2242), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2242. "Concordance to Robert Penn Warren's 'All the King's Men'" (based on the first edition). Also includes associated letter.


African American Heritage In Bowling Green And Warren County, Kentucky (Fa 509), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2010 Western Kentucky University

African American Heritage In Bowling Green And Warren County, Kentucky (Fa 509), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 509. This collection contains tape recorded interviews conducted by Maxine Ray and Theresa Lee. the interviews deal with the heritage of African Americans in Bowling Green and Warren County, Kentucky. This project was sponsored by a grant from the Kentucky Oral History Commission.


Brown, Eugene Scott, 1846-1892 (Sc 2456), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2010 Western Kentucky University

Brown, Eugene Scott, 1846-1892 (Sc 2456), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2456. Postcards of a personal and professional nature sent to Eugene Scott Brown of Scottsville, Kentucky.


Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Sc 2439), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2010 Western Kentucky University

Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Sc 2439), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2439.  Correspondence, clippings, and miscellaneous items of Margie May Helm, Bowling Green, Kentucky, chiefly related to public library work in Kentucky and bookmobiles.


Program: Ucf Book Festival, 2010 University of North Florida

Program: Ucf Book Festival

Textual material from the Rodney Lawrence Hurst, Sr. Papers

University of Central Florida Book Festival on April 17, 2010 at the Morgridge International Reading Center. Author Rodney Hurst is featured on page 27.


The Grizzly, April 15, 2010, Caitlin Dalik, Katie Callahan, Michael Delaney, Ashley McComeskey, Stefanie Moyer, Lisa Jobe, Gianna Paone, James Kilduff, Jessica Zatwarnicki, Samuel Stortz, Zach Shamberg, Shane Eachus, Matt Campbell 2010 Ursinus College

The Grizzly, April 15, 2010, Caitlin Dalik, Katie Callahan, Michael Delaney, Ashley Mccomeskey, Stefanie Moyer, Lisa Jobe, Gianna Paone, James Kilduff, Jessica Zatwarnicki, Samuel Stortz, Zach Shamberg, Shane Eachus, Matt Campbell

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Ursinus' Relay for Life Brings in Over $43,000 • V-Day Celebrations Continue with The Vagina Monologues • Phi Kappa Sigma Runs Another Successful Bike-a-Thon • "Enough is Enough" Week Brings Awareness to Campus Violence • Title IX: A Female Athlete's Freedom, or Her Health? • Bruno's Restaurant: Cheeseburgers in Paradise? • Omega Chi and UCARE Team Up for Blood Drive • Opinion: Two Worlds of Ursinus' Small Campus; Ursinus Dining Offers Less Than Healthy Options


Bowling Green, Kentucky - Death Records, 1877-1913 (Mss 293), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2010 Western Kentucky University

Bowling Green, Kentucky - Death Records, 1877-1913 (Mss 293), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and copy of a "Death Return" (click on Additional File below) for Manuscripts Collection 293. To view scanned copies of the records, click on the individual folders; they are links to the contents of that particular folder. Physician's death certificates and undertaker's certificates relating to permits for burials wihin the City of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes information on the deceased's date and cause of death, age, race, marital status, place of birth, residence, and date and place of intended interment. May include other documentation when a death occurred outside Warren County, Kentucky.


Muhlenberg Presbytery - Muhlenberg County, Kentucky (Sc 2237), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2010 Western Kentucky University

Muhlenberg Presbytery - Muhlenberg County, Kentucky (Sc 2237), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2237. Minutes of two meetings of the Muhlenberg Presbytery, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, 22 September 1959 and 31 October 1960.


Mt. Moriah Cemetery - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 2235), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2010 Western Kentucky University

Mt. Moriah Cemetery - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 2235), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2235. Listing of those members of the African American community buried in Mt. Moriah Cemetery, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1940-1978. Section and lot numbers for the graves are given, but death dates are given only occasionally.


Maxine Lebkuecher Drexler, Maxine Lebkuecher Drexler '46 and '57, Amy Uden '11 2010 Illinois Wesleyan University

Maxine Lebkuecher Drexler, Maxine Lebkuecher Drexler '46 And '57, Amy Uden '11

All oral histories

Professor Drexler received both a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Music from IWU. She was an adjunct faculty member, specializing in Voice, at IWU for 32 years.


The Grizzly, April 8, 2010, Caitlin Dalik, Katie Callahan, Ashley McComeskey, Jarod Groome, Lisa Jobe, Jessica Zatwarnicki, Joshua C. Walsh, Sara Hourwitz, Gianna Paone, Stefanie Moyer, Carly Siegler, Zach Shamberg, Christopher Michael 2010 Ursinus College

The Grizzly, April 8, 2010, Caitlin Dalik, Katie Callahan, Ashley Mccomeskey, Jarod Groome, Lisa Jobe, Jessica Zatwarnicki, Joshua C. Walsh, Sara Hourwitz, Gianna Paone, Stefanie Moyer, Carly Siegler, Zach Shamberg, Christopher Michael

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

First Annual Backwards Beauty Pageant Held • Ursinus Senior to Travel Abroad for a Year with Watson • Kappa Alpha Psi and Seismic Step Emerge on Campus • UC Welcomes New Field Hockey Coach • Sex on Wheels Documentary Screening • Volunteering with St. Christopher's Children's Hospital • Feeling Good in "The Skin We're In" • The Sacrifice Your Body Makes for [Better] Grades • Opinion: "Kyleigh's Law" Profiles Drivers by Age in New Jersey • Upper Classmen Off-Campus Living • UC Gymnastics Closes Season with Success


Sachs, Emanie (Nahm), 1893-1981 (Sc 2241), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2010 Western Kentucky University

Sachs, Emanie (Nahm), 1893-1981 (Sc 2241), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2241. Letters of Emanie Nahm Sachs, written from New York City and Bowling Green, Kentucky, to John Wilson Townsend, Lexington, Kentucky. Sachs discusses research for her (never published) history of Kentucky and comments on Kentucky authors. Includes Sachs's newspaper advertisement soliciting information for her history. Also includes a letter from Townsend's widow regarding donation of the letters.


Morton, May Belle - Compiler (Sc 2233), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2010 Western Kentucky University

Morton, May Belle - Compiler (Sc 2233), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2233. Biographical sketches of Revolutionary War soldiers with connections to Logan County, Kentucky. Compiled by Daughters of the American Revolution, Committee on Revolutionary Soldiers in Logan County, Kentucky, May Belle Morton, Chairman. Includes introductory note on land grants to soldiers after the war.


Naccs 37th Annual Conference, National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies 2010 San Jose State University

Naccs 37th Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies

NACCS Conference Programs

Chicana/o Environmental Justics Struggles for a Post-Neoliberal Age
April 7-10, 2010
Grand Hyatt


Morton, David, 1886-1957 (Sc 2232), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2010 Western Kentucky University

Morton, David, 1886-1957 (Sc 2232), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2232. Eighty-six poems by Kentucky poets, copied by hand from the publications in which they were published. The poems were chiefly authored by Elkton, Kentucky native David Morton, but the collection includes works by Kalfus Kurtz Gusling, Anna Blanche McGill, and Robert Burns Wilson.


Brennan, Mary Zita, B. 1955 (Sc 2229), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2010 Western Kentucky University

Brennan, Mary Zita, B. 1955 (Sc 2229), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2229. Dissertation titled "Sense of Place: Reconstructing Community Through Archeology, Oral History, and GIS" written by Mary Zita Brennan in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a doctorate in anthropology at the University of Arkansas. The work focuses on families along Moccasin and Indian Creeks in northwest Pope County, Arkansas. Appendices on compact disc. Tate Cromwell "Piney" Page was on the faculty of Western Kentucky University for many years.


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