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Hough, Benjamin (Lg 347), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 347. Copy of a land grant, 1837 May 12, by which Martin Van Buren, President of the United States of America, granted to the heirs and legal representatives of Benjamin Hough, assignee of George W. Freeman and Ann Gholson Freeman, heir of William Gates, 85 acres in the Military Grant on Indian Creek in Ohio.

Fightmaster, Hillman Christopher, 1853-1928 (Sc 2925), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2925. Letter, 19 October 1897, of H. C. Fightmaster to J. B. Stubbins, Bowling Green, Kentucky. He instructs Stubbins to ship two beds to Russellville, for which he will make mattresses. Written on the letterhead of the Forst House, Russellville, Kentucky (J. Neasom, proprietor).

Warren County, Kentucky Court Records - Naturalization Papers (Sc 2924), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2924. Naturalization and citizenship documents for six individuals residing in Warren County, Kentucky. Some of the documents were issued in other jurisdictions and filed with the Warren Circuit Court.

Lincoln's Dreams: An Analysis Of The Sixteenth President's 'Night Terrors' And Other Chimeras, Lucas R. Somers

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Decades before Freud revealed his revolutionary dream theory, Americans became fascinated with the reported dreams of their greatest hero, Abraham Lincoln. Immediately following Lincoln’s assassination, accounts of his dreams and visions were recorded and made public by those who were close to him during his presidency. This thesis evaluates the three most famous dreams and visions that have been ascribed to Lincoln, as their legitimacy is often doubted. Five additional dreams that are more easily documented are also discussed, and, when taken together, they reveal a significant aspect of Lincoln’s worldview and reflect the complicated nature of belief systems in …

Jackson, Mary Nancy "Nannie" (Taylor), 1893-1974 - Letters To (Sc 2923), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2923. Courtship letters, 1911-1919, to Nannie Taylor, Logan County, Kentucky, from “Shine” in Woodburn, Kentucky, including a letter expressing his intention to leave the state now that another has “won your love from me.” Also includes a 1919 letter from Nannie’s future husband Sam F. Jackson, and a 1945 letter from her uncle in Magnolia, Arkansas.

Reconfiguring Protestantism And Minorities: A Review Essay, Douglas Firth Anderson

Faculty Publications

This review article discusses 3 recent volumes on things happening in Protestantism that will become more significant in Iowa if current demographic trends continue. Two of the books concern Pentecostalism and the other Mennonite Anabaptism.

Bishop, Levi, Jr. (Lg 348), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 348. Copy of a land grant, 1839 May 1, by which Martin Van Buren, President of the United States of America, granted to Levi Bishop, Jr. 137 72/100 acres in Eaton County, Michigan.

Westerman, Robert V., B. 1948 - Collector (Sc 2905), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2905. Letters to Leonard Burchfield, Louisville, Kentucky, from Representative William O. Cowger (3^rd District, Kentucky) and from Representative-elect Gene Snyder thanking him for his assistance in their elections. Includes two postcards from Cowger, sent from Venezuela and Cambodia.

Traces Volume 43, Number 2, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Traces, the Southern Central Kentucky, Barren County Genealogical Newsletter

Traces, the South Central Kentucky Genealogical Society's quarterly newsletter, was first published in 1973. The Society changed its name in 2016 to the Barren County Historical Society. The publication features compiled genealogies, articles on local history, single-family studies and unpublished source materials related to this area.

Early Flags Over The Purchase

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Early Flags Over the Purchase

Hugh L. Brady

The Battle Of Paducah

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

The Battle of Paducah

John Philip Cashon

Camp Beauregard, Ky: Military Unit Presence, Illness, And Death Reports

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Camp Beauregard, KY: Military Unit Presence, Illness, and Death Reports

Gregory S. Miller and William L. Wells

Jphs Nomination, Kentucky Dam: Power For The People

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Article edited by Sarah Brady Strange

JPHS Nomination, Kentucky Dam: Power for the People

Excerpt From "Barn Danes And Jamborees Across Kentucky": The Jackson Purchase

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Excerpt from "Barn Danes and Jamborees Across Kentucky": The Jackson Purchase

J. D. Wilkes

Buckskin Bill's Wild West Show

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Buckskin Bill's Wild West Show

Richard D. Parker

Warren Thomas, The Organizer

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Warren Thomas, The Organizer

Jeannette Dean

Voices Of A Border State: Editorials Of The Civil War Kentucky Press

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Voices of a Border State: Editorials of the Civil War Kentucky Press

Melonie Shemberger

Poetry Book Review: The Power Of Poetry

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Poetry Book Review

The Power of Poetry

Sarah Brady Strange

Poets In The Purchase

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Poets in the Purchase

Sarah Brady Strange

Searching For Their Real Home: Dependent Black Children In Indianapolis, 1910-1940, John D. Ramsbottom

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Concerns about the future for young people, reflected in contemporary headlines, were equally prominent in Indianapolis a hundred years ago. Then, as now, children whose parents neglected or abandoned them posed a special problem. In the midst of rapid social change that seemed to threaten traditional family stability, a small corps of professionals and volunteers worked to provide a nurturing environment.