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Ronald, Andrew (Lg 304), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 304. Copy of a land grant, 1796, January 9, by which Isaac Shelby, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Andrew Ronald and James Brown, assignees of William Reynolds, 900 acres on Sulpher Fork of Bays Creek.

Family Ties: The Gibbs Family, Race, And Society In South Carolina: 1865-1945, Andre Thompson

Graduate Theses

The ancestors of the Gibbs family came to South Carolina as slaves from Barbados in the early 19th C., and four brothers, Anthony, Fortune, Moses and Wetus, born in South Carolina between 1832 and 1845, all grew up as slaves and became emancipated while they were still young men. This thesis will chronicle the lineage of these four brothers whose family serves as a microcosm of African American life in South Carolina and beyond. This includes an examination of the family from Reconstruction through the World War II period, and it will focus on issues such as emancipation, agriculture, landownership, …

Insurgent Labor Activists At Yale, 1968-1971, Raymond L. Noonan Iii

Kaplan Senior Essay Prize for Use of Library Special Collections

At noon on April 30, 1971, some Yale students began busing their own trays. Others flipped food-filled plates and tables onto the floor. Almost 100 students broke chairs and other furniture.Commons, the main dining hall on campus, became a “slippery, sloshing pigpen,” according to the Yale Daily News. Soon, nearly 300 students flooded Commons, throwing metal trays across the hall while policemen and dining managers watched grimly nearby. “Support the Yale workers,” they chanted, doing all they could to halt Commons’s services. That day, over 1,000 service and maintenance employees at Yale, part of Local 35 of the Federation of …

Measuring School Accountability: Perceptions From Teachers, Principals, And Superintendents, Keith Thomas Bush

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The purpose of this study was to identify the multiple factors that are utilized by accountability models and to identify the perceptions of Indiana educators in regard to what these professional educators believe should be utilized to assess school accountability. No Child Left Behind and the Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) accountability model frameworks have had an impact on all public schools in the United States. Under AYP, high stakes testing results are utilized to provide acknowledgement to schools that meet pre-established thresholds, as well as to provide consequences for schools that fail to meet these requirements. This study is significant …

O'Callahan Science Library Narrative, College Of The Holy Cross

Biographical resources

This brief narrative summarizes Rev. Joseph T. O'Callahan's affiliation with the College of the Holy Cross and his heroic actions aboard the USS Franklin when it was attacked during World War II. Fr. O'Callahan was awarded the Medal of Honor, and the College further honored him by naming the science library in Haberlin Hall (now in Swords Hall) after him.

Trading Identities: National Identity, Loyalty, And Backcountry Merchants In Revolutionary America, 1740-1816, Timothy Charles Hemmis

Dissertations

This project tracks the lives a select group of Philadelphia frontier merchants such as George Morgan, David Franks, and others from 1754-1811. “Trading Identities” traces the trajectory of each man’s economic and political loyalties during the Revolutionary period. By focusing on the men of trading firms operating in Philadelphia, the borderlands and the wider world, it becomes abundantly clear that their identities were shaped and sustained by their commercial concerns—not by any new political ideology at work in this period. They were members not of a British (or even American) Atlantic World, but a profit-driven Atlantic World. The Seven Years’ …

Rowsay, William (Lg 300), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 300. Original land grant, 1787, June 8, by which Beverly Randolph, Lt. Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, granted to William Rowsay, assignee of Ludwick Brodie, 1200 acres on Cumberland River (Surveyed June 7, 1785).

Reynolds, William (Lg 289), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 289. Original land grant, 1792, May 26, by which Henry Lee, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, granted to William Reynolds, 1240 acres on South Fork of Little Barren River.

Swearingen, Joseph (Lg 296), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 296. Original land grant, 1787, February 7, by which Edmund Randolph, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, granted to Joseph Swearingen, 1000 acres on Muddy Creek.

Swearingen, Joseph (Lg 298), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 298. Original land grant, 1787, February 7, by which Edmund Randolph, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, granted to Joseph Swearingen, 1147 acres on Muddy Creek branch of Green River.

Rowsay, William (Lg 299), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 299. Original land grant, 1787, June 8, by which Beverly Randolph, Lt. Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, granted to William Rowsay, assignee of Ludwick Brodie, 1200 acres on Cumberland River (Surveyed June 3, 1785).

Dabney, Charles (Lg 294), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 294. Original land grant, 1786, September 20, by which Patrick Henry, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, granted to Charles Dabney, 1000 acres on Green River.

Bethell, Larkin, 1775-1835 (Lg 292), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 292. Original land grant, 1827, July 26, by which William Carroll, Governor of the State of Tennessee, granted to Larkin Bethell, 100 acres in Marion County, Tennessee.

Croghan, William, 1754-1822 (Lg 288), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 288. Original land grant, 1792, May 24, by which Henry Lee, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, granted to William Croghan, assignee of William Hessler, 200 acres on Russell’s Creek.

Swearingen, Joseph (Lg 297), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 297. Original land grant, 1787, February 7, by which Edmund Randolph, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, granted to Joseph Swearingen, 1200 acres on Little Mud Creek.

Tydd Street House Report Revision, Susie Van Kirk

Susie Van Kirk Papers

In 2015 the City of Eureka was planning a trail that would end/begin near the house located at 2186 Tydd Street, which was initially not considered to be within the Area of Potential Effect (APE).

The house was researched and evaluated for historic significance. The findings of this investigation are reported in this paper, along with a description of the property and a short history.

Ross, David (Lg 295), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 295. Original land grant, 1786, June 15, by which Patrick Henry, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, granted to David Ross, 1000 acres on Highland Creek.

Shackling The Great Emancipator: How The Nineteenth Century Press In South Carolina Helped To Shape The American National Memory Of Abraham Lincoln’S Racial Beliefs And Policies, Elizabeth D. Oswald-Sease

Graduate Theses

Abraham Lincoln is perhaps the most popular president in American history to date. American collective memory centers on his legacy as the Great Emancipator, a man who was beyond his time in terms of social equality and paved the way for later advancements in civil rights for African Americans in the United States. This caricature of Lincoln is fundamentally inaccurate, however. Lincoln himself repeatedly stated his devotion to the restoration of the Union, which at its fundamental core was a political entity that only encapsulated white Americans. In fact, Lincoln’s eventual issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation was intended to be …

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (May 2015), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter

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Historic Resources Report Tydd Street House, Susie Van Kirk

Susie Van Kirk Papers

The City of Eureka is planning a trail that will end/begin near the house located at 2186 Tydd Street, which was initially not considered to be within the Area of Potential Effect (APE). Subsequent to the cultural resources report prepared by Roscoe and Associates, the City extended the APE to include the house, anticipating its removal to provide parking for trail users. To comply with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), the house was researched and evaluated for historic significance. The findings of this investigation are reported in this paper, along with a description of the property and a short …