Briggs, James A., 1831-1900 (Sc 1504),
2015
Western Kentucky University
Briggs, James A., 1831-1900 (Sc 1504), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1503. Dissertation titled "Medical topography and diseases of Warren County, Ky." written by James A. Briggs at the University of Nashville in 1851. He describes his belief in the causes of malaria, and discusses cholera and other maladies that struck Bowling Green and Warren County, Kentucky prior to 1850.
Jackson, Irving S., 1914-1979 (Sc 1503),
2015
Western Kentucky University
Jackson, Irving S., 1914-1979 (Sc 1503), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1503. “Water transportation and the economic growth of Kentucky, 1510-1810.” Paper (104p.) written by Irving S. Jackson for an Economics class at Western Kentucky State Teachers College in 1938. Discusses boat construction, flatboats, keelboats, canoes, legislation relative to river navigation, and the economics of the same. Includes maps and drawings.
Their Chance For Redemption?: The Dauphin County Regiment At Second Fredericksburg,
2015
Gettysburg College
Their Chance For Redemption?: The Dauphin County Regiment At Second Fredericksburg, Kevin P. Lavery
The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History
After a less than respectable showing on the slopes of Marye’s Heights in December 1862, the 127th Pennsylvania Regiment found itself in desperate need of an opportunity to redeem itself on the field of battle. Could a mulligan assault on the same ridge be the key to restoring their honor? Assigned to Hall’s Brigade in Gibbon’s Division for the duration of the Chancellorsville Campaign, they now had a chance to find out. [excerpt]
Garvin Collection (Mss 522),
2015
Western Kentucky University
Garvin Collection (Mss 522), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 522. Correspondence, photographs and papers of members of the Campbell and Garvin families of Warren County, Kentucky. Included are business records of David B. Campbell and letters written to him in 1850 while he prospected for gold in California.
Murphy, William Lansing, 1926-1986 (Sc 2881),
2015
Western Kentucky University
Murphy, William Lansing, 1926-1986 (Sc 2881), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2881. Letter of William L. Murphy, written to his parents in Newport, Kentucky from Ascom City, Korea. Murphy, a U.S. Army sergeant, writes of his fellow servicemen, gifts he has sent, and a rumor of troops being sent home.
Floods - Louisville, Kentucky, 1937 (Sc 2882),
2015
Western Kentucky University
Floods - Louisville, Kentucky, 1937 (Sc 2882), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2882. “Notes on Radio Broadcasts” by an unknown author, recording damage and emergencies created by the Ohio River flood at Louisville, Kentucky.
Democracy And Nobility,
2015
Gettysburg College
Democracy And Nobility, Allen C. Guelzo
Civil War Era Studies Faculty Publications
Americans love revolutions. Our national identity began with a revolution, and a revolutionary war that lasted for eight years; and we cheer on other people’s revolutions, as though we find satisfaction in multiplying our own. “I hold that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing & as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical,” wrote Thomas Jefferson. “No country should be long without one.” An excited James Garfield, in his maiden speech in the House of Representatives in 1864, asked whether his colleagues “forget that the Union had its origin in revolution.” Ralph Waldo …
Jewell, George Raleigh, 1898-1993 (Sc 1527),
2015
Western Kentucky University
Jewell, George Raleigh, 1898-1993 (Sc 1527), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1527. A historical list of Baptist schools and colleges in Kentucky with a brief description of each institution. Detailed information is provided for Clinton College, Clinton, Kentucky.
A Narrative Of The Torments And Unlikely Freedom Of A Child Slave,
2015
University of Miami
A Narrative Of The Torments And Unlikely Freedom Of A Child Slave, Hanna Taylor
Slave Narrative - Short Stories
This short story was written as part of the Slave Narrative project, created for an African American Literature class taught by Allison Harris in fall 2015. Students created stories based on the perspectives of real individuals documented in the UM Libraries Special Collections’ Slave Documents Collection.
Betsey Simons: Freedom At What Cost?,
2015
University of Miami
Betsey Simons: Freedom At What Cost?, Anthony Maristany
Slave Narrative - Short Stories
This short story was written as part of the Slave Narrative project, created for an African American Literature class taught by Allison Harris in fall 2015. Students created stories based on the perspectives of real individuals documented in the UM Libraries Special Collections’ Slave Documents Collection.
Earth And Ashes,
2015
University of Miami
Earth And Ashes, Michele Mobley
Slave Narrative - Short Stories
This short story was written as part of the Slave Narrative project, created for an African American Literature class taught by Allison Harris in fall 2015. Students created stories based on the perspectives of real individuals documented in the UM Libraries Special Collections’ Slave Documents Collection.
Her Taste Of Freedom,
2015
University of Miami
Her Taste Of Freedom, Orlandra Dickens
Slave Narrative - Short Stories
This short story was written as part of the Slave Narrative project, created for an African American Literature class taught by Allison Harris in fall 2015. Students created stories based on the perspectives of real individuals documented in the UM Libraries Special Collections’ Slave Documents Collection.
Nameless People, Keep Trekking,
2015
University of Miami
Nameless People, Keep Trekking, Brandi Webster
Slave Narrative - Short Stories
This short story was written as part of the Slave Narrative project, created for an African American Literature class taught by Allison Harris in fall 2015. Students created stories based on the perspectives of real individuals documented in the UM Libraries Special Collections’ Slave Documents Collection.
The Hill, Named After Some White Man,
2015
University of Miami
The Hill, Named After Some White Man, O’Shane Elliott
Slave Narrative - Short Stories
This short story was written as part of the Slave Narrative project, created for an African American Literature class taught by Allison Harris in fall 2015. Students created stories based on the perspectives of real individuals documented in the UM Libraries Special Collections’ Slave Documents Collection.
The Example,
2015
University of Miami
The Example, Nate Bradley
Slave Narrative - Short Stories
This short story was written as part of the Slave Narrative project, created for an African American Literature class taught by Allison Harris in fall 2015. Students created stories based on the perspectives of real individuals documented in the UM Libraries Special Collections’ Slave Documents Collection.
The Match,
2015
University of Miami
The Match, Marcus Hines
Slave Narrative - Short Stories
This short story was written as part of the Slave Narrative project, created for an African American Literature class taught by Allison Harris in fall 2015. Students created stories based on the perspectives of real individuals documented in the UM Libraries Special Collections’ Slave Documents Collection.
Carlisle Indian School Students Database,
2015
Gettysburg College
Carlisle Indian School Students Database, Amelia Trevelyan
Carlisle Indian School Students
This data collection helps to identify students who attended the Carlisle Indian School from 1879 to 1918. Data were collected from periodical publications in the Carlisle Indian Industrial School (CIIS) archive, such as The School News, The Red Man, The Indian Craftsman, and The Morning Star. Many of these publications are now available online in the Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center.
Annotated Bibliography Of Elsie Singmaster’S Gettysburg Writings,
2015
Gettysburg College
Annotated Bibliography Of Elsie Singmaster’S Gettysburg Writings, Susan Colestock Hill
Adams County History
Our fellow Adams Countian, Elsie Singmaster Lewars (1879-1958), was a well -known author of regional fiction during the first half of the twentieth century. She wrote about the people and places she knew first hand. She spent most of her first twenty years in an ethnic Pennsylvania German community, Macungie, Pennsylvania. Having descended on her father’s side from Pennsylvania Germans who settled in the eastern part of the state beginning in the eighteenth century, she understood “her people” because she lived among them. When she began to write for publication in 1905, her first characters and plots drew upon her …
The Brutal Murder Of George J. Bushman,
2015
Gettysburg College
The Brutal Murder Of George J. Bushman, Conrad B. Richter, Dale J. Molina
Adams County History
In the fall of 1918 there occurred in Adams County a singularly brutal murder that brought the County and the town of Gettysburg to a shocked standstill. The tentacles of this event would reach into four Pennsylvania counties: Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, and Philadelphia, and eventually the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. The investigation of the crime and the trial of the perpetrators involved so many public officials and families, as well as the extended judicial system and geographical locations within and without the County, that we have included a Cast of Characters and Locations to assist the reader in following this convoluted …
Making It In Maine: Stories Of Jewish Life In Small-Town America,
2015
Colby College
Making It In Maine: Stories Of Jewish Life In Small-Town America, David M. Freidenreich
Faculty Scholarship
There are countless stories of Jewish life in Maine, stretching back 200 years. These are stories worth telling not only for their enjoyment value but also because we can learn a great deal from them. They reflect the challenges that confronted members of an immigrant community as they sought to become true Mainers, as well as the challenges this ethnic group now faces as a result of its successful integration. The experiences of Jews in Maine, moreover, encapsulate in many ways the experiences of small-town Jews throughout New England and the United States. Their stories offer glimpses into the changing …
