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Bunning, Mary (Sc 1167), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1167. Thank you note from Mary Bunning, Southgate, Kentucky, to Earlene Chelf, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Bunning expresses delight for tour of the Kentucky Building at WKU, that Chelf hosted. Notecard is print of one of Mary’s paintings.

Addressing “This Woeful Imbalance”: Efforts To Improve Women’S Representation At Cia, 1947-2013, Brent Durbin

Government: Faculty Publications

This collection consists of some 120 declassified documents, the majority of which are being released for the first time. The collection includes more than 1,200 pages from various studies, memos, letters, and other official records documenting the CIA's efforts to examine, address, and improve the status of women employees from 1947 to today.

Key documents include the 1953 Panel on Career Service for Women (dubbed the "Petticoat Panel"); a 1976 letter written by DCI George H.W. Bush nominating three female officers for the Federal Woman's Award: a poignant 1984 memo on career opportunities for women; a 1992 summary of he …

Hume, Glee, 1902-1998 (Mss 470), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 470. Letters written 1940-1946 to Glee Hume, a teacher at Burkesville High School, Cumberland County, Kentucky, by former students and relatives serving in various military service units around the world.

Powers, Caleb, 1869-1932 (Sc 2777), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2777. Letter, 6 December 1902, from Caleb Powers to Lovin Richards, Hillsdale, Kentucky, thanking him and other Republican residents of Simpson County Precinct Number 1 for donations toward his legal expenses in connection with his retrial on a charge of complicity in the assassination of Kentucky governor William J. Goebel. Includes the list of donors and amounts contributed; also includes a letter, 25 July 1903, from J. B. Howard to the postmaster of Hickory Flat, Kentucky, requesting a house-to-house canvass for donations to defend against the same …

Book Review Of Martha Jefferson Randolph, Daughter Of Monticello: Her Life And Times By Cynthia A. Kierner, Dinah Mayo-Bobee

ETSU Faculty Works

Martha Jefferson Randolph, Daughter of Monticello: Her Life and Times. By Cynthia A. Kierner. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. Pp. ix, 281.)

Richard D. Dunphy: A Frank Request To Gideon Welles, Kevin P. Lavery

The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History

By January 1866, the war had concluded and the country’s divisions had begun to heal. Richard Dunphy, meanwhile, devoted himself to claiming his pension and his medal. When the Medal of Honor he had earned during the Battle of Mobile Bay was lost amidst the naval bureaucracy, Dunphy took it upon himself to write a letter directly to Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles. He believed that Welles, who had been involved in the creation of the award, would be able to help obtain his well-deserved medal. This letter, owned by the Gilder Lehrman Institute, provides unique insight directly into …

The Grizzly, October 24, 2013, Sabrina Mcgettigan, David Rogers, Bethany Mitchell, Deana Harley, Nicholas Dimuzio, Vivek Reddy, Shawn Hartigan, Brandon Patterson, Adebayo Adeyemo, Dom Roher, Briana Mullan, Mary Deliberti, Derrick Falletta, Austin Fox, James Wilson

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Ursinus Receives Largest Private Donation in History • Parking at Ursinus • History Department Takes Students to Gettysburg • Pennsylvania Senator Rafferty and Representative Vereb Speak in Bear's Den • UC Students Volunteer to Plant Trees for Non-Profit • UC Energy Games • UC Jazz Ensemble Performance • New Galleries at the Berman • Opinion: Don't Take Safety for Granted in Reimert; Slut-Shaming Persists as a Double Standard • Controversy Surrounding 2014 Winter Games • McIntyre Striving for Excellence, On and Off Court • Centennial Conference: Where the Bears Stand

Only Hindsight: Where Are The Historian Futurists?, John M. Rudy

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

A friend who is planning a pie-in-the-sky conference (about which I'm super excited) texted me today with a quick question. "Who would be a good 'Historian of the Future?'" he asked, adding the bonus that I could dream big. "Money no object," the next text read.

I was at a loss for a few minutes. Who is the historian of the future? Who is trying to visualize that skill-set, categorize that life, read the trends of the past and plot the course of history yet to come? [excerpt]

Fonville Family (Sc 1117), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1117. Genealogy records, 1822-1945, removed from the Fonville family Bible. Also contains Hinton family records.

Howell, Timothy Keith (Sc 1144), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1144. Desert Storm letters (9) written by Timothy Keith Howell to the Snider family of Louisville and a letter from James C. Snider explaining the collection and providing information about Howell and his friends.

East Tennessee Telephone Company - Nashville, Tennessee (Sc 1130), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1130. Letter, 31 March 1911, from Leland Hume, general manager of the East Tennessee Telephone Company, Nashville, Tennessee, to the company's customers explaining the dismissal of Mr. & Mrs. F.G. Harrison as managers of the company's franchise in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Gutierres, Kelvin (Sc 1140), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1140. Desert Storm letter from Kelvin Gutierres to Carly Michelle Hobbs, an eight-year-old student at Foster Heights Elementary School in Bardstown, Kentucky.

Hart, Christopher (Sc 1143), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1143. Desert Storm letters (2) from Christopher Hart to Brenda Bush and family, Elizabethtown, Kentucky discussing his training in Saudi Arabia during the Persian Gulf War.

Laduke, Edith S. "Edie" (Cornell), 1933-2021 - Letters To (Sc 1145), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1145. Desert Storm letters (2), greeting card, and post card, sent to Edie LaDuke, Louisville, Kentucky, by Pamela D. Malone Hubbard, Kevin Clenney, and Clifton David Thomas. Also included is biographical information about Hubbard and Clenney.

Lindsey, Guy (Sc 1146), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1146. Desert Storm letters (2) and Christmas card sent to Patty Wimsatt’s first grade class at Oakland Elementary School, Oakland, Kentucky, from Guy Lindsey. Also included is letter from Wimsatt explaining the letters.

Scott, Kevin (Sc 1155), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1155. Desert Storm letters (5) written by Kevin Scott to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Scott, Coronado, California, and to his Uncle Robert and Aunt Jane Walker, Cadiz, Kentucky. Also includes a travel account of this trip aboard a ship to the Persian Gulf in Spring 1989, and newspaper clippings about Scott.

Sanders, Richard "Richie" A., Jr., B. 1963 (Sc 1154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1154. Desert Storm letters (3) sent to Kentucky state senator Richard "Richie" Sanders, Smiths Grove, Kentucky, by servicemen.

Persian Gulf War, 1991 (Sc 1160), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1160. Clippings from various Kentucky newspapers resulting from a Kentucky Building press release requesting donation of Persian Gulf War letters.

Dismore, Karen (Sc 1134), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1134. Patriotic letter written by Karen Dismore to soldiers who served in the Persian Gulf War, and two notes explaining when and why she wrote the letter which was published in a number of newspapers.

Goldlack, Ron (Sc 1137), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1137. Letters written by Ron Goldlack to his family during the Persian Gulf War.