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Old, Worn Bibles: What Did She Feel?, John M. Rudy 2013 Gettysburg College

Old, Worn Bibles: What Did She Feel?, John M. Rudy

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

A simple photo for today, taken back in September standing in the Dunker Church. A visitor, giddy and laughing, gets so close to the Dunker Bible standing inside of the footprint of the Dunker Church on the eve of the anniversary of battle. Why? What is it that made her so happy? [excerpt]


Martin Luther King Celebration 2013, Taylor University 2013 Taylor University

Martin Luther King Celebration 2013, Taylor University

Martin Luther King Jr. Day Programs and Schedules

The schedule for the Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.


Banks, Henry (Lg 52), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2013 Western Kentucky University

Banks, Henry (Lg 52), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 52. Copy of land grant, 1 June 1786, by which Patrick Henry, Governor of the Commonwealth of of Virginia, granted to Henry Banks, 12,500 acres in Jefferson County on Rough Creek.


Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 725), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2013 Western Kentucky University

Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 725), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscriprs Small Collection 725. Original and photocopies of diary detailing an eastern trip taken to visit Shaker societies in New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts by Elder John Rankin, Brother Urban Johns, Eldress Betsy Smith and Sister Nancy E. Moore of South Union, Kentucky. Probably written by Eldress Betsy Smith.


Smith, Beulah Ethel (Morgan), 1894-1987 (Sc 815), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2013 Western Kentucky University

Smith, Beulah Ethel (Morgan), 1894-1987 (Sc 815), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 815. Incoming letters,1940-1941 (4); program, 1953; and newspaper clipping, n.d., of Beulah Smith, Bowling Green, Kentucky, concerning the Easter Seal campaign in Warren County and Mrs. Smith’s participation in the Society.


Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 816), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2013 Western Kentucky University

Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 816), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 816. Photocopies of letters, 1849-1881 (12); agreement to place children with the Shakers, 1812; school merit awards, n.d. (4); and business receipts, etc., 1810-1879 (15). Also, letters regarding collection, 1984, n.d. (2).


Sunrise With Lincoln And Meanings With Chuck, John M. Rudy 2013 Gettysburg College

Sunrise With Lincoln And Meanings With Chuck, John M. Rudy

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

I walked 150 years on Monday. I walked across a great chasm of history. Physically, I walked from the Arlington Cemetery Metro Station across Memorial Bridge, then continued down the National Mall to 4th Street, where I witnessed one of the most peculiar regularly scheduled celebrations that Americans observe: the Inauguration of the President. But along the way, I met the past alive on the landscape. I watched the sky turn from murky black into hopeful, bright pink and orange sitting alongside the savior of the nation. Lincoln and I watched as the early light of sunrise silhouetted the brightly-lit …


Gooch, Thomas Claiborne, 1830-1889 (Sc 810), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2013 Western Kentucky University

Gooch, Thomas Claiborne, 1830-1889 (Sc 810), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 810. Letter, 1864, written by Thomas Claiborne Gooch, Louisville, Kentucky, to his brother William, Logan County, Kentucky. Includes comments about the gold standard, Major General Stephen Gano Burbridge, George B. McClellan’s chances of winning the 1864 presidential election, and Robert E. Lee’s international influence.


Shannon, Thomas Jefferson, 1801-1895 (Sc 561), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2013 Western Kentucky University

Shannon, Thomas Jefferson, 1801-1895 (Sc 561), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and typescript (click on Additional Files) for Manuscripts Small Collection 561. Journal of a voyage from South Union, Kentucky to New Orleans, Louisiana, which was kept by Thomas Jefferson Shannon, a selling agent for and a member of the South Union Colony of Shakers. The pagination refers to the typed copy of the journal which is also indexed mainly by names and places.


Civil War, 1861-1865 - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 811), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2013 Western Kentucky University

Civil War, 1861-1865 - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 811), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 811. Civil War letter, 24 November 1861, to his sister Sallie from “Brother JSH,” while encamped near Bowling Green, Kentucky. He describes his satisfaction with camp life and a sweetheart who is "for the south."


Morningstar, Robert Evans, 1866-1944 (Sc 814), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2013 Western Kentucky University

Morningstar, Robert Evans, 1866-1944 (Sc 814), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 814. Letters, 1898 (10), written to Robert Evans Morningstar, Bowling Green, Kentucky, by fellow members of the Kentucky Press Association, concerning payment of dues and reservations for an upcoming trip for KPA members and their wives.


Knott, James Proctor, 1830-1911 (Sc 812), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2013 Western Kentucky University

Knott, James Proctor, 1830-1911 (Sc 812), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 812. Certificate of remission of a judgment against the Claryville, Grant’s Lick, and Butler Turnpike Company for failure to repair roads, signed on 28 December 1886 by Kentucky Governor James Proctor Knott.


Grace Episcopal Church - Hopkinsville, Kentucky (Sc 813), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2013 Western Kentucky University

Grace Episcopal Church - Hopkinsville, Kentucky (Sc 813), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 813. Parochial report submitted to the 61st Annual Council by John W. Venable, minister. Membership statistics, contributions, and remarks are noted on the report.


Lindsay, William, 1835-1909 (Sc 569), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2013 Western Kentucky University

Lindsay, William, 1835-1909 (Sc 569), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 569. Letter, 4 October 1892, from attorney and politician William Lindsay, Frankfort, to law firm, Butler, Stillman and Hubbard, related to the settlement of a lawsuit.


Caldwell, R. E. (Sc 807), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2013 Western Kentucky University

Caldwell, R. E. (Sc 807), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 807. Contract, 2 July 1894, between R. E. Caldwell and trustees John A. Caldwell and M. M. Jones to teach school in Graves County, Kentucky.


Cook, Elbert Eugene Iii, B. 1959 & Rebecca J. (Cook) Foust - Collectors (Sc 2654), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2013 Western Kentucky University

Cook, Elbert Eugene Iii, B. 1959 & Rebecca J. (Cook) Foust - Collectors (Sc 2654), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and illustration of stock certificate (click on "Additional Files") for Manuscripts Small Collection 2654. Two Kentucky teaching certificates issued to Elbert Cook [Sr.] in 1914 & 1919; letter appointing Cook a rural mail carrier, 1920; stock certificate indicating that Cook had purchased three shares in the Bowling Green Savings and Building Association, 1932; certificate awarding a Postmastership to Maggie Elizabeth Cook at Trammel, Kentucky, 1946; and several photographs.


Mccreery, Thomas Clay, 1816-1890 (Sc 568), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2013 Western Kentucky University

Mccreery, Thomas Clay, 1816-1890 (Sc 568), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 568. Two 1868 letters from Thomas Clay McCreery, Washington, D.C. to unknwon recipients, which give the addresses of two former U.S. senators from Kentucky. McCreery was serving as U.S. senator from Kentucky at the time.


Helm, John Blakey, 1899-1979 (Sc 572), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2013 Western Kentucky University

Helm, John Blakey, 1899-1979 (Sc 572), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 572. Typescript of a speech, [April, 1949], entitled “Memo on Second Appellate District Judges” by John Blakey Helm, which contains a history of the district and biographical information about the judges who had served that district until 1949.


Sand Hill Democratic Club - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 809), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2013 Western Kentucky University

Sand Hill Democratic Club - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 809), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 809. Notice of meeting called for 14 September 1888 to organize a Democratic club at Sand Hill, Warren County, Kentucky.


Bell, Tennie Juliet (Odom), 1872-1943 (Sc 74), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2013 Western Kentucky University

Bell, Tennie Juliet (Odom), 1872-1943 (Sc 74), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 74. Essay written by Tennie Juliet (Odom) Bell, of Texas, while a student at Cedar Bluff Female College, Woodburn, Kentucky.


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