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Civil War, 1861-1865 - Claims (Sc 435), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 435. Printed power of attorney addressed to C.D. Pennebaker and Son, Washington, D.C. The only recorded information on the form is the name of George Givens and the amount of the claim, $150.

Stevenson, John White, 1812-1886 (Sc 433), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 433. Letter from John White Stevenson, Covington, Kentucky, to L.Q. Washington, Washington, D.C., regarding Washington’s candidacy for undesignated office, Kentucky’s Congressional races, and the upcoming national election.

Archeological Site Assesments And Survey At Aquilla Lake, Hill County, Texas, Aaron R. Norment, Karl W. Kibler, Amy E. Dase

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State

Personnel from Prewitt and Associates, Inc., conducted archeological site assessments and survey at Aquilla Lake from November to December 2010 in preparation for a pool raise planned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District. The proposed pool raise could potentially raise the conservation pool level of the lake by 6.5 ft. Field investigations revisited and reevaluated 41 previously recorded sites and surveyed 10 previously unsurveyed areas (180 total acres) within the confines of the proposed 6.5-ft conservation pool raise. The investigations consolidated 8 of the 41 previously recorded sites into 3, therefore reassessments are given for 36 …

Jane Wilson Mcwilliams, “Annapolis, A City On The Severn: A History” In Maryland Historical Magazine, 107, No. 2 (Summer 2012), 234-35., Charles R. Foy

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

McWilliams frames Annapolis’ history as one in which disparate newcomers, including white retirees and striving Hispanic immigrants, have been drawn to the port by its “location, its culture, or its economic possibilities.” A strength of the book is its inclusion of short essays by other historians. Where the book is lacking is in not connecting Annapolis’ history to larger national and global issues.

To Make A Better World Tomorrow: St. Clair Drake And The Quakers Of Pendle Hill, Andrew Rosa

History Faculty Publications

This article is part of a larger project by the author to record St. Clair Drake’s contribution to the black radical tradition. Here he examines Drake’s involvement with the Quakers in the early years of the Depression. Drawing on writings in African American and Popular Front periodicals of the time, it considers how a Quaker community shaped Drake’s identity as an intellectual activist and how his encounter suggests the ways in which black intellectuals engaged with non-violence as a philosophy and strategy for social change before he civil rights movement. Drake’s participation in non-violent campaigns for workers’ rights, world peace …

Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter Volume 35, Number 2, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Traces Volume 40, 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.

Wrather West Kentucky Museum

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Wrather West Kentucky Museum

Kate A. Reeves

Musa Hall Remembered: Teacher, Musician, And Clerk At First Baptist Church In Martin, Tennessee

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Musa Hall Remembered: Teacher, Musician, and Clerk at First Baptist Church in Martin, Tennessee

Marvin Downing

The Days The Earth Would Not Stand Still

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

The Days The Earth Would Not Stand Still

Larry Holder

The Organist Wore Overalls

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

The Organist Wore Overalls

Lynn Hardin

Book Review: It Didn't Play In Peoria: Missed Chances Of A Middle American Town

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Book Review

It Didn't Play in Peoria: Missed Chances of a Middle American Town

Marvin Downing

Women In Wine, Meghan Gillen, Amanda Maxwell

2012 Projects

The Keck Summer Collaborative Research Program provides opportunities for Linfield College students and faculty to conduct research on issues related to the Pacific Northwest, and to bring the research findings back into the classroom within the subsequent academic year. Students partner with faculty to conduct research and present their work to other students, Linfield staff and faculty, and community members during a series of brown bag lunches. Meghan Gillen and Amanda Maxwell conducted research with Keni Sturgeon and Jeff Peterson and gave this presentation during the summer of 2012.

Gillen and Maxwell conducted archival research and interviews on the "Role …

History Of First Baptist Church, Martin, Tennessee

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Edited by Melissa Webb Earnest

History of First Baptist Church, Martin, Tennessee

Weakley County Press

The Third 30 Years Of First Baptist Church, 1936-1966, Martin, Tennessee

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

The Third 30 Years of First Baptist Church, 1936-1966, Martin, Tennessee

Marvin Downing

416 North Seventh Street, Paducah, Ky

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

416 North Seventh Street, Paducah, KY

Sarah Brady Strange

Wpsd History, Part 2

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

WPSD History, Part 2

Bill Evans

The Mysterious Mississippians: Native American Archaeological Sites In And Around The Jackson Purchase

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

The Mysterious Mississippians: Native American Archaeological Sites In and Around the Jackson Purchase

Bob Lochte

Jennie Fyfe In War And Peace

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Jennie Fyfe In War and Peace

John E.L. Robertson with Vonnie Shelton

Kentucky's "Purchase" Area During The Civil War

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Kentucky's "Purchase" Area During The Civil War

John E.L. Robertson