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I Must And Will Survive: The Civil War-Era Diary Of Virginia Daniel Woodroof, Class Of 1866, Beth S. Harris 2012 Hollins University

I Must And Will Survive: The Civil War-Era Diary Of Virginia Daniel Woodroof, Class Of 1866, Beth S. Harris

Articles about Hollins and Special Collections

Virginia Daniel Woodroof's diary covers many themes, including romantic love, duty to family and God, fear for those at war, college life, worry about the future, and the struggle to do the right thing. Virginia attended Hollins Institute 1864-1866. The diary covers February 1860 to October 1894..


Gender And The Boundaries Of National Identity: U.S. Women As A Citizen Class In The Long 1960s, Sara Bijani 2012 Western Michigan University

Gender And The Boundaries Of National Identity: U.S. Women As A Citizen Class In The Long 1960s, Sara Bijani

Masters Theses

This text analyzes the public ideologies and institutions that underpinned women's unequal status within the national collective of United States citizens during the long 1960s, paying particular attention to the executive office of Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the national security establishment. Women were frequently framed within these institutions as a separate special class of citizen, with rights and responsibilities not akin to those of the elite—male bodied—members of the national collective. Allowing for the imaginative construction of "women" as a subject class in U.S. society, this text argues that even with the guarantee of formal political rights in place, women …


The Reproductive Rights Movement: 1914-Present, Angela A. Badore 2012 Gettysburg College

The Reproductive Rights Movement: 1914-Present, Angela A. Badore

Student Publications

The Reproductive Rights Movement has, throughout its history, been heavily affected by public perception. Both its proponents and opponents have therefore taken to using language in order to frame the controversial issues in ways that best achieve their respective objectives. This paper explores the terminology used to discuss such issues as birth control, sterilization, and abortion since 1914, when the term ‘birth control’ was first used.


Refusing “To Lie Low In The Dust”: Native Women’S Literacies In Southern New England 1768-1800, Renee Poisson 2012 University of New Hampshire - Main Campus

Refusing “To Lie Low In The Dust”: Native Women’S Literacies In Southern New England 1768-1800, Renee Poisson

Honors Theses and Capstones

No abstract provided.


"So Stirring A Woman Was She": A Closer Look At Early Modern Representations Of Matilda, Lady Of The English, Megan L. Benson 2012 University of Nebraska-Lincoln

"So Stirring A Woman Was She": A Closer Look At Early Modern Representations Of Matilda, Lady Of The English, Megan L. Benson

Department of History: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

This thesis attempts to recover the representations of Matilda, Lady of the English, who nearly became queen of England in 1141. In 1127 Matilda became the heir to her father, Henry I, following the death of her brother in 1120. She was unable to claim the throne immediately following her father’s death in 1135, which allowed her cousin Stephen of Blois to do so. With the help of her half-brother Robert, Earl of Gloucester, she launched an unsuccessful war effort to claim her throne in 1139. Modern historians have flatly labeled her a failure due to the fact she was …


Identity - Memory - Testimony, Maine Women Writers Collection, University of New England 2012 University of New England

Identity - Memory - Testimony, Maine Women Writers Collection, University Of New England

Maine Women Writers Collection Conferences

Program for the 2012 MWWC conference Identity - Memory - Testimony.


Hook, Elizabeth Henrietta (Schmaltz), 1787-1846 - Letter To (Sc 268), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2012 Western Kentucky University

Hook, Elizabeth Henrietta (Schmaltz), 1787-1846 - Letter To (Sc 268), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 268. Letter, 26 October 1844, written by her daughter Louisa and niece Kate in Schenectady, New York to Elizabeth (Mrs. Josiah C.) Hook in White Lake, New York. In addition to family news, they report on local support for Henry Clay’s Whigs and for the Locofocos as reflected in a Clay Club at school and in the flying of flags made from colored muslin.


Education (Sc 267), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2012 Western Kentucky University

Education (Sc 267), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 267. Teachers’ certificates, 1874-1875 (3), issued to Amanda L. and C. S. Arnold for the first and second grades in the Kentucky counties of Henry and Oldham; and school essays written by Wanda Lee Arnold at Eminence College, 1871 (1), and by Bell Mason (1) and Essica Maye Ransdell(1).


Larths Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 395), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2012 Western Kentucky University

Larths Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 395), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 395. Minutes, yearbooks, correspondence, financial records, photographs, and other records of the LARTHS Club, a literary club founded in Bowling Green, Kentucky in 1925.


Settle, B. C. (Mrs.) (Sc 265), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2012 Western Kentucky University

Settle, B. C. (Mrs.) (Sc 265), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 265. Teacher’s composition book of Mrs. B. C. Settle, presumably of Warren County, Kentucky.


Naccs 39th Annual Conference, National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies 2012 San Jose State University

Naccs 39th Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies

NACCS Conference Programs

NACCS@40 Celebrating Scholarship and Activism
March 14-17, 2012
Palmer House Hilton


Obenchain, Lida (Calvert), 1856-1935 (Sc 261), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2012 Western Kentucky University

Obenchain, Lida (Calvert), 1856-1935 (Sc 261), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 261. Handwritten, pencil manuscript of “The Reformation of Sam Amos” by Lida Calvert Obenchain (Eliza Calvert Hall). This was one of nine stores published by Little Brown & Co. in The Land of Long Ago, 1909.


Smith, Mollie (Sc 2515), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2012 Western Kentucky University

Smith, Mollie (Sc 2515), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2515. Letters from Mollie Smith of Randolph, Metcalfe County, Kentucky, to her cousin Callie Hubbard in Auburn, Nebraska, with news of family, weather conditions and social life. Also enclosed are two letters from “Flora” to Callie’s daughters Lucy and Daisy.


The Avenger - March-May 2012, Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale Museum 2012 Nova Southeastern University

The Avenger - March-May 2012, Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale Museum

The Avenger

No abstract provided.


“No Man’S Land”: Fairy Tales, Gender, Socialization, Satire, And Trauma During The First And Second World Wars, Dawn Heerspink 2012 Grand Valley State University

“No Man’S Land”: Fairy Tales, Gender, Socialization, Satire, And Trauma During The First And Second World Wars, Dawn Heerspink

Grand Valley Journal of History

No abstract provided.


Alexander, C. Emmaline (Norman) Ballenger, 1826-1899 (Sc 2410), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2012 Western Kentucky University

Alexander, C. Emmaline (Norman) Ballenger, 1826-1899 (Sc 2410), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2510. Letter of C. Emmaline (Norman) Ballenger Alexander, written from Gallatin, Tennessee, to her granddaughter Lelia, presumably in Bowling Green, Kentucky. She mentions local social activities and refers to a recent fire in Bowling Green.


May, Gloria Miller (Binzel), 1929-2016 (Sc 2512), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2012 Western Kentucky University

May, Gloria Miller (Binzel), 1929-2016 (Sc 2512), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2512. Two letters from Gloria May (Mrs. Philip S. May, Jr.), Jacksonville, Florida, to Cora Jane Spiller, Bowling Green, Kentucky, with personal news. She also relates anecdotes about the shopping habits of Pauline Tabor, a Bowling Green madam, and the luxuries she afforded her employees.


Trimble, Anne Ridings, 1909-1971 (Mss 391), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2012 Western Kentucky University

Trimble, Anne Ridings, 1909-1971 (Mss 391), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 391. Correspondence and published stories of Logan County, Kentucky, romance story writer Anne Ridings Trimble. The correspondence is between Trimble and Kentucky Library librarians Mary Leiper Moore and Elizabeth Coombs. Click on "Additional Files" below for a list of Trimble stories mentioned in the collection.


Evans, Mollie F. (Sc 244), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2012 Western Kentucky University

Evans, Mollie F. (Sc 244), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 244. Letters written by Evan, 5 January 1870 and 17 May 1870, from Russellville and Adairville, Logan County, Kentucky, to Mr. J. P. Morton, Louisville, related to the possible publication of her manuscript.


Walker, Josephine, 1864-1944 (Sc 2498), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2012 Western Kentucky University

Walker, Josephine, 1864-1944 (Sc 2498), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2498. Diary kept by Josephine Walker, Columbia, Adair County, Kentucky from 4 November 1891 to 10 October 1893. She records the weather, visits, illnesses, local births and deaths, and everyday household and farm activities such as food preparation,quilting, sewing, and her piano playing. Local family names mentioned include Traylor, Diddle, Flowers, Atkins and Murrell.


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