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Stephen Collins Foster & His Folk-Songs, Mary Chisholm
Stephen Collins Foster & His Folk-Songs, Mary Chisholm
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Every American knows some of Stephen Collins Foster's songs, but not everyone who sings My Old Kentucky Home and Old Folks at Home realizes that it was he who wrote those songs. Of the two hundred songs and compositions which Foster published, at least fifteen are constantly sung. Since these songs voice emotions which are fundamental to mankind, they have become more important than the composer himself. For this reason they may be called folk-songs, and because they voice so truly the spirit of America, America is proud to claim them as her own.
The title of this thesis, Stephen …
Elizabethan Left-Overs In Allen County, Alfred Dalton
Elizabethan Left-Overs In Allen County, Alfred Dalton
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
This study of the Elizabethan influences remaining in the spoken language of the people of Allen County, Kentucky, is an outgrowth of discussion in the English classes of Dr. Gordon Wilson, Western Kentucky State Teachers College, concerning the folklore of the present-day rural people of Kentucky. I have endeavored to give a true picture of the picturesque language of the farming people as they go about their every-day business of making a living, with particular emphasis upon those words and usages that are no longer considered in good use.
Ua37/23 Whas Broadcast No. 24, Whas, Western Kentucky University, Earl Moore
Ua37/23 Whas Broadcast No. 24, Whas, Western Kentucky University, Earl Moore
WKU Archives Records
Script for weekly WKU broadcast on WHAS radio. This particular show is a play written using letters owned by Lenora Lindley of Livermore, Kentucky written by a freed slave in Liberia to her former owner in Ohio County, Kentucky.
Ua37/23 Whas Broadcast No. 21, Whas, Western Kentucky University, Earl Moore
Ua37/23 Whas Broadcast No. 21, Whas, Western Kentucky University, Earl Moore
WKU Archives Records
Script for weekly WKU broadcast on WHAS radio. This show included Earl Moore, Franz Strahm, Frances Richards, Paul Huddleston and June Purdom.
Ua37/23 Whas Broadcast No. 20, Whas, Western Kentucky University, Earl Moore
Ua37/23 Whas Broadcast No. 20, Whas, Western Kentucky University, Earl Moore
WKU Archives Records
Script for weekly WKU broadcast on WHAS radio. This show included Earl Moore, Gordon Wilson and demonstrations of folk songs.
Correspondence From Frank Speck, 1936-1939, Frank Speck
Correspondence From Frank Speck, 1936-1939, Frank Speck
Fannie Hardy Eckstorm Papers
Correspondence from Frank Speck concerning research and publications on Native Americans in Maine. These were digitized from box 1, folder 96 of the Fannie Hardy Eckstorm Papers. Documents from this folder that did not pertain to Native Americans in Maine were not scanned and are not included in this file
Aurora Volume 23, David Browning (Editor)
Aurora Volume 23, David Browning (Editor)
Aurora-yearbook
College formerly located at Olivet, Illinois and known as Olivet University (1912-1923) Olivet College (1923-1939), Olivet Nazarene College (1940-1986), and Olivet Nazarene University (1986-Present).