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Meador, Richards, Johnson Family Papers (Mss 345), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Meador, Richards, Johnson Family Papers (Mss 345), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescripts (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 345. Correspondence, legal documents, and sundry material related to the Meador, Richards, and Johnson families chiefly of Simpson County and Logan County, Kentucky. Also includes documents and correspondence from the King and Garrett families of Robertson and Sumner County, Tennessee. The attached 1842 letters are from R. M. Latimer to Caroline Garrett reporting the death and burial of her brother, George King, in Cuba; and to Caroline Garrett from another brother, John, discussing tensions with Mexico.
Mccalister, Virginia May (Sc 2365), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mccalister, Virginia May (Sc 2365), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2365. "The Political Career of Ollie M. James" by Virginia M. McCalister, a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Arts degree, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1933.
Richards, Frances, 1893-1991 (Sc 2363), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Richards, Frances, 1893-1991 (Sc 2363), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2363. "John Rowan" by Frances Richards, a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Arts degree, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1930.
Minton, John Dean, 1921-2008 (Sc 2373), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Minton, John Dean, 1921-2008 (Sc 2373), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2373. "The Political Prosecution and Trials of Caleb Powers" by John Dean Minton, a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Arts degree, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 1947.
Underwood Letters, 1820-1859 (Sc 2326), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Underwood Letters, 1820-1859 (Sc 2326), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2326. Letters to John J. Crittenden from Joseph Rogers Underwood and his brother Warner Lewis Underwood, Bowling Green, chiefly related to the political situation in Kentucky and the United States from 1820 to 1859. Also, one letter to Crittenden from J.B. Temple related to a possible 1852 Senatorial contest between Crittenden and Joseph Rogers Underwood.
Underwood, Joseph Rogers, 1791-1876 (Sc 2328), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Underwood, Joseph Rogers, 1791-1876 (Sc 2328), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2328. Typescript of a diary kept by Joseph Rogers Underwood, 1834-1850, in which he records everyday occurrences at home in Bowling Green, Kentucky and in Washington, D.C., where he served in the U.S. House of Representatives,1835-1843, and the U.S. Senate, 1847-1853. Interspersed throughout are comments by his second wife, Elizabeth (Cox) Underwood. Also includes a document containing information about Thomas Rogers and an “Account of the Escape of Prisoners from Fort Warren, Boston Harbor” written by Douglas Gordon.
Chelf, Carl Philip, 1937-2011 (Sc 2256), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Chelf, Carl Philip, 1937-2011 (Sc 2256), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2256. Transcription of an interview with Tim Lee Carter, former U.S. Representative of Kentucky's 5th Congressional district, by Dr. Carl P. Chelf, government professor at Western Kentucky University, 21 October 1982.
Book Review (Paul Frymer's Black And Blue: African Americans, The Labor Movement, And The Decline Of The Democratic Party)., Sophia Z. Lee
Book Review (Paul Frymer's Black And Blue: African Americans, The Labor Movement, And The Decline Of The Democratic Party)., Sophia Z. Lee
All Faculty Scholarship
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Young, Edward Green, 1857-1948 (Mss 309), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Young, Edward Green, 1857-1948 (Mss 309), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 309. Materials related to Edward Green Young's service as a delegate from Warren County to the Kentucky House of Representatives, 1916 to 1920. Also family correspondence and items concerning his farming operations.
Keith, Jean E. (Sc 2165), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Keith, Jean E. (Sc 2165), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2165. Paper: "The Whig Party in Kentucky, 1847-1851: Whig Against Whig, North Against South, East Against West" written by Jean E. Keith while she was a student at Western Kentucky State Teachers College, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes an eight-page annotated bibliography.
Zimmerman, Heidi (Sc 2171), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Zimmerman, Heidi (Sc 2171), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2171. Biographical sketch of James Proctor Knott, Kentucky lawyer, politician, and governor, based on the original documents housed in the Knott family manuscript collection, Kentucky Library & Museum, Western Kentucky University.
‘Broken Brotherhood: The Rise And Fall Of The National Afro-American Council,’ By Benjamin R. Justesen, Eric S. Yellin
‘Broken Brotherhood: The Rise And Fall Of The National Afro-American Council,’ By Benjamin R. Justesen, Eric S. Yellin
History Faculty Publications
The dominance of Booker T. Washington and the loyalty of most African Americans to the Republican Party are often mistaken as markers of black political unanimity at the turn of the twentieth century. Even worse, they are assumed to stand for the whole of African American political life. Benjamin R. Justesen’s story of the struggles to establish and sustain the National Afro-American Council should serve as an important reminder of the tensions, diversity, and energy within black politics in this period. The reminder is so important, and so potential productive, that one wishes that Broken Brotherhood: The Rise and Fall …