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Arkansas Historic Preservation Program Project Records, 1999-2003 Dec 2003

Arkansas Historic Preservation Program Project Records, 1999-2003

Finding aids

This collection contains project manuals and architectural drawings. The manuals provide an overview of the preservation project including bids, details of the project and specifications, while the architectural drawings provide details of the specifications.

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About Our People: The Black History Of Malvern, 1919-2003 Dec 2003

About Our People: The Black History Of Malvern, 1919-2003

Finding aids

The collection contains photographs and photographic prints of people, churches, and schools that were donated by several contributors. It also contains oral history interviews.

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Arkansas Department Of Labor State Mine Office Records, 1914-2003 Dec 2003

Arkansas Department Of Labor State Mine Office Records, 1914-2003

Finding aids

This collection contains materials donated by the Arkansas Department of Labor's State Mine Office. It includes records from the Mine Office such as health and safety reports, annual reports, and accident reports on Arkansas mining companies beginning in 1968 and ending in 2002. This collection also includes 328 maps of Arkansas coal mines dating back to 1911 through 1979, which have been digitized.

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Dixie Knight Negatives, 1995-2003 Dec 2003

Dixie Knight Negatives, 1995-2003

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This collection is comprised of black and white and color negatives along with photographic proofs of Mark Pryor and Winthrop Paul Rockefeller taken from 1995 – 2003 by Dixie Knight.

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Lonoke County (Ark.) Grass Roots Oral History Tapes, 2001-2003 Dec 2003

Lonoke County (Ark.) Grass Roots Oral History Tapes, 2001-2003

Finding aids

The collection contains oral history recordings on 47 audiocassette tapes.

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George Edward Fisher Papers, Circa 1946-2003 Dec 2003

George Edward Fisher Papers, Circa 1946-2003

Finding aids

These papers are comprised of sixteen original caricature drawings by George Edward Fisher during his time as a political cartoonist for several Arkansas newspapers. Fifteen of the caricatures are signed by the subject of the drawings.

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Sims Mortuary Ledgers, 1951-2003 Dec 2003

Sims Mortuary Ledgers, 1951-2003

Finding aids

This collection includes nine volumes of funeral home records dating from 1951-2003. Each volume contains an alphabetical index.

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Industry In The Southern Thames Street Neighborhood Of Newport, Rhode Island, 1820 -1920, Daniel P. Titus Dec 2003

Industry In The Southern Thames Street Neighborhood Of Newport, Rhode Island, 1820 -1920, Daniel P. Titus

Faculty and Staff - Articles & Papers

In the study of Industry in the Southern Thames Street Neighborhood of Newport, Rhode Island from 1820 -1920 we by necessity must touch, even if ever so slightly, on the history of industry in Newport, not just the District, both before and after that time period. We must try to understand what life was like for the residents of the District and the city. We must try to understand what was happening in the area, the city, and in a larger sense, the region to get an understanding of the social and economic forces at play on their everyday lives. …

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Paul Young Interview For The Lest We Forget Collection Of Oral Histories, Paul Young, Judy Leasure Dec 2003

Paul Young Interview For The Lest We Forget Collection Of Oral Histories, Paul Young, Judy Leasure

Lest We Forget (MS-396)

Judy Leasure interviewed Paul Young about his work with the mentally ill and developmentally disabled. The interview was part of the Lest We Forget Collection of oral histories that was created to capture the stories of those involved with mental health and those with developmental disabilities. There are two transcripts to cover the full interview. The project focused on stories and experiences of people from Ohio that lived at, worked in, or dealt with large institutions and the modern movement to smaller home settings and modern treatment of mental illness and developmental disabilities.

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South Union Messenger (December 2003), Kentucky Library Research Collections Dec 2003

South Union Messenger (December 2003), Kentucky Library Research Collections

South Union Messenger

No abstract provided.

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The Virgin And The Grasshoppers: Persistence And Piety In German-Catholic America, Stephen Gross Nov 2003

The Virgin And The Grasshoppers: Persistence And Piety In German-Catholic America, Stephen Gross

Faculty Working Papers

This paper examines two inter-related historical problems -- the impact of the market revolution in nineteenth-century American and the disruptive impact of immigration on community life -- by chronicling the construction of a votive chapel in the heavily German-Catholic Stearns County, Minnesota. The chapel, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, was ostensibly built to secure divine relief from a plague of Rocky Mountain locusts that was devastating the area. At the same time, the chapel and the rituals surrounding its construction spoke to other community needs and functioned in diverse ways to address other community problems. For one, the shrine spoke …

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The Octofoil, November/December 2003, Ninth Infantry Division Association Nov 2003

The Octofoil, November/December 2003, Ninth Infantry Division Association

The Octofoil

The Octofoil is the offical publication of the Ninth Infantry Division Association, Inc., an organization formed by the officers and men of the 9th Infantry Division in order to perpetuate the memory of fallen comrades, preserve the esprit de corps of the Division, promote peace and serve as an information bureau about the 9th Infantry Division. The Association is made up of 9th Infantry veterans from WWII and Vietnam, spouses, widows and lineal descendants.

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Operation Iraqi Freedom (Sc 1382), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2003

Operation Iraqi Freedom (Sc 1382), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1382. E-mail report on President George W. Bush's visit to U.S. troops in Baghdad, Iraq, on Thanksgiving Day as related by an army officer in attendance.

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Hip Hop Posters Pulled For Ushuaia Fundraiser, Angela Flandaca Oct 2003

Hip Hop Posters Pulled For Ushuaia Fundraiser, Angela Flandaca

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Article from the University of Maine student newspaper The Maine Campus regarding the Ushuaia night club's posters promoting the University of Maine Hip Hop Dance Club's fundraiser party, to be held at the Ushuaia, containing images of racist stereotypes.

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Final Justice, Richard W. Garnett Oct 2003

Final Justice, Richard W. Garnett

Journal Articles

Richard Garnett reviews Stuart Banner, The Death Penalty: An American History (2002) & Franklin E. Zimring, The Contradictions of American Capital Punishment (2003).

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Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter Volume 26, Number 4, Kentucky Library Research Collections Oct 2003

Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter Volume 26, Number 4, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter

No abstract provided.

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Would Brown Make It To New York City? The First Phase Of The Battle For School Integration, 1954-1957, Kristopher B. Burrell Oct 2003

Would Brown Make It To New York City? The First Phase Of The Battle For School Integration, 1954-1957, Kristopher B. Burrell

Publications and Research

This conference paper looks at the struggle to desegregate New York's City's public schools in the immediate aftermath of the Brown v Board of Education decision in 1954. For the first three years following the Supreme Court decision, the New York City Board of Education make public overtures toward fulfilling the letter and spirit of Brown in New York, but in practice the Board of Education engaged in stalling and half-measures that succeeded in effectively stopping widespread school desegregation in the city.

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Traces Volume 31, Number 3, Kentucky Library Research Collections Oct 2003

Traces Volume 31, Number 3, 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.

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Lincoln On The Abolition Of Slavery, Allen C. Guelzo Oct 2003

Lincoln On The Abolition Of Slavery, Allen C. Guelzo

Civil War Era Studies Faculty Publications

That man who thinks Lincoln calmly sat down and gathered his robes about him, waiting for the people to call him, has a very erroneous knowledge of Lincoln," wrote Abraham Lincoln's long-time law partner, William Henry Herndon. "He was always calculating, and always planning ahead. His ambition was a little engine that knew no rest." And in no other pursuit was Lincoln more ambitious than in politics. As a lawyer and Whig political organizer in Illinois, "Politics were his life and his ambition and his motive power." [excerpt]

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Review Of Class, Region, And Memory In A South Carolina-Philadelphia Marriage, Daniel P. Kilbride Oct 2003

Review Of Class, Region, And Memory In A South Carolina-Philadelphia Marriage, Daniel P. Kilbride

History

No abstract provided.

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Duckett, Edward Austin, 1920-2008 (Mss 119), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2003

Duckett, Edward Austin, 1920-2008 (Mss 119), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscript Collection 119. Correspondence, project information, and small drawings of Edward Austin Duckett, a Bowling Green, Kentucky native and architect, who spent his professional career in Chicago, Illinois, working for Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Also includes Duckett genealogy, a satirical booklet, and 1998 interviews (cassette tapes - 2) done with Duckett.

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Shelton, Martha Beth (Sc 1375), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2003

Shelton, Martha Beth (Sc 1375), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1375. Paper written by Martha B. Shelton of Greenville, Kentucky, giving the history of the town by recording the various owners of Greenville's houses and buildings.

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Aspley Family (Sc 1377), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2003

Aspley Family (Sc 1377), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1377. World War II letters, 1942-1943 (5), written stateside and from Europe by Aspley brothers Robert Charles ("Charlie") and William Neil ("Billy") to parents and friends in Bowling Green, Kentucky, chiefly discussing everyday camp life. Charlie writes one letter from a German prisoner of war camp. Includes obituaries, newspaper clippings, etc.

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The Death Flight Of Larry Mcdonald, Donald E. Wilkes Jr. Sep 2003

The Death Flight Of Larry Mcdonald, Donald E. Wilkes Jr.

Popular Media

Twenty years ago, on Thursday, Sept. 1, 1983, Georgia Congressman Larry McDonald suffered a horrible death when a Soviet fighter interceptor shot down the Boeing 747 airliner he was aboard over the Sea of Japan. The 268 other persons on the plane also perished. The airliner, Korean Air Lines 007, on its way to Seoul, South Korea, had twice entered Soviet airspace and was downed as it was about to leave Soviet airspace for the second time.

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Todd County, Kentucky - Letters (Sc 1372), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2003

Todd County, Kentucky - Letters (Sc 1372), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1372. Letters, 1887-1923, written to Sherrod and Williams family members, Todd County, Kentucky, mainly containing family news. The 1913 letter focuses on tobacco selling and Night Riders' activities in Henderson County, Kentucky.

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Guthrie Family (Mss 96), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2003

Guthrie Family (Mss 96), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Autograph books of two female and one male member of the Guthrie and related families of Cumberland County, Kentucky. Includes some family data.

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Downing, Dero Goodman, 1921-2011 (Sc 1373), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2003

Downing, Dero Goodman, 1921-2011 (Sc 1373), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1373. Letters written by Dero G. Downing as a Western Kentucky University student, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1942, and as a Navy officer, 1944-1945, to his parents, Horse Cave, Kentucky and Dunbar, West Virginia. Discusses events as a member of the WKU basketball team that played in the NCAA tournament. Includes some news of his naval life.

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Githens, William Harrison, 1826-1904 (Sc 1364), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2003

Githens, William Harrison, 1826-1904 (Sc 1364), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid, scan, and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1364. Letter, 22 February 1862, written by U.S. Army surgeon William H. Githens, Birds Point, Missouri, to his wife describing conditions, especially in Cairo, Illinois, and mentioning the activity at Forts Holt and Payne across the river in Kentucky. He includes a sketch of these fortifications.

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The Octofoil, August/September/October 2003, Ninth Infantry Division Association Aug 2003

The Octofoil, August/September/October 2003, Ninth Infantry Division Association

The Octofoil

The Octofoil is the offical publication of the Ninth Infantry Division Association, Inc., an organization formed by the officers and men of the 9th Infantry Division in order to perpetuate the memory of fallen comrades, preserve the esprit de corps of the Division, promote peace and serve as an information bureau about the 9th Infantry Division. The Association is made up of 9th Infantry veterans from WWII and Vietnam, spouses, widows and lineal descendants.

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Goodnight Family (Mss 148), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2003

Goodnight Family (Mss 148), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 148. Letters, legal papers, articles, and data on the Goodnight family, Franklin, Kentucky, and journal, 1868-1880 (102 p.) of Cumberland Presbyterian minister Thomas Mitchell Goodnight. Also includes letters from William Jennings Bryan, J. G. Carlisle, and William Goebel. A scan of Thomas Mitchell Goodknight's journal (Folder 7) has been scanned and is attached as an "Additional File"; click on the link at the bottom of this page.

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