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Lawrence County (Ark.) Sheriff's Office Records, 2015

NEARA finding aids

This collection contains two large foam-board panels with site plans for the new county jail.

Joseph Thurston Runyan Collection (Digital), Circa 2015

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This collection contains digital files of photographs and letters of Lieutenant Joseph Thurston Runyan during his service in World War I in 1918, as well as scrapbook materials and papers written by the donor, Runyan's grandson, Edgar K. Riddick III, that describe Runyan's war service.

Arch Street And Greater Archview Baptist Church Collection. 1948-2015

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This collection contains material related to the Arch Street and Greater Archview Baptist Church from 1948 through 2015. The material includes church programs, committee reports, handouts, brochures, and other historical items related to the church and other church organizations. Much of the material in this collection is believed to have been collected by Edna Gibson who was an usher in the church and a chairperson of the church program committee. Many of the items have her signature and notes written on them. The collection also contains some personal material that belonged to Ed and Elmira Hubbard, who are believed to …

Webb House Condition Assessment Report, 2015

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This collection contains the condition assessment report and concept design for the John Lee Webb house at 403 Pleasant Street historic district, Hot Springs, Arkansas. This report shows how the Webb house can be updated in order to conform to the City of Hot Springs housing codes, while maintaining it's historic integrity.

Arkansas Black Hall Of Fame Journals, 2014-2015

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This collection contains two journals of the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony held at the Statehouse Convention Center.

Arkansas Department Of Parks And Tourism: Executive Director's Office Records - State Park Files, 1863-2015

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This collection contains files from the Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism Executive Director's Office. The records contain correspondence, news releases, publications, construction information for park buildings, and other material related to the State Parks of Arkansas. Richard Davies served as Executive Director of the Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism from 1990-2015. Kane Webb succeeded Davies as Director in 2015. He announced his resignation in 2018. The files in this collection cover the tenure of both, as well as the years 2015-2021. On July 1, 2019, the Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism merged with the Department of Arkansas …

Keep Arkansas Beautiful Commission Records, 1970-2015

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This collection contains three record groups. One was transferred from the Keep Arkansas Beautiful Commission to the Arkansas State Archives in 2005 and two others were transferred in 2020. These records consist of correspondence, minutes, and campaign and promotional material related to the Keep Arkansas Beautiful Commission. The material dates from 1970 to 2015.

"Seminary: The Undertold Story" Grant Progress Report, 2015

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This collection is comprised of paperwork, photocopies of photographs, and a DVD.

Blessings Safehaven Grant Progress Report, 2015

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This collection contains the final grant report and the Joycelyn Elders Coloring Book.

El Dorado 5th Annual Juneteenth Festival Grant Project Report, 2015

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This collection contains one final grant project and two DVDs.

Washington County Historical Society Grant Project Final Report, 2014-2015

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This collection contains the final report by the WCHS titled: Contributions of Post Civil War African American Pioneer Families in Washington County.

Arkansas Black History Quiz Bowl Association Grant Project Reports, 2009-2015

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The collection contains final reports of Quiz Bowl grant projects funded through the Curtis H. Sykes memorial grant program between 2009-2015.

South Sebastian County (Ark.) Historical Society Grant Project Report, 1976-2015

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This collection contains one final grant report.

Washington Heritage House Grant Project Reports, 2008-2015

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This collection contains one final grant report.

Peggy Bowman Collection, 1800-2015

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This collection is comprised of genealogical research compiled by Peggy Bowman along with members of the Bradley County Genealogical Society. Materials include compiled research documents, correspondence, compiled historic research, various Bowman family genealogies, discs/disks, photographs, photo albums, and Bradley County Historical Society records.

Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission Records, 2011-2015

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This collection contains 12 cubic feet of grant applications, grant procedures, logo requests, sanctioning rules, historical markers, governor appointments, correspondence, and a final report regarding the work of the Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission.

Joe David Rice Papers, 1960-2015

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This collection contains material collected by Joe David Rice relating to his work as director of the Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism from 1987 to 2017.

Crack Open A Bottle Of General Lee – A Second Course, Ryan M. Nadeau

The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History

Welcome back, fellow historical diners. Last time, you joined me in comparing a fine selection of Union generals to food. Today, we’ll be examining some of their southern counterparts. Let’s dig in!

Robert E. Lee – Aged, Fine Red Wine with a Side of Steak

Consider the following: red wines are often consumed with red meats such as steak. Steak can be enjoyed in any number of ways, from a backyard barbecue to the finest of dining establishments. In this sense, steak is the former Confederacy, ranging as it did from the most rural farmers to the opulent planters. [ …

This Month In Civil War History: December 2015, Jeffrey L. Lauck

The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History

Transcript:

Welcome to the Civil War Institute’s “This Month in Civil War History” for December.

In December of 1860 delegates met in Columbus, South Carolina and voted in favor of seceding from the Union. In their justification for leaving the Union, the delegates emphasized their fear that the newly elected President Abraham Lincoln would outlaw slavery. [excerpt]

Dead Broets Society: Masculinity In Walt Whitman’S War Verse, Anika N. Jensen

The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History

There are two images of masculinity in Walt Whitman’s Drum-Taps, his collection of wartime poetry: one, the strong, hardened soldier, the image of manliness, and the other the boyish, rosy-cheeked recruit. Whitman’s sexuality, while not the Victorian social norm, was no secret, and he wrote openly of the hospitalized soldiers during his time as a Union nurse with admiration, affection, and love. Some critics, such as Thomas Wentworth Higginson, castigated Whitman’s queer themes to be overwhelming, distractingly sensual, and "unmanly," while others, like William Sloane Kennedy, dissented, arguing instead that the overt sexuality present in Whitman’s work was precisely …

The Oatmeal Brigade: Quaker Life During The Civil War, Anika N. Jensen

The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History

Quakers in the Civil War seems like an inherently contradictory idea; the Society of Friends practices pacifism and nonviolence, and, for many, putting money or resources toward war efforts goes against the faith. But tensions were high in 1861, and deviations from Quakerism were made when Friends, both Northern and Southern, had to choose whether to prioritize the sanctity of union, support abolition, or remain neutral. Each of these decisions had its share of repercussions within the religious community, and the Quakers themselves found their mindsets changing as the tide of the war rolled on, whether they chose to fight, …

Case Study Of The Eastern State Hospital As Evidence Of English Influence On American Ideas About Mental Illness, Grace Devries

James W. Jackson Award for Excellence in Library Research in the Social Sciences

Grace DeVries, Class of 2016 at the University of Richmond, received the James W. Jackson Award for Excellence in the Social Sciences. Her research paper is entitled, Case Study of the Eastern State Hospital as Evidence of English Influence on American Ideas about Mental Illness.

Duff And Green Families (Sc 2964), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2964. Letters of the Duff and Green families of Warren and Barren counties in Kentucky. An 1863 letter to Fielding Duff warns of the illness of his son John. Mary Jane Green receives letters, 1889-1896, from her granddaughter and daughter; the latter complains about her health and her responsibilities for a Bowling Green toll gate. Includes genealogical data on both families.

Larsh, Abraham (Sc 2965), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2965. Letter, 3 August 1828, from Abraham Larsh, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to his cousin John Gardner, York County, Pennsylvania. He discusses the emboldening of opposition in Tennessee to Andrew Jackson, President John Quincy Adams’s rival, despite a recent assault by Jackson supporters. He also discusses the likelihood of Jackson’s alliance with former Vice President Aaron Burr in a plot to separate western states from the Union. While pleased with local crop yields and an expressed supporter of internal improvements, Larsh looks “with anxiety” to the completion of the railroad at the Ohio River, …

Brewing Identity: The Tavern’S Imprint On The American Revolution, Cailin Edgar

History & Classics Undergraduate Theses

This thesis examines the role of the tavern in late eighteenth-century America and the many ways in which they helped support, sustain, and determine the outcome of the movement toward Independence. Taking the argument one step further, the paper focuses on the intersection of tavern culture and print materials to underscore the multidimensionality of this public discursive space as a platform for print to come to life, exposing a more wide-reaching population of the colonists to the same material, and thus cultivating in the process a common intellectual experience between otherwise-detached New World neighbors. This study is located primarily in …

“$300 Or Your Life”: Recruitment And The Draft In The Civil War, Melissa Traub

Honors Scholar Theses

One of the most challenging tasks of a nation at war is turning its average citizens into soldiers. While volunteers flooded to the war front in thousands in the beginning of the Civil War, recruitment slowly dwindled as the war dragged on. Eventually, the North was forced to pass the Enrollment Act of 1863, the first national draft in United States history. Every able bodied man between the ages of twenty and forty-five was subject to the draft. For an already unstable nation, the national draft did little to help the divides that split the country. The policies of substitution …

Freedom Rides (Sc 2966), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2966. “Official Application for Freedom Riders,” a parody application for civil rights activists intending to protest segregation in Southern interstate bus terminals, to be submitted to George Rockwell, Hell Raiders, Inc., Arlington, Virginia, asks for data such as “Address” (“Place where body can be sent”); “Do you bleed easily?”; “State how you prefer to defend yourself” (Fisticuffs, Hand Grenade, etc.); and “State your wish for the following” (Rope neck size, bullet caliber, coffin color, etc.)

Harrod, James, 1746?-1792? - Relating To (Sc 2962), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2962. Inventory of the personal estate and slaves of the late James Harrod, Mercer County, Kentucky, as appraised on 5 February 1794; and accounts of the estate, 19 May 1798, showing payments and settlements by Anna Harrod, executrix.

Bank Of The United States (Sc 2963), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2963. Deed, 11 May 1827, from the Bank of the United States to William Ray, Louisville, Kentucky, of a tract of land in Louisville. Signed by Nicholas Biddle, President of the Bank of the United States, in the presence of Joseph Watson, Mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Plague And Perception: The English Interpretation Of Plague In Massachusetts, Sarah Peck

Honors Program Theses and Projects

Evidence suggests that the early economic and political success of the English in Plimoth Colony is due to the introduction of European diseases into coastal Massachusetts during the late sixteenth century. Building upon Alfred Crosby’s 1972 publication The Columbian Exchange, modern environmental historians and cultural historians recognize the important interconnection between parasitism, disease, and historic trends. It is now fairly well recognized in both the science and humanities disciplines that any study of the political and economic development of European settlements and colonization of the Americas correlates with studies and research about the introduction of foreign diseases, as well as …