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Progress In The Bluegrass: An Analysis Of Grassroots Organizing In Kentucky Post 1970, Brooklyn Lile

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

While historians and other scholars have explored grassroots organizing in Kentucky, most historiography on this topic is limited to the 1930s through 1970s and focused on coal, labor, and the Civil Rights Movement. This paper fills a gap within the historiography by extending the discussion of grassroots organizing in Kentucky past the 1970s. Through the examination of organizational documents, membership newsletters, and oral histories, this paper explores the transformation of Kentuckians For The Commonwealth (KFTC) from 1981 to 2020. KFTC began as a small Eastern Kentucky organization focused predominantly on fair taxing practices in coal companies. Through efforts to diversify …

A Home Shielded By Laws: Freedom Suits And Enslaved Mothers, Heidi Martin

Digital Legal Research Lab

This project collects, digitizes, and makes accessible the freedom suits brought by enslaved families in the Circuit Court for the District of Columbia, Maryland state courts, and the United States Supreme Court. This project places families in the foreground of our interpretive framework of slavery and national formation.

Using TEI encoding, we focused on outcomes, relationships between individuals and the claim for freedom made. Using these data sets, I focused specefically on mothers petitioning for their children. Of the 508 cases I utilized, 131 included children and a parental figure. I set out to distinguish the additional burden mothers had …

In The Waiting: The Role Of The Slave Bastille In Antebellum D.C., Ellyzabeth Morales-Ledesma

Digital Legal Research Lab

In 1808 the Transatlantic Slave Trade ended and in turn the government created a federally protected human market. As the South's demand for human labor force increased the domestic slave trade rocketed and in turn created even more turmoil for the Black population if the United States. Slave Traders and Man-Dealers took advantage of the market and kidnapped Free Black men women and children. While waiting to be sold enslaved people would be admitted into holding cells and jails; this was the creation of slave jails and Slave Bastilles. Slave jails served as places where the horrors of a human …

Unraveling The Beginning Phase And Final Phase In The Emergence Of The French Alliance, Marvin L. Simner

History Publications

It is widely acknowledged that the military alliance between the United States and France, established in 1778, was largely responsible not only for a number of American victories over the British, but also for the end of the Revolutionary War. While much has been written about this topic as well as the events that occurred between 1777 and 1778 which led to the alliance, far less is known about the factors that took place in 1775/1776 that contributed to the initial need for the alliance as well as the factors that surrounded the culmination, signing, and the final acceptance of …

The Southern Baptist Convention And World War Ii, David Crum

Selected Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Issue No. 116: Spring 2022

La Crónica de Nuevo México

2 A Letter from the President

3 White Sands Missile Range Museum evolves by Darren Court

7 Creating a Historic Site: Fort Selden by Alexandra McKinney

12 A Man for his Time: James Silas Calhoun by Sherry Robinson

18 Nancy Owen Lewis: A loss to HSNM by Susan M. Berry

19 New Books

The Rhetoric Of Suffrage Cook Books

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

The Rhetoric of Suffrage Cook Books

Danielle Nielson

Moonlight Schools Come To Western Kentucky

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Moonlight Schools Come to Western Kentucky

Bobby Smith Bryant

Henry Ward: "Sound Builder" For The Jackson Purchase

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Henry Ward: "Sound Builder" For the Jackson Purchase

George G. Humphreys

The Gentleman From Calloway: Representative Freed Curd And A Changing Kentucky

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

The Gentleman from Calloway: Representative Freed Curd and a Changing Kentucky

Glen David Ramey

Editor's Remarks

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Editor's Remarks

James Humphreys

A Western Kentucky Shantyboat Baby

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

A Western Kentucky Shantyboat Baby

Gregg Andrews

President's Report

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

President's Report

Bill Mulligan

Book Reviews

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Book Reviews

Dark Fire

No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice

Fall of Kentucky's Rock: Western Kentucky Democratic Politics From the New Deal

As if They Were Ours: The Story of Camp Tyson America's Only Barrage Balloon Training Facility

Milbum Baptist Church, 1866-2006

Thomas Elsey George: The Ways of War: My Experiences as an Artillery Man in World War II

1908: The Year Of The Night Riders In Calloway County

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

1908: The Year of the Night Riders in Calloway County

Jonathon Byrn

Fashioning The Flapper: Clothing As A Catalyst For Social Change In 1920s America, Julia Wolffe

Honors Program Theses

Fashion has been a catalyst for social change throughout human history. Fashion in 1920s America in particular reflects society's rapidly evolving attitudes towards gender and race. Beginning with how corsetry heavily restricted women for nearly four hundred years up until the twentieth century, this thesis explores how clothing has acted as a tool for societal progression following World War I and Women's Suffrage and during the Jazz Age and The Harlem Renaissance. Specifically, this thesis examines how the influence of jazz music and dance that originated from Black American communities led to the creation of the flapper evening dress. The …

On The Other Side Of The Tracks: Hannibal Square And Eatonville In The Interwar Years, Margaret Stewart

Honors Program Theses

The purpose of this study is to add nuance to the understanding of the Great Migration period, not only as a period of migration of North to South. The lives and migration of African Americans living in Hannibal Square and Eatonville highlight that African Americans were not just moving North. The Great Migration became more than a simple movement; it was a complex tapestry of African Americans moving where they felt the best opportunities were. This examination will stand within the bound of the early Great Migration period, from 1920 to 1940. The growth of each community will be analyzed …

Revolutionary Education Considering Multiple Perspectives On The War, Morgan Bryson

Scholar's Day

To what extent were the colonists justified in their revolt against the British Empire?

Dietz Little Giant No.100, R. E. Dietz Manufacturing Company

Morehead History & Railroad Museum Lantern Collection

Dietz Little Giant no.100, circa 1956. The Dietz Little Giant is an alternative form of the Dietz Little Wizard. The Little Giant features a larger fuel tank and alternative wicks (the area that holds the flame of the lantern). The Little Giant is most often stamped with the company who purchased it to deter theft, it was used in similar fashion to the Dietz 8-day lantern by traffic and construction companies on barricades. This lantern is a variation of the original Little Giant and lasted only a short time before the rebranding of the model into the Little Wizard.

The …

Paull's No.0 Lantern (2), Wheeling Stamping Company

Morehead History & Railroad Museum Lantern Collection

Paull's no.0 Cold Blast Lantern, circa 1903. This lantern is believed to have been manufactured by the Wheeling Stamping Company, also sometimes referred to as the 'Nail City Lantern Company'. The company originated in 1877 Wheeling City West Virginia where it produced around 100 lanterns a day in the form of two variations called "Leader" lanterns. The lanterns were created entirely of raw materials available to the factory except for the globes, which were created at the Buckeye Glass Works, in Martin's Ferry Ohio.

This lantern features a patented date of July 30th, 1903 on the brim. On the fuel …

Dietz No.2 D-Lite Lantern (4), R. E. Dietz Manufacturing Company

Morehead History & Railroad Museum Lantern Collection

Dietz No. 2 D-Lite Lantern, circa. 1919. The No. 2 D-Lite replaced its predecessor the original D-Lite which proved to be unaffordable due to its top lifting telescopic chimney. The No. 2 D-Lite combined the D-Lite and No. 2 Wizard to create a side lifting lantern that was more affordable.

The globe of this lantern is a LOC-NOB, LOC-NOB refers to the pair of ears on a Dietz lantern globe used to keep the globe from falling out when tilting the globe plate for lighting or trimming of the wick. The red tint of the globe would have been used …

Dietz Acme Inspector Lantern, R. E. Dietz Manufacturing Company

Morehead History & Railroad Museum Lantern Collection

Dietz Acme Inspector Lantern, circa. 1900-1960. The Acme Inspector was one of if not the most popular inspection lantern sold by Dietz for use on railroads. The lantern was the last model of square tube "hot blast" lanterns with its production ending in or around 1960.

Information provided is altered from W.T. Kirkman Lanterns. https://lanternnet.com/

Armspear 1925 Lantern (3), Armspear Manufacturing Company

Morehead History & Railroad Museum Lantern Collection

Armspear 1925 Lantern, circa. 1925. This artifact is a post World War 1 Armspear Lantern. The 1925 model lantern was Armspear's introduction into the short globe lantern market. This would continue to be the major model in production by Armspear until production was contracted to the Adams and Westlake manufacturing company, who produced an Armspear line very similar to the Adlake "Kero" model of lanterns.

The globe of this lantern seems to be a replacement globe produced for an Adlake Kero lantern, and it is stamped with C&O which most likely signaled the use of the globe and a previous …

Handlan Signal Lantern (6), Handlan Manufacturing Company

Morehead History & Railroad Museum Lantern Collection

Handlan Kerosene Signal Lantern, circa. 1930's-1940's. This lantern is different from other Handlan products, it features a style similar to traffic lanterns made by the Dietz company though it is only estimated that this would be its use. The Handlan company produced mostly kerosene signal lanterns out of St. Louis Missouri. The red globe of this lantern would have been used to signal stop or danger.

Aguila Lux Kerosene Lantern, Aguila Lux Stamping Company

Morehead History & Railroad Museum Lantern Collection

Aguila Lux Kerosene Lantern, circa. 1953. This lantern is a product of the same tooling that was originally used by the Embury Lantern Company for their Air Pilot lanterns. When the company was sold to the R.E. Dietz Manufacturing Company in 1953 the tooling was sold to a stamping company in Monterrey Mexico. The globe features an Eagle which is known as and Aztec mark. Aztec marks are used in multiple lantern productions that were sold to Mexican stamping companies.

Dietz Vesta (3), R. E. Dietz Manufacturing Company

Morehead History & Railroad Museum Lantern Collection

Dietz Vesta Lantern circa, 1906. There are four versions of the Dietz Vesta all with different sized globes and choices of manufacturing. This lantern is estimated to be the second or third type of the model which stands around 10 inches tall.

Stamped on the lid is the phrase New York Central, this is estimated to mean that the lantern was used by the New York Central Railway system.

Information provided is altered from W.T. Kirkman Lanterns. https://lanternnet.com/

Dietz No.999 Lantern, R.E. Dietz Manufacturing Company

Morehead History & Railroad Museum Lantern Collection

Dietz No.999 Lantern, circa. 1929. This lantern is one of the more rare Dietz lanterns that shares qualities similar to the Adlake "Kero" model of lanterns. This lantern would be used mostly by railroad companies. This particular lantern is stamped N.Y.C.S which is an abbreviation of the New York Central System.

Information provided is altered from W.T. Kirkman Lanterns. https://lanternnet.com/

Habeas Corpus As A Means For Economic Freedom In The Progressive Era, Janana Khattak

Digital Legal Research Lab

Habeas corpus protects individual freedom by allowing detained individuals proper trial. Economic liberty, or the “right to earn a living in an occupation of choice without unnecessary government interference,” is a key component of individual freedom. Following the depression of 1893, the Progressive Era ushered in a sharp increase in productivity. This was in part because of an immigration boom. While immigrants sought economic opportunities for the betterment of themselves and their families, ideologies of nativism rose.

Advisor: Katrina Jagodinsky

Transimperial Networks And East Asia: Timeline, Menglu Gao, Sophia Hsu, Waiyee Loh, Hyungji Park, Jessica R. Valdez, Adrian S. Wisnicki, Rae X. Yan

English and Literary Arts: Faculty Scholarship

To help instructors and students who may be unfamiliar with the history of East Asia and its transimperial exchanges with the Anglophone world, the creators of the “Transimperial Networks and East Asia” lesson plan cluster built this timeline, which includes some major historical events from the fifteenth to the twentieth century. This timeline comes out of our many discussions about the methodological issues that arise when the field of Victorian Studies seeks to expand its traditional geographical scope. As we quickly realized in the process of creating our cluster, the usual boundaries of the long nineteenth century (the French Revolution …

Article From Daily Compass, Mundt Bill Is Threat To U.S., Says Langer, Ca.1950, Daily Compass

William Langer Papers

This article from Daily Compass dated ca.1950 titled "Mundt Bill Is Threat To U.S., Says Langer" states Senator William Langer's opposition to the Mundt-Ferguson Bill. Senator Langer claims it is "the greatest threat to American civil liberties since the Alien and Sedition Laws of 1798".