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Anderson, Charles (Lg 142), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Land Grant 142. Typescript copy of a land grant, 8 June 1809, by which Charles Scott, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Charles Anderson 200 acres in Christian County, Kentucky.

Prince, Thomas, Sr. (Lg 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 154. Original land grant, 22 August 1861,by which Beriah Magoffin, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Thomas Prince, Sr., assignee of John Prince, 20 acres in Lawrence County, Kentucky.

Henry, Patrick, 1736-1799 (Lg 146), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Land Grant 146. Photocopy (negative) of a land grant, 4 April 1786, by which Beverly Randolph, Lt. Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, granted to Patrick Henry, assignee of Peter Sanders, 500 acres in Lincoln County, Virginia.

Reynolds, George (Lg 130), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 130. Original land grant, 20 April 1784, by which Benjamin Harrison, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, granted to George Reynolds, assignee of Bartholomew Fenton, 1000 acres in Lincoln County, Virginia.

Reyburn, John (Lg 179), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 179. Original land grant, 11 May 1799, by which James Garrard, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to John Reyburn, assignee of William Robinson, 125 acres on Drakes Creek.

Harrald, Robert (Lg 102), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 102. Original land grant, 10 January 1815, by which Isaac Shelby, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Robert Harrald, assignee of Henry Gorin, who was assignee of John Burris, 113 acres in Warren County.

Sharp, Absalom M. (Lg 108), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 108. Original land grant, 23 July 1814, by which Isaac Shelby, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Absalom Sharp, assignee of John Monroe and William T. Bush who were assignees of James Tedball, 400 acres in Warren County, Kentucky.

Hynes, Andrew (Lg 115), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 115. Copy of a land grant, 1 June 1782, by which Benjamin Harrison, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, granted to Andew Hynes 400 acres in Jefferson County, Virginia for the sum of 160 pounds.

Johnson, Peter R. (Lg 136), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Land Grant 136. Typescript copy of a land grant, 10 July 1848, by which James K. Polk, President of the United States of America, granted to Peter R. Johnson 80 acres of Crittenden County, Arkansas.

Payne, William (Lg 148), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 148. Original land grant, 2 December 1785, by which Patrick Henry, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, granted to William Payne 500 acres in Lincoln County, Virginia.

Davis, Azariah (Lg 143), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Land Grant 143. Typescript copy of a land grant, 15 July 1814, by which Isaac Shelby, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Azariah Davis, assignee of General Azariah Davis, 400 acres in Christian County, Kentucky.

Cates, Ezekiel (Lg 153), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 153. Original land grant, 17 October 1859, by which Beriah Magoffin, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Ezekiel Cates, assignee of William H. S. Buntin, 16 acres in Hopkins County, Kentucky.

Bumpas, Nathan W. (Lg 152), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 152. Original land grant, 17 November 1859, by which Beriah Magoffin, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Nathan W. Bumpas, 24 acres in Warren County, Kentucky.

Goodman, Julian, 1922-2012 (Mss 489), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 489. Correspondence, press releases and speeches of Julian Goodman related to his work as a news journalist and later as president of television network NBC (National Broadcasting Corporation). A number of the speeches relate to, or comment on, Goodman’s negative opinion of the “Fairness Doctrine.”

Meriwether, Charles (Lg 135), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Land Grants LG 135. Typescript copy of a land grant, 8 June 1830, by which Thomas Metcalfe, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Charles Meriwether, 600 acres in Todd County, Kentucky.

Jones, Drucilla Montgomery (Stovall), 1907-2007 (Mss 493), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 493. Correspondence, chiefly from the Fort and Flowers families of Logan County, Kentucky, which includes prisoners of war correspondence from the Civil War. Also includes cemetery, church, and funeral home records, as well as news clippings about historic sites, people and events in Logan County.

Piercy, Jahue Louis, 1872-1961 (Sc 2843), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscritps Small Collection 2843. Letters written by Jahue Louis Piercy, a Methodist minister from Barren County, Kentucky, to his sister and brother-in-law, Louis D. “Den” and Minnie Florence Barbour, of Eighty Eight, Kentucky. He writes while on a year-long world evangelism tour with Henry Clay Morrison. Two of the letters are sent from India and one from Naples, Italy. He describes the geography and culture of India.

Lissauer, Mildred Wallis (Potter), 1897-1998 - Collector (Mss 482), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 482. Correspondence, scrapbooks, journals, diaries, photographs and miscellaneous papers of Mildred (Potter) Lissauer of Bowling Green and Louisville, Kentucky and of her family, especially her mother, Martha (Woods) Potter and her aunt, Elizabeth Moseley Woods. Includes a World War I scrapbook created for and about Mildred's brother John (Click on "Additional Files" below).

Bouldin, Wylie Fox, 1870-1947 (Sc 1535), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1535. Correspondence, wills, deeds, tax receipts, relating to the Wylie F. Bouldin family of Cumberland County, Kentucky. Also includes deputy clerk Charles D. Allen’s 1850 form book for Warren County Court records.

Mcchesney, Hardin Field, Jr. (Mss 494), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 494. One reel of 16 mm. film labeled “Chandler Years in Review,” used by Hardin Field McChesney, Jr. in connection with reporting on a scandal involving the campaign of Edward “Ned” Breathitt for governor of Kentucky.

Battey Family Letters (Sc 2840), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid, scans and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2840. Letters of brothers Peter, Alfred and George Battey to a sister and a brother James, written during their Civil War service in the Union Army. From the “Colo Barracks” in Bowling Green, Kentucky, Peter describes his duties as a teamster, criticizes the length of the war, and relays news of the killing of John Hunt Morgan by one “Gillman” and the capture of his men. Alfred writes from a hospital in New Orleans, and George writes from Bowling Green, where he and Peter continue on …

Wray, David M., 1840-1909 (Sc 2841), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid, typescript and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2841. Letters (3) of David M. Wray to his sister and father, 1862-1869; documents relating to Wray’s Civil War pension and its transfer to his widow; and receipt for care of Wray’s grave in Benton Harbor, Michigan. Wray’s 1862 letter from Claiborne County, Tennessee to his sister describes his pay and expenses, and the collection of money for a comrade whose arms were shot off by cannon fire; another letter discusses his plans to return home after being mustered out of service in Louisville, Kentucky.

Felix, William H., 1838-1912 (Sc 2842), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2842. Two handwritten sermons, “God’s love displayed in our Sonship (1871), and “Origin of War and Fighting” (1873), delivered by William H. Felix at First Baptist Church, Covington, Kentucky. Also includes rededication program (1916) for Felix Memorial Baptist Church, Lexington, Kentucky, containing biographical sketch of Felix and information about the church, formerly known as Fifth Street Baptist Church.

I Am Not A Tree, Ashley Coulter

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

I am not going to gut my thesis like a fish. To give you an “abstract” is to give you the “big picture” of this intricate, complex work. I don’t know “love” or “hope” or “humanity” or “loss.” I know a wooden rocking horse, the touch of bare feet on a cold tile floor, the bond I feel when driving for hours on the interstate behind the same car, the sudden hint of despair that comes over me when the car begins to veer toward the exit, as if I’m losing my travel companion. To give you the “big picture” …

Two Of A Kind: The Death And Life Of Patricia And Joan Miller, Monica Spees

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Twin sisters, Patricia and Joan Miller, create an unusual story that few people know. In their youth, they had fairly successful singing and performing careers, but they became reclusive as they got older and continued their lives only with each other. No one knew much about or heard much from them for about 40 years. Then police found them dead in their South Lake Tahoe, Calif., home in February 2012. Autopsy reports showed they died within hours of each other several weeks before police found them.

I intend to investigate the lives of the two sisters and their devotion to …

Your Faith Has Saved You: A Literary Understanding Of The Relationship Between Physical Healings, Faith, And Salvation In Luke-Acts, James Benjamin Hussung

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

The two-volume first-century work, Luke-Acts, presumably written by Paul’s sometime companion, Luke the physician, follows the story of Jesus’s birth, earthly ministry, death, resurrection, and ascension in the first volume and then the spread of Christianity from Jerusalem to Rome by the apostles in the second. Within this story lies a recurring motif of physical healings from various diseases and even death. These healings are predominantly performed by Jesus; however, in Acts especially, the apostles also perform healings similar to those of Jesus. Often, these physical healings are accompanied by faith, forgiveness of sins, and salvation. This thesis has two …

Where's Jonesville? How The Destruction Of Jonesville Left A Legacy Of Housing Discrimination In Bowling Green, Ky, George Carpenter

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Jonesville was a small tight-knit African-American community in Bowling Green, Kentucky with a unique cultural identity. Family-oriented and extremely self-sufficient, Jonesville thrived as a prime example of southern black culture in the mid 20^th century. However, Jonesville did not stand a chance placed against a powerful local institution. In the late 1950s and early 1960s the community was destroyed to create space for an expanding Western Kentucky University. Fueled by the entirely unjust urban renewal legislation, Kentucky Project R-31, Jonesville was wiped from the Bowling Green map. Due to locally sanctioned discriminatory action, the displaced citizens of Jonesville were …

Understanding The Mystery: Weighing Cessationist And Continuationist Debate Of Prophecy In The Pauline Epistles, Nicholas Bratcher

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

The use of spiritual gifts such as tongues and prophecy has been a major source of controversy within Christianity over the past century. As its use flourishes in Africa, Asia and South America, many in the Western Church remain skeptical of its use, some even questioning the true conversion of these "charismatic" Christians. This thesis seeks to weigh the relevance of this cessationist debate with what Paul’s true concerns are in his letters. As such, it both praises and critiques cessationist and continuationist argument using modern scholarship to determine Paul’s actual, intended meaning of his words. It weighs the text …

Make 'Em Laugh: Examining The Role Of Humor In Dance, Jordan Jones

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

As a dancer, choreographer, and naturally sarcastic person, humor has always been a tool that I recognize and appreciate. I was specifically drawn to the role of humor in dance choreography and performance when I was responsible for creating my own dance works, and I realized the complexity behind making even the simplest joke in dance. This thesis explores humor, from its biological and psychological origins in our brains, to an evaluation of what constitutes “humor” (in past and present American society), to a discussion on how to create humor within dance using the traditionally defined elements of choreography. Contained …

Lawrence And Desegregation In Bowling Green, Robert Rabold

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

To gain a deeper understanding of the historical context and development of the Civil Rights Movement nationwide, this project analyzes the desegregation of the City of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas declared segregation deprived minority groups of equality in 1954, and the first implementation of the ruling in the United States followed with Willis v. Walker out of Adair County, Kentucky in 1955. The desegregation of Bowling Green schools, however, did not come until 1963 with Willie Larry Lawrence, et al. v. Bowling Green, Kentucky Board of Education et al.. The analyzation of relevant …