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Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 1917-1963 (Sc 1833), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 1917-1963 (Sc 1833), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1833. Signature of presidential candidate John Fitzgerald Kennedy obtained by a Bowling Green, Kentucky resident during a campaign trip to the city in 1960. The signature is on a small scrap of paper torn from a larger sheet. Includes the resident's 2009 reminiscence of the incident.


Brooks, Deronda (Lindsey) (Sc 1834), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Brooks, Deronda (Lindsey) (Sc 1834), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1834. Letter, 15 June 1977, to Tim Lee Carter, U.S. Representative from Kentucky's 5th district, from Deronda (Lindsey) Brooks, one of his constituents. She opposes federal money for programs she believes to be anti-family.


Goff, William Lee, 1883-1965 (Mss 233), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Goff, William Lee, 1883-1965 (Mss 233), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 233. Chiefly letters from family and friends to Lee Goff, a Green County, Kentucky native, while he was working as a farm laborer in the Mid-West. The collection includes many courtship letters from various women.


Saxton, Lashanda (Fa 359), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Saxton, Lashanda (Fa 359), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 359. Paper: "Home vs. College" written by LaShanda Saxton for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.


Ua3/9/5 Martin Luther King Jr. Day Speech, Wku President's Office Jan 2009

Ua3/9/5 Martin Luther King Jr. Day Speech, Wku President's Office

WKU Administration Documents

Speech delivered by WKU president Gary Ransdell on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.


Townson Family Papers (Sc 85), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Townson Family Papers (Sc 85), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 85. Travel pass of Light Townson and family from South Carolina to Kentucky, 1788, and Townson's will, 1817; business papers of James Townson, 1835-1853 (4); slave bills of sale (2), 1802-1803; and miscellaneous items.


Bramlette, Thomas Elliott, 1817-1875 (Sc 1830), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Bramlette, Thomas Elliott, 1817-1875 (Sc 1830), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1830. Letter, 24 July 1861, from Thomas Elliott Bramlette, Columbia, Kentucky to William H. Seward, U.S. Secretary of State, Washington, D.C. in which he condemns U.S. District Court Judge Thomas B. Monroe and others as traitors and offers J.T. Boyle, who is loyal to the Union, as a replacement.


Pickett, Sarah Nell, 1915-2000 (Sc 1836), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Pickett, Sarah Nell, 1915-2000 (Sc 1836), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1836. Autograph album given to Sarah Nell Pickett, 18 June 1927, by Bartlett Allen and signed by family and friends in Joplin, Missouri.


Taylor, Richard F. (Sc 86), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Taylor, Richard F. (Sc 86), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid, scan and photograph of commission (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 86. Richard F. Taylor's commission received as a member of the Middle Green River Battalion Volunteer Militia, 1865. Also promissory notes, 1875 (3), and blank affidavit regarding voter qualification, ca. 1900.


Hunt, Jane (Sc 84), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Hunt, Jane (Sc 84), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 84. Teacher's certificate of Miss Jane Hunt issued by the Common School Commissioner, Butler County, Kentucky.


Cobb, Irvin Shrewsbury, 1876-1944 (Sc 82), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Cobb, Irvin Shrewsbury, 1876-1944 (Sc 82), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 82. Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb's original manuscript of an editorial, "A Leaf From a Memory Book," which appeared in "Kentucky Progress Magazine" (Spring 1933), and two letters concerning the manuscript.


Taxation - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 83), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Taxation - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 83), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 83. Holographic copy, 4 May 1822, of aggregate statement of federal taxes paid within the 6th District of Kentucky, which evidently included Logan County, accompanied by a certificate affirming Stephen Pleasonton as acting Commissioner of Revenue and signed by John Quincy Adams, U.S. Secretary of State, 21 October 1822.


Plain, Sarah W. (Sc 81), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Plain, Sarah W. (Sc 81), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 81. Deed conveying 74 acres of land in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, by Sarah W. Plain and others, to Samuel P. Wilkins.


Morgan, Julia E. (Fa 336), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Morgan, Julia E. (Fa 336), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 336. Paper: "American Girl Magazine and Children's Riddles," written by Julia E. Morgan for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.


Yandell, David Wendel, 1826-1898 (Sc 333), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Yandell, David Wendel, 1826-1898 (Sc 333), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 333. Photocopy of a letter written by Dr. David Wendel Yandell to General Albert Sidney Johnston, concerning projected Confederate hospital facilities at Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1861. Explanatory note about the item from William Roberts Wood to Margie Helm.


Interview With Stella Mudd Allen Regarding Her Life In Daviess County, Kentucky (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Interview With Stella Mudd Allen Regarding Her Life In Daviess County, Kentucky (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of an oral history interview done with Stella Mudd Allen by Karen Owen on July 29, 1986 as part of a project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." She discusses social life and customs, growing up on a farm, her education, games, home remedies, courtship, dressmaking, automobiles, floods, and electrification.


Davis, Jefferson Finis, 1808-1889 (Sc 72), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Davis, Jefferson Finis, 1808-1889 (Sc 72), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text of letter and typescript (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 72. Letter, 24 April 1886, written by Jefferson Davis at Beauvoir, Mississippi, to John D. Woods, Frankfort, Kentucky, refuting a report that he once offered to resign as President of the Confederate States of America provided Albert Sidney Johnston was appointed as his successor.


Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 1882-1945 (Sc 79), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 1882-1945 (Sc 79), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 79. Letter, 21 November 1932, written by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Martha Washington Jackson, Bowling Green, Kentucky, which expresses his thanks for her loyalty to the Democratic party; also notes given on the history of Bowling Green by Jackson.


Freemasons - Greenville, Kentucky (Sc 71), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Freemasons - Greenville, Kentucky (Sc 71), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 71. Official Circular No. 5 of the Grand Lodge of Kentucky Knights of Honor issued by the office of the Grand Dictator, William H. Yost, Jr., Greenville, Kentucky, urging the recruitment of new members.


Mcguire, James (Sc 73), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Mcguire, James (Sc 73), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 73. Receipt for homestead claim of James McGuire filed at Receiver's Office, Chadran, Nebraska.


Moorman, Clifford (Sc 76), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Moorman, Clifford (Sc 76), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 76. Letter written by Clifford Moorman, Hillsboro, Texas, to a relative, Miss Annie Kennerly, Lewisburg, Kentucky, which contains chiefly Moorman family genealogical information.


Allison, Young Ewing, Jr., 1890-1965 (Sc 80), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Allison, Young Ewing, Jr., 1890-1965 (Sc 80), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 80. Letter written by Young Ewing Allison, Jr., Louisville, Kentucky, to Miss Julia Neal, Auburn, Kentucky, in reply to an inquiry concerning Lucy Furman.


Cowan, Jane, 1829-1909 (Sc 75), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Cowan, Jane, 1829-1909 (Sc 75), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 75. Postcard written by Jane Cowan, South Union, Kentucky, to Alex Duvall, Bowling Green, Kentucky, in which she expresses her thanks for some magazines he has sent to her.


Moorman, Clifford (Sc 76), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Moorman, Clifford (Sc 76), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 76. Letter written by Clifford Moorman, Hillsboro, Texas, to a relative, Miss Annie Kennerly, Lewisburg, Kentucky, which contains chiefly Moorman family genealogical information.


Wilson, Mayme C., 1877-1895 (Sc 1828), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2009

Wilson, Mayme C., 1877-1895 (Sc 1828), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1828. "Resolutions of Respect" upon the death of Mayme Wilson; also, a copy of her obituary.


Reading Rome's Evolving Civic Landscape In Context: Tribunes Of The Plebs And The Praetor's Tribunal, Eric Kondratieff Jan 2009

Reading Rome's Evolving Civic Landscape In Context: Tribunes Of The Plebs And The Praetor's Tribunal, Eric Kondratieff

History Faculty Publications

In 75 B.C., two events impacting the tribuni plebis occurred: their right to stand for further office, previously interdicted by Sulla, was restored; and the praetor's tribunal was moved away from areas of tribunician activity. This essay locates, links, and interprets these events within a broad social and historical context.(from research gate)??


Sacrifice In A Post-Moral Society, Eric Bain-Selbo Jan 2009

Sacrifice In A Post-Moral Society, Eric Bain-Selbo

Philosophy & Religion Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Popular Culture And The Denigration Of The Self, Eric Bain-Selbo Jan 2009

Popular Culture And The Denigration Of The Self, Eric Bain-Selbo

Philosophy & Religion Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Distance, Lesley Doyle Jan 2009

Distance, Lesley Doyle

Student Creative Writing

No abstract provided.


Zephyrus, Western Kentucky University Jan 2009

Zephyrus, Western Kentucky University

Student Creative Writing

The fine arts magazine of Western Kentucky University at Bowling Green.