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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Ganter, Roxanne (Fa 305), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ganter, Roxanne (Fa 305), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 305. Paper: "My Group Event: Canasta" written by Roxanne Ganter for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.
Drake, Angela (Fa 282), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Drake, Angela (Fa 282), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 282. Paper: "Generation Comparisons" written by Angela Drake for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.
Callis, Susan (Fa 293), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Callis, Susan (Fa 293), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 293. Paper: "An Index to Quilt Patterns in Western Kentucky University Archives" written by Susan Callis for a Western Kentucky University English class.
Paradise Lost And The Medieval Tradition, Justin Lee Mathews
Paradise Lost And The Medieval Tradition, Justin Lee Mathews
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
This thesis is a comparative study of the Medieval influence on the creation of John Milton’s Paradise Lost, and the purpose of this thesis is to establish Paradise Lost as a poem designed to correct what Milton saw as the errors of the Medieval theological worldview. A range of topics are discussed, from the loyal angels to the Garden of Eden to Hell and Satan, and particular attention is given to Dantean parallels in these areas of Milton’s poem. The thesis shows how Milton responded to such Medieval concepts as courtly love and salvation theory and demonstrates how Milton …
Exploring The New Front Of The Culture War: 1984, Oryx And Crake, And Cultural Hegemony, Terry Ryan Hall
Exploring The New Front Of The Culture War: 1984, Oryx And Crake, And Cultural Hegemony, Terry Ryan Hall
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Dystopic fiction is defined by its depiction of oppressive societies with power structures that seek to exercise control on its citizens. Orwell’s classic 1984 depicts a society that is a reaction to World War II and totalitarian regimes. This society depicts elements of cultural hegemony that are altered during the move to postmodernism. Atwood’s Oryx and Crake evolved to reflect the political climate that grew out of the Cold War’s end, while retaining the cautionary messages regarding the state’s ability to control. Oryx and Crake can be seen as completely reversing the concern from centralized power to decentralized power (represented …
Ward Family Papers (Mss 59), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ward Family Papers (Mss 59), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 59. Papers chiefly of Hezekiah and Richard Ward of Ohio County, Kentucky. Promissory notes, 1857-79 (14 items); tax receipts, 1864-68 (4); telephone receipts, 1913-34 (44); and miscellaneous receipts, 1824-1937 (40); legal papers, 1873-1939 (14); essay and play, 189?; and genealogical data (2).
Cayce, Delbert Durwood, Iii, 1924-2014 (Sc 1712), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cayce, Delbert Durwood, Iii, 1924-2014 (Sc 1712), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1712. Copies of two letters related to the Quarles family, Christian County, Kentucky; copies of two letters written by Delbert Durwood Cayce III to the Edgar Cayce Foundation concerning the production of a movie based on the life of Edgar Cayce, a Christian County native. Also, Rabold and Quarles family genealogical notes.
Ford, William Barry, 1832-1880 (Sc 1682), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ford, William Barry, 1832-1880 (Sc 1682), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid, scans and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1682. Three letters to Ford, Scottsville, Allen County, Kentucky, from John H. Blue, Brunswick, Missouri, related to land owned there by ancestor John Bright, and a letter of information from Bright’s daughter in Texas. Also, the answer of defendants to a petition filed in Barren County, Kentucky Circuit Court by C. C. Stark, administrator of James Stark, disputing the value of three slaves stated to have been mortgaged to James Stark by Ford on 4 May 1865. With respect to one enslaved woman, the defendants claim …
Gardner, Tandy Thomas, 1865-1963 (Sc 1697), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gardner, Tandy Thomas, 1865-1963 (Sc 1697), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 1697. Teacher's register, 1883-1897, kept by Tandy Thomas Gardner, Green Hill School, Warren County, Kentucky. Also, printed examination questions for teachers, 1905; news clippings about Gardner; and his obituary.
Farley, Seth, 1917-1999 (Sc 1701), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Farley, Seth, 1917-1999 (Sc 1701), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1701. Correspondence related to Seth Farley's varied educational, civic, religious, and political interests. The Henderson County native was a professor in the Educational Leadership Department, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Aviation - Accidents - Sioux City, Iowa (Sc 1684), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Aviation - Accidents - Sioux City, Iowa (Sc 1684), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1684. Letter, 26 July 1989, from Sister Kevin Cummings, Archivist, Diocese of Sioux City, Iowa, to Sue Lynn Stone, Bowling Green, Kentucky, relating her efforts to minister to victims of a plane crash that took place there on 19 July 1989.
Bowling Green, Kentucky - Building Permits, 1895-1898 (Sc 1695), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green, Kentucky - Building Permits, 1895-1898 (Sc 1695), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1695. Copies of building permits numbered 2 to 58 issued by the Bowling Green, Kentucky clerk's office between 1 May 1895 and 18 April 1898. Permits signed by G.S. Hollingsworth, clerk.
Burch, Benjamin D., 1808-1886 (Sc 1694), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Burch, Benjamin D., 1808-1886 (Sc 1694), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1694. Indenture for Benjamin D. Burch, Warren County, Kentucky to William M. Haner, 6 January 1827, to learn the saddler trade. Also, an order to Burch for militia training, 18 March 1836.
Whitehead, Thomas D., 1832-1872 (Sc 1707), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Whitehead, Thomas D., 1832-1872 (Sc 1707), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1707. Diary kept by Thomas D. Whitehead, 9th Tennessee Cavalry, from 29 November 1862 to 12 October 1863 while traveling with his company to Port Hudson, Louisiana then back home to Wayne County, Tennessee. He comments on camp life, the weather, his own failing health, and his hopes for peace.
Anderson, William, 1766-1856 (Sc 1685), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Anderson, William, 1766-1856 (Sc 1685), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1685. Deed, 22 March 1850, conveying a tract of land in Grayson County, Kentucky from William and Sarah Anderson to their son Joseph Anderson.
Winstead, Joe Everett, 1938-2019 - Collector (Sc 1690), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Winstead, Joe Everett, 1938-2019 - Collector (Sc 1690), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1690. Correspondence between Western Kentucky University students and members of Kentucky's congressional delegation related to air pollution and its potential effects on the state's agricultural economy.
Napier, Cora Jewell (Claypool) - Collector (Mss 228), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Napier, Cora Jewell (Claypool) - Collector (Mss 228), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscript Collection 228. Courtship letters (8) to Ermine Frazer, Adair County, Kentucky from Edmund Curd, Calloway County, Kentucky, 1833-1835; letters (7) to Ermine (Frazer Page, Barren County from her sisters, 1848-1852; letters (2) from John F. F. Jewell, Louisville to his wife Ann Elizabeth (Page) Jewell.
Gossom, Lelia Emmaline, 1865-1937 (Sc 1700), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gossom, Lelia Emmaline, 1865-1937 (Sc 1700), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1700. Photocopy of a daily diary kept by Lelia Emmaline Gossom, Bowling Green, Kentucky. She discusses shopping excursions downtown, courtship, fashion, and general community events. The handwriting is quite difficult to read.
Neal, Mary Julia, 1905-1995 (Mss 4), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Neal, Mary Julia, 1905-1995 (Mss 4), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Correspondence, speeches, and writings of Shaker scholar and English professor, Mary Julia Neal, a native of Auburn, Kentucky. Neal served as director of the Kentucky Building at Western Kentucky University from 1964 to 1972. Includes photos and correspondence with twentieth century eastern Shakers.
Rocky Spring Baptist Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 1689), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rocky Spring Baptist Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 1689), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1689. Letter of dismissal in good standing of Elisabeth Hendrick from United Baptist Church of Christ at Rocky Spring, Warren County, Kentucky, 14 August 1852.
Allen County, Kentucky - Churches - Baptist, 1851-1861 (Sc 1688), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Allen County, Kentucky - Churches - Baptist, 1851-1861 (Sc 1688), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1688. Four letters of dismissal in good standing for members from three Baptist churches in Allen County, Kentucky. Three of the letters are signed by minister Mordecai F. Ham.
Underwood, Henry Lewis, 1848-1925 (Mss 72), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Underwood, Henry Lewis, 1848-1925 (Mss 72), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 72. Photocopies of correspondence, diary, legal papers, speeches, poems, photographs, and newspaper clippings of the Underwood family of Warren County, Kentucky, chiefly concerning Henry Lewis Underwood.
Edmonson County, Kentucky - New Deal Program Files (Mss 95), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Edmonson County, Kentucky - New Deal Program Files (Mss 95), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and list of Civilian Conservation Corps applicants (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 95. Administrative files, chiefly applications and correspondence, for three Edmonson County, Kentucky New Deal programs: the Civilian Conservation Corps, the National Youth Administration, and the Works Progress Administration.
Kibby, Cynthia L. "Cyndi" (Fa 285), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kibby, Cynthia L. "Cyndi" (Fa 285), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 285. Paper: "Establishing Individual Identity Within a Military Family Through Folklore: written by Cynthia L. Kibby for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.
Price Family Collection (Mss 226), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Price Family Collection (Mss 226), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 226. Chiefly courtship correspondence between Robert Yancy Price, Rockfield, Kentucky and his girlfriend and future wife, Virginia Eva Dalton, Scottsville, Kentucky. Also includes information about Price's death and subsequent letters sent to Virginia by friends and family members.
First Christian Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1683), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
First Christian Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1683), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1683. Dedication service program, 11 May 1913, for a new building for Bowling Green's First Christian church and a brief biography of former pastor A. C. Hanes.
Thomas, William (Sc 1680), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Thomas, William (Sc 1680), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1680. Letter, 11 November 1864, from William Thomas, Jacksonville, Illinois to H. C. Mitchell, [Kentucky], relating to his father's estate and the support of Thomas's widowed mother.
Wilson, Fredonia Francis, 1821-1850 (Sc 1679), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wilson, Fredonia Francis, 1821-1850 (Sc 1679), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1679. Letter, 9 March 1846, from Fredonia F. Wilson, Campbell County, Virginia, to her uncle Dr. Thomas T. Watson, Empire Iron Works, Trigg County, Kentucky. She provides information about family members and urges him to come to Virginia for a visit.
South Union Messenger (Summer 2008), Kentucky Library Research Collections
South Union Messenger (Summer 2008), Kentucky Library Research Collections
South Union Messenger
No abstract provided.
Traces Volume 36, Number 2, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Traces Volume 36, Number 2, 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.