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Becker, Lori (Fa 299), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 299. Paper titled "Halloween Coverage Throughout October" written by Lori Becker for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.

American Irish Newsletter - December 1996, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Hunger Unpublished, Mark Axelrod

English Faculty Articles and Research

How Mark Axelrod lined up some of the world’s finest writers on one of the world’s biggest issues – and still couldn’t get them into print.

American Irish Newsletter - November 1996, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

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The Significance Of ‘Hillbilly’ In Early Country Music, 1924-1945, Anthony Harkins

History Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

American Irish Newsletter - October 1996, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

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Tiger Teeth Around Their Neck: The Cultural Logic Of The Canonization Of African American Literature, Bill Lyne

English Faculty and Staff Publications

Marx's remark that history always happens twice - the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce - takes an odd twist in the case of the O. J. Simpson trial. the farce of the Simpson proceedings is anticipated by a tragic fiction - Richard Wright's Native Son. O. J. Simpson is certainly a more celebrated native son than bigger Thomas, but there are many striking congruences. The overdetermined questions swirling around a dead white woman and an accused black man, the spectacular chase scene (Bigger Thomas' chronicled in the newspaper, Simpson's on television), and the carnival trial …

American Irish Newsletter - September 1996, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

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American Irish Newsletter - August 1996, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

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Interview With Yvonne Dodge Regarding Sarah Gertrude Knott (Fa 459), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Yvonne Dodge, Princeton, Kentucky, conducted by Michael Ann Williams regarding the life of Sarah Gertrude Knott and her sister Gladys Knott. Dodge discusses the Knott family, but the majority of the interview focuses on Sarah's personal and professional life, including her work with the National Folk Festival.

American Irish Newsletter - July 1996, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

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American Irish Newsletter - June 1996, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

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University Of Southern Maine Commencement Program, 1996, University Of Southern Maine

Commencement Programs

University of Southern Maine commencement program, 1996

Saturday, May 11th, 1996 at 9:00am

Address by Terrence MacTaggert, Chancellor University of Maine System

American Irish Newsletter - May 1996, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

No abstract provided.

American Irish Newsletter - April 1996, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

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American Irish Newsletter - March 1996, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

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American Irish Newsletter - February 1996, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

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Review Of Moon Marked And Touched By Sun: Plays By African American Women, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd

Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series

No abstract provided.

The Promise And Reality Of Indian Self Determination, Patricia Hornback

Faculty Publications - Department of Professional Studies

The Indian Self Determination Act was first ratified November 4, 1975, has brought about many social and economic changes for the Recognized Native American "Indian" Tribes of the United States. With this Act, the Department of the Interior, Division of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, officially recognized the right of organized "Indian Tribes" to be sovereign nations. This recognition created the opportunity for Native American Tribes to develop their own system of government, which included criminal and civil justice systems, social welfare programs, free practice of cultural and religious rituals, and the ability to contract with businesses in the private …

Swenson Center News, 1996, Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center, Augustana College

Newsletter: Swenson Center News

No abstract provided.

Contemporary Sports Writing In Creative Non-Fiction: A Study Of Madeleine Blais' In These Girls, Hopeis A Muscle, H.G. Bissinger's Friday Night Lights, And Tim Keown's Skyline, Sheila Eldred

Honors Theses, 1963-2015

My thesis defines the role of contemporary sports writing in creative non-fiction. I found the three works I studied to be precendent-setting examples of the genre. In examining the historical aspects of creative non-fiction, I found a direct correlation withthe new journalism of the 1960s. My second chapter discusses these roots of creative non-fiction in-depth, involving the works of Tom Wolfe, Gay Talese, and other 1960s authors. My third and fourth chapters are devoted to describing the journalistic techniques and fictional techniques that are used in creative non-fiction. The three works I studied are examined in detail. In my conclusion …

The Shanachie Volume 8, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society

The Shanachie (CTIAHS)

No abstract provided.

Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program

WKU Archives Records

The WKU Student Honors Research Bulletin is dedicated to scholarly involvement and student research. These papers are representative of work done by students from throughout the university.

• Brooks, Lynnette and Cindy Calisi. The Effect of Selenium Supplementation on the Immune Response of Mice with Experimental Chagas' Disease
• Hildreth, John. Teasing the Muse
• Jenkins, Rhonda. Steinbeck's Portraits of Prostitutes: Progression of an Author's Vision
• Kirkham, Michelle. The Prenatal Use of Crack Cocaine: How It Affects Children and How Schools Can Respond
• Gibson, Jeanette and Juli McCay. Circadian Rhythm of Brain GABA Levels in the Cockroach, Leucophaea Maderae
• Patterson, Dana. Home Schooling …

Antimodern, Modern, And Postmodern Millay: Contexts Of Revaluation, Cheryl Walker

Scripps Faculty Publications and Research

In this chapter, Walker examines questions concerning renewed scholarly interest in Edna St. Vincent Millay toward the end of the twentieth century. Specifically, these questions center on whether to rethink the principles of establishing the canon of American literature--indeed, whether the poet changes literary fashions or literary fashions change the poet. Walker's answer is the latter, and her essay examines how Millay is different received through three different periods: antimodern, modern, and postmodern. She argues that whether a poet becomes central to literary study has less to do with the "quality" of the poetry than with complex cultural factors that …

George Bird Grinnell, Robley Evans

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

As the United States frontier moved west in the nineteenth century, it developed as a locus for the myth of the American superman, a fabled combination of self-reliance and self-development in which the frontiersman fought savage beasts and wild Indians to push a great civilization through plains and forests to the Pacific Ocean. Ironically, to participate in the frontier’s expansion was to contribute to its destruction: as destiny and technology seemed to carry the nation toward its grand fulfillment, the wilderness with its challenging animals and murderous savages diminished. By the 1880s, thoughtful Americans believed that the West could no …

Richard Ronan, Jane Vanstavern

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

The new world, the new times, the new peoples, the new vistas, need a tongue according . . .
—Walt Whitman

Richard Louis Ronan was a poet, playwright, and ikebana flower designer who lived in San Francisco with his partner, Bill Pittman, during the 1980s. He died of AIDS in 1989 at age 43, having produced six collections of poetry, seven plays, and several unpublished manuscripts. He received not only a Dodge Foundation Grant to teach poetry but also, while studying at Berkeley, the Emily Cook and Eisner Prizes. His versatility did not prevent him from excelling in several poetic …

Janet Campbell Hale, Frederick Hale

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

In the early 1970s, at an early stage of the “Native American Renaissance,” a period that witnessed a recrudescence of tribal literary efforts, historical consciousness, and demands for civil rights, Janet Campbell Hale quietly began to make her mark on the Native American cultural landscape. A young member of the Coeur d’Alene tribe, she was then residing in the San Francisco area and had written a novel for adolescents titled The Owl’s Song, which inaugurated a noteworthy career in ethnic fiction and has gone through many printings. Like most other Native American authors, Hale has not been highly prolific …

"Our National Hearthstone": Anti-Polygamy Fiction And The Sentimental Campaign Against Moral Diversity In Antebellum America, Sarah Barringer Gordon

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Selected Bibliography Of Theory And Criticism In Postcolonial Studies, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek, Slaney Chadwick Ross

CLCWeb Library

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Stuart, Jesse Hilton, 1907-1984 (Sc 1341), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1341. Letter, 1 October 1947, by Kentucky author, Jesse Stuart, Riverton, Kentucky, to Ann Cade, Morgantown, Kentucky. He relates that he has written ten books and suggests that she write his publisher about the availability of the books.