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Lissauer, Mildred Wallis (Potter), 1897-1998 - Collector (Mss 482), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2014

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

MSS Finding Aids

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).


Battey Family Letters (Sc 2840), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2014

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 …


Buckner, Lily, 1858-1893 (Sc 1289), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2014

Buckner, Lily, 1858-1893 (Sc 1289), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1289. Pages from the record of baptisms at Trinity Episcopal Church, New Orleans, Louisiana, recording the baptism of Lily Buckner, daughter of Simon Bolivar Buckner and Mary (Kingsbury) Buckner, on 21 April 1869.


Aaron Kohn Attacks Corruption In New Orleans: An Intersection Of Media And Politics, 1953-1955, Kyle P. Willshire Aug 2013

Aaron Kohn Attacks Corruption In New Orleans: An Intersection Of Media And Politics, 1953-1955, Kyle P. Willshire

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Aaron Kohn’s career as a driven professional crime fighter with the Special Citizens Investigative Committee, and later the Metropolitan Crime Commission, began after the Kefauver Hearings on organized crime, one of the first Senate investigative committee hearings broadcast on the evolving medium of television, gripped the American public in 1950. Sen. Estes Kefauver’s committee visited cities across America, including New Orleans. The hearings’ popularity revealed public thirst for coverage of sensational topics like organized crime, and established how Kohn would soon approach the SCIC job: with force and bombast, featuring flair and sometimes bended truth. Aaron Kohn combined Kefauver’s crusading …


Jenkins, James C., 1812-1856 - Letters To (Sc 680), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Jenkins, James C., 1812-1856 - Letters To (Sc 680), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 680. Two letters to James Jenkins, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from New Orleans commission merchants, discussing terms of sale of lard, hams, grease, pork, tobacco and beef consigned by Jenkins.


From Confederate Expatriates To New South Neo-Filibusters: Major Edward A. Burke And The Americas, Michael Powers Aug 2012

From Confederate Expatriates To New South Neo-Filibusters: Major Edward A. Burke And The Americas, Michael Powers

All Theses

The traditional historiography of the American South presents the New South creed as a vision emphasizing national reconciliation based upon the advancement of Southern commerce and industry. In addition, scholars broadly define New South spokesmen as men who came to maturity after the Civil War and did not involve themselves in state or national politics. An examination of Major Edward Austin Burke, however, reveals that at least one pivotal New South booster was a Confederate veteran and leading political figure; it also suggests the presence of an international component inherent in the New South paradigm of the 1880s. It is …


Tobacco (Sc 422), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2012

Tobacco (Sc 422), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 422. Printed circular letter from Campbell, McKee and Company, New Orleans, Louisiana, 4 January 1860, regarding tobacco, etc., on the New Orleans market; market circular, New Orleans, 26 May 1860; and circular letter from Pickett Tobacco Warehouse, Spratt, Bourn and Company, Louisville, Kentucky, December 1858, regarding an exhibition of tobacco for premiums.


The Making Of An American Imperialist: Major Edward Austin Burke, Reconstruction New Orleans And The Road To Central America, Kathryn K. Conley May 2012

The Making Of An American Imperialist: Major Edward Austin Burke, Reconstruction New Orleans And The Road To Central America, Kathryn K. Conley

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The period of Reconstruction following the American Civil War, and its legacy, have been the subjects of long debate among historians. Scholars, though, have yet to fully explore important connections between American Reconstruction, the New South that followed, and the period of U.S. imperialism in Central America in the late nineteenth century. The storied career of Major Edward Austin Burke—a Kentucky-born Louisiana Democrat who went on to become a proponent of expansionism and imperialism in Honduras—illuminates the transnational implications of Reconstruction and its aftermath. Through careful examination of personal papers, news accounts, promotional materials, Congressional testimonies and other government records, …


Coolidge, William, Jr. (Sc 241), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Coolidge, William, Jr. (Sc 241), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 241. Original and typescript of diary and account book kept by Coolidge, chiefly of his trip from Baltimore to New Orleans and back, 4 November 1822 to 14 May 1823. Homesick for his family, he describes his sometimes tedious, sometimes terrifying travels by stagecoach, steamboat and schooner. He offers unflattering comments about his time in Kentucky.


Underwood Collection (Mss 58), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2011

Underwood Collection (Mss 58), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and selected full-text scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 58. Correspondence, diaries, papers, and genealogical materials of Joseph Rogers Underwood, U.S. Senator from Bowling Green, Kentucky, his wife Elizabeth Cox Underwood, his brother Warner Lewis Underwood, and his son, John Cox Underwood.


Mcclanahan Family Papers (Sc 194), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Mcclanahan Family Papers (Sc 194), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 194. Photocopies of legal papers such as deeds, surveys, land grants, slavery bills of sale, and other miscellaneous documents related to the McClanahan family of Simpson County, Kentucky.


Wilson, Ivan, 1889-1981 (Mss 356), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Wilson, Ivan, 1889-1981 (Mss 356), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 356. Correspondence, photographs, sketches and drawings, writings, journals and clippings of or relating to Ivan Wilson, an artist and faculty member in the Art Department at Western Kentucky University from 1920 to 1958. Includes some materials related to other artists.


Drake Family Papers, 1804-1861 (Sc 192), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Drake Family Papers, 1804-1861 (Sc 192), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 192. Chiefly letters to Albrittain Drake and his wife, Ruth (Collins) Drake, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. Most of the letters are from Drake and Collins family members, primarily their sons, James Perry, a land agent in Indiana, and Benjamin Michael, a Methodist minister in Mississippi. Also includes biographical and genealogical information related to the two families.


Lucas Family Papers (Mss 265), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Lucas Family Papers (Mss 265), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and photograph (additional file) for Manuscript Collection 265. Correspondence, legal and financial papers, genealogical material, and photographs of the Lucas family of Warren County, Kentucky. Most of the material relates to Nathaniel Lucas (d. 1807 in Warren County), his children, and one of his descendants, Miss Nancy Clyde Lucas.


Hurricane Katrina (Sc 2098), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Hurricane Katrina (Sc 2098), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2098. E-mails sent by Beverly Pitts to friends in Bowling Green, Kentucky, related to a mission trip to New Orleans, Louisiana to aid in the clean up following Hurricane Katrina. The trip included thirteen people from First Baptist Church, Bowling Green, Kentucky.


Hurricane Katrina, 2005 (Sc 1669), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2008

Hurricane Katrina, 2005 (Sc 1669), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1669. E-mails related to the personal and governmental response to Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana.


Batista-Era Havana On The Bayou, Michael Mizell-Nelson May 2008

Batista-Era Havana On The Bayou, Michael Mizell-Nelson

Michael Mizell-Nelson

Review Essay: Kent B. Germany. New Orleans After the Promises: Poverty, Citizenship, and the Search for the Great Society. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 2007. J. Mark Souther. New Orleans on Parade: Tourism and the Transformation of the Crescent City. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. Anthony J. Stanonis. Creating the Big Easy: New Orleans and the Emergence of Modern Tourism, 1918–1945. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 2006.


Suburban Swamp: The Rise And Fall Of Planned New-Town Communities In New Orleans East, J. Souther Apr 2008

Suburban Swamp: The Rise And Fall Of Planned New-Town Communities In New Orleans East, J. Souther

History Faculty Publications

This paper examines the emergence, development and abandonment of ‘new town’ communities in eastern New Orleans in the half century after 1957. Containing about two-thirds of the land area in the New Orleans city limits, much of it wrested from swamps using emerging drainage technologies, eastern New Orleans promised municipal leaders, planners and citizens an alternative to crowded city and sprawling suburb. This paper also considers how planners and many local citizens viewed planned communities in the eastern stretches of the city as an antidote to population exodus from New Orleans. It explores the influences, design characteristics, social planning aspirations …


Taliaferro Collection (Mss 51), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Taliaferro Collection (Mss 51), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 51. Copy of diary kept by Betsy Taliaferro (1800-1850) from 20 March 1838 to 8 April 1839, concerning her trip from Harrisonburg, Louisiana, to New Orleans to Versailles, Kentucky, her native home, by steamboat and stagecoach. Includes correspondence, notes, clippings, etc. of researcher Mary T. Moore regarding the diary.


Building And Rebuilding New Orleans: Nature, Artifice, And Transformation, J. Souther Nov 2007

Building And Rebuilding New Orleans: Nature, Artifice, And Transformation, J. Souther

History Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


“‘The City I Used To...Visit’: Tourist New Orleans And The Racialized Response To Hurricane Katrina”, Lynnell Thomas Dec 2006

“‘The City I Used To...Visit’: Tourist New Orleans And The Racialized Response To Hurricane Katrina”, Lynnell Thomas

Lynnell Thomas

This article explores the connections between New Orleans’s late 20th-century tourism representations and the mainstream media coverage and national images of the city immediately following Hurricane Katrina. It pays particular attention to the ways that race and class are employed in both instances to create and perpetuate a distorted sense of place that ignore the historical and contemporary realities of the city’s African American population.


Coke, William Gaston, 1895-1977 - Collector (Mss 143), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2003

Coke, William Gaston, 1895-1977 - Collector (Mss 143), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscript Collection 143. Shaker journal, 1891-1893 (184p.) kept by James Carr, South Union, Kentucky, giving daily activities within the Shaker community. Includes hymnals, 1836-1856 (9), compiled by Shaker society members. A name index is available.


Making The "Birthplace Of Jazz": Tourism And Musical Heritage Marketing In New Orleans, J. Souther Jan 2003

Making The "Birthplace Of Jazz": Tourism And Musical Heritage Marketing In New Orleans, J. Souther

History Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Education For Negroes In New Orleans Prior To 1915, Marie Dejan Jan 1941

Education For Negroes In New Orleans Prior To 1915, Marie Dejan

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation

The purpose of this story is to narrate the details of events covering the education of the Negro in New Orleans from the time of slavery to 1915. After the history of the private school movement, a comprehensive description of the origin of the public schools will be given.


Letter From Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson To Samuel Douglas Mcenery, May 12, 1909, Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson May 1909

Letter From Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson To Samuel Douglas Mcenery, May 12, 1909, Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson

Other Correspondence

The document is a carbon copy of a typed letter from the Assistant Secretary of State to Samuel Douglas McEnery concerning the Bluefields Steamship Company.


Albert Sidney Johnson Letter To Texas Governor Peter Hansborough Bell Introducing Charles Stewart Todd. New Orleans, 1850., Albert Sidney Johnston Nov 1850

Albert Sidney Johnson Letter To Texas Governor Peter Hansborough Bell Introducing Charles Stewart Todd. New Orleans, 1850., Albert Sidney Johnston

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

Albert Sidney Johnson letter to Texas governor Peter Hansborough Bell introducing Charles Stewart Todd, a commissioner appointed by the U.S. to execute aspects of the Treaty of Guadalupe (1848, between U.S. and Mexico). Specifically, Johnston notes Stewart is to "make such dispositions of the Indian tribes bordering upon the line about to be established between this [U.S.] government & Mexico, as will enable the Government of the U. States to carry out the stipulation of the treaty of Guadaloupe [sic]."


Letter From Julia Bartlett To George Sibley, October 16, 1847, Julia Bartlett Oct 1847

Letter From Julia Bartlett To George Sibley, October 16, 1847, Julia Bartlett

George Champlin Sibley Papers

Transcript of Letter from Julia Bartlett to George Sibley, October 16, 1847. Bartlett requests a letter of reference saying she was an active Presbyterian; discusses sickness in New Orleans.


Letter From James Wilkinson To Simeon Knight Authorizing Payment Of Volunteers. January 5, 1813, New Orleans., James Wilkinson Jan 1813

Letter From James Wilkinson To Simeon Knight Authorizing Payment Of Volunteers. January 5, 1813, New Orleans., James Wilkinson

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

Major General James Wilkinson authorizes Simeon Knight to pay volunteers what they are due. New Orleans, 05 January 1813.


James Wilkinson General Order, James Wilkinson Jun 1809

James Wilkinson General Order, James Wilkinson

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

General order requesting lists of all enlisted men by James Wilkinson by the following Monday. New Orleans, 01 June 1809.


Charles W. Goldsborough, Acting Secretary Of The Navy, Orders David Porter, Commander Of New Orleans Station, To Convene A Court Martial For The Trial Of Robert Fell. 1809., Charles Washington Goldsborough Mar 1809

Charles W. Goldsborough, Acting Secretary Of The Navy, Orders David Porter, Commander Of New Orleans Station, To Convene A Court Martial For The Trial Of Robert Fell. 1809., Charles Washington Goldsborough

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

A court martial for the trial of Robert Fell is ordered by the Secretary of the Navy, for the charges stated in a letter (not present) by Mr J Herbert in November of 1808.