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Interview With Alice Triplett (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Alice Triplett (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Oral Histories
Transcription of an interview with Alice Triplett conducted by Genie Sullivan for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Triplett discusses her life and times, including information about her life in Ohio County, Kentucky, and her teaching experience. The original tape does not have good sound quality, thus the transcription is spotty.
Cisney, Barbara (Sc 2252), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cisney, Barbara (Sc 2252), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2252. "Bevie W. Cain," and "Civil War Letters of Bevie Cain," two papers written by Barbara Cisney for Western Kentucky University history classes and based primarily on a collection of Cain's letters held in WKU's Special Collections Library (SC 2251).
Browning Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 301), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Browning Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 301), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and photograph (Click on "Additional File" below) for Manuscripts Collection 301. Constitutions, minutes, club histories, membership and program materials of the Browning Club, a women's literary club founded in Bowling Green, Kentucky in 1895.
Wolford, Karen (Sc 2147), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wolford, Karen (Sc 2147), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2147. Paper: "Jennie Green: Portrait of a Progressive Kentucky Woman" written by Karen Wolford for a Western Kentucky University history class.
Review Of Innovation In History: The New Woman Resources Book, Madeleine K. Charney
Review Of Innovation In History: The New Woman Resources Book, Madeleine K. Charney
Madeleine K. Charney
No abstract provided.
Marriage Vows And Economic Discrimination: The Married Teacher Problem, Sabrina Thomas
Marriage Vows And Economic Discrimination: The Married Teacher Problem, Sabrina Thomas
Theses, Dissertations and Capstones
This study analyzes the rapid increase of economic discrimination against married women teachers in the early twentieth century, particularly during the Depression. It challenges the notion that economic discrimination against married women teachers was simple, easy, and largely was unchallenged. I argue that the creation and proliferation of marriage bars in the early twentieth century involved a compounded and multifaceted set of economic and social concerns. Support for this argument is accomplished by examination of the national debate on marriage bars as well as careful investigation of the local debate illustrated in Huntington, West Virginia.
Chintz Appliqué Albums: Memory And Meaning In Nineteenth Century Quilts Of The Delaware River Valley, Carolyn K. Ducey
Chintz Appliqué Albums: Memory And Meaning In Nineteenth Century Quilts Of The Delaware River Valley, Carolyn K. Ducey
College of Education and Human Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
This study examined two sub-sets of a unique style of chintz appliqué album quilt that developed in the 1840s in Delaware River Valley, specifically Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Trenton, New Jersey. The two groups provide examples of two distinct roles that the album quilts played in the lives of their makers: one acting as a literal record of familial ties, serving to preserve memory and reinforce family structure and the other representing the work of the members of the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia, providing a vehicle to recognize and appreciate dedicated service and playing a role in encouraging interest and …
Mata Hari: A Life Of Lies, Olivia Blessing
Mata Hari: A Life Of Lies, Olivia Blessing
Olivia L Blessing
During the international scandal of her 1917 trial and subsequent execution, Mata Hari’s name became a universal title for a traitorous woman. Since then, spies like Tokyo Rose and Radient Jade were known respectively as the "Mata Hari of the airways" and the "Mata Hari of the East." However, unlike the other two women, Mata Hari was famous for being a woman who would do anything for a price years before the French accused her of treason, and this image hurt her during the trial as much as the accusations of treason did.