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Messer, George, 1833-1863 (Sc 3211), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2018

Messer, George, 1833-1863 (Sc 3211), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full text transcription (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3211. Letters, 6 January-31 May 1863, of George Messer to his wife Lottie in DeWitt County, Illinois, while encamped in Hart County, Kentucky and at Camp Hobson, Glasgow, Kentucky. He writes of illness and death among his comrades, troop strength, wage payments, food, and his commanding officers. Weary of a soldier’s life and anxious for the South’s total defeat, he criticizes conscription laws that allow exemption on payment of a fee, and accuses politicians and “Eastern men” of prolonging the war. He notes local citizens’ …

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Ua12/2/1 The Hill In Review, Wku Student Affairs Apr 2018

Ua12/2/1 The Hill In Review, Wku Student Affairs

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Newsletter recapping the top stories of the week.

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Ua12/2/1 The Hill In Review, Wku Student Affairs Apr 2018

Ua12/2/1 The Hill In Review, Wku Student Affairs

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Ua12/2/1 The Hill In Review, Wku Student Affairs Apr 2018

Ua12/2/1 The Hill In Review, Wku Student Affairs

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Priest Family Papers (Sc 3210), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2018

Priest Family Papers (Sc 3210), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3210. Correspondence and papers relating to the Priest family of Henderson County, Kentucky. Includes abstracts of title in connection with grants of coal rights. Correspondence discusses an estate settlement, pending legislation amending certain city charters, family financial matters, and a candidate’s defeat in an 1884 primary election after two of three barrooms in the precinct were “thrown wide open” for his opponent.

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Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Mss 636), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2018

Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Mss 636), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 636. Correspondence and papers of Margie Helm, Auburn, Kentucky native and longtime Western Kentucky University head librarian, relating principally to her work for the Presbyterian Church. Also includes materials documenting her service on the Inter-Racial Commission of Bowling Green, Kentucky.

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Selby, Isabella M. (Sc 3208), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2018

Selby, Isabella M. (Sc 3208), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3208. Letter to an editor, apparently drafted by Isabella M. Selby or a member of her family. Likely in reference to the “Eaton affair” or “Petticoat affair,” the letter complains of “abuse” of President Andrew Jackson and his cabinet by newspapers that are patronized “by the Clay & Adams party in this part of Kentucky”; specifically, the letter objects to characterizing the Administration’s replacement of some officeholders as “sin” or “anti-republican.”

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Ua12/2/1 The Hill In Review, Wku Student Affairs Apr 2018

Ua12/2/1 The Hill In Review, Wku Student Affairs

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Dickey Family - Relating To (Sc 3206), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2018

Dickey Family - Relating To (Sc 3206), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3206. Biographical sketches of Joseph Stone Dickey and L. T. Dickey, natives of Glasgow, Kentucky and members of the faculty of the Bowling Green Business University, Bowling Green, Kentucky, apparently written by Myra (Mrs. Joseph Stone) Dickey.

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Field Packing Company - Owensboro, Kentucky (Sc 3207), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2018

Field Packing Company - Owensboro, Kentucky (Sc 3207), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3207. Preliminary package designs, in color, for Pizza Dogs and Pizza Loaf, two food products of the Field Packing Company, Owensboro, Kentucky. Includes letters from the design firm, and grocery store display cards for Pizza Dogs and for Field’s Fresh Ham Sausage.

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Clarke, Kenneth Wendell, 1917-2012 (Mss 635), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2018

Clarke, Kenneth Wendell, 1917-2012 (Mss 635), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 635. Manuscripts, notes, publisher’s correspondence, and photographs relating to the scholarly work of WKU English and folklore professor Kenneth W. Clarke, principally "Bud Long: The Birth of a Kentucky Folk Legend" and "The Harvest and the Reapers." Also includes reel-to-reel tape discussing home burial and casket - coffins, African American discussing race relations, singing in Barren County, Kentucky. See also digitized reel-to-reel tape T (T) -7-71-16 discussing cockfighting.

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Groom, Charles Littleton, 1896-1975 (Sc 3205), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2018

Groom, Charles Littleton, 1896-1975 (Sc 3205), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3205. Letters of Littleton Groom, Princeton, New Jersey. Two 1967 letters detail the genealogy of Reverend Ephraim McLean of Logan County, Kentucky. A third letter to Dr. Ben M. Barrus of Bethel College in Tennessee offers several corrections to his article, “Factors Involved in the Origin of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,” published in the Journal of Presbyterian History (December 1967 and March 1968).

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Ua12/2/1 The Hill In Review, Wku Student Affairs Apr 2018

Ua12/2/1 The Hill In Review, Wku Student Affairs

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Traces Volume 46, Number 1, Kentucky Library Research Collections Apr 2018

Traces Volume 46, Number 1, 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.

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South Union Messenger (Spring 2018), Kentucky Library Research Collections Apr 2018

South Union Messenger (Spring 2018), Kentucky Library Research Collections

South Union Messenger

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Journalism And Human Rights: From The Abolition Of The British Slave Trade, The Aids Crisis, And Injustices Beyond And In-Between, Andrew Henderson Apr 2018

Journalism And Human Rights: From The Abolition Of The British Slave Trade, The Aids Crisis, And Injustices Beyond And In-Between, Andrew Henderson

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

The conception of human rights is one that is enshrined within the shared, collective history of humanity. Encompassing secular traditions, Asian religions and traditions, and monotheistic religions and perspectives as a base for what would come to evolve into universal human rights. Throughout history these traditions and religions have all played a role in shaping where we are at today in terms of human rights. Yet the road which led to a universal declaration of rights was not paved with ease. From the onset of Aristotle, Plato, Hammurabi, other secular authors, and culminating to the end of the French Revolution …

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The Solid South: The Suffrage Campaign Revisited, Abby Lorraine Crenshaw Apr 2018

The Solid South: The Suffrage Campaign Revisited, Abby Lorraine Crenshaw

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This examination of the southern suffrage campaign focuses the movement through the eyes of three prominent southern women within the political movement: Kate Gordon, Sue Shelton White, and Josephine Pearson. The merged National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) planned and organized a focus on the South during the second half of the suffrage campaign, which presented new challenges. The Nineteenth Amendment passed through Congress in 1918 and consequently set the stage for a raging political battle between suffragists and anti-suffragists. The suffrage campaign prompted women to question how the political platform of suffrage should be addressed. Women argued over the …

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After Vatican Ii: Renegotiating The Roles Of Women, Sexual Ethics, And Homosexuality In The Roman Catholic Church, Kenneth Brian Nauert Jr. Apr 2018

After Vatican Ii: Renegotiating The Roles Of Women, Sexual Ethics, And Homosexuality In The Roman Catholic Church, Kenneth Brian Nauert Jr.

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Vatican II was one of the most seminal councils in Roman Catholic Church history, having far reaching effects on the universal institution.1 One of the most important outcomes of Vatican II was not the reforming of orthopraxy, but the dialogue that developed regarding three specific issues – the transforming of women’s roles in Church life, Catholic sexual ethics, and the Church’s relationship with LGBTQ+ individuals.2 The decades following Vatican II became a new era of religious dialogue among Catholic scholars and theologians, which established new discussions on women’s ordination, sexual ethics, and attitudes towards homosexuality in the contemporary …

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Pyatt, Susanna (Fa 1380), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2018

Pyatt, Susanna (Fa 1380), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 1380. “Woven Evidence?: Western Shaker Connections with Native Americans,” a paper written by Susanna Pyatt in April 2018 for a WKU folk studies class.

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Gardner, Betty, B. 1933? (Sc 3204), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2018

Gardner, Betty, B. 1933? (Sc 3204), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3204. “Bowling Green, Kentucky During the Civil War,” a paper written by Betty Gardner [later Betty (Gardner) Larkins], probably while a high school student at College High (WKU) in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

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Wood, George Twyman, 1796-1876 (Mss 630), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2018

Wood, George Twyman, 1796-1876 (Mss 630), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscript Collection 630. Correspondence and land records related to George T. Wood’s management of property in Hart County, Kentucky, on behalf of the City of Philadelphia, which resulted from the settlement of Stephen Girard’s estate. At the time of his death Girard was one of the wealthiest men in America.

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Ua12/2/1 The Hill In Review, Wku Student Affairs Mar 2018

Ua12/2/1 The Hill In Review, Wku Student Affairs

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Ua12/2/1 The Hill In Review, Wku Student Affairs Mar 2018

Ua12/2/1 The Hill In Review, Wku Student Affairs

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Clay, Cassius Marcellus, 1846-1913 (Sc 3202), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2018

Clay, Cassius Marcellus, 1846-1913 (Sc 3202), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3202. Letter, 15 February 1860, written from White Hall, Madison County, Kentucky, by Cassius Marcellus Clay to his father, Brutus Junius Clay. He writes of trying three lawsuits in an afternoon, two resulting in victories and the third as yet undecided. He notes the severe winter, which will likely prevent seeing his father “until navigation opens,” and sends regards to his family.

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Miller, Carl Thomas, 1920-1997 (Sc 3201), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2018

Miller, Carl Thomas, 1920-1997 (Sc 3201), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scans of correspondence (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3201. Compact disc containing details of the life and World War II service of Carl T. Miller, a native of Breckinridge County, Kentucky, including the history of his Army unit, his letters (1941-1945), photographs, and images of his medals and other military honors. Also includes a 1995 interview of Miller on DVD discussing his World War II service, and associated newsreel clips.

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Smith, H. (Sc 3200), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2018

Smith, H. (Sc 3200), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3200. “Illustrations of Modern Geography,” a set of seven hand-drawn and colorized maps of various parts of the globe, stitched into a chapbook with marbled paper covers. The title page indicates that the maps were drawn by H. Smith for his father Mr. Smith atWoodland House, midsummer 1834.

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Maffenbeier, John, 1905-1978 (Sc 3199), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2018

Maffenbeier, John, 1905-1978 (Sc 3199), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3199. Correspondence of John Maffenbeier, Newark, New Jersey, relating to collecting and selling Native American artifacts. Some of the correspondence is related to Lost City, an archaeological tourist site in Logan County, Kentucky.

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Harris, Henry Thornton, 1831-1899 (Sc 3197), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2018

Harris, Henry Thornton, 1831-1899 (Sc 3197), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3197. Miscellaneous papers related to Henry T. Harris, a lawyer of Lincoln County, Kentucky. Includes an invitation to “Bachelor’s Hall,” an article written for the Saturday Evening Post, a short note to an aunt written from “awful Niagara,” a flyer for Montrose Law College, Frankfort, Kentucky, and an exterior sketch of the Law College building with rooms identified. Also includes poems, recipes, a trade card for Louisville’s Alexander House, a sample print strip from a telegraph machine, and genealogical data.

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Ua12/2/1 The Hill In Review, Wku Student Affairs Mar 2018

Ua12/2/1 The Hill In Review, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter recapping the top stories of the week.

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Ua12/2/1 The Hill In Review, Wku Student Affairs Mar 2018

Ua12/2/1 The Hill In Review, Wku Student Affairs

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