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Hustonville Christian Church - Lincoln County, Kentucky (Mss 268), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 268. Photocopy of the record book of Hustonville Christian Church, Lincoln County, Kentucky, consisting of business meeting minutes covering primarily 1894 to 1944, and membership lists.

Barren River Baptist Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 269), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 269. Photocopy of the record book of Barren River Baptist Church, Warren County, Kentucky, and a predecessor, Union Chapel Church, consisting primarily of business meeting minutes covering 1840-1968, and membership lists.

Kummer, Oswald Francis, 1881-1974 (Sc 1955), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1955. Two notebooks kept by Oswald Francis Kummer, Simpson County, Kentucky containing his photography records; also advertising materials from a photo-supply company. The Kentucky Library owns many glass plate negatives and prints done by Kummer.

The Urumchi Unrest Revisited, James Millward

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

The violence in Xinjiang took place almost a month ago, but it continues to generate interesting commentary (see, for example, this thoughtful essay by Pallavi Aiyar). The early July events have also recently had two reverberations in Australia, as Jia Zhangke and two other Chinese filmmakers pulled out of a Melbourne film festival where a documentary expected to present a sympathetic view of one of the people Beijing blames for the unrest was to be shown, and then hackers attacked the festival’s website to protest that film’s inclusion in the line-up. In light of this, we asked James Millward, a …

Marshall, Mabel Elizabeth, 1928-2014 (Sc 1962), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1962. Autograph album kept by Mabel Elizabeth Marshall while in the 5th grade at Greenwood School, Warren County, Kentucky.

Bristow, Kentucky - Taxes, 1929 (Sc 1963), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1963. Account book listing taxpayer, amount of tax owed, and date paid for the Bristow, Kentucky area; includes a "colored" section.

State Street Methodist Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1960), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1960. Letter of agreement between the church's building committee and the architect, Reuben Harrison Hunt, regarding drawings and specifications for a new building; also includes information about financing the building project.

Witherspoon, Martinette (Viley), 1851-1923 (Sc 1961), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1961. Letter, May 1899, from Martinette "Nettie" Witherspoon, Versailles, Woodford County, Kentucky to her son, Lister Witherspoon, Lexington, Virginia, regarding family matters and strawberries; includes typescript.

Race And Espionage, Sam Goffman

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

The fact that China and the US spy on each other should come as no surprise to anybody. Each country is nervous about the other, and espionage, though it is surely not conducted with the same vigor as during the Cold War, is still an important part of interactions between states.

What’s interesting about Chinese espionage operations in the US, however, is that they appear to involve strong racial and nationalist overtones. The Soviet Union tended to appeal to ideology, or simply offer money or other types of benefits to its agents; China, it seems, is mainly going after overseas …

Wyatt, Albert F., 1861-1943 (Sc 1959), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1959. Letter, 14 April 1908, from A. F. Wyatt, Mt. Sterling, Kentucky to H. R. Cowles, Statesville, North Carolina regarding the availability of horses for sale.

Hurley, Edwin Gray (Sc 1954), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1954. Two sermons delivered by Edwin Gray Hurley while he was pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Spiller, Robert Ernest, 1928-2018 (Sc 1968), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1968. Letter to Colonel Robert E. Spiller from Captain Roy G. Henson replying to his Christmas greeting and describing U.S. military preparations for Operation Desert Storm. Includes copy of Bowling Green, Kentucky Daily News article reporting on service branches' roles in upcoming Persian Gulf War.

Adams, George Blakey, 1911-1985 (Sc 1691), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1691. Jacob and Martha Van Meter's 1874 obituary and description of their joint funeral. Also, 8 February 1913 letter to George Blakey Adams, San Diego, California, from his aunt Lue M. Adams related to their Logan County, Kentucky ancestor George Blakey.

Conversion Or Adhesion? Historians Between The Social Sciences And The Linguistic Turn, Richard Lim

History: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Brought To You By The People’S Republic Of The Onion, Haiyan Lee

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

America’s finest news source The Onion has a new owner! Since last week, readers have been bombarded with the good tiding, from the modified masthead, logo, and tagline, to news headlines, editorials, audio and video clips, and ads, lots of ads. The new owner goes by the appetizing name of Yu Wan Mei 鱼完美 Amalgamated Salvage Fisheries and Polymer Injection Group, supposedly a Chinese conglomerate from the inland province of Sichuan. The corporation specializes in fish by-products salvaged from the “ocean’s bounty.” Some of its finer samples are “Broiled Shark Gums,” “Multi-Flavor Variety Pack Of Pickled Fish Cloaca,” “Lightning Power …

Merritt, Dayton L., B. 1947 (Sc 1967), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1967. Letters Dayton l. Merritt wrote to his sister, Judy Merritt, from Vietnam, mainly concerning family news; letters written to Merritt from soldiers during the Persian Gulf War and one of his replies; 1991 letters by Merritt to the "Kentucky Post" related to the "Vietnam syndrome."

Biden Travels, Talks And Ticks Off The Russians, Nicholas Hayes

University Chair in Critical Thinking Publications

No abstract provided.

A Matter Of National Concern: The Kennedy Administration And Prince Edward County, Virginia, Brian Lee

Theses and Dissertations

A MATTER OF NATIONAL CONCERN examines the Kennedy Administration’s contribution to the restoration of public education in Prince Edward County, Virginia, and determines if those actions support the dominant narrative of Kennedy’s overall civil rights record – a historical assessment generally generated from a few acute crises. For five consecutive years (1959-1964), in defiance of federal court orders, the county board of supervisors refused to levy taxes to operate public schools, marking Prince Edward County as the only locale in the nation without free public education. The county leadership organized a segregated private school system for the 1,400 white children, …

A Reader: The 2010 Asian Games

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

The PR folks for the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou have added China Beat to their mailing list, so we got their note this week about organizers’ plans to seed clouds to prevent rain during the Games. Our interest was piqued–we hadn’t heard much yet about the 2010 Asian Games. Here are a few of the things we found when we went looking…

1. As with the Olympic preparations in Beijing, there is massive construction, investment, and environmental management (not just cloud-seeding) underway in Guangzhou, according to Xinhua:

Authorities are pumping in more than 58 billion yuan (8.5 billion U.S. …

Sullivan Family Collection (Mss 267), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 267. Correspondence and clippings relating to home economics extension agents Rowena I. Sullivan and Margaret (Sullivan) Berg. Includes genealogical information relating to the Sullivan and Rogers families.

A Cultural Symbol Passes From The Scene: Ji Xianlin, Not Michael Jackson, Timothy B. Weston

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

It’s been moving to watch the response in China to the July 11 death of renowned scholar, Ji Xianlin (1911-2009). While Ji’s unsurprising departure at the ripe old age of 98 has not brought quite the same flood tide of emotion and cultural stock taking in China as Michael Jackson’s completely unexpected death a few weeks earlier at age 50 has in the United States and around the world, the way the venerable scholar is being remembered in Beijing is nevertheless remarkable. Long lines of people wishing to pay their last respects waited for hours to gain entrance to a …

Confucianism In Chinese Academia, Daniel A. Bell

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

Over the last decade or so, there has been a revival of Confucianism. Popular books on Confucianism are best sellers, and official discourse from the government often expresses traditional Confucian values like harmony. What is less well known, however, is the resurgence in interest among academics in China.

Rigorous experiments by psychologists such as Peng Kaiping and Wu Shali show that there are striking cognitive differences between Chinese and Americans, with Chinese more likely to use contextual and dialectical approaches to solving problems. Psychologists Huang Guangguo and Yang Zhongfang from Taiwan and Hongkong advocate the use of traditional Chinese ideas …

Stamps, William Perry, Jr., 1914-2006 (Sc 1964), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1964. Immunization register, pay record, and railroad voucher related to the World War II military service of Stamps, of Bowling Green, Kentucky; also includes a note from a friend in Casablanca sending New Year's greetings.

Sara M. Jones

African American Funeral Programs

Sara_M_Jones.pdf - contains a funeral program for Sara M. Jones. Service was held on July 22, 2009 in Statesboro, Ga.

China Beatniks Around The Web

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

After a few weeks of vacation, China Beat is back to posting (though we considered making an 8 percent reduction in our future posts in honor of the UC furlough, we’ll just be back to business as usual). Even so, it is still summer and a few contributors have been using the time to publish in other venues.

Last Saturday, Ken Pomeranz mentioned a few of his recent publications, includingthis one at the New Left Review.

Jeff Wasserstrom recently reviewed Lisa See’s new book, Shanghai Girls for Time Asia. (We ran an interview with See this spring, which you can …

Fisher, John A., B. 1936? (Sc 1966), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1966. Letters written by John A. Fisher from Los Angeles and San Francisco, California, Austin, Texas, and Louisville, Kentucky to his cousin, Louisa Josephine Ganter, describing his travel and giving family news. Included are two letters to Fisher from another cousin, Carrie F. Fisher.

Johnson, William, 1817-1888 (Sc 1965), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1965. Envelope printed in color on order of William Johnson, Bardstown, Kentucky, with flag designed by his wife Nannie.

An Amazing Open, And An Obscenity In Arlington, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

If you watched The Open from Turnberry this weekend there were two surprises: Tiger Woods didn’t make the cut and Tom Watson nearly won the tournament. It became obvious that Tiger wasn’t playing his A-game when in the middle of his second round he played himself out of the tournament. Woods was one under par after seven holes and then went bogey, bogey, double bogey, par, bogey, double bogey. He was hitting shots that any weekend duffer could relate to as he topped the ball, mishit the ball several times, and explored all of the varieties of the rough. It …

Shanghai Expo: The Us Pavilion Is On

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

Last November, we ran a little preview of the 2010 Shanghai Expo, pointing you to a few readings about this big “coming distraction.” Last week the US finally committed to attend the Expo, prompting a new round of Expo stories around the web.

1. It’s pretty unusual for the U.S. to land on any world list between San Marino and Andorra, but that’s its position on the Expo sign-up sheet, asreported by the AFP:

The United States signed up Friday the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, officials said, making it the last major country with diplomatic ties to China to join …

From Minneapolis To Russia: What A Historian's Cold War Journey Tells Us About Today, Nicholas Hayes

University Chair in Critical Thinking Publications

No abstract provided.