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Lucille Phillips

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

2011-03-07 Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

Staff Congress Records

Staff Congress meeting minutes for March 7, 2011.

Mr. Cornell T. (C.T.) Parrish

African American Funeral Programs

Funeral Program for Mr. Cornell T. (C.T.) Parrish on March 6, 2011 at New Hope Missionary Baptist Church

Doug Axe Interview For A Wright State University History Course, Adam Masonbrink, Doug Axe

Dayton and Miami Valley Oral History Project

On March 5, 2011 Adam Masonbrink interviewed Doug Axe, a highly active and engaged member of the St. Mary’s City community, for a class project dealing with oral histories and capturing the history of the Miami Valley. During the interview Doug discusses his life, variety of jobs, and involvement in his local community.

Ivy Polk

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Interview No. 1697, Victoria C. Schwartz S. L.

Combined Interviews

The interview takes place at the Convent of Loretto in El Paso Texas. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri. She was born on February 9, 1940. Her brother is 15 years older than her and mentions her parents were older when she was born. Her father was 40 years old and her mother was 38. She was taught at our Lady of Mt. Carmel for kindergarten through eight grade and then attended Sisters of Loretto High School. She then attended Webster University in St. Louis and graduated in 1963. Her final vows her done in 1966. She has been …

Mrs. Myrtle B. Warner

African American Funeral Programs

Mrs_Myrtle_B_Warner.pdf - Funeral program for Mrs. Myrtle B. Warner. Service held on March 5, 2011.

Rena Mae Cone Wiley

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Composers - Kentucky (Sc 109), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 109. Letters and forms received by Clara Elledge, member of the Music Department, Western Kentucky State Teachers College, Bowling Green, Kentucky, in response to her inquiries concerning Kentucky composers and their works and includes listing of both.

Sublett Family (Sc 146), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 146. Bill of Charles Sublett for tanning calf skin, 1808; tax receipt (fragment) to Charles Sublett, Warren County, Kentucky, 1817; promissory note signed by William Sublett, 1826; three notes on religious doctrine; scrapbook of articles and poems about Kentucky and Kentuckians compiled by Paul H. Murphy, 1932.

Deupree Family Letters, 1865 (Sc 189), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 189. Letter, 30 May 1865, to James R. Deupree, Woodburn, Warren County, Kentucky from his sister-in-law, Sarah H. E. Deupree, Richmond, Virginia, and letter, 2 June 1865, to James R. Deupree from William L. Salmon, Henrico County, Virginia. They both relate to the death of James’s brother, Stephen, who was killed in an explosion while serving in the Confederate army. They also write of the effects of the war on everyday life in the Richmond area.

Allen Family Collection (Sc 108), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 108. Letters to Mrs. A. C. & Mollie Allen, Simpson County, Kentucky, 1868-1893 (3), unpublished poetry written by various authors, 1893 (14), and printed songs, n.d. (5).

Carissa Higgins Interview For A Wright State University History Course, Cassie Higgins, Carissa Higgins

Dayton and Miami Valley Oral History Project

On March 04, 2011 Cassie Higgins interviewed Carissa Higgins, her mother and a teacher, for a class project dealing with oral histories and capturing the history of the Miami Valley. During the interview Carissa discussed having ADD, diving as a young adult, and her work as a teacher.

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

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

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.

Morgan, Joseph Underwood, 1835-1892 (Sc 145), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 145. Correspondence of Joseph Underwood Morgan, Logan County, Kentucky. He writes to Maria D. Noel (whom he would marry in 1866) of their families, mutual friends, and his social activities. While serving in the Confederate Army, he writes of military life, including the derailment of his troop train, and of the restrictions placed on him while aprisoner at Rock Island, Illinois. A final letter discusses their intentions to marry.

Everett, Edward, 1794-1865 (Sc 2425), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2425. Letter written on behalf of Edward Everett, U. S. ambassador to Great Britain, to Stultz and Company, a firm of London tailors. The letter complains about the length of pantaloons made for Everett and his son and suggests arrangements for alterations before they depart for Liverpool.

Translating The Vernacular: Indigenous And African Knowledge In The Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic, Kathleen S. Murphy

History

Encounters between diverse peoples and knowledges were one of the defining features of the early modern Atlantic world. This article examines some of the implications of these encounters by focusing on the place of indigenous and African knowledge in eighteenth-century natural histories of British plantation societies (from the Chesapeake to the Caribbean). It builds on recent scholarship to argue that while colonials acknowledged the authority of their black and indigenous informants as experts about American nature, they represented such expertise as merely the raw materials out of which they fashioned new natural knowledge. Naturalists credited their informants not as individual …

Lanthorn, Vol. 45, No. 47, March 3, 2011, Grand Valley State University

Volume 45, July 8, 2010 - June 9, 2011

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Trail Blazer - Volume 87, Number 5, Morehead State University. Trail Blazer.

Morehead State Trail Blazer Archive

Morehead State Trail Blazer published on March 3, 2011.

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

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

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.

On Dogs And Ponies And 'Three Days In July' Syndrome (Part 1), John M. Rudy

Interpreting the Civil War: Connecting the Civil War to the American Public

In 1961, Gettysburg played host to a kick-off event for the Civil War Centennial. The town commemorated the sendoff of the Independent Blues, a militia company which marched off to war in the aftermath of the firing on Fort Sumter. The affair was huge. The Diamond was closed off to traffic as actors in old time clothes strutted through a political rally on the square. Spectators watched from the sidewalks as speakers mounted a wagon and gesticulated wildly at the crowd. Gettysburg College's students, wielding trumpet and drum as they did for Football games on Nixon Field, stood in for …

Moltenberry, Nola Maude (Pearson), 1890-1969 - Collector (Sc 144), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 144. Copy of 1789 appointment of Joseph Nourse as Register of U.S. Treasury, 1822; letter of K. A. Martin, Warren County, Mississippi, to his parents in Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1825; and petition and bond relating to appointment of a committee for a mentally ill woman of Warren County, Kentucky, 1837.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, 1844-1911 (Sc 2423), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid, scans and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2423. Letters of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps to Richard Watson Gilder, editor of The Century Magazine. Two letters relate to her submission of the manuscript for the story “Jack” and explain her eagerness to read and correct the proof. She also writes of her home in East Gloucester, Massachusetts and of the challenge of composing short stories. A third letter from Newton Center, Massachusetts discusses her submission of chapters of her memoir, offers to make changes, and advises of her availability by telephone.

Jones & Stevens - Account Book (Sc 248), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 248. Account book for the Jones & Stevens general store located in Greencastle, Warren County, Kentucky. Index of accounts is located in the front of the volume, followed by the full accounts of the store’s customers. A label affixed to the ledger’s cover indicates that the volume was originally intended for recording information about Warren County court cases, but this was never done. The label is signed by James D. Hines.

Horne, Richard Henry, 1803-1884 (Sc 2424), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2424. Letter from Richard Henry Horne, English poet and dramatist, to poet, novelist and playwright Algernon Charles Swinburne. Home discusses Swinburne's reaction to his work "King Nihil's Round-Table" and offers to let Swinburn quote from his comic verses written fifty years earlier, as part of Swinburne's work on Elizabethan drama.

Judy Turner Interview For A Wright State University History Course, Ashley Whitaker, Judy Turner

Dayton and Miami Valley Oral History Project

On March 2, 2011 Ashley Whitaker interviewed Judy Turner, an Executive Director at the Alzheimer’s Association in Dayton, for a class project dealing with oral histories and capturing the history of the Miami Valley. During the interview Judy discussed her childhood, volunteering, working for the Alzheimer’s Association, and more.

Interview With James Myers, March 28 & 31, 2011, James P. Myers Jr., Brad R. Miller

Oral Histories

James Myers was interviewed on March 28 & 31, 2011 by Brad Miller about his childhood, collegiate years and teaching at Gettysburg College. He also discussed Carl Arnold Hanson's presidency, the political unrest during that time, and how the college has changed during his time here.

Length of Interview: 103 minutes

Course Information:

• Course Title: HIST 300: Historical Method
• Academic Term: Spring 2011
• Course Instructor: Dr. Michael Birkner '72

Collection Note: This oral history was selected from the Oral History Collection maintained by Special Collections & College Archives. Transcripts are available for browsing in the Special Collections Reading Room, 4 …

(Review) Almost Madam President, Why Hillary Clinton “Won” In 2008, By Nichola D. Gutgold, And (Review) Hillary Clinton’S Race For The White House, Gender Politics And The Media On The Campaign Trail, By Regina G. Lawrence And Melody Rose, Maryanne Borrelli

Government and International Relations Faculty Publications

Almost Madam President: Why Hillary Clinton “Won” in 2008. By Nichola D. Gutgold. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2009. 119 pp. $26.95.

Hillary Clinton's Race for the White House: Gender Politics and the Media on the Campaign Trail. By Regina G. Lawrence and Melody Rose. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers. 2010. 277 pp. $26.50.

News From The Swenson Center

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.

Bits & Pieces

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.