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Skräddar Anders Fredrik Eriksson, Martin Ståhl

Swedish American Genealogist

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What Did The Emigrants Pay?, Elisabeth Thorsell

Swedish American Genealogist

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Handwriting Example 27

Swedish American Genealogist

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The Old Picture, P. Robert Willey

Swedish American Genealogist

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Tigerhjelm Family And Filmarkivet.Se, Elisabeth Thorsell

Swedish American Genealogist

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From Hälsingland To Bloody Shilo, Paul Sward

Swedish American Genealogist

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Handwriting Solution 27

Swedish American Genealogist

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Full Issue Vol. 31 No. 1

Swedish American Genealogist

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Swedgen Tour Is Coming Again!

Swedish American Genealogist

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Interesting Web Sites

Swedish American Genealogist

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Book Reviews

Swedish American Genealogist

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Genealogical Queries

Swedish American Genealogist

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The Last Page

Swedish American Genealogist

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The Crucible Of Milam County: Railroad Construction And Community Competition In Late Nineteenth-Century Texas, Philip G. Pope

East Texas Historical Journal

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Book Reviews

East Texas Historical Journal

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The Vote For Independence In South Sudan: Why It Happened, Why It Is Important: One Family’S Story [Poster], University Of Northern Iowa. Center For Holocaust And Genocide Education.

Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education Documents

A poster announcing a presentation by Jekow Olieny on his family's experiences with the civil war in Sudan which led to the creation of the nation of South Sudan.

(Review) The Negotiated Reformation: Imperial Cities And The Politics Of Urban Reform, 1525–1550, Marc R. Forster

History Faculty Publications

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Printed Maps Of The District And State Of Maine, 1793-1860, Osher Map Library

Osher Map Library Exhibition Catalogs

Printed Maps of the District and State of Maine, 1793-1860.

March 8, 2011 to August 25, 2011

The early printed maps of Maine reveal the development of the state through expanding population and economy. They encompass a wide variety of works, from formal atlas and wall maps to ephemeral pocket maps and maps in newspapers.

Edward V. Thompson, Guest Curator.

‘Aid Where It Is Needed Most’: American Labor’S Military Industrial Complex, Edmund F. Wehrle

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

Between the late 1940s and mid-1960s, American organized labor emerged among the most enthusiastic supporters of the military-industrial complex. This study examines that emerging relationship, focusing on the efforts of a group of unionists to mold defense spending into a vehicle for promoting employment and addressing social and economic problems. During the Korean War, labor representatives drafted, lobbied for, and helped administration Defense Manpower Policy #4, a policy channeling defense spending to areas suffering high rates of unemployment. With the advent of the Eisenhower administration, preferential policies fell by the wayside, but organized labor continued to press, with some success …

Cotter, Joseph Seamon, 1861-1949 (Sc 378), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 378. Letter, 27 August 1934, from Joseph S. Cotter, Louisville, Kentucky, to James Tandy Ellis, a fellow poet, which relates an incident of Cotter’s early life.

Moates, Lassie (Taylor), 1892-1981 (Sc 143), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Mansucripts Small Collection 143. Sheet music, lyrics and poems written by Lassie (Taylor) Moates, Richardsville, Kentucky. Includes typescripted newspaper clippings about Moates's compositions.

Sharp, Solomon Pollux, 1787-1825 (Sc 190), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 190. Notice, 30 January 1821, sent by Sharp to John M. Roberson [sic], paymaster of the 25th Regiment of the Kentucky Militia, directing him to settle his accounts with the commanding officers of the regiment at Vance’s Tavern in Bowling Green.

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

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

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.

Rose, John W. (Sc 191), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 191. Letter, 6 February 1862, of Confederate soldier John W. Rose, encamped near Bowling Green, Kentucky, to his mother and his cousin?, W. B. Mooningham, near Dixon Springs, Smith County, Tennessee. He relates information about food, food prices, and the fall of Fort Henry. Includes a printed poem, "To the Soldiers and Freemen of the South."

Women Not In The Kitchen: A Look At Gender Equality In The Restaurant Industry, Rosalie Platzer

History

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David Hurwitz Interview For A Wright State University History Course, Elise Kelly, David Hurwitz

Dayton and Miami Valley Oral History Project

On March 1, 2011 Elise Kelly interviewed David Hurwitz, a former professor at Wright State University, for a class project dealing with oral histories and capturing the history of the Miami Valley. During the interview David spoke about his family, activist father, education, and his various positions teaching in Ohio.

‘Aid Where It Is Needed Most’: American Labor’S Military Industrial Complex, Edmund Wehrle

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

Between the late 1940s and mid-1960s, American organized labor emerged among the most enthusiastic supporters of the military-industrial complex. This study examines that emerging relationship, focusing on the efforts of a group of unionists to mold defense spending into a vehicle for promoting employment and addressing social and economic problems. During the Korean War, labor representatives drafted, lobbied for, and helped administration Defense Manpower Policy #4, a policy channeling defense spending to areas suffering high rates of unemployment. With the advent of the Eisenhower administration, preferential policies fell by the wayside, but organized labor continued to press, with some success …

Landmark Report (Vol. 29, No. 1), Kentucky Library Research Collections

Landmark Report

Newsletter published by the Landmark Association; this local group advocates the preservation, protection and maintenance of architectural, cultural and archaeological resources in Bowling Green and Warren County, Kentucky.

Rowan, John, 1773-1843 (Sc 193), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full text scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collecction 193. Two letters related to the Rowan-Chambers duel fought in Bardstown, Kentucky, 3 February 1801. Letter from Dan Barry, Bardstown, 6 February 1801, indicates that Rowan's friends have scheduled a meeting to show their support of him. Letter from John Rowan, 19 April 1801, to William Lytle, his brother-in-law, provides his detailed version of the events surrounding his duel with Chambers.

Kiss The War Good-Bye, Hello Return To Normalcy, Marisa Francesca Benfanti

Communication Studies

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