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Moore, Carlos Wright, 1884-1951 (Mss 156), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 156. Family and business papers of Warren County, Kentucky farmer Carlos W. Moore and school teacher Mae White, who became his wife. Topics include courtship, farming and school teaching. Also includes a page of genealogical information from the Wright family Bible (Click on "Additional Files" below for scan).

Echoes On The Gettysburg Battlefield, John M. Rudy

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

Back at the beginning of the summer, I was asked by the College to write a piece on the history of the battle and its many resonances for what turned out to be an obscure periodical and not the actual USA Today. That means next to no one got the chance to read the piece, which I was quite happy with. So I wanted to share that piece with all of you.

How does Gettysburg's unique history echo backwards and forwards? [excerpt]

Economic Factors Led To The Fall Of Jin Dynasty : Focus On The Economic Effects After Relocation Of Capital To Kaifeng, Ming Hong Wong

Lingnan Theses

This thesis traces ramifications of the relocation of the Imperial Capital during the Jin dynasty. It argues the decline and fall of the Jin is rooted in this relocation. In 1209-1213 C.E., faced with the Mongol military threat and a dire shortage of grains, the Jin dynasty (1115-1234) was forced to relocate its capital from Zhongdu to Nanjing (Kaifeng). The sudden move, however, crippled effective governance in the former capital and its surrouding areas, the Heshuo region. Here, poor governance was soon followed by swarms of bandits, and in particular led to the rise of the Red Jacket Bandits, decimating …

The Grizzly, October 3, 2013, Sabrina Mcgettigan, Bethany Mitchell, Nicholas Dimuzio, Dom Roher, Shawn Hartigan, Vivek Reddy, Adebayo Adeyemo, Derrick Falletta, Olivia Z. Schultz, Briana Mullan, Mary Deliberti, Briana Keane, Brandon Patterson, Deana Harley

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Strategic Plan Update • Ursinus President Fong Discusses Liberal Arts Education in China • Ursinus Students Visit New York City • Upsilon Phi Delta Pledging Plans • Astronomer Speaks • U-Innovate Winners Announced • Psych Professor Joins Campus • Ursinus Mass Email Policy Explained • Opinion: Don't Get Sold on Multi-Level Marketing; Yes, Going to College is Definitely Worth it • UC Athletes Handle a Heavy Workload • Dalrymple Completes Impressive UC Career • Football and Field Hockey Keep Rolling

2016-10-03 Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

Staff Congress Records

Staff Congress meeting minutes for October 3, 2016.

With An Eye On A Set Of New Eyes: Beasts Of The Southern Wild, Kette Thomas

Journal of Religion & Film

This article focuses on how, Beasts of the Southern Wild, represents both divergence and transgression from paradigmatic structures that determine how certain visual representations are to be used. Specifically, the cinematic detours taken by the filmmakers, Lucy Alibar and Behn Zeitlin, do not lead to alien places for most viewers; on the contrary, ancient myths, legends, heroes and prehistoric references are recalled in total isolation from current social and political discourse. In this way, Beasts of the Southern Wild, effectively, highlights mythological structures operating in contemporary American society. Mircea Eliade, Roger Caillois and G.S. Kirk define mythology as a …

Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church - Barren County, Kentucky (Sc 2770), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2770. Minutes of Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church in Barren County, Kentucky. Also includes “Articles of Faith” and the church “Covenant.” Transcribed by Eva C. Peden. “Book I and II.”

Doris Kearns Goodwin Lecture At Uni October 2, 2013, University Of Northern Iowa.

Joy Cole Corning Distinguished Leadership Lecture Series

Doris Helen Kearns Goodwin is an American biographer, historian, former sports journalist, and political commentator. She has written biographies of several U.S. presidents, including Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream; The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga; Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln; and The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism. Goodwin's book No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1995.

Goodknight, Thomas Mitchell, 1837-1908 (Sc 2769), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2769. Thomas Mitchell Goodknight's "Pastor's Journal" of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, which includes a short biography, as well as a list of elders and deacons ordained, marriages performed, church members added, etc., during his ministry in Kentucky (particularly the C.P. church at Franklin), Kansas, and Texas. He also discusses his role as a Confederate chaplain during the Civil War.

Haynes, James Pleasant, 1843-1919 (Mss 477), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 477. Civil war diaries (1864-1865), service and pension records of James Pleasant Haynes of Warren County, Kentucky, who served with the 26th Regiment, Kentucky Volunteer Infantry.

Tales From A Boston Customs House: Lewis Augustine Horton, S. Marianne Johnson

The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History

One morning as he was preparing the morning paper, Boston-based Washington dispatch examiner Joseph O’Hare’s eye caught a dispatch noting the Congressional Medal of Honor was being awarded to a Lewis Horton for courageous acts while rescuing crew members of the U.S.S. Monitor off the coast of Cape Hatteras in 1862. O’Hare was particularly struck by the name of the man, since a double arm amputee veteran named Lewis Augustine Horton worked at the local customs house. O’Hare related the dispatch to Horton, noting the similar name, to which Horton reportedly responded in genuine surprise, “By Jove! It may be …

164th Infantry News: October 2013, 164th Infantry Association

164th Infantry Regiment Publications

October 2013 edition of the 164th Infantry News. A total of 56 pages, containing news articles, event notices, photographs, and personal memories from the veterans of the 164th Infantry Regiment.

Norumbega News, No.17 (Fall 2013), Osher Library Associates

Friends of OML, Occasional Publications

Issue No.17, Fall 2013

Osher Map Library and the Smith Center for Cartographic Education

Portland, Maine

Front Matter, Huntsville-Madison County Historical Society

Huntsville Historical Review

No abstract provided.

Unionism In Huntsville And Knoxville: A Comparative Study Of Tennessee River Valley Towns, 1860-1865, Jennifer G. Coe

Huntsville Historical Review

No abstract provided.

Institutional Members

East Texas Historical Journal

No abstract provided.

Carolyn Hester: Texas Songbird, C R. Burns

East Texas Historical Journal

No abstract provided.

An Insider's Guide To Notre Dame Law School, Notre Dame Law School

About the Law School

We are thrilled to be among the first to receive you into our family. We know that this is an exciting time for you and that, if you are anything like we were just a couple of years ago, you probably have plenty of questions about law school and Notre Dame. That's why we've prepared the Guide. We hope it will answer many of your questions and that it will provide a window into Notre Dame Law School. We also hope that once you look through that window, you'll be as eager to join us as we are to have …

Kington, Donald Mason, B. 1928 (Mss 475), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 475. Typewritten draft, with corrections, of Donald M. Kington’s book Forgotten Summers: The Story of the Citizens’ Military Training Camps, 1921-1940. The book chronicles the one-month-long camps run every summer by the U.S. Army to give young volunteers the experience of soldiering. The book was published in 1995.

Mayhew, Cornelius Harmon, 1872-1963 (Sc 2768), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2768. Certificate certifying the election of Cornelius H. Mayhew as justice of the peace for the 6th District in Allen County, Kentucky, 1925. Also includes a group photo featuring the sheriff of Allen County, A. Lee Williams (center with hat), and Mayhew (back row, far left).

Lawrence, Ruth, 1892-1969 (Mss 476), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 476. Letters, written mostly to Ruth Lawrence in North Carolina and Louisville, Kentucky, genealogical notes, and Ruth’s domestic science notebook. Many of the letters are from or concern her relatives in the Goodnight, Moulder and Lawrence families of Kentucky, Texas and Tennessee.

Borders, Forest, 1893-1971 (Sc 1173), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1173. Miscellaneous materials from Forest Borders, including newspaper clippings, magazine articles, and advertising related to his Borders Pure Milk Company of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Also includes a soil conservation plan with maps for his Warren County farm.

Ua68/1/3 Arts & Letters, Vol. 4, No. 2, Wku Potter College Of Arts & Letters

WKU Administration Documents

Magazine created by WKU Potter College of Arts & Letters regarding faculty and student research, events and programs.

History @ Eiu (October 2013), History

History at Eastern

No abstract provided.

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (Oct. 2013), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter

No abstract provided.

What They Left Behind: Reclaiming The Unknown History Of World War Ii, Melissa Patricio

World War II – Related Research Projects

From 2011 to 2013 RWU student Thanasi Metropoulos interviewed fifteen WW II veterans living in the East Bay. Melissa Patricio's article in RWU Magazine provides more information about Thanasi's project and some of the veterans he interviewed.

South Union Messenger (Fall 2013), Kentucky Library Research Collections

South Union Messenger

No abstract provided.

Traces Volume 41, Number 3, 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.

Do You Doodle?, Natalie S. Sherif

Blogging the Library

If you were, are, or will become a student, then you have probably thought about doodling during class. Fear not! We are not the only generation to draw in the midst of a lecture. Today’s research escapade led me to investigate George Currier’s notes from his time as a student at the Medical Department of Pennsylvania College. [excerpt]

Field And Factory: Chinese Revolutionary Posters, Molly E. Reynolds

Schmucker Art Catalogs

The images on display for Field and Factory, political propaganda used by the Communist Party of China during the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, construct a fictitious world. In perceiving these kinds of illustrations, the audience is asked either to visualize the society in its ideal form or unify in opposition to a national enemy. In the first half of the twentieth century, before the possibilities of the television advertisement were fully realized, posters were one of the most popular forms of propaganda: cheap to produce in mass quantities and simple enough to hang in any public building. The art form’s …