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Eschatological Avengers Or Messianic Saviors? Violence And Physical Strength In The Vernacular Legend Of The Red Jews, Rebekka Voss

Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History

The vernacular legend of the Red Jews allows us to explore the relationship of violence, physical strength and power during the early modern period, extending the traditional treatment of Jews and violence in that era. Violence is often linked to power and physical strength. Violence is typically associated with ruling authorities and the realm of the majority, rather than in the hands of an oppressed minority, as in case of Diaspora Jewry, which has been identified with victimhood. Moreover, in historiography, the perception of Jews as targets of aggression perpetrated by “the other,” whether Christian or Muslim, corresponds to the …

Plague And Violence Against Jews In Early Modern Europe, Samuel Cohn

Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History

Based on Italian chronicles and archival sources Samuel Cohn examined questions of violence against Jews during plague.

Garnett, Joseph Fauntleroy, 1901-1973 (Sc 1106), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1106. Holographic copy of a radio speech, [1934?], delivered by Democrat Joseph Fauntleroy Garnett, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, seeking his party’s nomination as a candidate for the Kentucky state senate representing Christian and Hopkins Counties. Also, another radio speech [1934?], typed with holographic changes. Includes 14 June 1933 document from the Secretary of State acknowledging his declaration as a candidate, and receipt for printing 500 placards, 1935.

Ada News - 08/19/2013, American Dental Association, Publishing Division

ADA News

Established in 1970 as the official newspaper of the American Dental Association, the ADA News serves practicing dentists and others allied to the dental profession in the U.S. and internationally. It is the No. 1 source of news and information about the many benefits and services the ADA delivers to members daily as well as timely information on scientific, social, political and economic developments affecting dentistry and health care.

Doughty, Kyllie (Sc 1103), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1103. Paper: "Remembrances of Summer 1944,” written by Doughty for a Western Kentucky University class. She based her paper on her interview with her Louisville, Kentucky, grandmother, concerning life after her husband enlisted in the U.S. Navy, during World War II, and before he was sent overseas.

Civil War, 1861-1965 - Pensions (Sc 1102), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1102. Materials related to Civil War pension claim of Thomas J. Winfrey, Russell County, Kentucky, and his widow, Mary (Sharp) Winfrey. Also includes document certifying the death of Corporal Hugh A. Sharp on 18 July 1863 in a hospital in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

Backus, William, 1847-1938 - Relating To (Sc 1101), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1101. Correspondence, 1974-1975, between Riley Handy, Bowling Green, Kentucky, and Roy F. Porter, Lexington, Kentucky, related to Porter’s grandfather William Backus. A stonecutter, Backus did the work on the columns and capstones of the Warren County courthouse and the stone arch on the north side of Fountain Square in downtown Bowling Green.

Logan County, Kentucky - Caves (Sc 1104), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1104. Two letters written 24 August 1964 by Rosa R. Head, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to Jane Morningstar, Bowling Green. Head gives a firsthand description of Cook’s Cave in Logan County. Her parents owned the farm on which the cave was located and she grew up there.

St. Mary's Catholic Church - Franklin, Kentucky (Sc 1105), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1105. Unpublished history (30p.) of St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Franklin, Kentucky, written by Father John A. Lyons, Louisville. Lyons’ accompanying letter relates information about his paper.

Lanthorn, Vol. 48, No. 02, August 19, 2013, Grand Valley State University

Volume 48, July 1, 2013 - June 2, 2014

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

Killed Or Be Killed. Realities And Representations Of Violence In Seventeenth-Century Ukraine, Adam Teller

Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History

Based on sources related to the 1648 Chmielnicki Uprising, Adam Teller examined "The Realities and Representations of Violence in Seventeenth Century Ukraine"

2013 Emw: Jews And Violence In The Early Modern Period, Emw 2013

Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History

The 2013 Early Modern Workshop on “Jews and Violence in the Early Modern Period” sought to contextualize the violence involving Jews in the early modern period in order to understand this crucial aspect of their experience. Participating scholars tried to complicate not only the over-simplified notion of Jews as solely victims of violence in the premodern period, but also examined complexities of the question of Jews as victims of violence.

Keynote address by Robert Davis of Ohio State University, "Typologies of Violence in Early Modern Europe"

Missionary Mary Ann Simmons Cheever

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Cynthia Burroughs

African American Funeral Programs

Cynthia_Burroughs.pdf - Funeral program for Cynthia Burroughs

Brown, Phil (Mrs.) - Letter To (Sc 2759), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2759. Letter, 24 September 1927, to Mrs. Phil Brown, Kansas City, Missouri, describing a trip to Pewee Valley, Kentucky. The unnamed writer describes visiting sites associated with Annie Fellows Johnston’s Little Colonel series and conversing with residents familiar with its characters. Includes photographs of the approach road to “The Locust,” home of the “Little Colonel,” and the Pewee Valley railroad station.

Wiltse, Jason S., 1843-1874 (Sc 2760), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2760. Diary of Jason S. Wiltse, kept while serving as a corporal with the 23rd Michigan Infantry. He describes the countryside, weather and conditions during his tour of duty in Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee, and notes the names of his correspondents. He also describes the battle of Campbell’s Station near Knoxville, Tennessee, and refers (p. 68) to having been in Bowling Green, Kentucky, on Christmas Day 1862. Includes a photograph of Wiltse in uniform.

Democratic Teaching In Byu’S American Heritage Course: Teaching Citizenship While Improving Learning, Olivia Dahl, Dr. J. Gary Daynes

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Democratic teaching is a topic that is popular among educators. What it essentially means is that students are given opportunities to choose how and possibly what they learn. A major concern in the social sciences is how well schools and universities are preparing students to become responsible and contributing citizens. Dr. J. Gary Daynes and his staff considered these two issues-democratic education and teaching citizenship-in designing the curriculum and teaching methods of an experimental section of American Heritage at BYU in the Winter Semester of 2000.

Life Histories In Kizimkazi Dimbani, Zabzibar, Stephen B. Backman, Dr. David P. Crandall, Gary Burgess

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Kizimkazi Dimbani is a village of just over 1500 people on the southern end of the island of Zanzibar, which is about 50 miles off of the coast of Tanzania. In the fall of 1998 I went to Zanzibar with a group of seven BYU students under the International Study Programs Office in the Kennedy Center. The group performed a variety of research projects including topics focusing on health, conservation biology, village economics, education, and anthropology. My project was based on a study of the relationship between the kinship and political systems of the village. Through our research we were …

“Mommy, Where Do Daddies Come From?”: The Media’S Portrayal Of Wwii Fathers, Melissa Brown, Dr. Mark Grandstaff

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Betty Friedan, in her book, The Feminine Mystique argues that men shape women’s roles through the media, but at some points in time, the reverse has been true. During WWII, Parents’ Magazine, with it’s almost all-woman editorial board and largely female readership produced more articles on fatherhood than all the other parenting magazines put together. As the war dawned, many fathers left to fight, removing the buffering force that kept the magazine’s portrayal of the father’s role grounded in a reality. As a result, during the war years, Parents’ Magazine’s portrayal of fathers changed, as this analysis of over one …

Goodnight, Michael (Lg 444), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 444. Original land grant, 11 March 1790, by which Beverley Randolph, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, granted to Michael Goodnight, assignee of John Wynn, 200 acres in Nelson County, Kentucky.

Mcneel, Joseph And John Mcneel (Lg 443), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Mansucripts Land Grant 443. Original land grant, 17 May 1790, by which Beverley Randolph, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, granted to Joseph McNeel and John McNeel, assignees of James Kelly and Mary Ann (McNeel) Kelly, 400 acres in Nelson County, Kentucky.

Deacon, James (Lg 442), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 442. Original land grant, 21 July 1796, by which James Garrard, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to James Deacon 180 acres in Nelson County, Kentucky. Includes a survey of the land dated 4 November 1795.

Davis, James (Lg 441), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 441. Original land grant, 1 June 1785, by which Patrick Henry, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, granted to James Davis 400 acres in Jefferson County, Virginia (now Nelson County, Kentucky). Includes a survey of the land dated 14 February 1783.

Linn, Benjamin, 1750-1814 (Lg 445), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 445. Original land grant, 1 June 1785, by which Patrick Henry, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, granted to Benjamin Linn, assignee of Gower Severns, 1000 acres in Jefferson County, Virginia (now Nelson County, Kentucky).

Stuff White People Like #1863, Joseph Stephen Slowinski

SURGE

There I sat: sun burning my neck, sweat pouring down my face, watching grown men play at death. I’d been meaning for years to get to Gettysburg to see the reenactment, and this past July, I was lucky enough to be there for the 150th anniversary of the battle. And so there I was, sitting in a grandstand in the middle of a farm in rural Pennsylvania, surrounded by fellow white people, watching a Confederate soldier get shot in the back for pretending to desert in the face of the Union cavalry. He flopped to the ground in front of …

Woman’S Exponent: Chronicling The Relief Society’S Involvement In The Quest For Political Equality, 1900-1914, Paige Tuft, Dr. Rebecca De Schweinitz

Journal of Undergraduate Research

As most of my research tends to do, this project took quite a different turn then originally intended. I intended this research to continue on with the topic of my senior thesis concerning the political activism of women in Utah during the 1920s by adding a different layer to the picture. In my research prior to this, I looked at Utah women in general without really looking at how religious convictions played into the equation. I intended this project to fill in this gap and to produce something I could add to my previous work. As it turns out, this …

Warren County Court - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 2757), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2757. Resolutions of the Warren County Court, Warren County, Kentucky, delivered to Mrs. Catherine Payne expressing sympathy on the death of Edmund Payne.

Steele, John, B. 1772 (Sc 2755), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full text transcription (Click on "Additional Files") of Manuscripts Small Collection 2755. Letter of John Steele, 16 February 1802, written from Bourbon County, Kentucky, to Reverend John Hemphill, Chester County, South Carolina. He describes the behavior of worshippers at the religious revivals in his part of the country, and expresses concern about their departure from orthodox principles of religion.

Howard, Chloe (Miller), 1899-1989 (Sc 2758), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2758. Items related to the teaching career, including salary information, of Chole Howard; includes list of retired teachers in Monroe County, Kentucky (dated 1977) and information about the Mothers' Day program at Skaggs Creek Baptist Church in Monroe County.

Veterinary Medicine, Jeffrey Tucker, Dr. Michael Mackay

Journal of Undergraduate Research

It is not an overstatement to claim that the work Dr. Michael MacKay and I were able to conduct through the benevolence of the ORCA programme represents the cutting of history of medicine research. We have engaged a field that is strikingly underdeveloped, yet extremely relevant to early modern history. Within the last five years the World Association for the History of Veterinary Medicine has fostered new interests in veterinary history throughout this world. Our scholarship questions current interpretations of the emergence of veterinary science and demonstrates that through the creation of organized horse hospitals systematized veterinary medicine developed almost …