Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Cultural History Commons

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

United States History

Western Kentucky University

Keyword
Publication Year
Publication
Publication Type
File Type

Articles 1 - 30 of 495

Full-Text Articles in Cultural History

Bibliography, Donna C. Parker Jan 2023

Bibliography, Donna C. Parker

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Bibliography of publications by Donna Parker.


Bibliography, Anthony Harkins Jan 2023

Bibliography, Anthony Harkins

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Bibliography of publications by Anthony Harkins.


1850 Monroe County, Kentucky Slave Census, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 2019

1850 Monroe County, Kentucky Slave Census, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Research Collections

Slaves were listed by owner, not individually. Listed by column number, enumerators recorded the following information:

Name of owner

Number of slave

Each owner's slave was only assigned a number, not a name. Numbering restarted with each new owner Age Sex

Color: "B" if the slave was Black and an "M" if they were Mulatto.

Listed in the same row as the owner, the number of uncaught escaped slaves in the past year Listed in the same row as the owner, the number of slaves freed from bondage in the past year Is the slave "deaf and dumb, blind, insane, …


A Few Comments About The Unfair Criticisms Of Abraham And Mary Lincoln Or Two Sides Of A Penny, Rebecca Clark Jan 2017

A Few Comments About The Unfair Criticisms Of Abraham And Mary Lincoln Or Two Sides Of A Penny, Rebecca Clark

The Student Researcher: A Phi Alpha Theta Publication

There are a tremendous number of books and articles printed about Abraham and Mary Lincoln. They comment, critique, and analyze every aspect of their lives before, during, and after the Lincoln Presidency. No triviality has been deemed too small or inconsequential to dwell upon and debate. In fact, the Lincolns, from the beginning of Abraham’s courtship of Mary Todd to after the fatal assassination, were treated unfairly and subjected to false attacks by the press, public, and family members for self-serving agendas, and nefarious purposes. Despite her family’s qualms over her choice of a husband, Mary saw in Abrahamqualities others …


The Student Researcher 2016 (Title Page, Preface, Table Of Contents), Selena Sanderfer Faculty Advisor Jan 2016

The Student Researcher 2016 (Title Page, Preface, Table Of Contents), Selena Sanderfer Faculty Advisor

The Student Researcher: A Phi Alpha Theta Publication

No abstract provided.


Colonels, Hillbillies And Fightin’: Twentieth-Century Kentucky In The National Imagination, Anthony Harkins Apr 2015

Colonels, Hillbillies And Fightin’: Twentieth-Century Kentucky In The National Imagination, Anthony Harkins

History Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Tennessee’S Black Postwar Emigration Movements, 1866–1880, Selena Sanderfer Jan 2014

Tennessee’S Black Postwar Emigration Movements, 1866–1880, Selena Sanderfer

History Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Factoring Guilt: Determining Blame During The Salem Witch Trials, John R. Bergman Jr. Jan 2014

Factoring Guilt: Determining Blame During The Salem Witch Trials, John R. Bergman Jr.

The Student Researcher: A Phi Alpha Theta Publication

No abstract provided.


Mammoth Cave, Slavery, And Kentucky: Overcoming The Chains That Bind, Susan Farmer Jan 2014

Mammoth Cave, Slavery, And Kentucky: Overcoming The Chains That Bind, Susan Farmer

The Student Researcher: A Phi Alpha Theta Publication

No abstract provided.


Went Off To The Shakers: The First Converts Of South Union, William R. Black May 2013

Went Off To The Shakers: The First Converts Of South Union, William R. Black

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

In 1807 the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (Shakers)
established a society near the Gasper River in Logan County, Kentucky. The society was soon named South Union, and it lasted until 1922, the longest-lasting Shaker community west of the Appalachians. Most of the first Shaker converts in Logan County had only a few years beforehand participated in a series of evangelical Presbyterian camp meetings known collectively as the Kentucky Revival, the Revival of 1800, or the Great Revival.Though Presbyterian revivalism and Shakerism shared certain characteristics (particularl millennialism and enthusiastic forms of worship), there were many differences between …


Ua12/2/33 Whips & Chains, Wku Association For The Study Of African American Life & History Feb 2013

Ua12/2/33 Whips & Chains, Wku Association For The Study Of African American Life & History

WKU Archives Records

Invitation to first WKU Association for the Study of African American Life & History event entitled Whips & Chains.


Preserving Our Cemeteries_ Action Steps To Making It Happen.Jpg, Sue Lynn Mcdaniel Nov 2012

Preserving Our Cemeteries_ Action Steps To Making It Happen.Jpg, Sue Lynn Mcdaniel

SCL Faculty and Staff Publications

This article resulted from attending Preservation Kentucky's "Our History Rests Here: Preservation and Restoration of Historic Cemeteries" workshop. As a member of the Warren County Cemetery Board, the author gives 15 practical steps for cemetery enthusiasts, property owners and family members. It informs its readers how to get in touch with the author and encourages local citizens to get involved.


Ruff, Joseph Carl (Fa 166), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2012

Ruff, Joseph Carl (Fa 166), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 166. Project titled “African American education in south central Kentucky, 1920-1960.” Interviews with twenty-nine African Americans regarding their experiences as students and teachers in fourteen Kentucky counties.


Miller, Carl Haskell, 1889-1964 (Sc 2587), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2012

Miller, Carl Haskell, 1889-1964 (Sc 2587), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2587. Daily diary and journal of Carl Haskell Miller, Tompkinsville, Kentucky. A manager on the Chautauqua circuit, Miller writes in a detailed but lighthearted way of his family, his life at home and of his travels in the United States and Mexico. He also reproduces some of his personal and professional correspondence, and writes of his mother’s death in 1927.


Hast, Louis H., Sr., 1827-1890 (Sc 2588), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2012

Hast, Louis H., Sr., 1827-1890 (Sc 2588), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2588. Bound volume of selected works, short biography, and miscellaneous items and tributes to Louis H. Hast, Sr., Louisville, Kentucky. This volume was compiled by his daughter Emma Wilder Hast, and presented to the Filson Club by Lisette Hast, both of Louisville, Kentucky.


Hal Lindsey's The Late, Great Planet Earth And The Rise Of Popular Premillennialism In The 1970s, Cortney S. Basham Aug 2012

Hal Lindsey's The Late, Great Planet Earth And The Rise Of Popular Premillennialism In The 1970s, Cortney S. Basham

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

How people think about the end of the world greatly affects how they live in the present. This thesis examines how popular American thought about “the end of the world” has been greatly affected by Hal Lindsey’s 1970 popular prophecy book The Late, Great Planet Earth. LGPE sold more copies than any other non-fiction book in the 1970s and greatly aided the mainstreaming of “end-times” ideas like the Antichrist, nuclear holocaust, the Rapture, and various other concepts connected with popular end-times thought. These ideas stem from a specific strain of late-nineteenth century Biblical interpretation known as dispensational premillennialism, which …


Nelson, James S. (Fa 161), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Nelson, James S. (Fa 161), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 161. This collection contains a master’s thesis entitled “Hillbilly Music and Early Live Radio Programming In Bowling Green and Glasgow, Kentucky: Country Music as a Local Phenomenon,” written by James Nelson in January 1994 for the department of Modern Languages and Intercultural Studies at Western Kentucky University. Also included is a cassette tape of old-time music from south central Kentucky entitled “Railroad Through the Smoky Mountains,” by Jim Bowles, as well as an obituary for Jonell F. Simunick.


Strange Collection (Mss 42), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2012

Strange Collection (Mss 42), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 42. Correspondence, 1864-1878 (8); journal, 1852-1883; scrapbooks (2); Manuscript: “House of Madison and McDowell in Kentucky,” 1888; family genealogical data; slave records; etc., of Agatha (Rochester) Strange, 1832-1896, a lifelong resident of Bowling Green, Kentucky.


Deatherage, Jamie (Fa 312), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Deatherage, Jamie (Fa 312), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 312. Paper: "[Ziggy]" written by Jamie Deatherage for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.


Underwood, Henry Lewis, 1848-1925 (Mss 72), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2008

Underwood, Henry Lewis, 1848-1925 (Mss 72), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 72. Photocopies of correspondence, diary, legal papers, speeches, poems, photographs, and newspaper clippings of the Underwood family of Warren County, Kentucky, chiefly concerning Henry Lewis Underwood.


Price Family Collection (Mss 226), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2008

Price Family Collection (Mss 226), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 226. Chiefly courtship correspondence between Robert Yancy Price, Rockfield, Kentucky and his girlfriend and future wife, Virginia Eva Dalton, Scottsville, Kentucky. Also includes information about Price's death and subsequent letters sent to Virginia by friends and family members.


Stamps, Rosalyn Marie (Gourley), 1919-2008 - Collector (Mss 223), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2008

Stamps, Rosalyn Marie (Gourley), 1919-2008 - Collector (Mss 223), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 223. Three recipe books collected by Rosalyn Marie (Gourley) Stamps; eight yearbooks, correspondence, and miscellaneous items from the Mabel Thomas Garden Club, Bowling Green, Kentucky.


Stone, Dan Ray, 1921-2007 (Mss 196), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2008

Stone, Dan Ray, 1921-2007 (Mss 196), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 196. Letters sent to Stone and his mother, Nelle Stone, Bowling Green, Kentucky, during World War II from friends in armed service around the world. Includes letters, holiday greeting cards, telegrams, V-mail and postcards. Almost all correspondents were members of a local fraternal club known as the Senators which was composed of graduates of Bowling Green High School.


Knott, Sarah Gertrude, 1895-1984 (Fa 317), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2008

Knott, Sarah Gertrude, 1895-1984 (Fa 317), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 317. Transcript of an interview with Sarah Gertrude Knott conducted by Patty Harrington for a paper written by Harrington for a University of Virginia English class.


Perkins & Young Collection, 1859, 1905-1917 (Mss 220), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2008

Perkins & Young Collection, 1859, 1905-1917 (Mss 220), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 220. Account book (359 p.) for the "Old Kinlock" store located on the Portage Railroad in the Delafield community, northwest of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Pages 1-280 contain the records of the store; pages 281-359 include rental agreements and payments made to Young & Perkins for properties in the area.


Bradley, Robert Michael, 1947-2006 - Collector (Sc 1663), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Bradley, Robert Michael, 1947-2006 - Collector (Sc 1663), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1663. Items from the Bradley and Gerard families, chiefly concerning their Bowling Green, Kentucky undertaking business. Includes information related to the funeral service of Martha "Mattie" Jane (Buchanan) Gerard.


Jones, Edwina Chandler, 1911-2002 (Sc 1661), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Jones, Edwina Chandler, 1911-2002 (Sc 1661), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1661. Correspondence between Edwina Chandler Jones and Betty Boyd Lyne, chiefly related to their families and mutual friends, Jones's travel and church activities, and her move from Bowling Green to Lakewood Manor Baptist Retirement Home in Richmond, Virginia.


Autograph Album (Sc 1664), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Autograph Album (Sc 1664), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 1664. Autograph album kept by a girl named "Nellie" and signed by a number of her friends in Carterville, Missouri.


Alford, Florence (Marshall), 1920-2001 (Sc 1662), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Alford, Florence (Marshall), 1920-2001 (Sc 1662), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1662. Copy of letter to Florence Alford, Bowling Green, from Larry H. Embry, Bowling Green, related to his illness. Also, her written account of the 1991 fire at Bowling Green's First Baptist Church where she was a member.


Austin - Letters Of (Sc 1656), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Austin - Letters Of (Sc 1656), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1656. Letters from “Austin,” Louisville, Kentucky, to his brother in Mississippi. He laments their shared poor health as well as that of their father and mourns their recently deceased mother, but expresses pleasure at receiving letters from the place where he was born and raised. He indicates his intention to go to Tennessee for a month or two to make some money in the practice of dentistry.