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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

Folklife Archives 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

Manuscript Collection 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.


Wayne County, Kentucky Project (Fa 23), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Wayne County, Kentucky Project (Fa 23), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid for Folklife Archives Project 23. Oral history interviews with various residents of Wayne County, Kentucky, conducted by Western Kentucky University folk studies students. Topics include the oil industry, folk medicine, water witching, one-room schools and banjo playing.


Hillbillies, Rednecks, Crackers And White Trash, Anthony Harkins Jan 2012

Hillbillies, Rednecks, Crackers And White Trash, Anthony Harkins

History Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Butler County, Nancy Richey Jan 2012

Butler County, Nancy Richey

SCL Faculty and Staff Book Gallery

Butler County, located in the south-central part of the state, was the commonwealth’s 53rd county. Settlers moving into the area thought they had found “a little bit of heaven”—a virgin forest of oak, poplar, chestnut, hickory, and walnut and an abundance of wild game. Out of this wilderness developed a county rich in tradition, with many contributions to state and national history. It has been said that, for its population, the county has produced more notable people than any other in the nation. This list including two governors, an attorney general of Kentucky, a chief justice of the Kentucky Supreme …


Protestant Nuns As Depictions Of Piety In Lutheran Funeral Sermons, Kathryn Dillinger Dec 2011

Protestant Nuns As Depictions Of Piety In Lutheran Funeral Sermons, Kathryn Dillinger

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Protestant nuns, Stiftsdamen, fulfilled a unique role in early modern Lutheran society. This papers focuses on the implied social roles and expected virtues of Protestant nuns [Stiftsdamen] in the works of male Lutheran pastors who supported Protestant theological positions that promoted marriage as the proper place for women, and yet who also praised unmarried female monastics in funeral sermons [Leichenpredigten]. Lutheran pastors wrote funeral sermons for both Stiftsdamen and married women, funeral sermons display similarities or differences between what virtues, characteristics, and displays of piety for women. A comparison will also be made between funeral …


Barren County, Nancy Richey Jan 2010

Barren County, Nancy Richey

SCL Faculty and Staff Book Gallery

Barren County, located in the heart of south central Kentucky, was formed in 1799 and is the commonwealth’s 13th largest county. Pioneers found the land without the usual, extensive wooded areas and so it looked barren to them in comparison. The area is anything but “barren,” as its land and population have been productive in agriculture, commerce, education, medicine, and the military. Voted in 2007 by Progressive Farmer magazine as the “Best Place to Live in Rural America,” the county has also produced one of the South’s first African American mayors, two governors, renowned musicians, a Pulitzer Prize winner, two …


Bowling Green Stock Car Racing, Jonathan Jeffrey, Larry Upton Jan 2010

Bowling Green Stock Car Racing, Jonathan Jeffrey, Larry Upton

SCL Faculty and Staff Book Gallery

Bowling Green became the city of speed immediately after World War II as America began its love affair with the automobile. Stock car racing took the city by storm in its inaugural season of 1951, drawing crowds of up to 7,000 in a city of only 18,000. Soon thereafter, the city attracted the Chevrolet Corvette assembly plant followed by the National Corvette Museum. Images of Sports: Bowling Green Stock Car Racing documents the history of stock car racing in Bowling Green and the emergence of the raceway at Beech Bend Park.


Ua100/2/7 Training School & College High Student Projects, Wku Archives Jan 2010

Ua100/2/7 Training School & College High Student Projects, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Projects created by students at the training school.


Historic Eastern Woodland Native American Days, Christy L. Spurlock Jan 2009

Historic Eastern Woodland Native American Days, Christy L. Spurlock

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

The purpose of this publication is to serve as a guide for teachers who may wish to host their own version of Historic Eastern Woodland Native American Days for a single classroom, grade level, school or entire district.


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

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

Folklife Archives 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

Manuscript Collection 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

Manuscript Collection 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

Manuscript Collection 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

Manuscript Collection 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

Folklife Archives 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

Manuscript Collection 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

Manuscript Collection 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.


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

Autograph Album (Sc 1664), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection 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.


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

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

Manuscript Collection 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.


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

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

Manuscript Collection 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

Manuscript Collection 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.


Elrod, Pamela Jean, B. 1959 (Sc 1652), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Elrod, Pamela Jean, B. 1959 (Sc 1652), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1652. Girl Scout autograph book and membership card for Pamela Jean Elrod, Valley Station, Kentucky. Also includes a card indicating completion of a basic canoeing course with the Red Cross and an "Eagle Guardian Pledge" issued by the Florida Audubon Society.


Bailey, Jefferson Davis, 1914-2011 (Sc 1650), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Bailey, Jefferson Davis, 1914-2011 (Sc 1650), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1650. Detailed memory book created about the life of Jefferson Davis Bailey, who lived most of his life in Owensboro, Kentucky. The book was compiled by his daughter, Brenda (Bailey) Little, Hartford, Kentucky.


Pearson Family Collection (Mss 222), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Pearson Family Collection (Mss 222), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 222. Correspondence of the Pearson family, of Bowling Green, Kentucky, chiefly letters from Carroll Pearson to his wife Patricia while he is in basic training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. The collection also contains letters sent to Carroll from his parents and letters sent to Patricia from her parents and friends.


Mcdonald, Kittie A., 1894-1922 (Sc 1645), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Mcdonald, Kittie A., 1894-1922 (Sc 1645), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1645. Three letters to Kittie McDonald, Woodburn, Kentucky and Lafayette, Tennessee concerning work, family and social activities. Also includes a 1904 receipt for eye care and her 1921 photograph.


Stone, Eva Mae, 1918-1977 (Sc 1639), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Stone, Eva Mae, 1918-1977 (Sc 1639), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1639. Letters sent to Bowling Green, Kentucky native Eva Mae Stone by cousins George and Charles Shanks and friend John Mullins who were serving in the armed forces during World War II. Includes photograph of Mullins in uniform standing before the U.S. Capitol.


Hobday Collection (Mss 85), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Hobday Collection (Mss 85), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 85. Genealogical materials revolving chiefly around the Hobday family of Tennessee and Kentucky as researched and collected by Bob Law, Nashville, Tennessee.


Griffin, Samuel Allen, 1892-1979 (Mss 208), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2008

Griffin, Samuel Allen, 1892-1979 (Mss 208), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 208. Collection includes two memoirs related to the boyhood of Samuel Allen Griffin in Sumner County, Tennessee and his railroad career: "A Country Boy" and "My 50 Years Service with the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company." Also, a magazine article about Griffin.