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Spiller, Mary Jane (Singletary), 1841-1939 (Sc 2448), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan for Manuscripts Small Collection 2448. Typescripted memoir by Mary Jane Singletary of her Civil War experiences in Louisiana. She provides data about her family's military service, their efforts to evade Union blockades of Baton Rouge, and of protecting their possessions from Union troops. Also includes a reminiscence of Elise Talmage Lieb which mentions Spiller and a photograph of Spiller.

How To Sap The Romance: America's National Killingfield Parks, John M. Rudy

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

"Maybe they should call them Killingfields instead of Battlefields..." [excerpt]

Davis, William P., B. 1840? (Sc 175), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 175. Confederate Civil War diary kept by William P. Davis, of the Enterprise Guards, Company B, 14th Mississippi Infantry, from April-December 1861. The diary covers his company’s tour of duty from Corinth, Mississippi through Tennessee to Kentucky. A major portion concerns Bowling Green, Kentucky and vicinity. Includes a muster roll and guard lists for Company B. Also includes a typescript of the narrative portions of the diary.

Phelps, Frank M. (Sc 2447), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text letter (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2447. Letter of Frank M. Phelps, serving with a Wisconsin regiment at Camp Abercrombie, Shepherdsville, Kentucky, to his aunt Lydia C. Tibbits in Appleton, Wisconsin. He describes the Shepherdsville area and its connection to Daniel Boone, and discusses investing his soldier's pay.

The John H. Crawford Papers: Letters From The Civil War., Holly Young

Undergraduate Honors Theses

The purpose of my thesis research was to transcribe a collection of letters to John H. Crawford about the formation and actions of the Sixtieth Tennessee Infantry (Confederate) in Jonesboro during the Civil War, annotate them, and provide an introduction that details the events and people described in the letters. These letters are important because they describe first-hand the process of formation of this Confederate infantry unit in an area of East Tennessee that predominately supported the Union. The letters themselves can be found in the Archives of Appalachia at East Tennessee State University’s Charles C. Sherrod Library.

Jones, John Rutherford, 1837-1907 (Sc 171), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 171. Civil War discharge papers of John Rutherford Jones, Butler County, Kentucky, from Kentucky regiments of the Union Army, 1862, 1865. Includes promissory note, 1869, assigned to Jones.

Harreld, Temple D., 1839-1915 (Sc 227), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 227. Pension notification, 17 October 1870, from the Department of the Interior, Pension Office, to Temple D. Harreld, Morgantown, Butler County, Kentucky.

Hoffman, Marvin G., 1878-1907 (Sc 222), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 222.  Photocopy of diary kept by Marvin G. Hoffman, Tiffin, Ohio while serving in the Ohio National Guard and the 2^nd Ohio Infantry, chiefly during the period of the Spanish American War. Hoffman gives a good picture of his training and of life in the Ohio, Georgia, and Tennessee camps where he was stationed.

Wilkerson, William D., 1831-1893 (Sc 170), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 170. Kentucky militia commission certifcate, 1851, inspirational essay, 1852, and oath of allegiance, 1863, of William D. Wilkerson, Simpson County, Kentucky; receipts issued at Military Prison, Louisville, Kentucky, for prisoner William Gladish, 1864; and a remedy for cancer.

A War Within World War Ii: Racialized Masculinity And Citizenship Of Japanese Americans And Korean Colonial Subjects, Jeffrey Yamashita

History Honors Projects

Even though the Pacific Ocean stands as an aqueous wall between Japan and the United States, World War II exposed the shared relationship between these two nations in their utilization of racial minority populations for the war effort. I interrogate the intersections of gender identity, race, and citizenship of Japanese Americans and Korean colonial subjects in the Japanese Empire during World War II.  Specifically, I compare Japanese Americans—soldiers of the segregated Japanese American100^th/442^nd Regimental Combat Team, draft resisters from Heart Mountain, and prisoners of war—with Korean colonial subjects—soldiers who fought for the Imperial Japanese Army— and hope …

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (May 2011), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Watwood, Warren G., 1922-1996 - Collector (Sc 167), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 167. Civil War disability exemption certificate of Felix Crady, LaRue County, Kentucky, 1864; Simpson County, Kentucky deed, 1868; statement of Nazareth College, Nelson County, Kentucky, 1868; and an agreement concerning construction of the foundation for Franklin Female College, Franklin, Kentucky.

The Economics Of The Atomic Bomb: Cost And Utilization, Jonathan M. Davis Mr.

Senior Honors Theses

Few moments in human history can be compared to the culmination of events that brought the atomic bomb into creation.  It is incredible to contemplate that while a nation was fighting a two front war that spanned from Europe into the Pacific, that the United States was able to utilize the time, energy, brains, materials, manpower, and capital to complete a project in four years. That under any other circumstances would have taken greater than half a century to complete.

First, this thesis will discuss breakthroughs in research that led scientists to believe that the atomic weapons could be built, …

Baird, Nancy Disher, B. 1935 - Collector (Sc 2443), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2443. Letter, 17 October 1863, to Ellen Fort from two Confederate soldiers imprisoned at Camp Douglas, Illinois; correspondence of Nell Bate Baird regarding her membership in the American Federation of Musicians, 1930; and 1936 federal income tax return of H. H. Baird and Nell Baird, Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Phillips, Clem Benjamin, 1894-1970 (Mss 365), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 365.  Letters of Clem Benjamin Phillips of St. Peters, Missouri, written during his World War I military training in Kansas and New Jersey and while serving in France.  Includes correspondence of other Phillips family members and relatives.

Baer, Levi W., 1839-1905 (Sc 2441), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2441. Letter from Levi W. Baer, serving with an Indiana regiment in the Union Army, to his cousin Benjamin Kenaga. Baer writes of his regiment’s expected movements, his anticipation of action at Bowling Green, Kentucky, and of conditions in his regiment, including the lack of food.

Holstein, Otto, 1883-1934 (Sc 2433), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2433. Memorandum, 1 September 1917, to Brigade Commander of 1st Brigade, Kentucky Infantry from Otto Holstein, Captain, Signal Corps, and Provost Marshall of Lexington, Kentucky, reporting on an altercation between military police officers and African Americans. Includes a newspaper clipping about the incident.

Pacifying Violence: The Ethics And Responsibility Of Living In A Militarized Society, Kevin Milne '11

Honor Scholar Theses

No abstract provided.

Kouwenbergh, Ella, 1871-1965 - Collector (Sc 129), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 129. Revolutionary War pension papers of Nicholas Carter, Nelson County, Kentucky, 1837; letter of James Carothers written from Bowling Green, Kentucky to his wife Rebecca in Shirleysburg, Pennsylvania describing the construction of the bridge over Barren River (College Street Bridge), 1838 and accompanying 1938 letter; Civil War envelopes; and Jefferson County land abstract, 1877.

South Kingstown’S Own: A Biographical Sketch Of Isaac Peace Rodman Brigadier General, Robert E. Gough

Special Collections (Miscellaneous)

No abstract provided.

Walking The Tightrope: The United States’ Policy In Vietnam, 1952-1954, Erin Flynn

Annual Celebration of Student Scholarship and Creativity

This thesis demonstrates how the Truman and Eisenhower administrations sought to avoid direct intervention in Indochina and halt the spread of communism at the same time. This purpose is achieved through careful analysis of primary and secondary sources, with a particular focus on the primary documentation found in Foreign Relations of the United States: 1952-1954. Through examination of these day-by-day recordings and memos, the futility of pursuing the two conflicting aims becomes clear.

The Archduke Carl And The Realities Of Habsburg Warfare From 1793-1814: Less Change Then You Thought, Lee W. Eysturlid

Faculty Publications & Research

The Archduke Carl of Teschen, victor of Stockach and Aspern, and the Habsburg Monarchy’s most famous commander of the age, was an unrepentant opponent of unlimited war; the type of war which he believed had been released by the forces of the French Revolution. To counter these new so-called realities, he looked to “limit” the impact of war through a combination of the Early Modern re-invention of Roman military principles, appeals to service, and the tenets of Theresian Catholicism. In the end, Carl responded to the “emotional,” read nationalistic, forces of the French with Habsburg revanche. This paper will …

Review Of A Question Of Command: Counterinsurgency From The Civil War To Iraq, Gregory A. Daddis

History Faculty Articles and Research

A review of A Question of Command: Counterinsurgency from the Civil War to Iraq, by Mark Moyar.

The Atomic Testing Museum, Las Vegas, Nevada, Angela Moor

Psi Sigma Siren

The Atomic Testing Museum attempts to interpret history that has barely ended. The controversy and emotion that surround nuclear weapons remain fresh in many Americans‘ minds. The museum must walk a careful line when interpreting such recent history. Few other American history museums offer interpretation of the Cold War, and certainly, the Atomic Testing Museum stands as the sole museum dedicated to atomic testing. As years go by, and the memory of the mushroom cloud floating on the Nevada desert fades, the museum may feel more comfortable in providing a balanced narrative on atomic testing. For now, as retired "Cold …

The Octofoil, April/May/June 2011, Ninth Infantry Division Association

The Octofoil

The Octofoil is the offical publication of the Ninth Infantry Division Association, Inc., an organization formed by the officers and men of the 9th Infantry Division in order to perpetuate the memory of fallen comrades, preserve the esprit de corps of the Division, promote peace and serve as an information bureau about the 9th Infantry Division. The Association is made up of 9th Infantry veterans from WWII and Vietnam, spouses, widows and lineal descendants.

Holder, R. D. - Collector (Sc 124), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 124. Letters, 1864, written by John P. Hill, Civil War prisoner at Rock Island, Illinois, to his uncle, John Meadows, Tompkinsville, Kentucky, concerning his imprisonment, and his miscellaneous family letters, 1861.

Mckenna, George (Sc 2430), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2430.  Letters to George McKenna, of Brooklyn, New York, written while he was serving with the 101^st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Kentucky and in Vietnam.  Friends write of their college, military, work and social lives.  McKenna’s mother provides family news.  Includes two of McKenna’s letters to a friend and to a young woman he met while on leave in Australia.

Cuppy, John W. (Sc 1080), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1080. Letter, 19 December 1862, from John W. Cuppy, serving in Bowling Green with an Illinois regiment, to Dr. Samuel Wiley in Earlville, Illinois. Cuppy writes of his illness and describes conditions in Bowling Green, particularly respecting hospitals and patients. He also comments on Confederate sympathies in the city and troop readiness for an attack. Includes a summary of another letter by Cuppy to Wiley dated 19 September 1862 describing his regiment’s activities near Louisville.

Hagerman, Bettie (Robertson), 1867-1926 (Sc 116), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 116. Papers of Bettie Hagerman, Bowling Green, Kentucky, City Food Chairman of the Red Cross of Warren County, Kentucky, which relate to an endeavor to raise $10,000 by combining with the Fair Association and serving food contributed by donors.

Gingles, Mabel (Mercer), 1891-1970 - Collector (Sc 114), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 114. Chiefly letters written by William Harris to his wife, Louranah Harris, Bowling Green, Kentucky, in which he details his experiences as a California Gold Rush adventurer, 1850-1852 (9 items); other letters describe Texas in 1855 and Civil War activities at Corinth, Mississippi, 1862. Also Bowling Green Home Telephone Company stock certificate, 1913.