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A Thousand Weddings: The Memoir Of Hope Hart Of West Tennessee Jan 2025

A Thousand Weddings: The Memoir Of Hope Hart Of West Tennessee

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A Thousand Weddings: The Memoir of Hope Hart of West Tennessee

Edited by Marvin Downing

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Pedro Mexía And The Politics Of Translation In The Early Modern World, Erin Fairweather, Robert Fritz Jan 2024

Pedro Mexía And The Politics Of Translation In The Early Modern World, Erin Fairweather, Robert Fritz

Posters-at-the-Capitol

Spanish humanist Pedro Mexía (1497-1551) wrote two highly influential texts in the sixteenth century, the Silva de varia lección (1540) and the Historia imperial y cesárea (1545), which were, notably, written in Spanish, a vernacular language, as opposed to Latin, the academic language of the age. As these books presented previously inaccessible scientific and historical knowledge to the common person, they were soon translated into several languages, achieving widespread fame and influence. However, the texts have been mostly forgotten and have seen little study in recent times. Nevertheless, the Silva and the Historia can help us better understand the politics …

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The Tennessee Valley Authority, Kentucky Dam, And Land Between The Lakes Jan 2024

The Tennessee Valley Authority, Kentucky Dam, And Land Between The Lakes

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The Tennessee Valley Authority, Kentucky Dam, and Land Between The Lakes

Haley Garrison

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Grant, Kaskel, And The Infamous General Order Number 11 Jan 2024

Grant, Kaskel, And The Infamous General Order Number 11

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Grant, Kaskel, and the Infamous General Order Number 11

Roy Hensel

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Tobacco In Calloway County - 1820-1900 Jan 2024

Tobacco In Calloway County - 1820-1900

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Tobacco in Calloway County - 1820-1900

Ricky-Dale Calhoun

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President's Report, July 2023 To June 2024 Jan 2024

President's Report, July 2023 To June 2024

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President's Report, July 2023 to June 2024

Bill Mulligan

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Editor's Remarks Jan 2024

Editor's Remarks

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Editor's Remarks

Bill Mulligan

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Columbus During The Civil War And Reconstruction Jan 2024

Columbus During The Civil War And Reconstruction

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Columbus during the Civil War and Reconstruction

William H. Mulligan, Jr.

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The Desegregation Of Kentucky School Systems Jan 2024

The Desegregation Of Kentucky School Systems

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The Desegregation of Kentucky School Systems

Morgan Brian

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Purchase, People, And Places: Murder And A Man Of The Cloth Jan 2024

Purchase, People, And Places: Murder And A Man Of The Cloth

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Purchase, People, and Places: Murder and a Man of the Cloth

Bobbie Smith Bryant

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Book Reviews Jan 2024

Book Reviews

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Book Reviews

Bourbon's Backroads: A Journey Through Kentucky's Distilling Landscape

River Shows, Blues, Ragtime, Jazz and Country Music: It All Equals Rockabilly, Part One

We Shall Conquer or Die: Partisan Warfare In 1862 Western Kentucky

Faith in Politics: Southern Political Battles Past and Present

Kentucky Quilts and Quiltmakers: Three Centuries of Creativity, Community, and Commerce

Across the Kentucky Color Line: Cultural Landscapes of Race from the Lost Cause to Integration

Rebels on the Border: Civil War, Emancipation and Reconstruction of Kentucky and Missouri

Toward the Corner of Mercy and Peace

Drowned Town

New Perspectives on Civil War Era Kentucky

The …

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Book Reviews Jan 2023

Book Reviews

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Book Reviews

Traces: a novel

The Gospel of Freedom: Black Evangelicals and the Underground Railroad

The Accidental Fame and Lack of Fortune of West Tennessee's David Crockett

Liberty Brought Us Here: The True Story of American Slaves Who Migrated to Liberia

The Finest Place We Know: A Centennial History of Murray State University

A Brutal Reckoning: Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the Epic War for the American South

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"The Dash In-Between": The Life And Lnfluence Of Ned Mcwherter, 46th Governor Of The Great State Of Tennessee Jan 2023

"The Dash In-Between": The Life And Lnfluence Of Ned Mcwherter, 46th Governor Of The Great State Of Tennessee

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"The Dash In-Between": The Life and Influence of Ned McWherter, 46th Governor of the Great State of Tennessee

Gail Perkins Barton

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"Ideal Press Work": The Contributions Of Kentucky Suffrage Press Superintendents To Public Relations History Jan 2023

"Ideal Press Work": The Contributions Of Kentucky Suffrage Press Superintendents To Public Relations History

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"Ideal Press Work": The Contributions of Kentucky Suffrage Press Superintendents to Public Relations History

Melony Shemberger

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A Crime Of Passion In Calloway County Jan 2023

A Crime Of Passion In Calloway County

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A Crime of Passion in Calloway County

Bobby Smith Bryant

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Modernizing Warfare: Us Grant And Military Engineering In The Middle Mississippi Valley During The Civil War Jan 2023

Modernizing Warfare: Us Grant And Military Engineering In The Middle Mississippi Valley During The Civil War

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Modernizing Warfare: US Grant and Military Engineering in the Middle Mississippi Valley during the Civil War

William H. Mulligan, Jr.

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Calloway County Bicentennial Celebration: A Panel Discussion Jan 2023

Calloway County Bicentennial Celebration: A Panel Discussion

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Calloway County Bicentennial Celebration: A Panel Discussion

Bill Mulligan, Bobby Smith Bryant, Gina Winchester, Randy Patterson, and Pat Seiber

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Year In Review July 2022 To June 2023 And President's Report Jan 2023

Year In Review July 2022 To June 2023 And President's Report

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President's Report: July 2022 - June 2023

Bill Mulligan

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Editor's Remarks Jan 2023

Editor's Remarks

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Editor's Remarks

James S. Humphreys

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The Contradiction Of The Welfare Dictatorship: The Stasi’S Role In Preserving And Undermining East German Human Rights, Mallory Wooldridge May 2022

The Contradiction Of The Welfare Dictatorship: The Stasi’S Role In Preserving And Undermining East German Human Rights, Mallory Wooldridge

Honors College Theses

Constructed four years after WWII in a kind of pendulum swing response to the Third Reich, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) was an experiment in socialism. Under the Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands (The Socialist Unity Party of Germany, SED) no East German was to go hungry, unemployment would be eradicated, housing guaranteed, women treated as equals, and human rights interwoven into the fabric of this socialist society. However, SED socialism in practice did not conform to this original vision and would eventually represent the disillusionment with the socialist project as a whole.

This project seeks to understand human rights in the …

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The Rhetoric Of Suffrage Cook Books Jan 2022