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Obituaries - Volume C Part 2, Rowan County Historical Society

Rowan County Histories Collection

Obituaries from Rowan County, Kentucky. Volume C, part 2. Compiled circa 2015.

Obituaries - Volume P, Rowan County Historical Society.

Rowan County Histories Collection

Obituaries of Rowan County, Kentucky. Volume P. Compiled circa 2015.

Obituaries - Volume Q-R, Rowan County Historical Society

Rowan County Histories Collection

Obituaries of Rowan County, Kentucky. Volume Q-R. Compiled circa 2015.

Obituaries - Volume M Part 1, Rowan County Historical Society

Rowan County Histories Collection

Obituaries of Rowan County, Kentucky. Volume M, Part 1. Compiled circa 2015.

Obituaries - Volume W, Rowan County Historical Society

Rowan County Histories Collection

Obituaries of Rowan County, Kentucky. Volume W. Compiled circa 2015.

Obituaries - Volume T-U-V, Rowan County Historical Society

Rowan County Histories Collection

Obituaries of Rowan County, Kentucky. Volume T-U-V. Compiled circa 2015.

Obituaries - Volume S Part 2, Rowan County Historical Society

Rowan County Histories Collection

Obituaries of Rowan County, Kentucky. Volume S, Part 2. Compiled circa 2015.

Coroner's Notes - Volume1, Rowan County Historical Society

Rowan County Histories Collection

Coroner's Notes from Rowan County, Kentucky from the years 1955-1990. Some names may be misspelled. Notes furnished by Michael Gray of the Layne-Stucky-Gray Funeral Home. Transcribed and compiled by Carmilta Evans circa 2015.

Obituaries - Volume S Part 1, Rowan County Historical Society

Rowan County Histories Collection

Obituaries of Rowan County, Kentucky. Volume S, Part 1. Compiled circa 2015.

Coroner's Notes - Volume 3, Rowan County Historical Society

Rowan County Histories Collection

Coroner's Notes from Rowan County, Kentucky from the years 1955-1990. Some names may be misspelled. Notes furnished by Michael Gray of the Layne-Stucky-Gray Funeral Home. Transcribed and compiled by Carmilta Evans circa 2015.

Coroner's Notes - Volume 2, Rowan County Historical Society

Rowan County Histories Collection

Coroner's Notes from Rowan County, Kentucky from the years 1955-1990. Some names may be misspelled. Notes furnished by Michael Gray of the Layne-Stucky-Gray Funeral Home. Transcribed and compiled by Carmilta Evans circa 2015.

Coroner's Notes - Volume 6, Rowan County Historical Society

Rowan County Histories Collection

Coroner's Notes from Rowan County, Kentucky from the years 1955-1990. Some names may be misspelled. Notes furnished by Michael Gray of the Layne-Stucky-Gray Funeral Home. Transcribed and compiled by Carmilta Evans circa 2015.

Obituaries - Volume A, Rowan County Historical Society.

Rowan County Histories Collection

Obituaries from Rowan County, Kentucky volume A. Compiled circa 2015.

Obituaries - Volume M Part 2, Rowan County Historical Society

Rowan County Histories Collection

Obituaries of Rowan County, Kentucky. Volume M, Part 2. Compiled circa 2015.

Obituaries - Volume X-Y-Z, Rowan County Historical Society

Rowan County Histories Collection

Obituaries of Rowan County, Kentucky. Volume X-Y-Z. Compiled circa 2015.

Coroner's Notes - Volume 4, Rowan County Historical Society

Rowan County Histories Collection

Coroner's Notes from Rowan County, Kentucky from the years 1955-1990. Some names may be misspelled. Notes furnished by Michael Gray of the Layne-Stucky-Gray Funeral Home. Transcribed and compiled by Carmilta Evans circa 2015.

Coroner's Notes - Volume 5, Rowan County Historical Society

Rowan County Histories Collection

Coroner's Notes from Rowan County, Kentucky from the years 1955-1990. Some names may be misspelled. Notes furnished by Michael Gray of the Layne-Stucky-Gray Funeral Home. Transcribed and compiled by Carmilta Evans circa 2015.

From Stumptown To Treetown: A Field Guide For Interpreting Portland’S History Though Its Heritage Trees, David-Paul B. Hedberg

History Faculty Publications and Presentations

Portland’s urban forest is rooted in the city’s history. This guide is the first of its kind to use historic literature, archival collections, and living trees as evidence to interpret Portland’s history. Trees are some of our city’s oldest living artifacts and this guide will show you some of the many ways to see and interpret both history and nature in Portland.

The City As Palimpsest, Jeffrey A. Kroessler

Publications and Research

“Palimpsest preservation” suggest the necessity of keeping the successive layers of urban form alive rather than simply effacing and rebuilding, for that keeps a city’s history alive. No city without a tangible, tactile history, without the capacity for denizens and visitors to reach into the past while experiencing the present, can be truly vital. But this is a contested approach. George Orwell’s 1984 offers a warning in the guise of a party slogan: “Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” Preservationists may advocate on historical, architectural, or cultural grounds, but the final decision …

The Lincoln Assassination: Crime And Punishment, Myth And Memory, Harold Holzer, Craig L. Symonds, Frank J. Williams

History

The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln remains one of the most prominent events in U.S. history. It continues to attract enormous and intense interest from scholars, writers, and armchair historians alike, ranging from painstaking new research to wild-eyed speculation. At the end of the Lincoln bicentennial year, and the onset of the Civil War sesquicentennial, the leading scholars of Lincoln and his murder offer in one volume their latest studies and arguments about the assassination, its aftermath, the extraordinary public reaction (which was more complex than has been previously believed), and the iconography that Lincoln’s murder and deification inspired.

Contributors …

Gettysburg: A Town Built On Tourism, Kevin P. Lavery

The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History

In my most recent blog posts, I’ve adopted a rather unforgiving stance on the rampant consumerism that pervades the town of Gettysburg. Essentially, I have argued that the borough’s tacky gift shops sell odious little trinkets to gullible tourists and profiteer from the public’s morbid obsession with war and death. But while I firmly believe that this zealous consumerism is a persistent threat to healthy historical engagement, there is another side to the issue that demands to be recognized: Gettysburg kitsch is part of what has made Gettysburg into a town brimming with opportunities to broaden the public’s historical consciousness. …

Lost: Sesquicentennial Sanity. If Found, Please Contact Borough Of Gettysburg., Kevin P. Lavery

The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History

If you were in Gettysburg during the summer of 2013, you surely encountered the ubiquitous 150th Gettysburg logo branded on everything from promotional materials to souvenirs. The latter – tacky at best and irreverent at worst – filled the town to the point of excess, making some of us wonder how many people completely missed the point of the sesquicentennial. Anniversaries exert a powerful force on the American historical psyche, but it is dubious whether Gettysburg’s celebration exerted an appropriate one. The sesquicentennial was a wonderful opportunity to refocus on the events of July 1863, but sadly many businesses in …

Gettysburg’S Faustian Bargain, Kevin P. Lavery

The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History

A question to the reader: have you ever visited Gettysburg? Presumably most of the Gettysburg Compiler’s audience will answer in the affirmative. A follow-up question: have you ever purchased a souvenir from one of the town’s abundant gift shops? Perhaps it was a kepi or a cork gun for your child? Or maybe a bottle of “Rebel Red” wine? Or some tacky trinket or faux antique?

Let’s face it: we live in a consumer society in which there is nothing too sacred to profit from. And, sadly, the Battle of Gettysburg is no exception. [excerpt]

George Gordon Meade And Barnegat Lighthouse, Brianna E. Kirk

The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History

Tucked away off the coast of central New Jersey on the small stretch of land called Long Beach Island is a little piece of Civil War history. It is here that a largely unknown monument highlights a figure so well known by those four hours away in the small Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg. I have been visiting Long Beach Island since I was young, and yet had no knowledge of this Civil War connection that had been staring me in the face until my mother enthusiastically shouted to me, “Brianna! Gettysburg!” As I climbed the sandy hill towards a monument …

Case Study Two: Jewish Time Jump: New York, Owen Gottlieb

Articles

Gottlieb presents an early case study of his mobile augmented reality game Jewish Time Jump: New York design on the ARIS platform for the iPhone and iPad (iOS). The game is set on-location in Washington Square Park in New York city. Players in 5th-7th grade take on the role of time-traveling reporters, landing on site on the eve of the Uprising of 20,000, the largest women-led strike in U.S. History. Based on their GPS location they receive media from over 100 years in the past, interactive with digital characters as they work to gather a story for the fictional Jewish …

Soldiers Past And Future: The Civil War And Great War Meet In Gettysburg, S. Marianne Johnson

The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History

Gettysburg, a town already so intimately acquainted with war, was the scene of particularly interesting historical encounters. The still too present memory of the Civil War impacted the way Gettysburgians viewed the Great War. Many veterans of the Civil War were still alive, although very old, and it was not uncommon for The Gettysburg Times to run headlines about the death of a prominent Civil War veteran right alongside coverage of the war raging in Europe. [excerpt]

Traces Volume 42, Number 3, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Traces, the Southern Central Kentucky, Barren County Genealogical Newsletter

Traces, the South Central Kentucky Genealogical Society's quarterly newsletter, was first published in 1973. The Society changed its name in 2016 to the Barren County Historical Society. The publication features compiled genealogies, articles on local history, single-family studies and unpublished source materials related to this area.

History Abroad: How Do Denmark And The U.S. Measure Up?, Louis T. Gentilucci

Student Publications

By viewing bias itself as a product of history, educators and scholars can understand it better in their own times. By studying the historical path of the United States and Denmark, scholars can see that the nature of history can have subtle but important impacts on common education. Even when educators are aware of potential bias, history itself warps its dissemination.

New Semester, New Stories..., Heather L. Clancy

The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History

Greetings, fellow Civil Warriors!

As Managing Editor of the Civil War Institute’s student blog, The Gettysburg Compiler, I would like to welcome everyone to a new semester of exciting debate, original research, academic discourse, and on-site reporting on all things Civil War. This academic year, we look forward to expanding the range of both topics and perspectives explored on our blog as we welcome Matt LaRoche ’17, Megan McNish ‘16, Ryan Nadeau ‘16, Jacob Ross ’15, and Cassie Wells ‘16 to our team of fellows/writers. [excerpt]

Petition Of Prisoners In Worcester Jail To Extend The Prison Yard, September 8, 1784., Elijah Isaacson, George Shayer, Jacob Ellison, Henry Chase, Jonathan Willington, Daniel Novell, Asa Danforth, Matthew Knight

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

The prisoners ask that the prison yard at Worcester jail be extended to accomodate the increasing number of prisoners.