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Growing Up In West Kentucky During The Great Depression And The Early Days Of World War Ii: An Interview With Thelma Powell Of Carlisle County Jan 2019

Growing Up In West Kentucky During The Great Depression And The Early Days Of World War Ii: An Interview With Thelma Powell Of Carlisle County

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Growing Up in West Kentucky during the Great Depression and the Early Days of World War II: An Interview with Thelma Powell of Carlisle County

Victoria D. Beasley


Using Oral History: Two Projects And Lessons Learned Jan 2019

Using Oral History: Two Projects And Lessons Learned

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Using Oral History: Two Projects and Lessons Learned

Melony Shemberger


Perpetuating The Lost Cause: The Misinformation Campaign Of The United Daughters Of The Confederacy In Kentucky, 1895-1925 Jan 2019

Perpetuating The Lost Cause: The Misinformation Campaign Of The United Daughters Of The Confederacy In Kentucky, 1895-1925

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Perpetuating the Lost Cause: The Misinformation Campaign of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in Kentucky, 1895-1925

Nicholas Jackson


Captain Thomas Jones Gregory, Guerrilla Hunter Jan 2018

Captain Thomas Jones Gregory, Guerrilla Hunter

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Captain Thomas Jones Gregory, Guerrilla Hunter

Berry Craig and Dieter Ullrich


Meetings Of The Jackson Purchase Historical Society, 2017-2018 & Editor’S Remarks Jan 2018

Meetings Of The Jackson Purchase Historical Society, 2017-2018 & Editor’S Remarks

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Meetings of the Jackson Purchase Historical Society, 2017-2018


The Jackson Purchase: A Dramatic Chapter In Southern Indian Policy And Relations Jan 2018

The Jackson Purchase: A Dramatic Chapter In Southern Indian Policy And Relations

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The Jackson Purchase: A Dramatic Chapter in Southern Indian Policy and Relations

Thomas D. Clark


African American Troops In Far West Kentucky During The Civil War: Recruitment And Service Of The Fourth U.S. Heavy Artillery Colored Jan 2018

African American Troops In Far West Kentucky During The Civil War: Recruitment And Service Of The Fourth U.S. Heavy Artillery Colored

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African American Troops in Far West Kentucky during the Civil War: Recruitment and Service of the Fourth U.S. Heavy Artillery Colored

William H. Mulligan, Jr.


On A Burning Deck: An Oral History Of The Great Migration Jan 2018

On A Burning Deck: An Oral History Of The Great Migration

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On a Burning Deck: An Oral History of the Great Migration

Tom Jones


Assessing Russia’S “Zero Sum Game”: Tennessee Congressman John Tanner And The Presidency Of The Nato Parliamentary Assembly Jan 2018

Assessing Russia’S “Zero Sum Game”: Tennessee Congressman John Tanner And The Presidency Of The Nato Parliamentary Assembly

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Assessing Russia’s “Zero Sum Game”: Tennessee Congressman John Tanner and the Presidency of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly

Brian K. Clardy


Book Reviews Jan 2018

Book Reviews

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Book Reviews:

The Historic Reelfoot Lake Region: An Early History of the People and Places of Western Obion and Present Day Lake County by David G. Hayes

Bobbie Bryant

The Wild World of the Jackson Purchase by Richard Dwayne Parker

Melissa Webb Earnest

Tariff Wars and the Politics of Jacksonian America by William K. Bolt

Jonathan Dunning

For Slavery and Union: Benjamin Buckner and Kentucky Loyalties in the Civil War by Patrick A. Lewis.

Stephen Powell

On A Burning Deck, The Road to Akron: An Oral History of the Great Migration, Vol. 1, and On A Burning Deck, …


Editor's Remarks Jan 2018

Editor's Remarks

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Editor's Remarks

James S. Humphreys


Oral History In A Journalism Course: Sharing Stories And Reporting News About Public Education In Kentucky, Rochele Rosa Nov 2017

Oral History In A Journalism Course: Sharing Stories And Reporting News About Public Education In Kentucky, Rochele Rosa

Posters-at-the-Capitol

Oral history as a method of gathering information is nothing new. However, in journalism, the method is gaining acceptance as a new, enriching way to report news, showing how issues and topics impact people.

The Murray State University JMC 397 Reporting for Print Media class recorded community oral history as part of an intensive focus on education reporting in fall 2017. Although many facets of the education “beat” were explored, students devoted much of the semester investigating and reporting the issues and challenges facing public education in Kentucky, from the K-12 to higher education levels. For the project to become …


Research And Study Of Fashion And Costume History Spanning From Ancient Egypt To Modern Day, Kaitlyn E. Dennis Miss Nov 2016

Research And Study Of Fashion And Costume History Spanning From Ancient Egypt To Modern Day, Kaitlyn E. Dennis Miss

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Through a generous donation to Morehead State University, research has been conducted on thousands of slides containing images of artwork and artifacts of historical significance. These images span from Egyptian hieroglyphs to the inaugural dress of every first lady of the United States. The slides are in the process of being recorded and catalogued for future use by students in hopes of furthering academic comprehension and awareness of the influence of fashion and costume history through the ages. Special thanks to the family of Gretel Geist Rutledge, faculty mentor Denise Watkins, as well as the Department of Music, Theatre, and …