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Baughn, Milton L. (Sc 644), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 644. Photocopies of notes compiled by Milton L. Baughn while writing his book A People Called Cumberland Presbyterians, which was published in 1972. The notes concern the Cumberland Presbyterian Church (African American) in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Ku Klux Klan - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 639), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 639. Typescript notice issued by the Warren County Klan of the Ku Klux Klan of the realm of Kentucky concerning a scheduled meeting of their organization in the Opera House at Bowling Green that was canceled because of influence exerted by the Catholics and Jews in Bowling Green.

Bay's Fork Association Of The Baptist Church - Kentucky (Sc 615), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 615. Index to minutes of Bay's Fork Association of the Baptist Church.

Kentucky Baptist Centennial Memorial Roll Book (Sc 614), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 614. A book of certificates which were sold for one dollar each to raise money for the Kentucky Baptist
Centennial Memorial Fund. The buyers were members of the Providence Knob Baptist Church, Warren County, Kentucky. Many unsold certificates are in the book.

Rapp, Ernest William, B. 1941 (Sc 605), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 605. Photocopy of paper by Ernest W. Rapp, titled, “A Memorial to John G. Durham,” which was written for a history course at Western Kentucky University. The John Durham Collection (MSS 9) in the Manuscripts Division of the WKU Special Collections Library was used in writing this paper.

Childress, Nellie J., 1883-1987 (Sc 542), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 542. Paper entitled “History of the Auburn Baptist Church, 1866-1957,” a holographic copy by Nellie Childress, Auburn, Logan County, Kentucky, and an explanatory note about the paper written to Margie Helm, Librarian, Kentucky Library.

Rouse, Helen Elizabeth (Garvin), D. 1981 (Sc 546), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 546. Letter to Margie Helm, Librarian, Kentucky Library, from Helen E. (Garvin) Rouse, concerning records from the minutes of Mt. Zion Presbyterian Church, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, that relate to the Garvin and Irvin families and an accompanying statement related to the two families.

Groom, Littleton, 1896-1975 (Sc 544), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 544. Carbon copies of two 1967 letters written to Brother Thomas Whitaker, South Union, Logan County, Kentucky, by Littleton Groom, Princeton, New Jersey, relating information concerning the history of the Gasper River Presbyterian Church in Logan County.

Taylor, Judson Slade, 1838-1889 (Sc 525), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collecction 525. Photocopy of an incomplete typescript memoir entitled “The First Fifty Years of Judson Slade Taylor,” a Baptist minister born in Ohio County, Kentucky; and a letter, 20 August 1971, from J.B. Taylor, a relative, to Nell Childress, Auburn, Kentucky, related to the memoir.

St. Joseph Catholic Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 468), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 468. Typescript paper relating the history of the Catholic Church in Bowling Green, Kentucky written in 1951, guest register used for Centennial Reception, and telegram received from the Vatican noting the occasion, 1959.

Shannon Family Papers (Sc 391), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 391. Warren County deeds of Shannon and Reid families, 1821-1872 (6); land lease of Samuel Reid, 1824; agreement for making bricks and erecting a building between Samuel Shannon, Sr. and his son, 1824; deed and miscellaneous papers of the Pleasant Hill Presbyterian Church near Rockfield, Warren County, 1839-1882 (5); will of James Shannon, 1846; and miscellaneous receipts, 1843-1882 (3)—one for school tuition, 1844.

Union Grove Society Of The Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 409), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 409. Notice of Union Grove Society of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church’s formation at Shiloh meeting house, Warren County, Kentucky, which was sent to the moderator and members of the Logan Presbytery, requesting to be under their care. Signed by O.C. Carson, J.S. McCormick, and H.W. Stagner.

Fisk, Robert (Sc 403), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 403. License, Whitley County, to perform marriages as a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Twelfth Street Church Of Christ - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 408), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 408. Directories, programs, newsletters, news clippings, and land records of the Twelfth Street Church of Christ, Bowling Green, Kentucky (known after 2002 as Lost River Church of Christ). Also includes information about other Churches of Christ in Warren County, Kentucky, as well as Potter Bible College and Potter Orphan Home in Bowling Green.

Cochran, Mary (Sc 4), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 4. Certification of membership and good character signed by the ruling elders of a church in Concord, Campbell County, Virginia.

Moore, Nancy Elam, 1807-1889 (Mss 405), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 405. Journal of Nancy Elam Moore, an eldress of the Shaker colony at South Union, Kentucky, describing life in the colony during the Civil War, 1861-1863, especially visitation and exploitation by both Union and Confederate forces. Includes a diary of unknown authorship recording daily life at the colony in 1866. The original diary is owned by the Dayton [Ohio] Public Library.

The Truth Shall Set You Free: The Bible, The Revolution, And The Debate Over Slavery In The American South, Kevin Simon

Masters Theses

Before the slavery debate pushed a divided American nation to the brink of civil war, the argument divided the family of God. By the time cannon fire erupted at Fort Sumter, Christians had already staked out positions based on sophisticated lines of argument they used to justify or condemn chattel slavery. The generation coming of age during the Civil War era witnessed a debate more intense and contentious than their ancestors had seen, but in terms of the arguments employed, it broke very little fresh ground. Contrary to the assumption that antebellum apologists in the South invented the defense of …

Defined By What We Are Not: The Role Of Anti-Catholicism In The Formation Of Early American Identity, Brandi Hatfield Marchant

Masters Theses

From the colonial era through the mid-nineteenth century, anti-Catholicism colored key points of development in America's early history. Amidst the English colonial experience, the Revolution and establishment of the republic, and the educational reform efforts of the nineteenth-century, anti-Catholicism emerged as a fundamental factor in the development of America's characteristically Protestant political and religious identity. While many studies of early American anti-Catholicism focus on one region or time period, drawing connections across geographic boundaries and constructed historical periods attests to the sentiment's pervasive and enduring influence. While this sentiment varied in intensity throughout America over time, its presence profoundly shaped …

Missionary Societies - Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 323), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 323. Typed copy of “The History of the Logan Presbyterial [sic] Missionary Auxiliary Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1796-1955,” written by Mrs. Joseph Rogers and Mrs. Henry A. Reeder; and of auxiliary notes compiled by Margaret Hampton for 1955-1958.

Rupard, William, 1825-1904 (Sc 2518), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2518. Letter, 21 March 1883, from William Rupard, postmarked Hedges, Clark County, Kentucky, to W. W. Thomas, Harrisburg, Indiana. He reports on the health of mutual friends, “Brother” and “Sister” Lampton, and mentions his preaching activities.

Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 317), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 317. Photocopies of miscellaneous business papers of the Shakers, including letters, 1884, 1915 (2);an agreement with the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company for the location of a depot at South Union, 1860; deeds, 1883, 1893 (2); bond, 1883; and receipts, 1884, 1906 (2). Originals are housed at the Shaker Museum, South Union.

Manire, Lucy (Sc 316), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 316. Letter written by Lucy Manire, Pleasant Hill, Kentucky, to Lucy Shannon, South Union, Kentucky, expressing thanks for hospitality extended to her.

Mcintire, Tandie Lewis, 1865-1947 (Mss 396), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscript Collection 396. Correspondence to family, friends, and acquaintances of Tandie Lewis McIntire, Edmonson County, Kentucky. Collection contains educational material related to McIntire's career as a teacher in Edmonson County. Also includes tracts and pamphlets related to McIntire's involvement in religious organizations, particularly Baptist entities.

Korn, Mike (Sc 2516), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text transcription (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2516. Interview conducted by Mike Korn and a Mr. Starks with Reverend Earl J. Jackson, Bowling Green, Kentucky in reference to the religious and educational work of Reverend Henry David Carpenter.

South Union Messenger (Spring 2012), Kentucky Library Research Collections

South Union Messenger

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Faithful Remembering: Constructing Dutch America In The Twentieth Century, David E. Zwart

Dissertations

The people of the Dutch-American community constructed and maintained a strong ethnoreligion identity in the twentieth despite pressures to join the mainstream of the United States. A strong institutional completeness of congregations and schools resulted from and contributed to this identity. The people in these institutions created a shared identity by demanding the loyalty of members as well as constructing narratives that convinced people of the need for the ethnoreligious institutions.

The narratives of the Dutch-American community reflected and reinforced a shared identity, which relied on a collective memory. The framing, maintaining, altering, and remodeling of the collective memory from …

Keen Collection (Sc 375), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 375. Letters (2) to Thomas G. Keen, a Baptist minister, Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Includes an 1868 letter notifying him of the award of an honorary doctorate from Bethel College in Russellville, Kentucky. Also includes a 1904 letter to his daughter, Fannie K. Roach, regarding Keen’s work in Maysville, Kentucky; and a dismissal letter given by the Baptist Church, Smithfield, Virginia, to J. R. Bell in 1860.

Mcgready, James, 1758-1817 (Sc 370), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 370. Letters (2), Henderson County, Kentucky, to Archibald Cameron, Shelby County, Kentucky. Concerns matters relative to the Presbyterian Church of which they were ministers and especially discusses the influence of Shakerism in Logan County, Kentucky.

Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 362), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 362. Instructions of the church (1), 1844; miscellaneous receipts (4), 1870-1896; newspaper wrapper (1), 1896; weather record for December, 1896; record of illness of Annie Ingram, 1910; and undated Shaker hymn.

Venable Family Papers (Mss 382), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 382. Correspondence, account books, receipts, sermons, drawings, and diaries of the Venable family of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, chiefly John Wesley Venable, Sr. and his wife Fannie and son John, Jr. Of particular interest is an 1839-1839 travel journal kept by John, Sr. while in Florida. Also includes John, Sr.’s sermons and sermon preparation material as well as thirty-nine small diaries documenting his career as an Episcopal priest in Versailles and Hopkinsville. Includes one of John, Sr.’s art sketch books.