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Full-Text Articles in United States History
Belz, Elmore F., 1892-1918 (Sc 3496), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Belz, Elmore F., 1892-1918 (Sc 3496), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3496. Letters to his family, 1918, and related personal papers of Elmore F. Belz, Dayton, Kentucky, created while he was stationed at Camp Zachary Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky. He describes his military training, diet and leisure, and comments on the prevalence of influenza in the area. When he falls ill, he writes of his hospital stay in letters dated two days before his death on 7 October 1918. Includes a letter to Belz’s parents from his battery commander praising his qualities as a soldier; also includes a …
Bryant-Thomson Family Papers (Sc 3636), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bryant-Thomson Family Papers (Sc 3636), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3636. Miscellaneous papers of the Bryant and Thomson families of Fayette County, Kentucky: agreement for the sale of land; lease; power of attorney to act on the sale of lands in Texas; and prescription for medicinal liquor.
Lucas, Mary Melton - Collector (Sc 3635), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lucas, Mary Melton - Collector (Sc 3635), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3635. Items related to research for the book That Perfect Feeling in the Air: The Life of Victor Herbert Strahm, a biography of the highly decorated veteran of both world wars, co-authored by Mary M. Lucas, Gilbert T. Calhoun and Jonathan Jeffrey and published by Landmark Association (Bowling Green, Ky.) in 2017. Consists of correspondence; a compact disc with the manuscript and various notes; notes of a telephone conversation with the widow of Strahm’s stepson; text of programs on Strahm given by Lucas and Calhoun; Kentucky Aviation Hall of Fame Class of …
Grounds, Robert Lee, 1915-1990 (Mss 680), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Grounds, Robert Lee, 1915-1990 (Mss 680), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 680. Papers and photographs relating to the service of Grounds, of Warren County, Kentucky, in the Civilian Conservation Corps in Wyoming, 1935-1936, and in the U.S. Army during World War II.
Jillson, Willard Rouse, 1890-1975 (Mss 682), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jillson, Willard Rouse, 1890-1975 (Mss 682), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 682. Writings and supporting materials of Willard Rouse Jillson, State Geologist of Kentucky, author and historian. Includes manuscripts, page proofs, photographic negatives, and promotional pamphlets for his books.
Old Union Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3631), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Old Union Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3631), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3631. Record book, April 1903 November 1906, of Old Union Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Warren County, Kentucky, and April 1907-March 1916, of Old Union Presbyterian Church. Includes minutes, members registers, and remarks concerning a 1903 fire that destroyed earlier records of the church, said to be organized about 1814.
Trinity Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3632), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Trinity Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3632), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3632. Record book, March 1870- March 1895, of Trinity Cumberland Presbyterian Church, located on Three Springs Road, Warren County, Kentucky. Includes minutes, registers of members, baptisms and marriages, and reports to the Presbytery. Also includes two certificates of dismissal, 1903, 1905.
Greenwood Presbyterian Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3630), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Greenwood Presbyterian Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3630), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3630. Record book, 1 September 1880-March 1884, of Greenwood Presbyterian Church, located near Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes organizing and session minutes.
Corinth Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3633), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Corinth Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3633), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3633. Record book, March 1905-1906, of Corinth Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Warren County, Kentucky, and 1906-March 1932, of Corinth Presbyterian Church. Includes minutes, registers of members, pastors and baptisms, and reports to Presbytery.
Woodburn Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3634), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Woodburn Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3634), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3634. Record book, March 1868 February 1896, of Woodburn Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Warren County, Kentucky. Includes minutes, register of members, and reports to Presbytery. Also includes a 1902 minute and a 1915 letter regarding dismissal of a member.
Jackson, Harry Lucellus, 1907-1985 (Mss 171), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jackson, Harry Lucellus, 1907-1985 (Mss 171), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 171. Correspondence and papers of Harry L. Jackson, a Warren County, Kentucky native and Cleveland, Ohio executive. Includes his World War II correspondence, genealogical research, and papers of his wife Evelyn’s family, the Minshalls of Ohio. A sampling of Jackson's World War II letters to sisters Sallie and Bernice can be viewed under "Additional Files" below.
Sumpter Family Collection (Mss 735), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sumpter Family Collection (Mss 735), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 735. Correspondence and papers of the family of Captain Charles Ward of Plymouth, New Hampshire, including descendants in the Sumpter family of Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Cartoons (Mss 725), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cartoons (Mss 725), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 725. Editorial and other cartoons and illustrations drawn by various artists for American newspapers and other publications.
Lee Allen, Son Of Gersham Allen, Steve Malone, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lee Allen, Son Of Gersham Allen, Steve Malone, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Genealogical Records
An account of the fate of Leeander Allen, Baptist elder and country doctor, and the names of his many children, correcting numerous red herrings that have obscured some of this information from being known to other Allen researchers. Also, his ancestors and known siblings
The Cater-Davis Connection, Steve Malone, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
The Cater-Davis Connection, Steve Malone, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Genealogical Records
No abstract provided.
Newman, Elizabeth Claire (Jolly), 1909-1973 (Sc 2108), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Newman, Elizabeth Claire (Jolly), 1909-1973 (Sc 2108), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2108. Letter, 7 December 1927, from Elizabeth (Jolly) Newman to Emily Jones, Strawberry, Kentucky. She describes the circumstances of her hasty marriage to James C. Newman that same day: her drunkenness during their date a few days earlier; his attempt to visit her late at night, which resulted in her eviction by the housemother at her residence; their train trip to marry in Jeffersonville, Indiana, with its abundance of “marriage parlors”; their return to Louisville, Kentucky to shop for a ring; and her plans to visit her …
Warren County, Kentucky - Roads (Sc 3629), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Warren County, Kentucky - Roads (Sc 3629), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3629. “A list of hands to be allotted on the road from Wm R Paynes mill to the Nashville Road at Abner Evins’s on a direction to Warren Court House.” The February 1812 document lists the names of 37 citizens assigned to the work, with an “order to warn all such persons as are not on this list who are living within two miles of sd Road and not allotted on other Roads.”
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 (Sc 3627), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 (Sc 3627), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3627. Letter, 11 March 1920, to her friend “Mabel” (suffragist Mabel Vernon?) from author, reformer and activist Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Arlington, Vermont. She reports on seeing mutual friends at a speaking engagement but expresses an unwillingness to accept further invitations in favor of home life and a “big piece of work” she has recently undertaken. She also refers to her three-year residence in France, which put her out of touch with news at home.
Squirrel Hunters (Sc 3628), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Squirrel Hunters (Sc 3628), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3628. Notice, 4 March 1863, to Charles Wilson, Cuyahoga County, Ohio from Governor David Tod awarding him a certificate of service in the “Squirrel Hunters,” volunteers who responded to his call to defend Cincinnati and southern Ohio against threatened invasion by Confederate forces in September 1862. Includes an honorable discharge (mutilated) issued to Wilson.
Peete Family Papers (Sc 3626), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Peete Family Papers (Sc 3626), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3626. Letters, 4 and 20 August 1923, and a letter fragment from Weldon Peete, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to his parents describing his automobile trip through New York and Canada; also U.S. Army discharge certificate and enlistment record, 19 November 1918, for Weldon’s uncle Charles S. Peete.
Natcher, William Huston, 1909-1994 (Mss 142), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Natcher, William Huston, 1909-1994 (Mss 142), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 142. Correspondence, journals, scrapbooks and printed matter documenting the career of Natcher, a Representative from Kentucky who served in the United States Congress from 1953-1994. Click on “Additional Files” below for a separate inventory of photographs and an index of names and subjects in the photographs.
Ua94/6 Company B 3rd Regiment Pershing Rifles Wku 1960s, Doug Verdier
Ua94/6 Company B 3rd Regiment Pershing Rifles Wku 1960s, Doug Verdier
Student/Alumni Personal Papers
Personal narratives of members of the Pershing Rifles compiled by Doug Verdier.
Ua94/6 Wku Pershing Rifles Company B-3 Vietnam Timeline, Doug Verdier
Ua94/6 Wku Pershing Rifles Company B-3 Vietnam Timeline, Doug Verdier
Student/Alumni Personal Papers
Timeline of Vietnam War events 1963-1975 experienced by Pershing Rifles members compiled by Doug Verdier.
Progress In The Bluegrass: An Analysis Of Grassroots Organizing In Kentucky Post 1970, Brooklyn Lile
Progress In The Bluegrass: An Analysis Of Grassroots Organizing In Kentucky Post 1970, Brooklyn Lile
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
While historians and other scholars have explored grassroots organizing in Kentucky, most historiography on this topic is limited to the 1930s through 1970s and focused on coal, labor, and the Civil Rights Movement. This paper fills a gap within the historiography by extending the discussion of grassroots organizing in Kentucky past the 1970s. Through the examination of organizational documents, membership newsletters, and oral histories, this paper explores the transformation of Kentuckians For The Commonwealth (KFTC) from 1981 to 2020. KFTC began as a small Eastern Kentucky organization focused predominantly on fair taxing practices in coal companies. Through efforts to diversify …
Moulder-Campbell Family Papers (Mss 734), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Moulder-Campbell Family Papers (Mss 734), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 734. Correspondence and papers of the Moulder, Campbell and related families of Warren County, Kentucky. Includes genealogical data.
Gentry, Martha Beck "Mattie" (Spangler), 1862-1940 (Mss 733), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gentry, Martha Beck "Mattie" (Spangler), 1862-1940 (Mss 733), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 733. Journal, 1878-1880, of Mattie (Spangler) Gentry, Covington, Kentucky, chronicling her attendance at Lexington’s Hamilton Female College and at boarding school in Orléans, France; also her journal, 1889-1898, recording her life as a music teacher and her courtship and marriage. Includes photographs and a letter to Mattie in France from the president of Hamilton College (Click on "Additional Files" for typescript).
Thomson, Jean Quarles, 1894-1982 (Sc 3625), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Thomson, Jean Quarles, 1894-1982 (Sc 3625), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3625. Paper, “Political Parties in America,” by Jean Thomson, Fayette County, Kentucky. The paper, illustrated with artwork and probably written while she was a student, describes the evolution of political parties from the Revolution through the nineteenth century. Also includes notes on the War of 1812.
Stovall, Vickie Lynn (Smith) - Collector (Mss 732), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stovall, Vickie Lynn (Smith) - Collector (Mss 732), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 732. Genealogical research, narratives, clippings, photographs, and local history pertaining to the Bennett, Hunt, Taylor and associated families of Kentucky, primarily Butler, McLean, Muhlenberg and Daviess counties.
Taylor Family Papers (Mss 730), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Taylor Family Papers (Mss 730), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 730. Letters of Aaron H. Taylor and William B. Taylor, husband and son of Carrie Burnam Taylor of Bowling Green Kentucky, written to her daughter Louise (Taylor) Beckwith regarding Carrie Taylor's estate and the affairs of Taylor’s large dressmaking business, the Mrs. A. H. Taylor Company. Also includes data on Louise Beckwith and miscellaneous papers.
Giles, Janice (Holt), 1905-1979 (Sc 3624), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Giles, Janice (Holt), 1905-1979 (Sc 3624), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3624. Letters, 12 February 1963 and 15 April 1964, of author Janice Holt Giles to Mrs. William F. Barr, Rochester, Kentucky. The first outlines her research and plans for three “Green River” books (one volume was eventually published as Run Me a River) and refers to Mrs. Barr’s assistance in providing informants for the project. The second letter provides her thoughts about an interview in which her estimation of other authors and her own public image were inaccurately reported.