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Read, Emily Jane, 1839-1916 (Sc 1497), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1497. Letter from Emily J. Read, Rich Pond, Kentucky, to an unnamed friend. she discusses peoplein the neighboring region and her husband's mercantile operation in Rich Pond.

Methodist Episcopal Church, South - Rich Pond, Kentucky (Sc 1349), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1349. Church register kept for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Rich Pond, Kentucky, 1874-1935.

A Historical Overview Of Poverty Among Blacks In Boston, 1950-1990, Robert C. Hayden

Trotter Review

Like most nineteenth-century residents of Boston, blacks worked hard to maintain their homes and families. Even before the Civil War, both enslaved and free blacks in "freedom's birthplace" worked long and arduous hours. Those who migrated to Boston from the South in the 1800s had come to secure higher wages, mobility, and opportunity for themselves and their families. Boston's black population grew from 2,000 in 1850 to 8,125 in 1890, and to 11,591 by 1900. In 1900, 39 percent of black Bostonians were northern-born (New England, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania), and 53 percent were southern-born.

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Race In Feminism: Critiques Of Bodily Self-Determination In Ida B. Wells And Anna Julia Cooper, Stephanie Athey

Trotter Review

If, as Angela Davis has argued, "the last decade of the nineteenth century was a critical moment in the development of modern racism," the same can be said of the development of modern feminism. Late nineteenth-century feminism, like institutional racism, saw "major institutional supports and ideological justifications" take shape across this period. Organizations of American women, both black and white, were shaping political arguments and crafting activist agendas in a post-Reconstruction America increasingly enamored of hereditary science, prone to lynching, and possessed of a virulent nationalism. This essay takes a historical view of "womanhood," bodily self-determination and well-being, concepts now …

Thurman, Lindsey B. (Sc 1507), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1507. WKU honors thesis written by Thurman and entitled "A Boy from Decatur: A Posthumous Memoir." Using letters sent by Ernest C. Robertson to his family in Russell County, Kentucky, the author discusses how one young man's military service and his eventual death during the Korean War affected his family. Includes typescripts of several of the letters.

Martin, Mary P. (Sc 1347), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1347. Legal response of those charged by the sheriff of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, to appraise land owned by the Green River Coal, Iron & Manufacturing Company as ordered by the Warren County Circuit Court, to satisfy a judgment against the company in favor of Mary P. Martin.

Kimbrough, William Joseph, Jr., 1930-2007 (Sc 1346), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1346. Chiefly letters written by William Joseph Kimbrough, Jr., to his Bowling Green, Kentucky parents, while serving in the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the U.S. Army in California and Japan. Also associated family data.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 7, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

The Grizzly, September 20, 2007, Matt Flyntz, Lane Taylor, Caitlin Dalik, Ashley Mccomeskey, Ashley Higgins, Salia Zouande, Zach Shamberg, Zakary Arnhold, Daniel Sergeant, Laurel Salvo, Alex Ernst, Jason Davis, Ashley Drogalis, Daniel Price

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Berman Unveils Fiber Art Exhibit by Peri • Organs Sound for Recital Kickoff • "Ashley Treatment" Sparks Debate • SAO Reveals New Events for Fall • Popping the Pill • Scudera's Gilgamesh • UC Unplugged • Fringe Festivities Begin This Week • Opinions: Gonzo's Gone, But New Attorney General Nominee a Mixed Blessing • Seniors Rule • Winning Start • Exciting, Effective and 3-0 for Football

Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 (Sc1343), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1343. Facsimile of letter, 13 September 1842, written by Henry Clay, "Ashland," Lexington, Kentucky to Jacob Stratton. Clay outlines his views on the principal objectives of the Whig Party.

Hatchett, Louis B., Jr. (Sc 1344), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1344. Letter, 11 March 1950, written by Duncan Hines, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to Mrs. L. R. Groves, Darien, Connecticut, relative to the birth of her granddaughter Patricia Groves. Also, audio interview by Hatchett of Paul Ford Davis, Bowling Green, in which Davis discusses his association with Hines.

Lucas, Nelda G., 1924-1991 (Sc 1514), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1514. Five-year diary (365 p.) kept by Nelda G. Lucas. She describes family events, remodeling a house, work issues, family health matters, purchases, etc., from March 8, 1958 to December 31, 1962.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 6, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

Fleu, William Gibson, 1884-1960 - Letters To (Sc 1513), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1513. Letters sent to William G. Fleu chiefly by his parents, Mr. & Mrs. Alfred D. Fleu of Davenport, Iowa. One of the letters mentions trials of "pro German citizens" in Davenport in 1917 and makes deprecatory remarks about Mexico.

Taylor Collection (Mss 81), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 81. Incoming family and courtship letters of Dee Taylor of Butler and Warren Counties, 1880-1888 (38), and her daughter, Dixie Dee Taylor of Warren County, 1903-1913 (48). Also letters and receipt received by other family members and a Warren County rent bond, [1883?].

Paul Nolte, Paul Nolte '84, Rick Lindquist '99

All oral histories

Paul Nolte, Class of 1984, worked at WESN for four years, and still continues to do radio broadcasting today (as of 2007).

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 5, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

The Grizzly, September 13, 2007, Matt Flyntz, Lane Taylor, Caitlin Dalik, Kristen Gallagher, Megan Helzner, Akasya Benge, Kristen Roman, Sara Romaine, Zakary Arnhold, Serena Mithboakar, Christopher Schaeffer, Daniel Sergeant, Alex Ernst, Jason Davis, Ashley Drogalis, Russell Smith

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Ursinus Implements Swipe, Message Systems for Better Student Safety on Campus • Strassburger Goes to Dubai • Why Don't You Escape Velocity? • Residence Life Sponsors Alcohol Education Program for Freshmen • Beyond the Condom: Guide to Safe Sex • Faculty Spotlight: Yoshitomo Yamashita • Wismer Hall: Too Hard to Handle? • Ursinus Recycling 101 • Opinions: Should We Lower the Drinking Age?; On Patriot Day • Rank 'em • UC Volleyball Spikes to Success • Men's Soccer Stumbles in Home Opener

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 4, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

Mammoth Cave - Letter (Sc 1509), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1509. Letter by an unnamed tourist staying at the Hotel Sinnott, Paducah, which talks about her family's tour of Mammoth Cave. She also mentions several other area caves.

Bush, William Pope Duvall, 1823-1904 (Sc 1508), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1508. Letter from William P. D. Bush, Hawesville, Kentucky, to Annie White, Grandview, Iowa, in which he recounts the conditions under which White purchased a piano from him in 1855.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 3, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

The Grizzly, September 6, 2007, Matt Flyntz, Lane Taylor, Salia Zouande, Gianna Paone, Ashley Higgins, Heather Turnbach, Michael Thomas, Zakary Arnhold, Kristin O'Brassill, Robert Whitehead, Jill Alspach, Alex Ernst, Jason Davis, Kristen Gallagher, Katie Callahan, Russell Smith

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

The Car Share Revolution • Ursinus Initiates Film Fest • Facilities Makes Renovation Waves • Stopping the Stork: Emergency Contraception • A Look at The Rising Suns • Spotlight on Sustain UC • Book Review: What is What by Dave Eggers • Opinions: With Gonzales' Resignation, Exodus Continues; Harry Potter and the Satanic Pre-Teens; Don't Paint Over Our Freedom of Expression • Intramural Intervention • Field Hockey Flavor • Football Sets the Bar High with 28-0 Rout of LaSalle • Fight for the Top

East Texas In World War Ii, Ralph Wooster

East Texas Historical Journal

No abstract provided.

Review Of The Book The Source: A Guidebook To American Genealogy, 3rd Ed., John A. Drobnicki

Publications and Research

Review of the book The source: A guidebook to American genealogy, 3rd ed.

Lsuhsc Facilities Daily Update: September 2007, Lsuhsc Property And Facilities Management

LSUHSC Facilities Daily Updates: 2007

LSUHSC Facilities Daily Updates from September 2007.

These updates describe damage and a timeline of repairs at the LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans campus due to Hurricane Katrina which made landfall August 29, 2005.

Lsuhsc Facilities Biweekly Update: September 2007, Lsuhsc Property And Facilities Management

LSUHSC Facilities Biweekly Updates: 2007

LSUHSC Facilities Biweekly Updates from September 21 and 28, 2006.

These updates describe damage and a timeline of repairs at the LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans campus due to Hurricane Katrina which made landfall August 29, 2005.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 2, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

The Grizzly, August 30, 2007, Matt Flyntz, Lane Taylor, Ali Wagner, Heather Turnbach, Ashley Higgins, Zakary Arnhold, Alex Ernst, Danielle Langdon, Jason Davis, Ashley Drogalis

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Ursinus Opens the New Building on the Block • Ursinus Battles U.S. News: Interview with President Strassburger • Sex at Ursinus • Who are the New RDs? • Spotlight: Student Emergency Response Volunteers (SERV) • Fresh Faces at Ursinus • Opinions: Freeganism: The New, Gentle Face of Anarchy; Global Warming: Modern Day Witch Hunt • Dubble Vision: Football Forecast • Ready, Set, Go Bears!

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 1, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.