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Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 22, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

The Grizzly, November 15, 2007, Matt Flyntz, Lane Taylor, Ashley Mccomeskey, Roger Lee, Caitlin Dalik, Anani Samuels, Kristi Blust, Kristin O'Brassill, Jess Buck, Jeremiah Long, Laurel Salvo, Chris Magee, Serena Mithboakar, Alex Ernst, Daniel Sergeant, Ashley Drogalis, Chris Carey, Jessica Zatwarnicki

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Kemper Scholarship Offers Unique Experience for Freshmen • Yale Professor Discusses Acclaimed Novel at Ursinus • UC Alumni Share Volunteer Experiences in Peace Corps • Ursinus Collects 754 Pounds of Canned Goods for Philabundance • Premium Outlet Mall Now Open • Am I Pregnant? • Spotlight: UC Wellness Fair • Kushner Would be Proud • For Music Lovers • Tortugas: In the Mood for Mexican Food? • Opinions: All-Male Housing: Damage Control; Concert Review: Tiger Army, The Static Age, and Street Dogs; Is Today's Generation of Crusaders Too Online? • UC Swim Team Dives Into Season • Sororities Battle to …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 21, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

Hobson, Margaret Morehead, 1890-1987 (Mss 174), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 174. Includes personal and business correspondence of Margaret Morehead Hobson, Bowling Green, Kentucky, chiefly related to oil and gas exploration in south-central Kentucky. Collection also includes nature notebook containing flora and fauna sketches done by Hobson as a child, Hobson family genealogy, some small artwork done for interior decorating, and information about Riverview at Hobson Grove.

Bennett, Mackie E. (Smith), 1880-1966 (Mss 5), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 5. Center Street Elementary School (Bowling Green, Kentucky) grade books and various club records kept by Mackie E. (Smith) Bennett, a Warren County, Kentucky native. Includes a large group of records related to the Sue Young Sewing Circle of Bowling Green's State Street Methodist Church, 1915-1948. Full-text scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) have been made of the material related to the United Spanish War Veterans Auxiliary (Box 1, Folder 7).

Democracy’S Archive: The Importance Of Government Documents To The Historical Record, Tracy Campbell

History Presentations

No abstract provided.

Lewis, Ronald E., B. 1946 (Sc 1326), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1326. Christmas card of U.S. Representative Lewis, 2nd Congressional District of Kentucky, sent to Leo and Betty Yambrek, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Card contains a collage of photos of family and associated images.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 20, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

Warren County - Historic Houses (Sc 1324), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1324. Listing of thread colors used in a handwoven carpet woven for use in the Merritt-Hardin house located on 31-W near Woodburn in Warren County, Kentucky. Also data about the house from Irene Moss Sumpter’s Our Heritage: An Album of Early Warren County Kentucky Land Marks.

Humphreys, John Alsop Yarborough, 1802-1873 (Sc 1319), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1319. Subscribers' names for John A. Y. Humphreys, Bardstown, Kentucky, to teach a proposed school for twelve months beginning December 1, 1831. Also lists the subjects to be taught.

Kerr, William Bugg, 1894-1993 (Sc 1317), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1317. William Bugg Kerr, a Bowling Green, Kentucky educator, businessman and farmer, records his philosophy and his reminiscences, for his family, in his paper titled "The High Road."

The Grizzly, November 8, 2007, Matt Flyntz, Lane Taylor, Salia Zouande, Caitlin Dalik, Ashley Mccomeskey, Ashley Higgins, Andy Lane, Zach Shamberg, Kristin O'Brassill, Laura Glace, Katie Callahan, Zakary Arnhold, Christopher Schaeffer, Kelsey Threatte, Alex Ernst, Jason Davis, Matt Campbell

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Campus Safety Offers Tips to Stay Alert, Aware • "Lost Boy" Speaks on Civil War in Sudan, Genocide in Darfur • "Car for a Cause" Pulls Into Ursinus • UC Democrats Kick Off Montgomery County Campaign Invasion • If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things • Darfur Fast • Entrance Fee: Five Packs of Cigarettes • Opinions: Forgotten Promise: Iraq's Refugees • Spotlight: Coach Kyle Rush • Bears Fall to Mules

Bullitt, William Grigsby, 1833-1901 (Sc 1533), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1533. Autograph album of the Constitutional Convention of Kentucky, 1890-1891, of delegate W.G. Bullitt of McCracken County. Includes autographs of delegates and stenographic staff. Many delegates include brief biographical information such as date and place of birth.

Hinton, John Littleton, 1844-1920 (Sc 1311), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1311. Civil War discharge for John L. Hinton, a member of Company A, 52nd Regiment, of Kentucky Mounted Infantry Volunteers. Hinton was from Allen County, Kentucky.

Stovall, Henry Clay, 1845-1936 (Sc 1532), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1532. Typescript (1972) of an interview done with Henry Clay Stovall of Logan County, Kentucky about 1934. He discusses being wounded at Fort Donelson, Tennessee, treatment for his wounds, and his other military service.

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 1882-1945 (Sc 1313), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1313. Letter written by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Washington, D.C., to clergyman H.F. McChesney, Bowling Green, Kentucky, commenting on the newly enacted Social Security Act and asking for data about his community's needs.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 19, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

Students Investigate 1600s Depue Massacre, Allison Ryan

Public History in Illinois Documents

DEPUE — South and east of DePue, near the remaining vertebrae of a former railroad bridge, an ordinary cornfield shows no sign of the massacre that may once have taken place on its soil, long before the nearby town was founded.

Clay Skinner, a teacher at Illinois Math and Science Academy, Aurora, and a handful of his students hope to change that.

Boone, George Street, 1918-2004 (Sc 1530), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1530. Letter, 18 September 1987, from George Street Boone, an attorney In Elkton, Kentucky, to Senator Wendell H. Ford, Washington, D.C., discussing the candidacy of Robert H. Bork, Jr. as a Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Historical Assessment And Archeological Survey Of 4.9 Miles Of Fm 2092 From Menard To Fivemile Crossing, Menard County, Texas, Jennifer K. Mcwilliams, Douglas K. Boyd, Celine Finney

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State

This preliminary report describes historical research and an intensive archeological survey conducted for a 4.9-mile-long stretch of FM 2092 in Menard County by Prewitt and Associates, Inc. The work was performed for the Texas Department of Transportation in conjunction with a road improvement project beginning at the eastern Menard city limit and extending eastward to just beyond Fivemile Crossing. Crossing over Pleistocene and Holocene alluvial terraces of the San Saba River, the project area is located in a high-probability area for buried prehistoric sites and has a dynamic history of intensive use since Spanish colonial times. Investigations included geoarcheological mapping, …

U.S. Army Air Forces, World War Ii, Pacific Ocean Area, Special Services Division - Scrapbook (Sc 1529), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1529. Scrapbook (bound volume; unpaged) related to AAFPAO Special Services Division's activities in 1944-1945, chiefly concerning sports. Contains limited information about entertainers.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 18, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

The Grizzly, November 1, 2007, Matt Flyntz, Lane Taylor, Caitlin Dalik, Yukiko Kawamura, Roger Lee, Dan Sergeant, Anani Samuels, Matt Campbell, Kristi Blust, Serena Mithboakar, Jeremiah Long, Katie Callahan, Andy Lane, Michael Thomas, Alex Ernst, Laurel Salvo, Jason Davis, Jessica Zatwarnicki, Daniel Price

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Outlet Shopping to Debut Near Ursinus • "Bright Room" Brings History, Suspense to Stage • Bridge Hosts Annual Alumni Celebration • Renowned Poet Reads for UC • Speaking to the Soul: A Personal Interview with Constance Merritt • Homecoming 2007: Wet, Welcoming and Memorable • Dealing with Double Standards • Staff Spotlight: Darlene Robinson • Workers' Appreciation Day • The Pizza Stop • Thirsty Thursdays Seven Days a Week • Opinions: Last Weekend; Colbert '08? • Playoff Time • Student Athletes • Patterson in True Homecoming Form

Abraham Lincoln And The Development Of The "War Powers" Of The Presidency, Allen C. Guelzo

Civil War Era Studies Faculty Publications

By conferring on the President the title of "commander in chief," the Constitution created an awkward and undefined area of presidential prerogative. The first President to have to confront this ambiguity was Abraham Lincoln, who developed a presidential "war powers" doctrine based on his presidential oath, the Constitution's "republican guarantee," and the necessity imposed by the novelty of a civil war. This doctrine was seriously contested in Lincoln's time by both Congress and the judiciary, and it continues to be an unresolved constitutional question in the present. But Lincoln's use of such war powers is one demonstration of how a …

Building And Rebuilding New Orleans: Nature, Artifice, And Transformation, J. Souther

History Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

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

LSUHSC Facilities Biweekly Updates: 2007

LSUHSC Facilities Biweekly Updates from November 9 and 26, 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.

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

LSUHSC Facilities Daily Updates: 2007

LSUHSC Facilities Daily Updates from November 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.

Vanmeter, Wilburn S., 1920-1996 (Sc 1528), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1528. Letters from Wilburn S. Vanmeter, while serving in World War II, to his mother Emma Vanmeter in Bee Spring, Kentucky, and his brother, Junior Vanmeter of Annetta, Kentucky. Also includes several typed reminiscences (6 p.) of Vanmeter's World War II experience.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 17, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

Dunbar, Elijah, 1821-1911 (Sc 1335), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1335. Letter written by Elijah Dunbar from Bowling Green, Kentucky, to his brother in Canton, Massachusetts. Evidently he and an associate were traveling piano salesmen. Dunbar vividly describes the terrible road conditions between Bowling Green and Elkton, Kentucky.