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Haupt-Enstance: Whatever Became Of Herman?, John M. Rudy

Interpreting the Civil War: Connecting the Civil War to the American Public

Tom Lehrer, on his 1965 album That Was The Year That Was, sang a send-up of then-Vice President Hubert Humphrey with his, "Whatever Became of Hubert." The song's been going through my head this past week or so, but with the name "Herman" taking the place of LBJ's second-in-command. [excerpt]

Thomas, Elizabeth (Wright), 1842-1931 (Sc 2), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2. Account (15 pp.) written by Elizabeth (Wright) Thomas, Bowling Green, Kentucky, entitled “A Week’s Outing in the Tennessee Mountains” describing a trip made after the Civil War. Also includes her obituary.

Moseley, Thomas (Sc 7), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 7. Certificate signed by Thomas Moseley stating that John Ferguson, Ohio County, Kentucky, lost two certificates, one issued to John Galloway in 1804, and one issued to Zachariah Galloway in 1803, for grown wolf scalps.

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.

Cumberland County, Kentucky - Account Books And Papers (Mss 409), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 409. Account books and business papers for several businesses in Marrowbone, Cumberland County, Kentucky, including Bank of Marrowbone, 1902-1966, Norris & Gray general store, 1870-1874, and Pace & Davis Undertakers, 1895-1920. Also includes photocopies of the articles of incorporation and by-laws for the Bank of Marrowbone.

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.

Lewis, John, 1747-1825 (Sc 6), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 6. Letter written by J[ohn] Lewis of Fredericksburg, Virginia, to his son, Gabriel Lewis, Georgetown, Kentucky, discussing business matters relating to the settlement of debts, Kentucky lands purchased by the Lewis’ and prices of flour, cotton and sugar.

Hunt Family Papers (Sc 398), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 398. Deed, Warren County, 1817 (1); deeds, Simpson County, 1852-1858 (4); and land mortgage of Thomas Hunt, 1861.

Rice, David, 1733-1816 (Sc 400), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 400. Legal papers – bond for land and deed to land in Warren County, Kentucky, 1813 (2); will of David Rice, 1816; deed, Warren County, 1818, made by sons; and papers concerning Warren County Circuit Court Case (Equity Court Case #924) instigated by Martin Mitchell, Warren County, against some of the Rice heirs, 1832-1833 (6). Letters to Mary Leiper Moore, librarian, Kentucky Library, about Rice and his descendants, 1938-1947 (5).

Rodes Family Deeds (Sc 399), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 399. Deeds, Barren County, Kentucky, 1812, 1837, and Hardin County, Kentucky, 1838.

Calhoun, Stella (Fitch), 1914-1993 (Sc 2532), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2532. Letter to her “Dearest Son," Gilbert T. Calhoun, Jr., from Stella Calhoun reminiscing about growing up in 1920s Bowling Green, Kentucky, with particular emphasis on Western Kentucky University and her neighbors in the 1300-1400 blocks of College Street.

Three Month War, William S. Hendon

Defending Savannah: History and Archaeology of the Gibson's Point Battery

A historical narrative that follows members of the 13th Georgia Infantry Regiment and their families during the America Civil War, written by William S. Hendon in May of 2012.

Hendon, William S. Three Month War. Unpublished manuscript, May 21, 2012.

Secular Damnation: Thomas Jefferson And The Imperative Of Race, Robert P. Forbes

Torrington Articles

Race, we are told, is a “social construction.” If this is so, Thomas Jefferson was its principal architect. Jefferson consciously framed his only published book, Notes on the State of Virginia, to check the rising status of Africans and to combat growing critiques of slavery from America’s European friends. Jefferson did this by importing the slaveholder’s sense of slaves as chattel into an Enlightenment world view, providing a metaphysical foundation for prejudice by transmuting the traditional Christian concept of the saved vs. the damned into material and aesthetic terms. Recasting in quasi-scientific language the ancient doctrine of the mark …

The Making Of An American Imperialist: Major Edward Austin Burke, Reconstruction New Orleans And The Road To Central America, Kathryn K. Conley

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The period of Reconstruction following the American Civil War, and its legacy, have been the subjects of long debate among historians. Scholars, though, have yet to fully explore important connections between American Reconstruction, the New South that followed, and the period of U.S. imperialism in Central America in the late nineteenth century. The storied career of Major Edward Austin Burke—a Kentucky-born Louisiana Democrat who went on to become a proponent of expansionism and imperialism in Honduras—illuminates the transnational implications of Reconstruction and its aftermath. Through careful examination of personal papers, news accounts, promotional materials, Congressional testimonies and other government records, …

"Forever Free": It's Deja Vu All Over Again, John M. Rudy

Interpreting the Civil War: Connecting the Civil War to the American Public

A friend and colleague has a great quip she uses when planning Civil War interpretation in the DC area. "Why," she asks, "would a black single mother with two daughters come to this event? What's here for her?" [excerpt]

Machine Politics And Urban Renewal In Providence, Rhode Island: The Era Of Mayor Joseph A. Doorley, Jr., 1965-74, Carl A. Antonucci Jr.

History & Classics Dissertations and Masters Theses

Joseph A. Doorley, Jr., was inaugurated as the mayor of the city of Providence on January 4, 1965. At that time, Doorley was both youngest mayor in the history of the city of Providence as well as the youngest mayor of any major city in the United States. His tenure as mayor was marked by a series of political, racial, and fiscal tensions and offers insight into the dynamics of politics – both local and national – in the latter part of the twentieth century. Doorley was a product of the Providence Democratic “machine” that dominated Providence politics from 1936 …

Selby, Cornelia Frances, 1916-2005 (Sc 2530), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2530. Letters from Cornelia Frances “Fran” Selby to her sister, Mary Agnes Selby in Utica, Ohio, written during Cornelia’s service in the Women’s Army Corps at Camp Campbell, Kentucky. She writes of her activities, her anticipated furlough and their male acquaintances.

Strange Collection (Mss 42), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 42. Correspondence, 1864-1878 (8); journal, 1852-1883; scrapbooks (2); Manuscript: “House of Madison and McDowell in Kentucky,” 1888; family genealogical data; slave records; etc., of Agatha (Rochester) Strange, 1832-1896, a lifelong resident of Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Chamberlain, John B. (Sc 2531), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2531. Letter written from Kaler, Graves County, Kentucky, by John B. Chamberlain to his daughter. He gives a general description of Kaler and its environs, including its low-lying terrain, local businesses, and railroad access.

Treate, Samuel (Sc 390), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 390. Bill of exchange for $150 made in Arkansas payable to Samuel Mosely. Endorsed by several others and presented for payment in Washington County, District of Columbia, 29 August 1812, where funds were insufficient to pay the note.

Lobos Y Perros Rabiosos: The Legacy Of The Inquisition In The Colonization Of New Spain And New Mexico, C. Michael Torres

Student Papers (History)

No abstract provided.

Whalen, John And William (Lg 436), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 44. Original land grant, 9 June 1856, by which Charles S. Morehead, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to John and William Whalen 550 acres in Edmonson County, Kentucky.

Warren County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 2529), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2529. Two slave bills of sale (1849, 1856) to Tobias S. Grider, and agreement (1861) of a family of emancipated African Americans to be enslaved by William Davenport.

The Violent, Furious, And Persistent Unions: Picher, Oklahoma During The 1930s, Jordan L. Boyd

Theory and Practice: HIST430

"From all directions as one approaches Picher, Oklahoma, the mountainous chat piles loom prominently in the distance, impressive testimony to the labor of thousands of miners and mill men who spent their lives extracting and milling lead and zinc ores from the Tri-State Mining District of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri." The mines started to be discovered in the regions of Southeast Kansas and Northeast Oklahoma during and before the turn of the Twentieth Century. More and more people begin to inhabit these regions and with more settlement through the heart of America, shifted to more exploration of the rich resources …

You Can Hide `Neath Your Covers: Confronting The Boss, John M. Rudy

Interpreting the Civil War: Connecting the Civil War to the American Public

Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well." Donald Rumsfeld, 2001

It's not often that I quote or even think about Donald Rumsfeld. I'm pretty sure he doesn't think about me at all. Still, that quote above is a keen (if obvious) observation that so often we in the world of public service Civil War interpretation forget. I work for the Federal Government in my 'real' job. This blog is where I brain dump everything else rattling around in my mind. Inspiration strikes at all hours, and last week the bolt came out of the blue …

Paupers To Princes: Quapaw Royalties From The Tri-State Mining Area Land-Leases And Their Effects Of The Tribal Culture, Jordan Adams

Theory and Practice: HIST430

On January 4, 1918, the Miami Record Herald ran a story that had become quite common in the years preceding. The newspaper out of Miami, Oklahoma received a story that the United States Government had declared three members of the Quapaw tribe incompetent to manage their funds and land. The rumor mill declared a bad investment led to Ben Quapaw, Se-Sah Quapaw, and Wah Tah Neh Zah Goodeagle to receive the declaration. In the minds of many, it was just another Indian wasting their mining money. What was happening was a far more troubling situation. Two attorneys who had been …

Miners And Their Machines: How Early Turn-Of-The-Century Mining Techniques And Equipment Influenced The Tri-State Area, Chuck Boyles

Theory and Practice: HIST430

There is very little doubt that the mechanization and modernization of early mining methods in the early 1920s and 30s within the tri-state area, and the entire United States for that matter, would have a profound impact on the miners and the rest of the country. This paper will explore the positives and the negatives of the machinery that miners began to use shortly after the turn-of-the-century. In the hope to clarify, or at least improve, the ideas of why mechanization took place so quickly and so willingly by mine operators, what is impacts were on the miners, and how …

Warren County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 2527), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2527. Warrant (1822) to sheriff to take custody of a free mulatto man found in Warren County; certificates (2) and appointment (1) relating to slave patrols in Warren County (1824-1825); and undated power of attorney authorizing apprehension of a fugitive slave from New Orleans, Louisiana.

Warren County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 2528), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2528. Summons to jury and witnesses and charge in the case of Lucy, an enslaved woman, accused of attempting to murder her owner’s wife with an axe in 1814.

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.