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Carter, Chillon Conway, 1830-1891 (Mss 112), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescripts of selected material for Manuscripts Collection 112. Correspondence, chiefly written by Monroe County, Kentucky native Chillon Conway Carter, to his wife, Lucinda E. and his two daughters Nancy G. and Louisa A., during the Civil War. Also includes letters written to Carter by his brother, John B. Carter, who lived in White County, Illinois.

Mothers Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 113), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 113. Organizational records including minutes, financial and attendance reports, yearbooks, and newspaper clippings related to the Mothers Club, a group of concerned mothers who formed the Bowling Green club in 1925 for educational purposes. The group formally dissolved in 1998.

Howell, Bessie (Sc 2674), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2674. Paper written by Bessie Howell titled "Kentucky Pioneers and Their Contributions, 1792-1820" for a class at Western Kentucky State Normal School and Teachers College.

Dark Town's Wealth: A 150-Year-Old Rock-And-Roll Concert Review, John M. Rudy

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

I have a lot of odd things scattered around my house, weird ephemera and bric-a-brac that I've picked up here and there as I've studied history.

Some of them are treasures, like CDVs of long-dead College professors and original pieces of decking from the USS North Carolina. Some are less treasures and more, well, junk. Most folks toss old newspapers within a few days of reading. In the Civil War Era, I'm sure many a page of newsprint went to start an honest mother's hearth in the morning or a pile of moist kindling in some godforsaken camp. [excerpt …

The Grizzly, April 11, 2013, Jessica Orbon, Sara Sherr, Alyse Reid, Rachel Brown, Misha Fausto, Caroline Sandberg, John Parry, Megan Maccaroni, Carly Siegler, Kaitlyn Cherry, Melissa Kopel, Austin Fox, Allen Weaver

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Drug Search Policy • Advocates Strive to Empower • Diversity Report • 4th Annual Cuts for a Cause April 14 • New Club Fosters School Spirit • Move-Out Program • Pause for Paws Brings Cheer • Opinion: Ritter Needs Renovating; The "R" Word Hurts • Class of '13 Spotlight: Kevin Wilson • Senior Spotlight: Liz Chatburn, Women's Lacrosse • Men's Lacrosse Beats York

Honoring Mt. Hope Cemetery’S Chinese Burial Grounds: Asian American Studies Program With The Coalition For Asian Pacific American Youth (Capay) And The Chinese Historical Society Of New England (Chsne), Asian American Studies Program, University Of Massachusetts Boston, Chinese Historical Society Of New England

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Honoring the Chinese burial grounds of Boston’s Mt. Hope Cemetery has been the signature focus of the Chinese Historical Society of New England (CHSNE) for two decades. Throughout that time, students from the Asian American Studies Program and the Coalition for Asian Pacific American Youth (CAPAY) at UMass Boston have been deeply involved with service-learning, documentation, and education projects to connect younger generations with the site’s historical importance and contemporary meaning.

Mass. Memories Road Show: Your Place In Massachusetts History, Andrew Elder, Carolyn M. Goldstein, Joanne Riley, University Archives & Special Collections, University Of Massachusetts Boston

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The Mass. Memories Road Show is an event-based public history project that digitizes family photographs and stories shared by the people of Massachusetts. We work with local communities to organize free public events where everyone is invited to bring photographs to be scanned and included in the archives at UMass Boston.

To date, the Mass. Memories Road Show has digitized more than 5,000 photographs and stories from across the state, creating an educational resource of primary sources for future generations. Over time, we plan to visit each of the 351 cities and towns in Massachusetts.

Underwood, Henry Lewis, 1848-1925 - Collector (Sc 936), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 936. Letters kept by Henry Lewis Underwood, 1848-1925, a Bowling Green, Kentucky native, which include an 1800 letter of Henry Clay written to Robert Craddock; an 1875 letter of Jefferson Davis addressed to Underwood; an 1894 letter of Theodore Roosevelt addressed to C.R. Breckinridge; letters, 1885 (15), pertaining to a National Soldiers Reunion and Encampment; and miscellaneous items.

Clark, William T. (Sc 939), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 939. Letter, 28 November 1861, written by William T. Clark, Camp Nolin, Hardin County, Kentucky, to his aunt, Elisabeth Thompson, East Nottingham, Pennsylvania. He describes the setting up and moving out of a camp; estimates there are about 40,000 to 50,000 troops in the area; and mentions Simon Bolivar Buckner’s presence in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Godby, Allen Fogle, 1920-2004 (Sc 934), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 934. Paper by Allen Fogle Godby titled, “W.W.II – Fifty Years Later” given to a Bowling Green, Kentucky High School assembly. Godby relates world conditions of that time period and records brief data about time spent in the Pacific Theater as a U.S. Army Air Corps sergeant. Godby did not see action on the fighting front.

Natcher, William Huston, 1909-1994 (Sc 938), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 938. Letters, 1986, 1987 (2), written by William Huston Natcher, Washington D.C., to Dr. and Mrs. William R. McCormack, Bowling Green, Kentucky; photocopy of letter from Ann Landers to Natcher, 1988; photocopies of letters Natcher wrote to his grandsons 1985-1987; and newspaper clippings, 1987-1988.

Murdoch, Louise Saunders, 1872-1918 - Letters To (Sc 937), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 937. Congratulatory letters, 1918, written to Louise Saunders Murdoch, Buckhorn, Kentucky, concerning her recently published book, Almetta of Gabriel’s Run.

On The Battleground At Gettysburg: A Journey To Remember, John M. Rudy

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

I was very pleased to be one of the two speakers at Sunday night's inaugural "Journey to Remember" event sponsored by Gettysburg College. A group of students and community members trekked up the hill from the campus, resting on Oak Hill at the base of the Eternal Light Peace Memorial to hear myself and Janet Riggs, the college's President and a fellow alum. The student organizers asked me to place that place into historical context. [excerpt]

Strode, Wendell Kay, B. 1948 (Sc 926), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 926. Letter, 16 April 1969, to Charles Arterburn, Flippin, Monroe County, Kentucky, thanking him for his letter which Strode received in Japan while recuperating from an injury suffered in Vietnam. He further relates that he will be returning to Vietnam in thirty days. The stationery is imprinted with a military cartoon.

Speed, John Orville, 1871-1970 (Sc 933), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 933. Two poems; excerpt from Who’s Who in Poetry that included one of John Orville Speed’s poems; 1970 newspaper clipping about Speed, all found in an autographed copy of his 1962 book Anecdotes and Tall Tale in Rhyme. Speed was originally from Madisonville, Hopkins County, Kentucky, and was called the “Pennyrile Poet Laureate.”

Bowling Green, Kentucky - Social Life And Customs, 1904 (Sc 928), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 928. Letter, 20 January 1904, written from Bowling Green, Kentucky to Katie Love, Gallatin, Tennessee, chiefly relating family news. The writer also mentions a visit to the local Morehead House Hotel and comments on two local churches.

Rice, Alice Caldwell (Hegan), 1870-1942 (Sc 943), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 943. Unsigned picture postcard, postmarked Cumberland, Maryland, and addressed to Rose Mehler, Lexington, Kentucky. The writer relates that their carnival was very successful and that their production of Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch was quite a “unique feature.” Picture on postcard is of the cast and scenery of the play.

Barren County, Kentucky - History (Sc 930), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 930. Notes related to the early history of Barren County, Kentucky, and the establishment of the county seat, Glasgow. Also, copy of the record of the organizational meeting of Barren County’s Confederate Aid Society, 8 June 1872. Includes a list of the veterans and citizens who joined that day.

Mcelroy, Sallie (Atkins), 1872-1955 (Sc 942), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 942. Compilation of papers titled “History of the Churches of Bowling Green, KY.,” by Sallie Atkins McElroy, which includes data about Baptist, Catholic, Christian, Church of Christ, Church of God, Episcopal, Methodist, Nazarene, Presbyterian, and Seventh-Day Adventist churches.

Hines, Jason P., B. 1969 (Sc 932), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 932. Four letters written by Jason P. Hines, stationed in Saudi Arabia, to his mother Kathleen Riley, Bowling Green, Kentucky, relating his experiences in Operation Desert Shield, 1990, and Operation Desert Storm, 1991.

Warren County, Kentucky - Receipts (Sc 940), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid, scans and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 940. Copies of receipts, 1800-1806 (4), of early Warren County citizens, including Bowling Green co-founder, George Moore. Receipts pertain to property taxes, 1800; payment for building jail, 1802; gambling settlement, 1804; and request for James Brown to give a coat to an individual, 1806. Includes a 1966 newspaper article about the discovery of the documents.

Teachers And Teaching - Powell County, Kentucky (Sc 927), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 927. Agreement of Fannie Hanks to teach school in Powell County, Kentucky for a six-month term beginning 5 July 1909. The contract lists the number of pupils and the responsibilities of the teacher.

Nye, Lena (Kennedy) Covington, 1873-1970 (Sc 931), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 931. Paper, written and evidently presented by Lena Covington Nye, Bowling Green, Kentucky, titled “Women Who Influenced George Washington’s Life.”

Southern Foundry Company - Owensboro, Kentucky (Sc 944), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 944. Letter, 7 June 1910, written by M.F. Bransford of the Southern Foundry Company, Owensboro, Kentucky, to C.F. Krider, Paris, Tennessee, inquiring about furnishing ironwork under a contract Krider has received to construct Grove School Dormitory in Paris.

Dean, Jefferson, 1824-1864 (Sc 941), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 941. Civil War letters (5), by Tennessee Confederate Jefferson Dean, to his wife, Sophia. His regiment was stationed in southeastern Kentucky, then Murfreesboro, Tennessee. He describes his company’s activities in preparation for the Battle of Mill Springs and with Felix Zollicoffer’s forces at Johnson’s Island, where he died. Other items include war records and photographs concerning Dean and Johnson’s Island cemetery.

Gunnon, John (Sc 948), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 948. Pension certificate issued to John Gunnon, a private in Company F, 34th Regiment, Kentucky Volunteers. Dated 28 January 1883, the certificate awards $4.00 per month to Gunnon commencing on 28 March 1865, and $6.00 per month from 22 March 1882, the pension being “for piles.”

Allison, Samuel C. (Sc 945), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 945. Letter, 10 February 1852, written by Samuel C. Allison to his mother. He details his river trip, from Cincinnati past the falls at Louisville to Cave-In-Rock, Illinois, to Chestnut Bluffs (Dyer County), Tennessee. He is evidently in a small boat and is beset by trials encountered in river travel, including cold weather and ice.

Ahart, Frances (Shaw), 1850-1894 (Sc 946), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 946. Letter, 30 September 1877, written by Frances (Shaw) Ahart, Hico, Calloway County, Kentucky, to "Brother & Sister" in LaGuardo, Wilson County, Tennessee relating family news. She signs as F.A. Shaw.

Pace, Langston (Lg 437), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Land Grant 437. Original land grant, 15 February 1819, by which Gabriel Slaughter, Lieutenant Governor and Acting Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Langston Pace, assignee of William Nunn, 50 acres in Cumberland County, Kentucky.

Patrick, William, 1763-1835 (Sc 947), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 947. Augusta County, Virginia citizen William Patrick’s will, written in anticipation of his travel to Kentucky. His siblings are listed.