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The Grizzly, March 21, 2013, Jessica Orbon, Sara Sherr, Rosemary Clark, Rachel Brown, John Parry, Vivek Reddy, Alyse Reid, Megan Maccaroni, Melissa Kopel, Jonathan Vander Lugt, Dana Feigenbaum, Matthew Johnston, Michael D'Amico, Allen Weaver Mar 2013

The Grizzly, March 21, 2013, Jessica Orbon, Sara Sherr, Rosemary Clark, Rachel Brown, John Parry, Vivek Reddy, Alyse Reid, Megan Maccaroni, Melissa Kopel, Jonathan Vander Lugt, Dana Feigenbaum, Matthew Johnston, Michael D'Amico, Allen Weaver

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Remembering Rachel Blunt • Mental Health Resources • Diversity Committee • Ball at the Bellevue Offers Fun for All • Mock Energy Bills Sent Out • UC Students Prepare for Spring Performance • Accessibility Workshop for Disabled Museum Goers • Opinion: New President Promises Improvement; "Tomb Raider" Separates Itself from the Competition • Men's Lacrosse Hot Entering CC Play • Women's Lacrosse Looks to Build Off Spring Trip • Gymnastics Team Heads to Nationals

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Naccs 40th Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies Mar 2013

Naccs 40th Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies

NACCS Conference Programs

Advancing From Sea to Shining ¡Sí!: Learning From Our Past, Defending Our Rights in the 21st Century
March 20-23, 2013
Omni San Antonio Colonnade

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Meador, Isabel (Sarver), 1832-1912 (Sc 2683), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Meador, Isabel (Sarver), 1832-1912 (Sc 2683), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2683. Letter, 31 January 1874, of Isabel Meador, Bristow, Warren County, Kentucky, to her son A. G. Meador, Union City, Tennessee (redirected to Bowling Green, Kentucky). She writes of health problems and visitors, and asks his assistance in drawing up a note for a relative who wishes to borrow money from her on the security of land near the family home.

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Mckay, Silas Harland, 1807-1884 (Sc 2682), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Mckay, Silas Harland, 1807-1884 (Sc 2682), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2682. Promissory note dated 23 April 1857 of S. H. McKay of Warren County, Kentucky to Samuel Worthington for $1655 in payment for land. A credit notation of $1000 was made on the note in 1859 by Joseph Rogers Underwood. Also includes a survey sketch of the land.

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Gaines, Sarah Elizabeth, 1852-1943 (Sc 999), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Gaines, Sarah Elizabeth, 1852-1943 (Sc 999), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 999. Recollections of Elizabeth Gaines about her life in Bowling Green and Warren County, Kentucky. She discusses residents, schools, and businesses. Gaines includes a detailed account of Civil War incidents in Bowling Green that she recalls from her childhood.

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Boaz, Peggy Bradley, B. 1951 (Sc 979), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Boaz, Peggy Bradley, B. 1951 (Sc 979), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 979. Thesis titled, “The Oral Folk History Surrounding the Life of William Bernard ‘Big Six’ Henderson,” written by Peggy Bradley Boaz for Western Kentucky University’s Folk Studies Program, 1976. Also associated newspaper clippings, 1978, 1987 (2).

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Kinney, Grover, 1885-1963 (Sc 976), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Kinney, Grover, 1885-1963 (Sc 976), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 976. Letters to and receipts of Lewis County, Kentucky farmer, Grover Kinney.

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Morphew, Marvin Ellis, 1924-2000 (Sc 977), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Morphew, Marvin Ellis, 1924-2000 (Sc 977), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 977. Telegrams, 1945 (5), discharge papers, 1945-1948 (3), broadside, newspaper clipping. and photographs (2), pertaining to Muhlenberg County native Marvin Ellis Morphew’s World War II service, especially as a German prisoner of war.

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Herbert, William H., B. 1831? (Sc 2681), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Herbert, William H., B. 1831? (Sc 2681), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2681. Charges and specifications preferred under a general court martial of William H. Herbert, 2nd Regiment, Ohio Heavy Artillery, for acts of disrespect to an officer, disobedience of orders, and mutiny committed at Fort College Hill near Bowling Green, Kentucky on 10 November 1863.

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Gardler, Francis Vincent, B. 1966 (Sc 978), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Gardler, Francis Vincent, B. 1966 (Sc 978), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 978. Paper written by Francis Vincent Gardler for a Western Kentucky University history class based on an interview with Lowell Hayes Harrison, Bowling Green, Kentucky. The paper focuses on Harrison’s World War II experiences.

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Vail, Carmen, B. 1959? (Sc 986), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Vail, Carmen, B. 1959? (Sc 986), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 986. Project titled “Welcome to Woolco,” done by Carmen Vail for a Distributive Education class at Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Woolco was a retail store located in Bowling Green’s Greenwood Mall for a number of years.

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Taylor, Lee Arnold, 1893-1961 (Sc 984), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Taylor, Lee Arnold, 1893-1961 (Sc 984), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 984. Business contract regarding a tombstone for Joel H. Gregory, 1913, and papers, March 1919 of Lee Arnold Taylor, Henderson County, Kentucky, regarding military leave.

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Smith, Cooper Ray, 1887-1951 (Sc 983), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Smith, Cooper Ray, 1887-1951 (Sc 983), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 983. Letter written from France by Cooper Ray Smith to his sister Mackie Bennett, Bowling Green, Kentucky, discussing his trip to France, the end of World War I, and inquiring about events in Bowling Green.

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Page, Evelyn Ellis (Pulliam), 1845-1928 (Sc 982), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Page, Evelyn Ellis (Pulliam), 1845-1928 (Sc 982), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 982. Affectionate letters from her sons to Evelyn Page of Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1905, 1913; letter regarding son Foster Page’s religious conversion; letter discussing rural life; and invitation to an egg fair, 1895.

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Giles, Janice (Holt), 1905-1979 (Sc 988), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Giles, Janice (Holt), 1905-1979 (Sc 988), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 988. Wills of Janice (Holt) and Henry Giles, Knifley (Adair County), Kentucky, including rights to Janice's books, royalties, papers, etc.

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Skaggs, William C. - Collector (Sc 981), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Skaggs, William C. - Collector (Sc 981), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 981. Receipts, marriage records, and notes collected by William C. Skaggs of Edmonson County, Kentucky.

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Loving, John, 1770-1827 (Sc 985), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Loving, John, 1770-1827 (Sc 985), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 985. Letter written by John Loving, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to his brother Samuel, Lovingston, Virginia, encouraging Samuel and relatives to emigrate to his region which he calls “the flower of the western country.” Loving also discusses the raising of cattle and the financial gain therefrom. Also family data.

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Montjoy, John L. "Pete," 1914-1937 (Sc 990), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Montjoy, John L. "Pete," 1914-1937 (Sc 990), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 990. Form letter, 24 August 1936, distributed by the Montjoy Fair Trial Committee of Covington, Kentucky, regarding the case of John “Pete” Montjoy. The Committee claims that his trial was “farcical” and requests that the public urge Governor Chandler to commute the death sentence by hanging. Includes excerpt from George C. Wright, Racial Violence in Kentucky 1865-1940 concerning the trial.

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Runner, William Taylor, 1890-1969 (Sc 989), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Runner, William Taylor, 1890-1969 (Sc 989), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 989. Certificate, 1 December 1915, investing William Taylor Runner with authority as a 2nd Lieutenant, Co. A, 3rd Infantry, Kentucky National Guard, effective 23 February 1914. Signed by Governor James B. McCreary.

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Ketcham, Jennie B. (Brown) (Sc 987), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Ketcham, Jennie B. (Brown) (Sc 987), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 987. Autograph album of Jennie B. (Brown) Ketcham, probably of New London, Ohio. There are also entries of friends and family from Bridgeport, Connecticut, and New York City.

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Crump, Mary Norton (Underwood) Poyntz, 1857-1920 (Sc 980), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Crump, Mary Norton (Underwood) Poyntz, 1857-1920 (Sc 980), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 980. Letter written by Mary Norton (Underwood) Poyntz Crump, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to a Miss Symmes, regarding Bowling Green’s participation in the planned Kentucky Room at the 1893 World’s Fair (Columbian Exposition) in Chicago.

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Hill, Waller B., 1857-1942 (Sc 687), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Hill, Waller B., 1857-1942 (Sc 687), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 687. Copy of the 1936 children’s book The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf. Waller B. Hill, of Bowling Green, Kentucky, asked various Bowling Green citizens to read it and inscribe their impressions on pages he had added to the front of the book.

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Deutschland Unsere Mutter, Columbia Our Bride: German-America In The Progressive Era, Taylor Holmes Mar 2013

Deutschland Unsere Mutter, Columbia Our Bride: German-America In The Progressive Era, Taylor Holmes

Pursuit - The Journal of Undergraduate Research at The University of Tennessee

In many histories of American involvement in the First World War, the anti-German hysteria that exploded in the United States is often trivially attributed to the reality that America had declared war on Germany and the consequent propaganda the war effort generated. This, however, overlooks the significant presence of anti-German sentiment prior both to the outbreak of the First World War and American entry into the war. Precedent to and coincident with U.S. military intervention in Europe was the domestic cultural struggle between an ascendant and dominantly Anglo-American Progressive ideology and a cultural pluralism that German-American ethnic pride embodied. The …

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Gasper River Bible Society (Sc 700), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Gasper River Bible Society (Sc 700), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 700. Minutes of the 18th annual meeting of the Gasper River Bible Society of the Baptist Church, held at Salem meeting house, Butler County, Kentucky in August 1856.

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Crump, Benedict Beverly, 1802-1854 (Sc 696), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Crump, Benedict Beverly, 1802-1854 (Sc 696), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 696. Photocopy of letter, 19 February 1828, of Benedict B. Crump, Bowling Green, Kentucky to Haiden Trigg Curd, Glasgow, Kentucky, relating to a confidential matter.

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Tucker, James Harvey, 1865-1962 (Sc 698), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Tucker, James Harvey, 1865-1962 (Sc 698), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 698. Sketch map and key, prepared by James H. Tucker, of Oakland, Warren County, Kentucky, showing the community as it existed in 1875.

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Vincent, Sarah Ann (Orrahood), B. 1953 (Sc 697), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Vincent, Sarah Ann (Orrahood), B. 1953 (Sc 697), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 697. Photocopy of paper on the California gold rush entitled “From the Heaven of the West,” written for a history course at Western Kentucky University. Letters of Warren County, Kentucky resident William Harris to his wife Louranah, found in the Mabel Mercer Gingles Collection (SC 114) in WKU’s Special Collections Library, were used in writing this paper.

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Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845 (Sc 691), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845 (Sc 691), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 691. Letter, 16 May 1831, of President Andrew Jackson to his adopted son, Andrew Jackson, Jr., in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He requests that his son relay a message to Major William Lewis in that city.

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Loading Chekhov’S Gun In 9-Times: The Fundamental Disconnect In Historical Interpretation, John M. Rudy Mar 2013

Loading Chekhov’S Gun In 9-Times: The Fundamental Disconnect In Historical Interpretation, John M. Rudy

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

Thursday night brings into Gettysburg an avalanche of historians (both public and academic) to discuss the Future of Civil War History for a whole weekend. That means I'll be taking some annual leave from work and participating in a working-group investigating "Training Seasonal Historians in the Age of Holding the High Ground." It's still unclear who will be able to attend our panel thanks to sequestration and a moratorium on NPS travel. Still, those of us who can make it will soldier on. [excerpt]

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Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870 (Sc 694), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870 (Sc 694), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 694. Letter, 7 April 1866, of Robert E. Lee, Lexington, Virginia, to Mrs. S. C. P. Miller of Petersburg, Virginia. Lee returns photographs with his signature as requested, and encloses others which his wife has recommended as better likenesses. Includes one photograph.

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