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Minie Ball- B1004, Morehead State University. History Department

Petersburg National Battlefield Archaeological Recovery Project

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Shelton Family Papers (Mss 527), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 527. Letters and compositions written by Butler County, Kentucky native Curran Ralph Shelton, while a student at Glasgow Normal School. Also includes a diary in which he records family, church, and local community happenings in 1891. Also includes several small diaries kept by Curran’s wife John Annie during the Great Depression.

Hendricks, John Thornton, 1939-2023 (Mss 528), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 528. Notes, newspaper articles, interviews and photographs relating to John Hendricks’ research for his book Once Upon a Lynching: The Jerome Boyett Story, concerning the 1933 lynching in Scott County, Tennessee, of the accused murderer of a Pickett County, Tennessee sheriff and his deputy.

A Useable Past: First World War Training Camps On Civil War Battlefields, S. Marianne Johnson

The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History

When visitors flock to America’s National Parks, the battlefields from the American Civil War are perennially popular. Every summer, thousands come to walk over the serene fields and forests where men suffered unimaginable carnage. These sites have become sacred in the American psyche, places to remember and honor the dead, educate the public, or engage in quiet personal reflection. The rolling plains, dense forests and impressive mountains of Civil War battlefields inspire awe and reverence for what author Robert Penn Warren tagged America’s only “felt history.” [excerpt]

From Slave Ship To Harvard: Yarrow Mamout And The History Of An African American Family [Table Of Contents And Introduction], James H. Johnston

History

From Slave Ship to Harvard is the true story of an African American family in Maryland over six generations. The author has reconstructed a unique narrative of black struggle and achievement from paintings, photographs, books, diaries, court records, legal documents, and oral histories. From Slave Ship to Harvard traces the family from the colonial period and the American Revolution through the Civil War to Harvard and finally today.

Yarrow Mamout, the first of the family in America, was an educated Muslim from Guinea. He was brought to Maryland on the slave ship Elijah and gained his freedom forty-four years later. …

Baker, Walter (Lg 178), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 178. Original land grant, 11 May 1800, by which James Garrard, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Walter Baker and John Dickens, assignees of John Baker, 1500 acres in Hardin County, Kentucky, - 2/3 of acreage to Walter Baker, 1/3 to John Dickens.

Foster, Robert (Lg 176), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 176. Copy of a land grant, 19 December 1796, by which James Garrard, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Robert Foster 6,666 2/3 acres on Big Barren River, Kentucky.

Berryman, Jessy (Lg 173), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 173. Original land grant, 27 November 1801, by which James Garrard, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Jessy Berryman, assignee of Thomas Hegsmith, who was assignee of Sollomon Anderson, 200 acres in Warren County, Kentucky.

Mcfadin, Andrew (Lg 169), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 169. Original land grant, 21 December 1798, by which James Garrard, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Andrew McFadin, assignee of William Croghan, who was assignee of Fredrick Edwards, attorney for Will Montgomery heir to James Montgomery, deceased, 100 acres of Big Barren River, Kentucky.

Rust, Benjamin (Lg 174), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 174. Original land grant 15 December 1801, by which James Garrard, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Benjamin Rust 1666 2/3 acres on Big Barren River, Kentucky.

Grider, Henry (Lg 172), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 172. Original land grant, 10 March 1801, by which James Garrard, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Henry Grider, assignee of Samuel B. Coker, assignee of Joseph Cook, 100 acres in Warren County, Kentucky.

Overstreet, John (Lg 170), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 170. Original land grant, 19 January 1799, by which James Garrard, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to John Overstreet 200 acres on Big Barren River, Kentucky.

Potter, Thomas Corwin, 1841-1863 (Sc 2892), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2892. Letter, 7 January 1862, of Private Thomas C. Corwin, Battery B, 1st Ohio Light Artillery, to his sister in Michigan. Writing from camp at Somerset, Kentucky, he reflects on the war’s duration and describes camp life, troop positions around Somerset, and local citizens’ fear of a coming battle. He also describes skirmishes with Confederate pickets and his hopes for an advance though Kentucky.

Helms, Benjamin (Lg 175), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 175. Copy of a land grant, 10 June 1799, by which James Garrard, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Benjamin Helms and Thomas McIntire, assignees of Richard Harrison, by his attorney John Harrison for one moiety, and to Richard Harrison for the other moiety, 560 acres in Hardin County, Kentucky.

Hampton, Benjamin (Lg 177), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 177. Original land grant, 13 May 1797, by, which James Garrard, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Benjamin Hampton 92 acres in Logan County, Kentucky.

Payne, William (Lg 171), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 171. Original land grant, 22 April 1800, by which James Garrard, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to William Payne 200 acres in Lincoln County, Kentucky.

Lg Ms 038 Frances Peabody Papers Finding Aid, Katharine Renolds Thomas, Christina E. Walker

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Description:

Frannie Peabody was one of Maine's leading AIDS activists. Best known in Maine and nationally for her exceptional leadership in the AIDS epidemic, she also gave significant service on historic preservation, child welfare, and gay rights issues. She was a founder of Portland’s The AIDS Project and of the Frannie Peabody Center (formerly Peabody House), as well as of Greater Portland Landmarks. The Papers contain Peabody's personal papers, including her work with The AIDS Project and bereavement counseling.

Date Range:

1981-1999

Size of Collection:

24.5 ft.

A Long Way From Minneapolis: Minnesotans In The Spanish Civil War, Fletcher Warren

Library Research Prize Student Works

In 1996, eighty-one-year-old Minnesotan Clarence Forester and sixty-seven fellow Americans traveled to Barcelona at the behest of the Spanish government. There, they feasted at state banquets, received honorary Spanish citizenship, and paraded down the streets of Barcelona to throngs of Spaniards ten deep. Forester later mused that as he moved through the crowds, some of the Spaniards he talked to that day were in their seventies. Perhaps the women and men who kissed him were the same boys and girls who had clung to his legs at another Barcelonian parade. Fifty-eight years earlier, in October 1938, Forester had marched down …

Reclaiming And Reconciling What Was Originally Ours--Christianity And Feminism: A Concise History, Soquel Filice

History

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Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter (March 2015, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Bowling Green Civil War Round Table Newsletter

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"Town Of God": Ota Benga, The Batetela Boys, And The Promise Of Black America, Karen Sotiropoulos

History Faculty Publications

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Mexico’S Real Wages In The Age Of The Great Divergence, 1730-1930, Amilcar Challú

History Faculty Publications

This study builds the first internationally comparable index of real wages for Mexico City bridging the eighteenth and the early twentieth century. Real wages started out in relatively high international levels in the mid eighteenth century, but declined from the late 1770s on, with some partial and temporal rebounds after the 1810s. After the 1860s real wages recovered and eventually reached eighteenth-century levels in the early twentieth century. Real wages of Mexico City’s workers slid behind those of high-wage economies to converge with the lower fringes of middle-wage economies. The age of the global great divergence was Mexico’s own age …

Crowdsourcing Digital Public History, Jason A. Heppler, Gabriel K. Wolfenstein

Criss Library Faculty Publications

The generation of communal knowledge is not a new phenomenon. In the late nineteenth century, the Oxford English Dictionary solicited volunteers to submit words and their usage for inclusion in the dictionary ( 1 ). Carl Becker, writing in 1932 on what was already an old discussion in the historical profession, noted that "if the essence of history is the memory of things said and done, then it is obvious that every normal person, Mr. Everyman, knows some history" (2). The historian Jo Guldi's work on participatory mapping shows that urban planners in the middle of the twentieth century attempted …

As God Gives Me To See The Right: Gerald Ford, Religion, And Healing After Vietnam And Watergate, David Veenstra

Pro Rege

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Rohner Creek Flood Control Project: Research, Susie Van Kirk

Susie Van Kirk Papers

Compilation of research materials that include deeds, tax assessments, newspaper references and directories.

Race, Power, And Education In Early America, John Frederick Bell

Education's Histories

Craig Steven Wilder. Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2013. 423 pp. $30.00.

Harrell, Robert (Lg 167), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 167. Original land grant, 11 June 1797, by which James Garrard, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Robert Harrell 200 acres in Logan County, Kentucky.

Mobberly, Charles (Lg 166), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 166. Original land grant, 20 December 1831, by which Thomas Metcalfe, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Charles Mobberly 200 acres in Warren County, Kentucky.

Walker, John (Lg 164), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 164. Copy of a land grant, 15 December 1820, by which John Adair, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to the heirs and representatives of John Walker 1000 acres in Jefferson County, Kentucky. (surveyed Dec. 7, 1783).

Mitchell, Moses (Lg 165), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 165. Original land grant, 4 June 1829, by which Thomas Metcalfe, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Moses Mitchell 25 acres in Warren County, Kentucky.