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Casey County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick Nov 2016

Casey County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick

Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection

Place names for Carter County, Kentucky.


Crittenden County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick Nov 2016

Crittenden County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick

Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection

Place names of Crittenden County, Kentucky.


Dick, Harriet Hoadley "Hattie" (Cochran), 1890-1975 (Sc 3078), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2016

Dick, Harriet Hoadley "Hattie" (Cochran), 1890-1975 (Sc 3078), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3078. Black-and-white, 3 in. X 5 in. photograph of “The Little Colonel’s Cottage,” a house in Pewee Valley, Kentucky, autographed on the reverse by Hattie Cochran Dick, the model for the character of Lloyd Sherman in Annie Fellows Johnston’s Little Colonel series of books.


Whittlesey, Elisha, 1783-1863 (Sc 3077), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2016

Whittlesey, Elisha, 1783-1863 (Sc 3077), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3077. Letter, 7 August 1847, of Elisha Whittlesey to Nathan F. Williams, Baltimore, Maryland. He expresses high praise for Zachary Taylor, the likely candidate of the Whig Party in the 1848 presidential campaign, but fears that Taylor’s Southern origins will allow a Democratic Party candidate to gain the support of abolitionist Whigs, Whigs in non-slaveholding states, and members of the Liberty Party. The letter is written on manuscript letterhead of the Washington National Monument Office.


Joiner-Rogers Collection (Mss 590), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2016

Joiner-Rogers Collection (Mss 590), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full text scans of selected items (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 590. Personal and professional papers of Christian County, Kentucky teacher and administrator Erleen (Joiner) Rogers, and novels, poems, skits, epigrams and witticisms written by her father, Robert Tinnon Joiner. Includes a collection of Joiner’s writings titled Nonsense and Wisdom From Flat Lick, Rogers’ family history titled Seven Generations in and From Flat Lick, other family data, and photographs.


A People’S Journey, A Nation’S Past: The National Museum Of African American History And Culture, Danielle E. Jones Nov 2016

A People’S Journey, A Nation’S Past: The National Museum Of African American History And Culture, Danielle E. Jones

The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History

On September 24, 2016, the National Museum of African American History and Culture was opened to the public after almost two decades of planning and more than a century of fighting for a memorial for African Americans. Starting in 1915, when a group of United States Colored Troops sought a memorial for their fallen soldiers, African Americans have worked to have their history remembered on a national scale. A congressional commission for a museum dedicated to African Americans was signed in 1929 by Calvin Coolidge, but the stock market crash in October prevented the museum from being built. The memorial …


Breckinridge County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick Nov 2016

Breckinridge County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick

Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection

Place names for Breckinridge County, Kentucky.


Carlisle County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick Nov 2016

Carlisle County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick

Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection

Place names for Carlisle County, Kentucky.


Bullitt County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick Nov 2016

Bullitt County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick

Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection

Place names for Bullitt County, Kentucky.


Gunther, L. W., B. 1822? (Sc 3075), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2016

Gunther, L. W., B. 1822? (Sc 3075), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3075. Letter, 12 March 1848, of L. W. Gunther, Cadiz, Kentucky, to Charles H. Blake, Blandville, Kentucky. He refers to Blake taking delivery of goods from the steamboat Tennessee, reports correspondence from England and France concerning their stave business, and discusses the specifications for the English customer. He also makes reference to a “shipbuilding enterprise.”


Meador, Thomas (Sc 3074), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2016

Meador, Thomas (Sc 3074), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3074. Agreement, 25 February 1854, between O. S. Warner and Thomas Meador setting out the terms of Meador’s employment on Warner’s farm in Breckinridge County, Kentucky. The agreement provides for payment, the provision of housing and produce from an orchard, and the use of pasture by Meador. Meador’s 12-month, full-time engagement makes allowances for his family and business, and for “unnecessary exposure” to “wet weather or heavy dews.”


Campbell County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick Nov 2016

Campbell County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick

Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection

Place names for Campbell County, Kentucky.


Butler County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick Nov 2016

Butler County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick

Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection

Place names for Butler County, Kentucky.


Carter County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick Nov 2016

Carter County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick

Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection

Place names for Carter County, Kentucky.


Caldwell County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick Nov 2016

Caldwell County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick

Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection

Place names for Caldwell County, Kentucky.


Calloway County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick Nov 2016

Calloway County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick

Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection

Place names for Calloway County, Kentucky.


Carroll County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick Nov 2016

Carroll County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick

Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection

Place names for Carroll County, Kentucky.


Sorgen, Vinton Grant, 1894-1968 (Sc 3073), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2016

Sorgen, Vinton Grant, 1894-1968 (Sc 3073), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3073. Letter, 28 May 1918, of Grant Sorgen, stationed at Camp Zachary Taylor, Louisville, Kentucky, to his family in Kenton, Ohio. He describes settling in at camp, receiving vaccinations, and the likelihood of moving to different quarters.


Eastwood Baptist Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky - Relating To (Sc 3076), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2016

Eastwood Baptist Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky - Relating To (Sc 3076), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3076. Two letters to Brent Price, Bowling Green, Kentucky, relating to his preparation of an article on Eastwood Baptist Church, also in Bowling Green. William H. Rogers, Director of the Kentucky Baptist Convention, writes on 22 November 1978 of the principles followed during his pastorship there, and Sam Todd writes on 6 December 1978 with a historical sketch of the church.


Settler Social Order: The Violence Of Policing In New Mexico, Elisabeth Rose Ehlert Perkal Nov 2016

Settler Social Order: The Violence Of Policing In New Mexico, Elisabeth Rose Ehlert Perkal

American Studies ETDs

This thesis argues that in order to understand how and why police violence happens in the U.S., it is necessary to situate these interactions within a framework of settler colonialism. The police exist to maintain social order and, in the case of the U.S., this social order is defined by hegemonic structures of power including settler colonialism. Thus, the police fabricate and enforce settler social order that requires subjugating and eliminating Native people in order to preserve settler sovereignty. This thesis intervenes into monolithic critiques of policing in the U.S. and argues that critiques of police violence are most productive …


Boyle County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick Nov 2016

Boyle County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick

Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection

Place names for Boyle County, Kentucky.


Bracken County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick Nov 2016

Bracken County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick

Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection

Place names for Bracken County, Kentucky.


Breathitt County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick Nov 2016

Breathitt County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick

Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection

Place names for Breathitt County, Kentucky.


Boucher Family Papers (Sc 3071), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2016

Boucher Family Papers (Sc 3071), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3071. Miscellaneous papers and photographs of the Boucher family of Allen County, Kentucky. Includes promissory notes, tax and other receipts, deeds, Civil War military passes and slave indentures.


Boyd County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick Nov 2016

Boyd County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick

Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection

Place names for Boyd County, Kentucky.


Place Names Beginning With The Letter J, Robert M. Rennick Nov 2016

Place Names Beginning With The Letter J, Robert M. Rennick

Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection

Place names of Kentucky beginning with the letter J.


Place Names Beginning With The Letter L, Robert M. Rennick Nov 2016

Place Names Beginning With The Letter L, Robert M. Rennick

Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection

Place names of Kentucky beginning with the letter L.


Place Names Beginning With The Letter Q, Robert M. Rennick Nov 2016

Place Names Beginning With The Letter Q, Robert M. Rennick

Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection

Place names of Kentucky beginning with the letter Q.


Place Names Beginning With The Letter Y, Robert M. Rennick Nov 2016

Place Names Beginning With The Letter Y, Robert M. Rennick

Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection

Place names of Kentucky beginning with the letter Y.


Place Names Beginning With The Letter Z, Robert M. Rennick Nov 2016

Place Names Beginning With The Letter Z, Robert M. Rennick

Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection

Place names of Kentucky beginning with the letter Z.