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B. Montgomery To J. E. Davis, 6 May, B. Montgomery, Joseph E. Davis Feb 2019

B. Montgomery To J. E. Davis, 6 May, B. Montgomery, Joseph E. Davis

Correspondence

No abstract provided.


B. Montgomery To J. E. Davis, 22 April, B. Montgomery, Joseph E. Davis Feb 2019

B. Montgomery To J. E. Davis, 22 April, B. Montgomery, Joseph E. Davis

Correspondence

Regarding lost freight. On verso, note from J.B. Johnson regarding the same. Includes envelope.


B. Montgomery To J. E. Davis, 18 April, B. Montgomery, Joseph E. Davis Feb 2019

B. Montgomery To J. E. Davis, 18 April, B. Montgomery, Joseph E. Davis

Correspondence

No abstract provided.


B. Montgomery To J. E. Davis, 15 April, B. Montgomery, Joseph E. Davis Feb 2019

B. Montgomery To J. E. Davis, 15 April, B. Montgomery, Joseph E. Davis

Correspondence

Regarding the relationship between Davis and Montgomery.


B. Montgomery To J. E. Davis, 28 March, B. Montgomery, Joseph E. Davis Feb 2019

B. Montgomery To J. E. Davis, 28 March, B. Montgomery, Joseph E. Davis

Correspondence

No abstract provided.


B. Montgomery To J. E. Davis, 21 March, B. Montgomery, Joseph E. Davis Feb 2019

B. Montgomery To J. E. Davis, 21 March, B. Montgomery, Joseph E. Davis

Correspondence

No abstract provided.


B. Montgomery To J. E. Davis, 28 February, B. Montgomery, Joseph E. Davis Feb 2019

B. Montgomery To J. E. Davis, 28 February, B. Montgomery, Joseph E. Davis

Correspondence

No abstract provided.


B. Montgomery To J. E. Davis, 1 March, B. Montgomery, Joseph E. Davis Feb 2019

B. Montgomery To J. E. Davis, 1 March, B. Montgomery, Joseph E. Davis

Correspondence

Envelope only.


B. Montgomery To J. E. Davis, 16 February, B. Montgomery, Joseph E. Davis Feb 2019

B. Montgomery To J. E. Davis, 16 February, B. Montgomery, Joseph E. Davis

Correspondence

No abstract provided.


B. Montgomery To J. E. Davis, 11 February, B. Montgomery, Joseph E. Davis Feb 2019

B. Montgomery To J. E. Davis, 11 February, B. Montgomery, Joseph E. Davis

Correspondence

No abstract provided.


B. Montgomery To J. E. Davis, 31 January, B. Montgomery, Joseph E. Davis Feb 2019

B. Montgomery To J. E. Davis, 31 January, B. Montgomery, Joseph E. Davis

Correspondence

No abstract provided.


Montgomery & Son To Mr. J. D. Nicholson, January, Montgomery & Son, Joseph E. Davis Feb 2019

Montgomery & Son To Mr. J. D. Nicholson, January, Montgomery & Son, Joseph E. Davis

Correspondence

No abstract provided.


Henderson Newton To J. E. Davis, 24 January, Henderson Newton, Joseph E. Davis Feb 2019

Henderson Newton To J. E. Davis, 24 January, Henderson Newton, Joseph E. Davis

Correspondence

Former slave to "Dear Master".


B. Montgomery To J. E. Davis, 24 January, B. Montgomery, Joseph E. Davis Feb 2019

B. Montgomery To J. E. Davis, 24 January, B. Montgomery, Joseph E. Davis

Correspondence

No abstract provided.


Extra Envelope, Author Unknown, Joseph E. Davis Feb 2019

Extra Envelope, Author Unknown, Joseph E. Davis

Correspondence

No abstract provided.


B. Montgomery To J. E. Davis, 5 December, B. Montgomery, Joseph E. Davis Feb 2019

B. Montgomery To J. E. Davis, 5 December, B. Montgomery, Joseph E. Davis

Correspondence

No abstract provided.


B. Montgomery To J. E. Davis, 3 December, B. Montgomery, Joseph E. Davis Feb 2019

B. Montgomery To J. E. Davis, 3 December, B. Montgomery, Joseph E. Davis

Correspondence

No abstract provided.


B. Montgomery To J. E. Davis, 19 October, B. Montgomery, Joseph E. Davis Feb 2019

B. Montgomery To J. E. Davis, 19 October, B. Montgomery, Joseph E. Davis

Correspondence

No abstract provided.


B. Montgomery To J. E. Davis, 15 October, B. Montgomery, Joseph E. Davis Feb 2019

B. Montgomery To J. E. Davis, 15 October, B. Montgomery, Joseph E. Davis

Correspondence

No abstract provided.


B. Montgomery To J. E. Davis, 10 October, B. Montgomery, Joseph E. Davis Feb 2019

B. Montgomery To J. E. Davis, 10 October, B. Montgomery, Joseph E. Davis

Correspondence

Writes of rent collectors.


B. Montgomery To J. E. Davis, 7 October, B. Montgomery, Joseph E. Davis, United States. Bureau Of Refugees, Freedmen, And Abandoned Lands Feb 2019

B. Montgomery To J. E. Davis, 7 October, B. Montgomery, Joseph E. Davis, United States. Bureau Of Refugees, Freedmen, And Abandoned Lands

Correspondence

Discussion of difficulties and monies, first discussion of purchasing Brierfield Plantation. Includes envelope.


Richard C. Bridges To His Sister, Undated, Richard C. Bridges Feb 2019

Richard C. Bridges To His Sister, Undated, Richard C. Bridges

Correspondence

Fragment of a letter presumably from Richard C. Bridges to his sister informing her that she need not send him winter clothes; he is well-supplied by the government.


Review: Calculus Of Violence, Cameron T. Sauers Feb 2019

Review: Calculus Of Violence, Cameron T. Sauers

The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History

It seems counterintuitive to imagine the bloodiest conflict in American history being worse, but Sheehan-Dean argues that the death toll could have been dramatically higher without both sides’ emphasis on restraint, as dictated by the laws of war. Most of the book is spent examining “how people on both sides justified the lethal violence of conflict and when, how, and why they balanced cruelty and destruction.” Despite the rules of war, however, Civil War participants, like all humans, were contradictory. Sometimes they acted instinctively and spontaneously, while at other times, their actions were the result of deeply seated ideology. The …


The Grizzly, February 28, 2019, Courtney A. Duchene, William Wehrs, Madison Rodak, Sophia Dibattista, Claire Hughes, Thomas Bantley, David Mendelsohn, Peter Desimone, Zack Muredda Feb 2019

The Grizzly, February 28, 2019, Courtney A. Duchene, William Wehrs, Madison Rodak, Sophia Dibattista, Claire Hughes, Thomas Bantley, David Mendelsohn, Peter Desimone, Zack Muredda

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

To Squat or to Cluster? That is the Question • HEP Professor Goes on a Revelatory Journey • SUN Event Concludes Black History Month • Ursinus Makes Impressive List • Eye-Opening Experiences in Limerick, Ireland • Religion Battles Science in "Agnes of God" • Opinions: U.S.'s Nuclear Intervention in Japan was Justified / was not Justified • The "Did You Guys Seriously Forget How Good I Am?" Award: Courtney Cortese • Men's Hoops Eliminated in CC Semifinal; Williams Jr. Ends Career as CC Record-Holder • New Lax Coach, Mercadante, off to Impressive Start


Index To Bruce Stewart Interview, Elisia Harder Feb 2019

Index To Bruce Stewart Interview, Elisia Harder

Linfield University Public History Project: World War II as Experience and Memory

This index provides a time-stamped overview of the subjects discussed during an oral history interview with Bruce Stewart, Linfield College class of 1949.


Houchens Industries - Bowling Green, Kentucky - Relating To (Sc 3333), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2019

Houchens Industries - Bowling Green, Kentucky - Relating To (Sc 3333), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3333. Two historical sketches of Houchens Industries, an operator of grocery and convenience stores founded in Glasgow, Kentucky in 1917. One is compiled by Ruel Houchens and is current to 1988; the other is by an unknown author and is current to 1989.


Liberty Hall Association - Louisville, Kentucky (Sc 3335), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2019

Liberty Hall Association - Louisville, Kentucky (Sc 3335), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3335. Letter, 13 November 1936, to Bertha (Mrs. A. Edwin) Rice, Russellville, Kentucky from E. Leland Taylor, president of the Liberty Hall Association. The letter solicits subscriptions to enable the Association to exercise an option to purchase Liberty Hall in Frankfort, Kentucky and open the house to the public. The letter notes the purchase price of $30,000, a figure that includes a Gilbert Stuart portrait, and lists other historical and patriotic organizations cooperating in the effort.


Triplett, Robert, 1794-1853 (Sc 3336), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2019

Triplett, Robert, 1794-1853 (Sc 3336), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3336. Letter, 10 February 1849, of Robert Triplett, Owensboro, Kentucky, to G. M. Green, Frankfort, Kentucky. He asks Green’s indulgence in delaying payment of a note until after a planned trip to Europe, which Triplett expects will restore his currently “deranged” finances.


Elections And Election Campaigns - Magoffin County, Kentucky (Sc 3334), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2019

Elections And Election Campaigns - Magoffin County, Kentucky (Sc 3334), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3334. Letter, 3 June 1993, to WKU faculty member John Parker from Jim Kelly, Flat Gap, Kentucky in reference to a recent article in a Lexington, Kentucky newspaper on the use of nicknames by political candidates. He encloses a copy of a paid political advertisement from “a few years ago,” placed in the Salyersville (Kentucky) Independent by magistrate candidate James “N----r” Howard (the racial epithet being spelled in full). Kelly also encloses a more recent clipping reporting on election fraud in Magoffin County.


Annotations On - Experience, Labours, And Sufferings Of Rev. James Jenkins, Of The South Carolina Conference. Printed For The Author. 1842., John Benjamin Burroughs Feb 2019

Annotations On - Experience, Labours, And Sufferings Of Rev. James Jenkins, Of The South Carolina Conference. Printed For The Author. 1842., John Benjamin Burroughs

HCAC Research

The Rev. James Jenkins was born in the Britton’s Neck section of the old Georgetown Judicial District in 1764. This article contains selected entries of his journal which recount some of his experiences during the American Revolutionary War in the area that is now Horry, Georgetown, Williamsburg, Marion, Dillon and Florence Counties in South Carolina. He and his older brothers were part of the famed Gen. Francis Marion’s Brigade, which thwarted the British Southern Strategy in South Carolina. By keeping the revolution alive in South Carolina, the work of Marion’s Brigade contributed greatly to the ultimate result of the British …