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Modern Misconceptions On The Wall Of Separation: An Analysis On The Influence And Misinterpretation Of Jefferson’S Separation Of Church And State, Marissa Swope

Senior Honors Theses

The symbolic concept of separation between church and state defines the relationship between government and religion. While Jefferson did not author the phrase, the third President of the United States promoted the philosophy of a wall of separation between church and state in his letter to the Danbury Baptists in 1802. Jefferson’s support for a wall of separation stemmed from a strong belief in liberty of conscience and relied heavily upon the conviction to protect religious liberty. Through an analysis on the contextual history of the phrase, the original intent and application of separation of church and state becomes evident. …

A Look Into The Tuskegee Study Of Untreated Syphilis In The Negro Male In Macon County, Alabama, Austin Valentine

Student Scholarship & Creative Works

In the 1930’s there was growing concerns over a disease known as syphilis. With 300,000 new cases each year, coupled with the disease’s ability to create blindness, arthritis, heart disease and instances of premature death, the search for a way to stop the epidemic quickly was expanding. With such numbers the United States Department of Health needed answers fast (DiIanni 1993).

At this time, the United States was in an economic crisis left by the Great Depression. As a result, the U.S. Department of Health needed to find cheap test subjects in an effort to combat syphilis and prevent its …

George Finley Ledger 20, George Finley

Deeply Rooted

This item has been aggregated as part of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL)'s "Deeply Rooted: The Agricultural & Rural History of the American South" project.

George Finley Ledger 16, George Finley

Deeply Rooted

This item has been aggregated as part of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL)'s "Deeply Rooted: The Agricultural & Rural History of the American South" project.

George Finley Ledger 15, George Finley

Deeply Rooted

This item has been aggregated as part of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL)'s "Deeply Rooted: The Agricultural & Rural History of the American South" project.

George Finley Ledger 10, George Finley

Deeply Rooted

This item has been aggregated as part of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL)'s "Deeply Rooted: The Agricultural & Rural History of the American South" project.

George Finley Ledger 8, George Finley

Deeply Rooted

This item has been aggregated as part of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL)'s "Deeply Rooted: The Agricultural & Rural History of the American South" project.

George Finley Ledger 7, George Finley

Deeply Rooted

This item has been aggregated as part of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL)'s "Deeply Rooted: The Agricultural & Rural History of the American South" project.

George Finley Ledger 6, George Finley

Deeply Rooted

This item has been aggregated as part of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL)'s "Deeply Rooted: The Agricultural & Rural History of the American South" project.

George Finley Ledger 5, George Finley

Deeply Rooted

This item has been aggregated as part of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL)'s "Deeply Rooted: The Agricultural & Rural History of the American South" project.

Guthrie, Alfred Bertram, Jr., 1901-1991 (Sc 3395), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans of selected items (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3395. Three autobiographical sketches by author A. B. Guthrie, Jr., written in response to requests. Also includes Guthrie’s article on the historical novel, written for the Fall 1954 Montana Magazine of History, and a review of his book of collected stories The Big It, with his comments, published in the Saturday Review, 25 February 1960.

Duncan, Parker Ward, 1909-1966 - Relating To (Sc 3396), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3396. Memorial resolution for Parker Ward Duncan, former Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, and associated correspondence between former Kentucky Governor Bert Combs and WKU President Kelly Thompson, members of the committee composing the resolution. The resolution was presented at the dedication of a portrait of Duncan to hang in the State Capitol Building.

Cutting Through The Ranks: The Navy’S Forgotten Legacy, Cameron T. Sauers

The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History

The bearer of this sword was a member of a United States Navy that rapidly grew in power during the Civil War, increasing its enlistment 500% and developing the first ironclad ship. However, even as the Navy was in the midst of its transition, one thing remained in place: The U.S. Model 1852 Navy Officer’s Sword. The sword is still used in the Navy today, albeit for ceremonial purposes. Yet, for all that this sword symbolizes, very few scholars have given much attention to it or the sailors who used it in the Civil War. The common soldier has received …

Messer, George, 1833-1863 (Sc 3385), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full text transcript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3385. Letter, 14 December 1862, of George Messer, 107th Illinois Infantry, to his wife Lottie in Clinton, Illinois. He describes the march to camp near Munfordville, Kentucky, the layout of the camp, and nearby graves, the result of an earlier engagement. He outlines the position of other troops in the area and lists the names of several men who have deserted from his company. He makes some critical remarks about his father at home and expresses confidence in Lottie’s ability to manage his domestic affairs.

The Grizzly, April 18, 2019, Courtney A. Duchene, Shelsea Deravil, Sam Isola, Rosalia Murphy, Sienna Coleman, William Wehrs, Daniel Walker, David Mendelsohn, Peter Desimone, Mark Leduc

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Largest Number of Prospective Students Ever Visit Ursinus on Admitted Students Day • Board of Trustees Gets More Diverse • Ursinus Alumna Comes to Discuss Her 45-Year Career in Education • French Hangs up the Baton After 40 Years of Service • Planned Parenthood Club Aims to Increase Awareness of Reproductive Rights and Health on Campus • Q&A Senior Feature: Brittani Schnable • Opinions: Transgender Soldiers Should be Respected; What Contemporary Indie Could Learn from the Post-Punk Movement • The "Nice Job Scoring the Game-Winning Goal in Overtime" Award: Sam Mutz • Mopkins! Bears Pull Off Historic Sweep of Blue …

Political Memoranda, Winfield Scott Featherston (1819-1891)

Scrapbooks

Small scrapbook entitled "Political Memoranda". Contains handwritten notes of W.S. Featherston.

Boyd, John Allen, 1938?-2017 (Sc 3394), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3394. Poems written by John Allen Boyd, a WKU graduate, teacher, and resident of Louisville, Kentucky. One collection is bound in pamphlet form and inscribed to WKU faculty member Frances Richards; others are included, with commentary, in a graduate project entitled “Experiments in Verse and Poetry” and written for an advanced composition class at WKU.

Clarke, Marcellus Jerome, 1844-1865 - Relating To (Sc 3393), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3393. Clippings, some typescripted from unidentified sources, and letters about the identity and exploits of Confederate guerrilla “Sue Mundy,” the alias of Simpson County, Kentucky native Jerome Clarke. Topics covered include his family, career, burial place, the origin of the name “Sue Mundy,” and the resulting confusion over whether “Sue” was actually a woman. Also includes an abstract of the U.S. War Department’s record of his court martial.

Women Of The War: Female Espionage Agents For The Confederacy, Sarah Stellhorn

Steeplechase: An ORCA Student Journal

Although historians have frequently examined the role of women on the home front during the Civil War, women who contributed to the cause in more direct ways, such as espionage, are often neglected. An in-depth examination of specific females spying for the Confederacy, such as Rose O’Neal Greenhow and Belle Boyd, proves that their actions, both remarkable and uncharacteristic of women at the time, had a direct impact on the war. A vast network of spies and smugglers existed not only in the southern and border states but also throughout the North, even in Washington D.C. itself. This network was …

Review: Looming Civil War, Olivia Ortman

The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History

In Looming Civil War, Phillips writes about the future, specifically, the one predicted by nineteenth-century Americans in the years preceding the Civil War. Challenging dominant narratives of the war, Phillips argues that nineteenth-century individuals were fully aware of a looming civil war and that many believed it would be a long, bloody, and disastrous conflict, not just a short excursion. As individuals looked to the uncertain future, they all made predictions unique to their race, religion, gender, and location. Some white southern elites saw the looming war as an Armageddon that would destroy civilized society, while abolitionists and slaves …

Grise, Finley Christopher, 1886-1973 (Sc 3389), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3389. Letters to faculty member Frances Richards from WKU dean Finley Grise. He thanks her for a contribution to a scholarship fund in his name and provides information about his deceased brother, a WKU alumnus. Includes two Christmas cards from Grise and his wife Mary, and Grise’s obituary and funeral program.

Bowling Green Welfare Home - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3390), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3390. Two reports on the Bowling Green Welfare Home, 1023 Adams Street, Bowling Green, Kentucky. The first lists expenses from 1932-1934 and provides a short history and a list of residents. The second, by Marie Pennington, is dated 1936 and reports on the home’s history, personnel and finances, and describes a few of the welfare cases.

Clagett, John Henry, 1916-1970 (Sc 3388), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3388. Christmas cards to WKU faculty member Frances Richards from student John H. Clagett. The cards reflect Clagett’s service at the U.S. Naval Academy and at sea. Includes a notice for Clagett’s novel Buckskin Cavalier, clippings about his novels, and a copy of “The Lantern,” his short story published in Collier’s magazine.

Libraries - Woodford County, Kentucky (Sc 3391), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3391. Collected research on the history of library services in Woodford County, Kentucky. Includes clippings, correspondence (particularly regarding the merger of the Woodford County Library and the Logan Helm Memorial Library), and historical narratives.

The Dog Case, Winfield Scott Featherston (1819-1891)

Manuscripts and Books

Handwritten manuscript, undated, "The Dog Case".

What's Female Beauty But An Air Divine, Winfield Scott Featherston (1819-1891)

Manuscripts and Books

Handwritten manuscript, undated, "What's female beauty but an air divine".

Notes For Speaking, Winfield Scott Featherston (1819-1891)

Manuscripts and Books

Handwritten manuscript, undated, "Notes for speaking," regarding the occasion of the Confederate reunion.

Biographical Account Of General W.S. Featherston For Goodspeed Publication, Winfield Scott Featherston (1819-1891)

Manuscripts and Books

Handwritten manuscript, undated. Biographical account of General W.S. Featherston for Goodspeed publication.

Notes On Situation For A Speech, Winfield Scott Featherston (1819-1891)

Manuscripts and Books

Handwritten manuscript, undated, "Notes on situation for a speech," regarding congressional politics, currency, labor.

Memorandum Of Circuit During The War, Winfield Scott Featherston (1819-1891)

Manuscripts and Books

Handwritten manuscript, undated, "Memorandum of circuit during the war,".