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Creech, Volume 2, Rowan County Genealogical Society. Jan 2024

Creech, Volume 2, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Creech family in Rowan County, Kentucky.


Enochson, Garret, Volume 2, Rowan County Genealogical Society. Jan 2024

Enochson, Garret, Volume 2, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Garret Enochson family in Rowan County, Kentucky.


Sloan, Rowan County Genealogical Society. Jan 2024

Sloan, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Sloan family in Rowan County, Kentucky.


Puckett, Rowan County Genealogical Society. Jan 2024

Puckett, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Puckett family in Rowan County, Kentucky.


Stamper, Rowan County Genealogical Society. Jan 2024

Stamper, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Stamper family in Rowan County, Kentucky.


Phelps, Rowan County Genealogical Society. Jan 2024

Phelps, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Phelps family in Rowan County, Kentucky.


Myers, Volume 2, Rowan County Genealogical Society Jan 2024

Myers, Volume 2, Rowan County Genealogical Society

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Myers family in Rowan County, Kentucky.


Enochson, Garret, Volume 1, Rowan County Genealogical Society. Jan 2024

Enochson, Garret, Volume 1, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Garret Enochson family in Rowan County, Kentucky.


Wiliams, Rowan County Genealogical Society. Jan 2024

Wiliams, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Williams family in Rowan County, Kentucky.


May, Rowan County Genealogical Society. Jan 2024

May, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the May family in Rowan County, Kentucky.


Quisenberry, Rowan County Genealogical Society. Jan 2024

Quisenberry, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Quisenberry family in Rowan County, Kentucky.


Wellman, Rowan County Genealogical Society. Jan 2024

Wellman, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Wellman family in Rowan County, Kentucky.


Creech-Wynn, Rowan County Genealogical Society. Jan 2024

Creech-Wynn, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Creech-Wynn family in Rowan County, Kentucky.


Sparks, Rowan County Genealogical Society. Jan 2024

Sparks, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Sparks family in Rowan County, Kentucky.


Webb, Rowan County Genealogical Society. Jan 2024

Webb, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Webb family in Rowan County, Kentucky.


Stewart, Rowan County Genealogical Society. Jan 2024

Stewart, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Stewart family in Rowan County, Kentucky.


Riddle, Rowan County Genealogical Society. Jan 2024

Riddle, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Riddle family in Rowan County, Kentucky.


Rigsby, Rowan County Genealogical Society Jan 2024

Rigsby, Rowan County Genealogical Society

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Rigsby family in Rowan County, Kentucky.


Popenoe-Popnoe-Poppino, Rowan County Genealogical Society. Jan 2024

Popenoe-Popnoe-Poppino, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Popenoe - Popnoe - Poppino family in Rowan County, Kentucky.


Thomas, Volume 1, Rowan County Genealogical Society. Jan 2024

Thomas, Volume 1, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Thomas family in Rowan County, Kentucky.


Pettit, Preston, Rowan County Genealogical Society. Jan 2024

Pettit, Preston, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Preston Pettit family in Rowan County, Kentucky.


Tackett, Robert, Rowan County Genealogical Society. Jan 2024

Tackett, Robert, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Robert Tackett family in Rowan County, Kentucky.


Landreth, Rowan County Genealogical Society. Jan 2024

Landreth, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Landreth family in Rowan County, Kentucky.


“What Was Before”: Lenore Tawney And Her Circle, 1950–1963, Rebecca Mcnamara Jan 2024

“What Was Before”: Lenore Tawney And Her Circle, 1950–1963, Rebecca Mcnamara

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Lenore Tawney (1907–2007) was a pioneer of 20th-century fiber arts, a position solidified by the pivotal 1963 Woven Forms exhibition at New York’s Museum of Contemporary Crafts. But her journey to this moment is less well-known. This presentation explores the preceding years, when Tawney decided, with great intention, to dedicate her life to art, relocated from Chicago to New York, and in her work, shifted (though not seamlessly nor all at once) from weaving functional objects like table mats—as shown at Chicago's first Good Design exhibition, in 1950—to colorful, figurative, dense wall tapestries to the abstract, open-weave sculptural hangings in …


Empowering Families: The Role Of Labor Unions In Advancing Paid Family Leave Policy, Madison Goza Jan 2024

Empowering Families: The Role Of Labor Unions In Advancing Paid Family Leave Policy, Madison Goza

Honors Program Theses and Research Projects

Enacted in 1993, the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) was the first substantial piece of federal legislation offering job-protected, unpaid leave to Americans. Since then, several states have passed laws offering an expansion of these protections including paid leave options, but no further policies have been adopted federally. Americans in need of these expansions are looking to a social force capable of advocating for such policy adoptions: organized labor. Thus, labor unions offer a case of interest to economists, political scientists, and sociologists in search of the expansion of federal workplace protections. Using both comparative legal and policy analysis …


Floyd County - Community Oral History: The Town Of Martin, Chelsey Johnson, Glenda Frye, Jimmy Hammond, Alan Whicker Jan 2024

Floyd County - Community Oral History: The Town Of Martin, Chelsey Johnson, Glenda Frye, Jimmy Hammond, Alan Whicker

County Histories of Kentucky

Transcripts of oral histories conducted by Chelsey Johnson related to the town of Martin, Floyd County, Kentucky in January and February of 2024. Those interviewed included Glenda Frye, Jimmy Hammond, and Alan Whicker.


Bear Bryant, Sam Cunningham, And Popular Memory Of The Civil Rights Movement, Kurt E. Kemper Jan 2024

Bear Bryant, Sam Cunningham, And Popular Memory Of The Civil Rights Movement, Kurt E. Kemper

Research & Publications

Popular writers, sports journalists, documentarians, and fans of college football have built a legend surrounding the 1970 USC-Alabama game and its alleged significance in the process of desegregation, a legend that is deeply flawed and strongly resistant to scholarly correction.  The persistence of the legend, told from a white perspective for a white audience, does much to illustrate ongoing resistance to an interpretation of the Civil Rights Movement that places Black activists and direct action at the center of the story.


Religious Upheaval In A South Dakota Mennonite Community, 1874-1940, Ryan Mews Jan 2024

Religious Upheaval In A South Dakota Mennonite Community, 1874-1940, Ryan Mews

Dissertations and Theses

In 1874, multiple colonies of German-Russian Mennonites and Hutterites entered the Dakota Territory to settle into tightknit religious communities. These Anabaptists sought to escape religious persecution and assimilation in Russia but found themselves influenced by American religious groups. Their history of isolationism caused these groups to draw lines between their congregations that kept them small but allowed them to interact with new ideas in different ways, but caused them to redefine their German Mennonite identity. One such influence erupted from the Presbyterian Church called fundamentalism that encouraged evangelical works in America and sought to combat modernism in religious institutions. In …


An Excavation Of Margaret And Jerry Morgan: How The Architecture Of Black Liminal Spaces Shaped Antebellum Conflict Between Maryland And Pennsylvania, Felicia A. Appenteng Jan 2024

An Excavation Of Margaret And Jerry Morgan: How The Architecture Of Black Liminal Spaces Shaped Antebellum Conflict Between Maryland And Pennsylvania, Felicia A. Appenteng

Dissertations and Theses

In the 1830s, Jerry and Margaret Morgan and their six children were living as a free Black family in rural Pennsylvania, one of a growing number of such families in a part of the state that bordered Maryland. Suddenly, their lives were violently disrupted in 1837 when a group of men from Maryland, led by Edward Prigg, entered into Pennsylvania to seize Margaret and the children so that they could be enslaved. Although the most dramatic, this was only the latest twist in the unusual lives of the Morgan family. Jerry Morgan was born into enslavement, gained his freedom, and …


Resilience And Resistance: Culture, Conversion, And Survival Among The Stockbridge Mohicans, Mariah N. Ramdeen Jan 2024

Resilience And Resistance: Culture, Conversion, And Survival Among The Stockbridge Mohicans, Mariah N. Ramdeen

Dissertations and Theses

This thesis investigates the history of conversion among the Mohican band in Stockbridge, Massachusetts from the 1730s to the 1740s. Focusing on the praying town under the ministry of Reverend John Sergeant at Stockbridge in 1736, I seek to reconstruct the resistance and survivance at the heart of the Stockbridge Mohicans’ experience. My research will explore why the Mohicans chose to establish the Stockbridge praying town and why they chose to convert to Christianity, the religion of the Puritan colonizers. I will also explore how they used their conversion to promote their own community goals. While praying towns were designed …