Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

United States History Commons™

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Discipline
Institution
Keyword
Publication Year
Publication
Publication Type
File Type

Articles 10861 - 10890 of 78675

Full-Text Articles in United States History

Weldon, William R., B. 1827? (Sc 3457), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2019

Weldon, William R., B. 1827? (Sc 3457), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3457. Letter, 17 March 1849, of William R. Weldon, Elizabeth, Arkansas, to his parents and brother in Ballard County, Kentucky (Fancy Farm post office). He writes of his wish to hear news from home (including “how the Blacks are getting along”) since his departure five months earlier, reports his attendance at a “genteel” wedding, and suggests that his parents consider joining him in Arkansas. To his brother, he writes of his embarrassment at having to strip the clothing off an attractive young lady after her dress accidentally caught fire. He further remarks that …

Go to article

Clarkson, Mona (Wimp), 1849-1910 (Sc 3458), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2019

Clarkson, Mona (Wimp), 1849-1910 (Sc 3458), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3458. Letter, 2 May 1895, of Mona Clarkson, Big Spring, Kentucky, to her daughter Lady E. Clarkson. She offers encouragement to her daughter, who is taking voice lessons in Louisville, Kentucky, and urges her to protect her health. She discusses the sewing activities of several female friends and offers wardrobe planning advice. She also encloses a letter from a male friend of Lady’s regarding his return of a book.

Go to article

Kelley, Oliver Hudson, 1826-1913 (Sc 3461), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2019

Kelley, Oliver Hudson, 1826-1913 (Sc 3461), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3461. Letter, 1 July 1886, of O. H. Kelley, Carrabelle, Florida, with forms and instructions relating to organization of a Subordinate Branch of the Golden Sheaf, a proposed political offshoot of the Patrons of Husbandry (the Grange).

Go to article

Hunt, Richard Baxter, 1817-1898 (Sc 3455), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2019

Hunt, Richard Baxter, 1817-1898 (Sc 3455), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3455. Letter, 15 March 1837, of Richard Hunt to his brother David B. Hunt in Brooklyn, New York. Employed by a merchant in Louisville, Kentucky, Richard writes of his economic prospects but laments leaving his friends and family behind, including a young lady. He encourages David’s entry into business and refers to their father, “Deacon Hunt,” and to Samuel, another brother. He also writes of his work at a “colored school” and the eagerness of the students despite a shortage of teachers. Referring to an earlier discussion …

Go to article

New Deal, 1933-1939 - Relating To (Sc 3459), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2019

New Deal, 1933-1939 - Relating To (Sc 3459), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3459. Letter, 4 May 1943, of South Carolina Congressman H. P. Fulmer to E. M. Biggers, Houston, Texas, challenging Biggers to justify his “statement” concerning federal agencies created under the “Roosevelt New Deal Party”; and Biggers’ reply of 5 June 1943, a lengthy criticism of “these damnable Bureaus” as the creation of “fan-tailed theorists” and encroachments on American liberty. The two letters and a compilation of names of the “Alphabetical Agencies” (also included) are reproductions created by Biggers, the owner of a printing company, for public distribution.

Go to article

West Kentucky Coal Company - Sturgis, Kentucky (Mss 670), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2019

West Kentucky Coal Company - Sturgis, Kentucky (Mss 670), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 570. Accounting records, chiefly accounts payable, for West Kentucky Coal Company headquartered in Sturgis, Kentucky. Most transactions include receipts from a given vendor along with a summary voucher from West Kentucky Coal. Also includes some payroll records.

Go to article

Lessons From The 1800s: Creating The Miss Porter's School Digital Archive, Deborah Smith Jul 2019

Lessons From The 1800s: Creating The Miss Porter's School Digital Archive, Deborah Smith

Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

College preparatory (“prep”) schools have their roots in the New England region of the United States; many predate the nation's most illustrious colleges and universities. The archives at these schools contain items of importance to American history in the 1800s. However, few schools have trained archivists managing their physical collections and even fewer have created digital archives to increase access. Founded in 1848, Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut was one of the first independent schools devoted to the education of young women. This article reviews the creation of the Porter's digital archive in 2018 and examines issues specific to …

Go to article

Dtb 004 Mattie C. Gulley 7-23-2019, Mattie C. Gulley, Kern Jackson, James Craig Jul 2019

Dtb 004 Mattie C. Gulley 7-23-2019, Mattie C. Gulley, Kern Jackson, James Craig

Down the Bay Oral History Project Interviews

In this interview, Mattie C. Gulley is interviewed by Kern Jackson and James Craig in her home. Ms. Gulley shares reflections and memories about living in the Down the Bay neighborhood of Mobile for decades. These include memories of the businesses which used to exist Down the Bay, particularly on Texas Street, and the impacts of urban renewal and the construction of I-10 on the neighborhood. She speaks of prominent elders in the community, and draws some contrasts between the Down the Bay she knew growing up and the present state of the community.

Go to article

Obetz, Jeremiah H., 1843-1923 (Sc 3444), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2019

Obetz, Jeremiah H., 1843-1923 (Sc 3444), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of transcriptions (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3444. Letters of Jeremiah H. Obetz, Manheim, Pennsylvania, to his former employer Henry C. Gingrich, written during his service with the 9th Pennsylvania (Lochiel) Cavalry at Camp Dunham near Bowling Green, Kentucky, and at Camp Andy Johnson near Jeffersonville, Indiana. Obetz describes the pursuit of Confederate raider John Hunt Morgan, the death of a comrade, camp life, and his confidence that England could not interfere successfully against the Union. He also reports on the strength of fortifications at recently recaptured Bowling Green. Suffering from …

Go to article

Index To Margery Jordan Pease Interview, Melvin Van Hurck Jul 2019

Index To Margery Jordan Pease Interview, Melvin Van Hurck

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 Margery (Jordan) Pease, Linfield College class of 1947.

Go to article

Index To Virginia Haynes Yungen Interview, Melvin Van Hurck Jul 2019

Index To Virginia Haynes Yungen Interview, Melvin Van Hurck

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 Virginia (Haynes) Yungen, Linfield College class of 1947.

Go to article

Index To Dorothy Buckingham Adkins Interview, Melvin Van Hurck Jul 2019

Index To Dorothy Buckingham Adkins Interview, Melvin Van Hurck

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 Dorothy (Buckingham) Adkins, Linfield College class of 1947.

Go to article

Peace, Love, And Politics: How Woodstock Of 1969 Epitomized The Relationship Between Social Movements And Music, Jacklynn Ramsey Jul 2019

Peace, Love, And Politics: How Woodstock Of 1969 Epitomized The Relationship Between Social Movements And Music, Jacklynn Ramsey

Politics Summer Fellows

This research analyzes the role that music plays in social movements in the United States, focusing on Woodstock of 1969 as a pivotal moment. By examining the 1969 Woodstock through an academic lens, I illustrate the intrinsic relationship that exists between music and politics, specifically through social movements. First, I explore the relationship that music and politics have had historically and extrapolate why they are interconnected. Then, I dissect two different movements, paralleling them from their roots to present day, analyzing the integral role that music has had in them. Those movements include the Civil Rights Movement and Black Lives …

Go to article

Smith, Susan Alice "Sudie," 1892-1973 - Letter To (Sc 3454), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2019

Smith, Susan Alice "Sudie," 1892-1973 - Letter To (Sc 3454), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3454. Letter, 14 December 1912, from a beau named Claude at Princeton, Kentucky, to Miss Sudie Smith, Cerulean, Kentucky in which he discusses their friendship and correspondence and a recent illness he has experienced. On Princeton Hotel stationery.

Go to article

Beach Bodies: Gender And The Beach In American Culture, 1880-1940, Margaret Elena Depond Jul 2019

Beach Bodies: Gender And The Beach In American Culture, 1880-1940, Margaret Elena Depond

History ETDs

This dissertation argues that American beaches, within the world of leisure and pleasure, were significant contested spaces of social change and debate. Overtime, from about 1880 to 1940, social restrictions loosened at the beach, allowing men, women, and people of color to express themselves in ways that had been previously controlled, curtailed, or proscribed. The emergence of mass popular amusements at the beach attracted a wide array of the American population. Both working-class and middle-class Americans absorbed the culture of new beach attractions, such as amusement parks, piers, boardwalks, and bathhouses. In doing so, they interacted more with each other …

Go to article

Sloss, Sara Elizabeth, 1922-2208 (Sc 3453), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2019

Sloss, Sara Elizabeth, 1922-2208 (Sc 3453), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3453. Paper titled “Indians,” written and illustrated by grade school student Sara Sloss of Simpson and Warren counties in Kentucky. The handwritten paper surveys the habitat and customs of native peoples in North and South America and their interaction with whites.

Go to article

Receipt, 28 December 186[?], Mississippi Central Railroad Company (1897-1967) Jul 2019

Receipt, 28 December 186[?], Mississippi Central Railroad Company (1897-1967)

Personal and Business Correspondence, 1861-1870 (Series 1.4)

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Cotton Taxes, Author Unknown Jul 2019

Cotton Taxes, Author Unknown

Personal and Business Correspondence, 1861-1870 (Series 1.4)

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Mcdaniel, Sue Lynn (Stone), B. 1959 - Collector (Sc 3451), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2019

Mcdaniel, Sue Lynn (Stone), B. 1959 - Collector (Sc 3451), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3451. Bible records from various families: Carter, Hurt, Ground, Zickefoose and Shoptow.

Go to article

Greenwood Baptist Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3452), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2019

Greenwood Baptist Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3452), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans of selected items (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3452. Miscellaneous documents related to the history of Greenwood Baptist Church, Warren County, Kentucky. Includes articles from the (Bowling Green, Ky.) Park City Daily News, 26 August 1966, regarding the groundbreaking for a new church building, and an anniversary announcement for a former pastor, 8 July 2007.

Go to article

Jane To W.L. Treadwell, 16 July 1853, Author Unknown Jul 2019

Jane To W.L. Treadwell, 16 July 1853, Author Unknown

Personal and Business Correspondence, 1851-1860 (Series 1.3)

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Minutes Of Meeting, Author Unknown Jul 2019

Minutes Of Meeting, Author Unknown

Personal and Business Correspondence, 1841-1850 (Series 1.2)

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Report On Female Academy, Author Unknown Jul 2019

Report On Female Academy, Author Unknown

Personal and Business Correspondence, 1841-1850 (Series 1.2)

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Minutes Of Meeting, Author Unknown Jul 2019

Minutes Of Meeting, Author Unknown

Personal and Business Correspondence, 1841-1850 (Series 1.2)

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Minutes Of Meeting, Timmons Louis Treadwell Jul 2019

Minutes Of Meeting, Timmons Louis Treadwell

Personal and Business Correspondence, 1841-1850 (Series 1.2)

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Harshaw, D. To Board Of Trustees, 23 January 1850, D. Harshaw Jul 2019

Harshaw, D. To Board Of Trustees, 23 January 1850, D. Harshaw

Personal and Business Correspondence, 1841-1850 (Series 1.2)

No abstract provided.

Go to article

To W.L. Treadwell, 6 December, Author Unknown Jul 2019

To W.L. Treadwell, 6 December, Author Unknown

Personal and Business Correspondence, 1841-1850 (Series 1.2)

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Mcknight, Frances Elizabeth, 1927-1993 (Mss 671), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2019

Mcknight, Frances Elizabeth, 1927-1993 (Mss 671), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan of selected items (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 671. Genealogical correspondence of Frances E. McKnight of Campbellsville, Kentucky. She is chiefly interested in the surnames: Cranor, McKnight, and Hamby.

Go to article

"Its Cargo Is People": Repositioning Commuter Rail As Public Transit To Save The New York–New Haven Line, 1960–1990, Seamus C. Joyce-Johnson Jul 2019

"Its Cargo Is People": Repositioning Commuter Rail As Public Transit To Save The New York–New Haven Line, 1960–1990, Seamus C. Joyce-Johnson

Harvey M. Applebaum ’59 Award

This essay explores the creation of the Metro-North Railroad in 1983 as a public agency to provide commuter train services on the New York–New Haven Line. The essay begins by bringing out the central role commuter rail services played in the negotiations over the New Haven Railroad’s bankruptcy in the 1960s. I argue that New Haven Line’s near liquidation during the bankruptcy prompted advocacy from commuters, urban planners, and politicians that pushed back against the trend towards automobile-centric urban transportation planning. In the next section, I use the New Haven Line’s subsequent operation in the 1970s under subsidy arrangements with …

Go to article

Receipt, 24 May 1843, John Allen, Timmons Louis Treadwell Jul 2019

Receipt, 24 May 1843, John Allen, Timmons Louis Treadwell

Personal and Business Correspondence, 1841-1850 (Series 1.2)

No abstract provided.

Go to article

First Prev Next Last