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Clarke, Marcellus Jerome, 1844-1865 - Relating To (Sc 3393), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2019

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 Apr 2019

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 Apr 2019

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 Apr 2019

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 Apr 2019

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 Apr 2019

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 Apr 2019

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) Apr 2019

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) Apr 2019

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) Apr 2019

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) Apr 2019

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) Apr 2019

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) Apr 2019

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

Manuscripts and Books

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


Salient Points Indicating The Line Of Discussion On Memorial Day, Winfield Scott Featherston (1819-1891) Apr 2019

Salient Points Indicating The Line Of Discussion On Memorial Day, Winfield Scott Featherston (1819-1891)

Manuscripts and Books

Handwritten manuscript, undated, "Salient points indicating the line of discussion on Memorial day".


Biographical Account Of General W.S. Featherston, Winfield Scott Featherston (1819-1891) Apr 2019

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

Manuscripts and Books

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


Undated 19th Century Handwritten Recipes, Author Unknown Apr 2019

Undated 19th Century Handwritten Recipes, Author Unknown

Clippings and Pamphlets

No abstract provided.


Secession Pudding, M. M. Tiddall Apr 2019

Secession Pudding, M. M. Tiddall

Clippings and Pamphlets

No abstract provided.


Andrew Brown Daybook 11, Andrew Brown Apr 2019

Andrew Brown Daybook 11, Andrew Brown

Daybooks, Invoices, Financial Records

No abstract provided.


Andrew Brown Daybook 10a, Andrew Brown Apr 2019

Andrew Brown Daybook 10a, Andrew Brown

Daybooks, Invoices, Financial Records

No abstract provided.


Andrew Brown Daybook 9, Andrew Brown Apr 2019

Andrew Brown Daybook 9, Andrew Brown

Daybooks, Invoices, Financial Records

No abstract provided.


Andrew Brown Daybook 3, Andrew Brown Apr 2019

Andrew Brown Daybook 3, Andrew Brown

Daybooks, Invoices, Financial Records

No abstract provided.


Andrew Brown Daybook 2b, Andrew Brown Apr 2019

Andrew Brown Daybook 2b, Andrew Brown

Daybooks, Invoices, Financial Records

No abstract provided.


List Of Leaseholders And Rents Due For The Davis Bend Plantation, 1866, Joseph E. Davis, United States. Bureau Of Refugees, Freedmen, And Abandoned Lands Apr 2019

List Of Leaseholders And Rents Due For The Davis Bend Plantation, 1866, Joseph E. Davis, United States. Bureau Of Refugees, Freedmen, And Abandoned Lands

Daybooks, Invoices, Financial Records

No abstract provided.


Bill Of Sale, November 15 1866, Joseph E. Davis, United States. Bureau Of Refugees, Freedmen, And Abandoned Lands Apr 2019

Bill Of Sale, November 15 1866, Joseph E. Davis, United States. Bureau Of Refugees, Freedmen, And Abandoned Lands

Daybooks, Invoices, Financial Records

A record of the sale of Briarfield and Hurricane Plantations.


Accounting Sheet, Dated 1861-1867, Joseph E. Davis, United States. Bureau Of Refugees, Freedmen, And Abandoned Lands Apr 2019

Accounting Sheet, Dated 1861-1867, Joseph E. Davis, United States. Bureau Of Refugees, Freedmen, And Abandoned Lands

Daybooks, Invoices, Financial Records

Detailing indebtedness of B.T. Montgomery to Joseph E. Davis.


Folder 3: Undated 19th Century Financial Documents, Lists, And Medical Lists, Author Unknown Apr 2019

Folder 3: Undated 19th Century Financial Documents, Lists, And Medical Lists, Author Unknown

Daybooks, Invoices, Financial Records

No abstract provided.


2018-2019 Lindenwood University Honors Convocation, Lindenwood University Apr 2019

2018-2019 Lindenwood University Honors Convocation, Lindenwood University

Honors Convocation Programs

2018-2019 Lindenwood University Honors Convocation


Moxley, Frank Otha, 1908-2004 (Mss 664), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2019

Moxley, Frank Otha, 1908-2004 (Mss 664), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 664. Personal and professional papers of Dr. Frank O. Moxley of Bowling Green, Kentucky, an educator, guidance counselor, coach, and prominent member of the city’s African American community. Includes projects and narratives related to Bowling Green’s African American heritage.


The Forgotten Expedition Of The Michigan Polar Bears, Laura Anthon, Jamie Breyfogle, Timothy Embertson, Natalie Weg Apr 2019

The Forgotten Expedition Of The Michigan Polar Bears, Laura Anthon, Jamie Breyfogle, Timothy Embertson, Natalie Weg

18th Annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity (2019)

The Michigan Polar Bear expedition saw Allied forces leading a controversial excursion into Northern Russia during the concluding years of World War I. Despite thousands of soldiers being sent to interfere with the Russian Civil War, the Polar Bear Expedition has been lost from collective memory. We publicly inquired about the expedition, then combined this research with a found scholarly consensus about the lack of cognizance relating to the events. This revealed a disconnect, which led us to inquire as to the nature and origin of its historical omission. Our primary sources of research focused on the oral histories of …


Spottswood, Henry Mercer, Iii,B. 1940 (Mss 665), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2019

Spottswood, Henry Mercer, Iii,B. 1940 (Mss 665), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 665. Correspondence with poet and author Jim Wayne Miller, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Chiefly letters to Spottswood which contain numerous attachments about Miller’s writing and speaking engagements. Also includes a small amount of correspondence from Miller’s wife, Mary Ellen Miller, and an unpublished book of poems by WKU students.