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Puckett, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Puckett family in Rowan County, Kentucky.

Stamper, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Stamper family in Rowan County, Kentucky.

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

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Myers family in Rowan County, Kentucky.

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.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Williams family in Rowan County, Kentucky.

May, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the May family in Rowan County, Kentucky.

Quisenberry, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Quisenberry family in Rowan County, Kentucky.

Wellman, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Wellman family in Rowan County, Kentucky.

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.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Sparks family in Rowan County, Kentucky.

Webb, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Webb family in Rowan County, Kentucky.

Stewart, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Stewart family in Rowan County, Kentucky.

Riddle, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Riddle family in Rowan County, Kentucky.

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.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

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

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.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

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

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.

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

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 …

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.

Japan In Bloom, Molly Mcclain

History: Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Book Review: Rev. Dr. Mark Hargreaves' The Sacred Architecture Of Irving J. Gill, Molly Mcclain

History: Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

La Jolla Park Coastal Historic District, National Register Of Historic Places, 2024, Molly Mcclain, Seonaid Mcarthur

History: Faculty Scholarship

The “La Jolla Park Coastal Historic District,” a dramatic stretch of coastline that is part of the unceded ancient homeland and traditional territory of the Kumeyaay Nation, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 9, 2024. The coastal area, anchored by Ellen Browning Scripps Park, was the focal point for La Jolla’s planning and development between 1887 and 1940.

Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect …

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.

Security, Stability, Or Both? Peru's Complexities In Detaining German Peruvians, Brissa Campos Toscano

Honors Program Theses and Research Projects

The United States established internment camps during World War II, detaining families from Latin American Countries for national security, with a focus on German, Italian, and Japanese ethnicities (Roosevelt 1941). However, German ethnicity families living in Latin America who were taken to internment camps in Crystal City, Texas, are less visible in history, Jane Jarboe Russell’s book “The Train to Crystal City” made some of the internees’ stories more visible. I will contend that the principal reason for Peru’s collaboration in the U.S-Latin American Internment Program was to obtain economic, political and social benefits from the United States which would …

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn: Betty Smith’S Bestselling Introduction To The Gilded Age And Progressive Era, Nancy C. Unger

History

An analysis of Betty Smith’s bestselling coming-of-age novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn reveals how popular literature can serve as an important introduction to signature issues of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Industrialization, urbanization, and immigration are highlighted in the novel—as well as attendant problems including poverty, machine politics, child labor, and prejudice and discrimination. Profound ignorance about sexuality and conception abound in a religious culture that made premarital sex and birth control sinful and shameful, with unhappy marriages and unwanted children the result. As poverty and deviant sexuality abound, eugenics is touted as a sensible solution. The novel …

Weaving Empire: The Role Of Wool, The Subjugated, The Enslaved, And The Convicted In Building The British Empire, 1699-1860, Lisa Y. Gabbert

History Dissertations - Archive

A bright red woolsack comprised of wool clippings from across England sits prominently in the House of Lords. King Edward III originally commissioned the cushion for the Speaker to sit upon while conducting Parliamentary business to signify the importance of the commodity. In 1699, as British trade and territorial interests expanded, Parliament issued the Wool Act. It outlined the expectations and limitations of wool production and exchange in British controlled territories. While the British economy benefitted from commodities such as tobacco, sugar, and cotton which was largely produced by convict and enslaved laborers in its colonies, wool remained an essential …

The Network For Autonomy: Development Of Early Black Voluntary Associations And The Progress Of The Black Community, Marc T. Williams

History Theses - Archive

This thesis centers around and attempts to answer the question: between the Revolutionary era and the beginning of the Civil War, how did some of the earliest local Black benevolent communities develop themselves over the course of their lifetime? Three Black benevolent societies established during the late eighteenth to mid nineteenth century period will be analyzed — the Free African Union Society of Newport and Providence Rhode Island, the Free African Society of Philadelphia and the New York African Society for Mutual Relief in Manhattan — to assist in answering this question. It follows the commonly held idea scholars have …