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Morningstar, Robert Evans, 1866-1944 (Mss 101), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 101. Photographs of celebrities that Morningstar, formerly of Bowling Green, Kentucky, probably used for promotional purposes. He was a booking agent for many notables who performed on the Lyceum and Chautauqua circuits in the early twentieth century.

Traces Volume 31, Number 2, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Traces, the Southern Central Kentucky, Barren County Genealogical Newsletter

Traces, the South Central Kentucky Genealogical Society's quarterly newsletter, was first published in 1973. The Society changed its name in 2016 to the Barren County Historical Society. The publication features compiled genealogies, articles on local history, single-family studies and unpublished source materials related to this area.

South Union Messenger (July 2003), Kentucky Library Research Collections

South Union Messenger

No abstract provided.

Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter Volume 26, Number 3, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter

No abstract provided.

From My Land: An Informal History Of Milan By The Milan, Tennessee High School English Classes Under The Direction Of Tina Huey And Verna Massey In 1976

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

From My Land: An Informal History of Milan By the Milan, Tennessee High School English Classes under The Direction of Tina Huey and Verna Massey In 1976

Charles Penn, Sr.

An Excerpt From The Murray, Kentucky Weekly Ledger: An Interesting Sketch Of Its Purchase From The Indians

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

An Excerpt from the Murray, Kentucky Weekly Ledger: An Interesting Sketch of Its Purchase From the Indians

C.H. Todd

Voice Of The People (Fa 83), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of student papers (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 83. The Voice of the People: An Understanding of Khmer, Lao and Vietnamese in Bowling Green, Kentucky. A Western Kentucky University Folk Studies project directed by Dr. Lynwood Montell, involving 9 students and 26 informants. Several of the interview transcriptions are available by downloading (Click "Download" button on the right) the finding aid and clicking on the hyperlinks in the text.

Ursinus Magazine, Spring / Summer 2003, Wendy Greenberg, Dan Reimold, Joseph F. Pirro, Loretta Radeschi

Ursinus Magazine, 1995–Present

The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art calendar • Hello ... Ursinus calling • Reading assignment • Meistersingers serenade Italy • Best Buddies goes virtual • Student achievement: Klim wins Watson • Students keep up with world events • Undergraduate science research sets Ursinus students apart • Another rousing theater season • A Costa Rica winter break • Ursinus in the news • Transitions • Alumni forum • A majestic commencement 2003 • The world at our doorstep: Study abroad takes off • Studying abroad: The flip side • Personal journal: A student's account of a semester abroad • …

The Photo Finish: Political Victory And The Tva Presence In Kentucky

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

The Photo Finish: Political Victory and the TVA Presence in Kentucky

Dr. B. Anthony Gannon

The Autobiography Of Dr. Russell R. Rudd (1898-1998) From Memoirs Written In 1989, Chapter I

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

The Autobiography of Dr. Russell R. Rudd (1898-1998) From Memoirs Written in 1989, Chapter I

Dr. Russell R. Rudd

Texas To Tennessee: In Search Of The Freemans

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Texas to Tennessee: In Search of the Freemans

Patricia Bass Wright

Newspaper Editor Richard E. Davis Of Trenton, Tennessee, In The Jfk Years, 1961-1963, Conclusion

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Newspaper Editor Richard E. Davis of Trenton, Tennessee, In the JFK Years, 1961-1963, Conclusion

Dr. Marvin L. Downing

Memories Of Decoration Day

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Memories of Decoration Day

Margaret B. Robertson

Happenings In And Around Austin Springs

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Happenings In and Around Austin Springs

Mary B. Maupin

0723: National Society Colonial Dames Xvii Century Greenbrier Chapter, 1969-1999, Marshall University Special Collections

Guides to Manuscript Collections

Chapter minutes, bylaws, programs of special events, yearbooks, newspaper clippings, photographs and items from state and national conferences.

Tariffs And Taxes: A West Tennessee Whig's Point Of View By Hugh Young Bone, Sr.

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Tariffs and Taxes: A West Tennessee Whig's Point of View

Hugh Young Bone, Sr.

A 155-Year-Old Letter

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

A 155-Year-Old Letter

Rev. Gideon H. Bransford

Growing Up In Water Valley, Kentucky

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Growing Up In Water Valley, Kentucky

Zee W. Pique

"Pee Wee" Wamble: Last Of The Swift Jewel Cowboys

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

"Pee Wee" Wamble: Last of the Swift Jewel Cowboys

Joe Bone

The Civil War And Its Legacy: An Historiographical Essay, Conclusion

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

The Civil War and Its Legacy: An Historiographical Essay, Conclusion

Dr. Lonnie E. Maness

Book Reviews: "Paducah: Frontier To The Atomic Age"; Et Al.

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Book Reviews edited by Dr. Robert G. Cowser

Paducah: Frontier to the Atomic Age, Dr. Robert G. Cowser

Night Riders of Reelfoot Lake: The Untold Story, Joe Bone

Black Male Fiction and the Legacy of Caliban, Dr. Roy Neil Graves

New Ground, Vol. 5, No. 1, Joe Bone

Wellspring, Nelda Rachels

Quilt Stories: A Collection of Short Stories, Poems, and Plays, Anna H. Clark

Poems: "Quiet Silver"; Et Al.

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Poems from Andrew Zenes

Quiet Silver

War Between the States

A Little Cane House In the Bottoms

To Old Grand Dad (Who Sat For the Bust)

Bedrock

Before You Go

Helm-Lucas Family Papers (Mss 146), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 146. Chiefly family and courtship correspondence between James Helm, Butler County, Kentucky, and Virginia Lucas, Warren County, Kentucky. Their 1879 marriage rites were the first ones to be performed in Mammoth Cave. Includes associated items.

Ua68/13/4 Limited Edition, Wku Journalism

WKU Administration Documents

Newspaper created by students participating in the Minority Journalism Workshop hosted by the WKU Journalism Department.

• Clark, Ashlee. Campus Security Tightens in Wake of Murder
• Lau, Jessica. Diversity Grows, Problems Persist
• Yee, April. Home of Love
• Leong, Jennifer. State Street Baptist Church Rededication Date Set
• Cowherd, Heather. Growing Up Black in Bowling Green
• Clark, Ashlee & Aja Junior. Regents Approve Increased Budget
• Leong, Jennifer. Hispanic Ministry Provides Heartfelt Worship
• Taylor, Sean. Shake Rag Gains New Support, Awareness
• Taylor, Sean. Patriot Act Tramples Peoples' Civil Rights
• Clark, Ashlee. Got Ethics?
• Winters, Jonathan. Remove Patriotism from Flames
• Yee, April. Stereotypes
• Jefferson, Regina …

Ms. Joanna Boley-Lee On Leisure, Maureen Elgersman Lee

We Exist Series 4: Quotes

Interviewer: Maureen Elgersman Lee.

Interviewee: Ms. Joanna Boley-Lee (age 66; born 1937 in Newark, New Jersey; lived in Maine for 8 ½ years)

“I think my closing reflections would be that when I came to Lewiston I remember walking across the bridge that goes across the Androscoggin, the extension of Main Street, just sort of looking out, and there was a black man with a camera and I thought, good, there's a black person. So I went up to him and I introduced myself, told him I was new in the area and he tells me he was visiting. I …

Archeological Monitoring For Levee Repair, Navarro County, Texas, Marie Huhnke

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State

This report presents the results of one day of archeological monitoring and visual inspection during repairs to a levee located in northwestern Navarro County, Texas. These repairs, which required draining standing water, raking and grading wet areas, and opening borrow areas as the source for filler clay soils for the levee, were conducted over a segment of levee 1.3 kilometers (0.8 miles) long. Disturbed areas were estimated at 1.09 hectares (2.69 acres). Two phases of investigations were conducted during the repairs: the first was to monitor ongoing repairs, and the second was to inspect areas of prior disturbance. These investigations, …

The John Muir Newsletter, Summer 2003, The John Muir Center For Environmental Studies

Muir Center Newsletters (1981-2015)

JOHIMUI Newsletter UNlVfeRSnYOFTffi Volume 13, Number 3 Summer 2003; The Tramps by Edmund Herlihy, Mission Viejo, CA (Editor :s note: Edmund Herlihy is an Environmental Studies major at the University of the Pacific. This paper was prepared in the fall of 2002 for an undergraduate course, "John Muir and the Environment") 7magine a vast expanse of raw untamed land where a man might make a fortune as quickly as he might be scalped — the American West during the late 1800's was the frontier where one could pack up and start a whole new life west of the great Mississippi. …

Pace, Pearl Eagle (Carter), 1896-1970 (Mss 114), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 114. Correspondence, business papers, and speeches of Monroe County, Kentucky native Pearl Eagle (Carter) Pace. Includes materials concerning Republican National Committee and Foreign Claims Settlement Commission; civic, religious, political and professional organizations in Kentucky and Washington, D.C. Also includes some Cumberland County, Kentucky records.

Enseigner La Littérature Francophone : À La Recherche De La Banalisation, Cilas Kemedjio

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

The emergence of francophone literatures as a field that is increasingly taught in departments of French has led to the creation of numerous positions dedicated to this area. The natural question that specialists face is how to devise strategies to develop and entrench this new discipline in American universities, concerned as they are with budgetary issues. The present study argues that only the constant search for cooperation between Francophonie and related academic fields will facilitate its institutionalization.

Mrs. Rose Jackson On Employment, Hamida Suja

Quotes

Mrs. Rose Jackson Full Interview

Rose Jackson was born in Louisville, Mississippi, to Willie O Clayton Hathorne and Bertha Ophelia (Young) Hathorne; she had three sisters and three brothers. She left school at fifteen to marry her first husband, with whom she had five children; after his death, she married John Jackson, with whom she had another daughter. She worked as a cleaner and hairdresser, and received her diploma from Portland High night school. At the time of this interview, she had been living in Maine 40 years; her family moved here because she had a brother-in-law who had been …