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Disaster At The Colorado, Charles W. Baley

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This is a good book, worthy to join a host of other western trails studies... The work, largely narrative, is based on many primary sources and, equally important, it is readable. The armchair explorer will be satisfied, and there is enough trail topography for 'ruts nuts' and 'in the dirt' students. It is apparent that the author followed much of the trail himself and presents a good sense of place, putting the reader in the picture. —Stanley B. Kimball, Western Historical Quarterly Across north-central New Mexico and Arizona, along the line of Route 66, now Interstate 40, there first ran …

Underwood, Henry Morehead, 1893-1960 (Sc 1339), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1339. Letter, 30 October 1936, written by Underwood from the American Embassy in Berlin, Germany, to Henry Bradley, Sr. Underwood details his work as Foreign Buildings Inspector for the U.S. State Department in Europe, northern Africa and Turkey. Includes two unused post cards.

Portland Area Oral History - Odessa Barrett - James Sheppard - Rupert Richardson, Maureen Elgersman - Lee (Ed.)

The Griot

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Torreyson, Charles Hail, 1902-1973 (Sc 1340), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1340. World War II letters, 1944-1945, (27) written by Charles Torreyson to his wife Betsy, in Scottsville, Kentucky. He describes life in the Seabees, in Camp Pearcy, Virginia, and in New Guinea.

Teachers And Teaching - Ohio County, Kentucky (Sc 1356), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1356. Teacher's class book kept by Frances Hart, for the 1924-1925 school year, evidently as a Hartford [Kentucky] High School faculty member. The book lists domestic and social science classes taught as well as students' names.

Rau, Ernest, 1874-1962 (Sc 1366), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1366. Chiefly incoming business papers of Ernest Rau, a Bowling Green, Kentucky doctor, who served in World War I. Includes items relating to his service at Camp Wheeler, Georgia, and associated items, 1962, 1974 about Rau.

Wilson, Gordon, 1888-1970 (Sc 1357), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1357. Letter, 2 January 1966, written by Gordon Wilson, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to L. Y. Lancaster, Bowling Green, Kentucky, in which Wilson extols their friendship that will soon celebrate its fiftieth anniversary.

Baker, Jane Stark (Helm), B. 1942 (Sc 1355), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below" for Manuscripts Small Collection 1355. Letter, 19 January 2000, written by Jane S. Baker, Glasgow, Kentucky, in which Baker recalls her aunt Margie Helm, who was an outstanding Western Kentucky University librarian.

Kentucky - Cavalry - 5th Regiment (Sc 1361), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1361. Record of the 5th Kentucky Cavalry, including its itinerary and officers. Includes a letter (first page only) pertaining to the document.

Ellsworth, Oliver Carnell, 1842-1864 (Sc 1359), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1359. Correspondence of Civil War soldier Oliver C. Ellsworth, Marion, Michigan, with family and friends. He served with the 22nd Michigan Infantry in Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama. Also includes a tintype of Ellsworth.

Warren County, Kentucky - Justices Of The Peace (Sc 1342), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Small Collection 1342. Notice, 25 February 1808, of the removal of John Bailey, Bowling Green, Kentucky, as Warren County Justice of the Peace by Kentucky governor Christopher Greenup.

Smith, Robert Lee, 1913-1998 (Sc 1306), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1306. Letter, 21 March 1945, written by Robert L. Smith, Philippine Islands, to his sister Mrs. Layton Blick, Logan County, Kentucky. Smith mentions the many Japanese that have been slain in the Philippines. Includes V-mail advising of Smith's new address.

Oakley, Bethel Beulah, 1903-1995 (Sc 1338), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1338. Business papers, letters (including some written by her elementary students), printed materials, etc., of Bethel B. Oakley, originally from Hopkins County, Kentucky. She taught in Webster County and Owensboro, Kentucky, and at Oakland City College, Oakland City, Indiana.

Gilchrist, Ellen Louise, 1935-2024 (Sc 1336), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscript Small Collection 1336. Letter written to Kentucky author Ellen L. Gilchrist from Paula Quinn, WKU journalism professor, after a scheduled interview did not materialize. Gilchrist's response is handwritten on the letter. Includes newspaper clipping about Gilchrist's presentation at WKU, and Quinn's explanatory letters, 2001.

Kerr Memorial Methodist Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 133), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and selected full scan documents (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 133. Historical materials about Kerr Memorial Methodist Church in Bowling Green, Kentucky, including list of donors for original building (1891); printed histories; correspondence and commemorative programs from church anniversary celebrations; account book of the church's Young Adult Fellowship (1947-48); and deeds.

Hines & Porter - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1334), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1334. Lawyers' combined collection record book and docket book kept by the law firm of Hines and Porter, Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Review Of "Understanding The Great War" By Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau And Annette Becker, Jennifer D. Keene

History Faculty Articles and Research

This is a review of Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau and Annette Becker's "Understanding the Great War."

Byrd, Mary Rebecca, 1845-1935 (Sc 1362), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1362. Autograph book belonging to Mary Byrd, Fredonia, Kentucky, which has names and addresses of several Fredonia residents. Includes attractive printed engravings.

Photographic Images & The History Of African Americans In Coles County, Illinois, Onaiwu W. Ogbomo

History of Charleston, Illinois

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Emily Greene Balch: Crusader For Peace And Justice, Tara S. Lambert

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

Emily Greene Balch was the second American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize and worked throughout her lifetime to better the world for her fellow humans. As one who was shaped by the Progressive Movement in both character and action, she has nonetheless never received the historical spotlight given to other workers of her time such as Jane Addams. A survivor of protest against war, she has been virtually ignored despite her many activities and writings on behalf of peace, suffrage, and social reform. Even Mercedes M. Randall, who wrote the only biography of Balch, fails to fully examine …

Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter Volume 25, Number 1, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter

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Kentucky Humanities Council Catalog 2002-2003, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Kentucky Humanities Council Catalog

The Kentucky Humanities Council is an independent, nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities committed to providing programs and services that facilitate an understanding and appreciation of Kentucky’s cultural heritage and future. The Council’s program catalog features scholars from across the Commonwealth who make presentations on a myriad of humanities topics. Later, costumed actors, who delivered dramatic monologues about Kentucky’s famous, infamous, and composite personalities, were added. The catalog has gone by various titles over the years: Kentucky Humanities Resource Center, Kentucky Humanities Council Speakers Bureau, Whole Humanities Catalog, and Humanities Catalog. This …

Traces Volume 30, Number 4, 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.

The Benjamin Loan Mills, Barbara Senier, John Senier

Adams County History

Although there was a time when the Benjamin Loan Mills were alive with activity, those days are now gone. They ended a century ago when the gristmill and the sawmill closed in 1901 after yet another fire. When the smoke cleared, Christian Deardorff, the mills' last owner, may have sighed with relief, for he had been trying sporadically to sell the mills for thirteen years, ever since he had rebuilt them after an earlier fire. In 1901, when again faced with fire-damaged mills, Deardorff decided not to rebuild them. In doing so, he also closed the last chapter in the …

Adams County History 2002

Adams County History

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Journal Of An Expedition To The Ohio, Commanded By His Excellency Brigadier-General Forbes In The Year Of Our Lord 1758

Adams County History

This is a transcript of the daily journal of the expedition, as written by John Forbes in 1758.

"Friday, 7th of July, receiv'd the Governor's Commission appointing me Chaplain to the 3d Battalion of the Pennsylvania Regiment, commanded by Colonel Mercer; with a Letter from the Secretary apologizing for my not having the Preference of the other two.-

Wednesday, July 12th. Set off from my own House in York County, & reach'd Carlisle that Night, where I receiv'd the General's Letter, with an invitation to attend the Troops under his Command; & promising me his Protection & Encouragement.-" [excerpt …

Baymec Pamphlet

Monterey County LGBTQ Histories Exhibit

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A Dream Fulfilled: The Replica Of The 1903 Wright Flyer At Wright State University, Peter Unitt

Local and Rare Books

A Dream Fulfilled details the engineering and personalities involved in building an exact, full-scale replica of the 1903 Wright Flyer. The replica was constructed over a period of two years and is currently on display in Wright State University's Paul Laurence Dunbar Library.

A Dream Fulfilled was edited by head of Special Collections and Archives at Wright State University Libraries, Dawne Dewey.

The Crucible Of Flight, Adrian Kinnane

Local and Rare Books

Adrian Kinnane’s unpublished manuscript “The Crucible of Flight” is an in depth look at what outside influences helped the Wright Brothers become the first to be successful in the quest for flight. Kinnane considers that the difference between them and their competitor/colleagues may well have been the difference that crowned them ultimately with success. His main focus is the familial and personal forces that set the Wrights apart. He studies the Wright family bond, the friendly and adversarial ties the Wrights developed outside the family bond, and the fraternal bond between Orville and Wilbur Wright.

White County Heritage 2002, White County Historical Society

White County Heritage Journal

TABLE OF CONTENTS

President's Message by William E. "Bill" Leach
White County Publications
What Happened in the Titan II Silo? by Dr. David Stumpf
'It Was Scary Down There' by David Lowery
A Full Measure, Good Top to Bottom by Jimmy Turley
Doc Rayburn's ll-year-old Raider by Eddie Best
Mama's New Cook Stove by Christina Doyle Spear
White County Roots
How To Obtain Arkansas Vital Records by Ed Sanders
The Piker Letters From Bradford by Eddie Best
The Lost Black History by Frances A. Tolliver
Hard Times, High Fur Prices by Maurice O. Thompson
1912 Fishing Trip by Bob Highsmith …