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Hedrick, Joan D. Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life: Biography Paper, Alexandra Padalino Jan 2016

Hedrick, Joan D. Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life: Biography Paper, Alexandra Padalino

Writing Across the Curriculum

This essay explores the significance of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s life with the use of the biography, Harriet Beecher Stowe: a life by Joan D. Hedrick, along with three primary source letters that further argue her importance in the 19th century as an abolitionist.


Marriage And Gender: A History Through Letters, Victoria Kern May 2015

Marriage And Gender: A History Through Letters, Victoria Kern

Senior Honors Projects

Research on the evolution of marriage can be found quite easily, but the opportunity to see into the lives of married couples from the past is rare. Through the analysis of letters between my parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents, I provide a glimpse of what being married has meant throughout the 20th Century for heterosexual couples. Societal ideas about what makes a marriage ideal have changed over time, but they have always been closely linked with gender expectations (Berk, 2013), so a feminist approach to the analysis of the evolution of marriage is used with my family’s letters as a …


Cisney, Barbara (Sc 2252), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2010

Cisney, Barbara (Sc 2252), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2252. "Bevie W. Cain," and "Civil War Letters of Bevie Cain," two papers written by Barbara Cisney for Western Kentucky University history classes and based primarily on a collection of Cain's letters held in WKU's Special Collections Library (SC 2251).


Friendship Of My Soul. Selected Letters By Elizabeth Ann Seton 1803-1809, Betty Ann Mcneil Jan 2010

Friendship Of My Soul. Selected Letters By Elizabeth Ann Seton 1803-1809, Betty Ann Mcneil

Mission and Ministry Publications

Friendship of My Soul presents selected letters of Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton during a period which became pivotal for her vocation in life and journey of faith. Elizabeth Seton writes to key correspondentson matters of family, faith, and friendship. The women with whom shecorresponded included a sister-in-law, the wife of her husband’s businessassociate, and a life-long friend. Each woman shared her heart and soul withthe other as they mutually supported one another during ebb and flow ofthe tides of their lives.