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Phelps, Lilburn, 1870-1956 (Sc 699), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Phelps, Lilburn, 1870-1956 (Sc 699), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 699. Papers of Lilburn Phelps, a lawyer and State Representative of Jamestown, Ky., which chiefly relate to his professions. They mainly include speeches and letters to the editor that he penned. See Scrapbook Collection for additional material.
Wall, William Ketchum, 1786-1853 (Sc 2475), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wall, William Ketchum, 1786-1853 (Sc 2475), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2475. Two letters from William K. Wall, a lawyer and state legislator, written from Frankfort, Kentucky. He writes of domestic matters, his health and churchgoing, and briefly of legislative affairs in Frankfort, Kentucky, including the prevalence of divorce bills and his successful application to obtain a pardon for a former client. He also comments, at times critically, on several individuals who may be his children.
Onyekwuluje, Anne B. (Sc 2473), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Onyekwuluje, Anne B. (Sc 2473), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2473. Interviews conducted by Anne B. Onyekwuluje with seven individuals about the life and influence of Georgia Montgomery Davis Powers, the first woman elected to the Kentucky state Senate in 1963. They discuss their political relationships with Powers and her influence in politics and the Civil Rights movement.
Humphreys, George Gary, B. 1949 (Fa 564), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Humphreys, George Gary, B. 1949 (Fa 564), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 564. Interview conducted by George Gary Humphreys with Lexington attorney and political memorabilia collector Julius Edward Rather. Rather discusses 20th century politicians he knew and how he got involved in collecting political memorabilia.
Health Care In America: How To Fix Costs And Employer Provided Insurance Through Consumer Driven Health Care, Jonathan Williams
Health Care In America: How To Fix Costs And Employer Provided Insurance Through Consumer Driven Health Care, Jonathan Williams
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
Consumer driven health care is a viable solution to reduce America’s high overall health care costs and to rectify the lack of portability in the current employer driven health insurance model. Health care costs have risen greatly due to factors such as hospital administration and care, medical equipment, pharmaceutical companies, age, malpractice suits, and red tape. Health insurance is a complex field with components such as premiums, deductibles, co-payments, and both public and private providers of insurance. Health insurance in the United States is mainly provided by private insurance companies and these companies allow employers to pick insurance plans for …
Tosh, Ted Rockwell (Sc 2462), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Tosh, Ted Rockwell (Sc 2462), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full text of manuscript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2462. Compact disc with electronic copy of "Benjamin Helm Bristow," a biography of the Elkton, Kentucky native, state senator and U.S. Solicitor General by Ted Rockwell Tosh. The 494-page biography includes bibliography and index.
Mcdaniel, Sue Lynn, B. 1959 (Sc 2461), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcdaniel, Sue Lynn, B. 1959 (Sc 2461), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2461. Interview conducted by Sue Lynn McDaniel with Julius Rather on 14 June 2011 at his office in Lexington, Kentucky. The interview topic was Rather's collection of political memorabilia which he began amassing in 1964 and the establishment of the Julius Rather Political Memorabilia Collection at Western Kentucky University.
Magoffin, Beriah, 1815-1885 - Letters To (Sc 821), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Magoffin, Beriah, 1815-1885 - Letters To (Sc 821), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Fidning aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 821. Facsimiles of two letters to Magoffin while he was governor of Kentucky. John E. Records, a Falmouth Democrat, writes of his reaction to the newly-founded Republican Party in his 31 March 1860 letter. Major General Leonidas Polk writes from Columbus 9 September 1861, telling of the occupation of this Mississippi River town by Confederate troops. Also, photocopies of census records.
Electoral College (Sc 2451), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Electoral College (Sc 2451), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2451. Certification of George B. Hodge, James McKenzie, James M. Bigger, S. P. Love, R. S. Bevier, J. M. Atherton, Richard A. Jones, H. Cox, W. C. P. Breckinridge, Robert E. Little, A. L. Martin, and H. L. Stone, electors for Kentucky, as to the outcome of their votes for president and vice president of the United States, 1872. Includes notice of certification for 1880 bearing the signatures of the electors only.
Dickey, Robert W., B. 1933 (Sc 2449), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Dickey, Robert W., B. 1933 (Sc 2449), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2449. Letter, dated 30 January 1963, from attorney Marshall Funk to Robert W. Dickey related to an school integration lawsuit in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Also includes the political platform and biographical information for Raymond McClard's 1973 state Senate race.
Making Wku A Fair Trade University, Matthew John Vaughan
Making Wku A Fair Trade University, Matthew John Vaughan
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
Many products consumed on college campuses such as coffee and chocolate come from developing countries where producers are often paid insufficiently and exploited. Fair Trade certification of products guarantees producers a fair price and other social benefits. The objective of my CE/T project is to initiate a successful campaign to increase awareness of Fair Trade among students at WKU and gain "Fair Trade University" recognition for WKU. My efforts have included establishing a permanent Fair Trade Steering Committee, organizing campus-wide awareness events and partnering with campus groups to promote Fair Trade education and awareness. In this final account, I review …
Shirley, Mrs. W. E. - Collector (Sc 174), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shirley, Mrs. W. E. - Collector (Sc 174), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 174. Research materials collected by Mrs. W. E. Shirley for her master’s thesis (Western Kentucky State Teachers College, 1934) on Isaac Shelby (1750-1826). Includes typescripts of Shelby’s gubernatorial correspondence (1793-1794); his will (1826); his autobiography; a pamphlet (1828) by Shelby’s son relating to the Chickasaw Treaty of 1818; and a letter to Mrs. Shirley from the Filson Club, Louisville, Kentucky, regarding the source of the typescripted autobiography.
Social Media For Social Good: A Guide To New Media For College Activists, Charles Harris
Social Media For Social Good: A Guide To New Media For College Activists, Charles Harris
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
In a world of Tweets and status updates, how do we take all those hours perusing social networks and put them to good use? In my thesis project, Social Media for Social Good: A Guide to New Media For College Activists, I explore the uses of these networks to activate people towards building positive social change. It is my opinion that college is the best time to be an activist. How do college students communicate? Social Media. From the campus to the global scale, social media can be effectively used to mobilize people to take action on a wide array …
Empirical Methods-A Review: With An Introduction To Data Mining And Machine Learning, Matt Bogard
Empirical Methods-A Review: With An Introduction To Data Mining And Machine Learning, Matt Bogard
Economics Faculty Publications
This presentation was part of a staff workshop focused on empirical methods and applied research. This includes a basic overview of regression with matrix algebra, maximum likelihood, inference, and model assumptions. Distinctions are made between paradigms related to classical statistical methods and algorithmic approaches. The presentation concludes with a brief discussion of generalization error, data partitioning, decision trees, and neural networks.
Fighting For Fairness: The History Of Kentucky’S Local Movements To Enact Fairness Ordinances In 1999, Micah Bennett
Fighting For Fairness: The History Of Kentucky’S Local Movements To Enact Fairness Ordinances In 1999, Micah Bennett
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
This CE/T project explores the histories of the local movements for fairness ordinances which transpired in Kentucky in the year 1999. Fairness ordinances expand local civil rights protections on the basis of ‘sexual orientation’ and sometimes ‘gender identity’ to include lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) peoples and usually protect in the areas of employment, housing, and public accommodations. Four communities in the state considered such laws in 1999: Greater Louisville, Lexington-Fayette, the City of Henderson, and the City of Bowling Green. This thesis takes a holistic approach towards the history of these movements, exploring the procession of chronological events, …
Barkley, William Alben, 1877-1956 (Sc 220), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Barkley, William Alben, 1877-1956 (Sc 220), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 220. Letter, 18 November 1954, from Alben William Barkley, Washington, D.C., to Miss M. E. Dusenberry, Chicago, thanking her for her letter of congratulations upon his election to the U.S. Senate. The letter is signed by Barkley.
Underwood Collection (Mss 58), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Underwood Collection (Mss 58), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and selected full-text scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 58. Correspondence, diaries, papers, and genealogical materials of Joseph Rogers Underwood, U.S. Senator from Bowling Green, Kentucky, his wife Elizabeth Cox Underwood, his brother Warner Lewis Underwood, and his son, John Cox Underwood.
Mcdonald, Dan Allyn, 1905-1974 - Collector (Mss 343), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcdonald, Dan Allyn, 1905-1974 - Collector (Mss 343), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 343. Correspondence, legal papers, financial records and sundry other documents related to Eugene Scott Brown and his father-in-law, Gilbert Marshall Mulligan, attorneys of Scottsville, Allen County, Kentucky. Also includes stray Allen County court records, research notes related to the Civil War, and records about early telephone service in Allen County.
Parrish, Erin Kate, B. 1989 (Fa 558), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Parrish, Erin Kate, B. 1989 (Fa 558), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text paper (click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 558. Includes interviews conducted by Erin Parrish with James Pennycuff, Shelby Ferrill and James Bray about campaiging for political office in Clinton County, Kentucky. Also includes campaign ephemera from various informants.
Trout, Allan Mitchell, 1903-1972 (Mss 346), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Trout, Allan Mitchell, 1903-1972 (Mss 346), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 346. Correspondence and writings relating to the career of Allan Mitchell Trout, political reporter and columnist for the Louisville Courier-Journal. Includes letters from readers, written mostly on the occasion of his retirement, collections of Trout's "Greetings" columns, speeches and articles, historical memorabilia, correspondence relating to the Allan M. Trout Collection at Western Kentucky University, and messages of sympathy to his wife after Trout's death.
Ua12/3/2 Student Government Association - Publications, Wku Archives
Ua12/3/2 Student Government Association - Publications, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Publications created by and about the Student Government Association. Series includes newsletters, annual reports, brochures and posters.
Ua3/1/3 President's Office-Cherry - Scrapbooks, Wku Archives
Ua3/1/3 President's Office-Cherry - Scrapbooks, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings, articles and publications of interest to WKU President Henry Cherry. These include education religion, state and national politics, prohibition and Western Kentucky University.
Ua12/2/22 Moot Congress, Wku Archives
Ua12/2/22 Moot Congress, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Records regarding the Moot Congress and Commonwealth created by the Kit Kat Club in order to practice debate and learn about government.
Ua12/2/22 Western Kentucky State Normal Commonwealth, Wku Moot Congress
Ua12/2/22 Western Kentucky State Normal Commonwealth, Wku Moot Congress
WKU Archives Records
Undated report of the WKU Moot Commonwealth Committee on Resolutions. Resolutions regarding transportation, economic development, alchohol and conservation.
Ua12/3/3 Student Government Association - Events, Wku Archives
Ua12/3/3 Student Government Association - Events, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Records created by Student Government Association regarding annual events.
Series 3. Events
Subseries 1. Banquet
Subseries 2. Retreat
Subseries 3. Lecture Series