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Gilliam, William D. (Sc 2386), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2386. "The Public Career of Robert Perkins Letcher," by William D. Gilliam, a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy degree, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1941.

Glynn, Luanne Carol (Aylesworth), B. 1951 (Fa 11), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 11. Interviews conducted by Luanne Carol (Aylesworth) Glynn with Marvel (Welborn) Mohon, Lewisburg, Kentucky concerning Thanksgiving customs, with much attention paid to Marvel’s life, especially her family.

Mccalister, Virginia May (Sc 2365), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2365. "The Political Career of Ollie M. James" by Virginia M. McCalister, a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Arts degree, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1933.

Richards, Frances, 1893-1991 (Sc 2363), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2363. "John Rowan" by Frances Richards, a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Arts degree, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1930.

Minton, John Dean, 1921-2008 (Sc 2373), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2373. "The Political Prosecution and Trials of Caleb Powers" by John Dean Minton, a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Arts degree, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 1947.

Bessire, Henry Edward (Sc 2394), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2394. "Needed: Reorganization of the Executive Branch of Kentucky: A Study Presenting a Framework for Progress in Kentucky Governmental Organization," by Henry Edward Bessire, a senior thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the Bachelor of Arts degree, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 1957.

Mckee, Ann Elizabeth (Fa 9), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 9. Interviews conducted by Ann McKee with Mary Elizabeth (McPherson) Ricketts, Bowling Green, Kentucky, about her experiences concerning the Kentucky Derby. Topics include Louisville hotels and Derby food and fashion.

Bibler, Thomas Edward (Fa 8), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 8. Interviews conducted by Thomas Bibler. Includes interviews with Joseph Bryan Houk, Bowling, Kentucky, about his life and Christmas and New Year's customs in Hart County and Warren County, Kentucky, and Columbus, Ohio.

Kinchlow, Gina Lloyce (Fa 4), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding Aid only for Folklife Archives Project 4. Interviews conducted by Gina Kinchlow for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University. Includes interviews with Carolyn Alexander and Vivian Glass about their lives as African American women.

Glasgow, Kentucky - Board Of Trustees Records (Mss 333), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 333. Record book of the Glasgow, Kentucky Board of Trustees, 1810-1855, and minutes of the Glasgow City Council, 1878-1882.

Watkins, Dianne (Winkler), 1941-2024 (Fa 3), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 3. Interviews conducted by Dianne Watkins with Earl Hamilton Berkley about Berkley family reunions (1929-1984), and the family farm and service station located on Morgantown Road in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes cassette tapes, originals, typescripts and photocopies.

Dowell, John Alan (Fa 2), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 2. Interviews conducted by John Alan Dowell with George M. Carter which provide bigraphical data about Carter and highlight his storytelling talent. Includes interviews with Carter on cassette tapes, transcriptions, tape summaries, glossary, bibliography and photographs.

Beisswenger, Donald Andre (Fa 1), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1. Project titled "White Gospel Music in Logan County" conducted by Donald Andre Beisswenger for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University. Includes interviews with Jeff and Gwen McKinney and Chester Whitescarver about singing schools and white gospel music. Transcript of McKinney interview included as well as a tape summary for the Whitescarver interview.

Sumpter, Ward Cullin, 1902-1977 (Sc 2318), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2318. Chemistry notebook of Ward Cullin Sumpter, probably kept about 1930 while he was a doctoral student at Yale University. Includes other miscellaneous documents: a tribute to a church's departing pastor, a draft petition in support of an anti-cigarette law, and a poem relating to the 1928 presidential election.

Sublett, William (Sc 2315), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2315. Certificate confirming William Sublett's appointment as a justice of the peace in Warren County, Kentucky, "occasioned by the death of John Heard." Signed by Governor William Owsley, Secretary of State Ben Hardin, and Assistant Secretary of State S.A. Mitchell.

Mcnulty, Sara Jane (Fa 529), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 529. Interviews, conducted by Sara Jane McNulty, with Logan County, Kentucky residents about their memories and association with the Shakers or the subsequent Shaker Museum at South Union, Kentucky. An index and transcription accompanies each interview.

Kesler, Jonathan G. (Fa 201), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 201. Paper: "Day of Disaster: Brandenburg, Kentucky, and the Tornado of April 3, 1974," written by Western Kentucky University folk studies student Jonathan G. Kesler, about the tornado that wreaked death and destruction on Bradenburg, Meade County, Kentucky, on 3 April 1974.

Belcher, Scott Minor (Fa 195), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 195. Interview done by Scott Belcher with Bill Thompson,BreckinridgeCounty, Kentucky, in which Thompson reminisces about his youth. Includes transcription and cassette tape.

Main Street Oral History Project (Fa 527), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 527. Collection consists of taped interviews (7) with individuals about their memories of what downtown Bowling Green, Kentucky was like when they were young.

Glynn, Luanne Carol (Aylesworth) (Fa 518), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 518. This collection contains tape recorded interviews (28) conducted by Luanne Glynn with Ellis Yeargin Hurt (1900-1994) of Cadiz, Trigg County, Kentucky. The interviews relay Ellis's life history.  The project also includes an interpretive paper, a project proposal and summary as well as tape indexes.  This project was the result of a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.

Helm, Cyrus Thomas, 1827-1868 (Sc 2271), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2271. Account book for a dry goods operation, April 1849. The book includes records for Bowling Green, Kentucky's Police Court, 1859-1864.

Religion And Regionalism : Congregants, Culture And City-County Consolidation In Louisville, Kentucky., Joshua D. Ambrosius

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Literature on religious involvement in public affairs typically examines the national scene, particularly public opinion and political behavior in presidential elections. Few scholars examine religious actors in urban politics and policymaking. Those who do study local politics emphasize morality policy and ignore issues of metropolitan governance and institutional design, central concerns of the urban politics field. This dissertation fills that gap by studying Louisville, Kentucky, site of the first large-scale city-county consolidation since 1969. I ask: does religion affect how people vote in a consolidation referendum and shape their opinions about merged government? I employ a survey instrument (N=807), collected …

Interview With Larry Butch Carroll (Mss 707), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Larry Butch Carroll conducted by Dallas John Duvall related to the mining of rock asphalt at Kyrock in Edmonson County, Kentucky. The majority of the interview concerns the life and residence of Henry St. George Tucker Carmichael, 1882-1949.

Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Sc 2439), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2439.  Correspondence, clippings, and miscellaneous items of Margie May Helm, Bowling Green, Kentucky, chiefly related to public library work in Kentucky and bookmobiles.

Hodges, Jack, Ii (Fa 227), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 227. Paper: "Family Ghost Stories" written by Jack Hodges II for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.

Norris, Ruby (Fa 218), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of collection (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 218. Paper: "[Folk Medicine in Cumberland County]" written by Ruby Norris for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.

Bowling Green, Kentucky - Death Records, 1877-1913 (Mss 293), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and copy of a "Death Return" (click on Additional File below) for Manuscripts Collection 293. To view scanned copies of the records, click on the individual folders; they are links to the contents of that particular folder. Physician's death certificates and undertaker's certificates relating to permits for burials wihin the City of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes information on the deceased's date and cause of death, age, race, marital status, place of birth, residence, and date and place of intended interment. May include other documentation when a death occurred outside Warren County, Kentucky.

Burnette, Isaac, Sr., 1801-1865 (Sc 2239), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2239. Letter, 20 February 1835, from Isaac Burnett, Sr., a Trigg County, Kentucky physician, written from Frankfort, Kentucky to his wife Martha in Cadiz, Kentucky, while Burnett was serving in the General Assembly. He apologizes for an earlier, unkind letter and expresses his wish to see her and their children.

Interview With Stan Willis, Richard Hughey

Chicago Anti-Apartheid Movement

Length: 135 minutes

Oral history interview of Stan Willis by Richard Hughey

Mr. Willis begins by recounting his early years in Chicago with his family and his gang activity in high school. He briefly describes his years in the Air Force and his work as a bus driver before enrolling at Crane College. Willis describes his activism work from his college years in detail, creating the Black History Club and later running for and winning student body president, during which time he helped organize strikes against injustices around the country. He mentions how he had a hand in naming the …

Ewan, Avory Early, 1884-1937 (Sc 2427), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2427. Letter from A. Early Ewan, Warren County, Kentucky county agriculture extension agent, to members of the Warren County Corn-Hog Production Control Association relating information about contracts to limit production of the commodities mentioned.