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Underwood, Joseph Rogers, 1791-1876 (Sc 2328), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2328. Typescript of a diary kept by Joseph Rogers Underwood, 1834-1850, in which he records everyday occurrences at home in Bowling Green, Kentucky and in Washington, D.C., where he served in the U.S. House of Representatives,1835-1843, and the U.S. Senate, 1847-1853. Interspersed throughout are comments by his second wife, Elizabeth (Cox) Underwood. Also includes a document containing information about Thomas Rogers and an “Account of the Escape of Prisoners from Fort Warren, Boston Harbor” written by Douglas Gordon.

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.

Hall, Betty Kathleen, 1908-1995 (Sc 2298), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2298. "From Childhood Through the White House: Ronald and Nancy Reagan," a biography written by Betty Kathleen Hall in the form of a narrative poem and illustrated by John Warren Oakes. Inlcudes sheet music for "The Voice of the National Rose" with lyrics by Hall, and an autographed photo of the Reagans.

Paxton, Creed Edgar, 1876-1958 (Sc 2284), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2284. Letter, 1 February 1900, from Creed Paxton, Frankfort, Kentucky to his sister. At the time he was serving in the state militia during the contested election between William Goebel and William S. Taylor. His company was stationed in the Senate chambers of the state capitol building.

Chelf, Carl Philip, 1937-2011 (Sc 2256), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2256. Transcript of an interview with Tim Lee Carter, former U.S. Representative of Kentucky's 5th Congressional district, by Dr. Carl P. Chelf, government professor at Western Kentucky University, 21 October 1982.

Glynn, Luanne (Aylesworth), B. 1951 (Sc 2245), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2245. Letter from Evelyn Lincoln, personal secretary to President John F. Kennedy, to Luanne Aylesworth, Waite Park, Minnesota, in response to a letter from Aylesworth. Enclosed is a White House card with the president's reproduced signature. The envelope is postmarked 11:30 p.m. November 21, 1963, the day before the president's assassination.

Naccs 37th Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies

NACCS Conference Programs

Chicana/o Environmental Justics Struggles for a Post-Neoliberal Age
April 7-10, 2010
Grand Hyatt

Interview With George Schmidt, Melena Grace Nicholson

Chicago Anti-Apartheid Movement

Length: 154 minutes

Oral history interview of George Schmidt by Melena Grace Nicholson

Chicago Public School teacher and union activist, George Schmidt discusses his work as editor of Substance a newspaper covering public education that he helped found in 1975. His activism was sparked during his college years and he recounts his work during his teaching career. He was involved in the G.I. movement and military counseling, working with ZANU (Zimbabwe African National Union), and people in Angola and Mozambique, before becoming a teacher. His interest in military counseling and the G.I. movement stems from his own parents’ experience during …

Interview With Clarice Durham, Lauren Ashley Alexander

Chicago Anti-Apartheid Movement

Length: 95 minutes

Oral history interview of Clarice Durham by Lauren Ashley Alexander

Clarice Durham recalls her childhood and recounts her work with the Illinois NAACP, The National Anti-Imperialist Movement in Solidarity with African Liberation (NAIMSAL), and as co-chair of the National Alliance Against Racial and Political Oppression. She campaigned for justice in the Scottsboro Boys case in 1931, attended the founding convention of the Progressive Party in 1948, and participated in the March on Washington in 1963. As Durham recaps her trip to South Africa, she recalls the change it had on her and her views of the movement. …

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.

Young, Edward Green, 1857-1948 (Mss 309), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 309. Materials related to Edward Green Young's service as a delegate from Warren County to the Kentucky House of Representatives, 1916 to 1920. Also family correspondence and items concerning his farming operations.

Keith, Jean E. (Sc 2165), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2165. Paper: "The Whig Party in Kentucky, 1847-1851: Whig Against Whig, North Against South, East Against West" written by Jean E. Keith while she was a student at Western Kentucky State Teachers College, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes an eight-page annotated bibliography.

Logan County, Kentucky - Election Certificates (Sc 2177), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2177. Two election certificates from different precincts in Logan County, Kentucky, verifying tallied votes for election of state and local officials held on 9 May 1903. The totals are filled in and the certificates are signed by election officials.

Introduction To America's Four Gods: What We Say About God And What That Says About Us, Paul Froese, Christoper Bader

Sociology Faculty Books and Book Chapters

Despite all the hype surrounding the "New Atheism," the United States remains one of the most religious nations on Earth. In fact, 95% of Americans believe in God--a level of agreement rarely seen in American life. The greatest divisions in America are not between atheists and believers, or even between people of different faiths. What divides us, this groundbreaking book shows, is how we conceive of God and the role He plays in our daily lives.

America's Four Gods draws on the most wide-ranging, comprehensive, and illuminating survey of American's religious beliefs ever conducted to offer a systematic exploration of …

Governing Gambling In The United States, Maria E. Garcia

CMC Senior Theses

The role risk taking has played in American history has helped shape current legislation concerning gambling. This thesis attempts to explain the discrepancies in legislation regarding distinct forms of gambling. While casinos are heavily regulated by state and federal laws, most statutes dealing with lotteries strive to regulate the activities of other parties instead of those of the lottery institutions. Incidentally, lotteries are the only form of gambling completely managed by the government. It can be inferred that the United States government is more concerned with people exploiting gambling than with the actual practice of wagering.

In an effort to …

Who Was Fritz Kraemer? And Why We Should Care, Luke A. Nichter

Presidential Studies Faculty Articles and Research

"Whether Vietnam, Iraq, or now Afghanistan, wars come and go, but the real battle is a philosophic one between two sects of conservatives. In The Forty Years War: The Rise and Fall of the Neocons from Nixon to Obama, authors Len Colodny and Tom Shachtman challenge readers to examine the role of a little-known Pentagon figure named Fritz G.A. Kraemer. Colodny and Shachtman argue that Kraemer was the leading intellectual behind what became known as the neo-conservative movement, witnessed by the fact that Kraemer influenced so many high-ranking conservative figures over the course of six decades."

Procter Family (Sc 2077), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2077. Genealogical notes and correspondence relating to the Procter, Carson and Dinwiddie families. Includes a certified copy of the will of Evan Shelby, father of Isaac Shelby, the first governor of Kentucky.

Hodges, Patricia Ann (Morgan), B. 1931 - Letters To (Sc 2065), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2065. Letters from various Kentucky politicians to Patricia and Paul Hodges, Bowling Green, Kentucky, chiefly related to policies concerning same-sex marriage and immigration.

Bell, Charles Rowan, 1891-1976 (Sc 2064), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2064. Letter, 18 December 1963, from William A. Stevens, Washington, D.C., to Bowling Green, Kentucky lawyer Charles R. Bell with comments on Congressman William H. Natcher and other mutual acquaintances. Also includes information about Bell’s law career.

Bowling Green, Kentucky - City Ordinances (Mss 285), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscript Collection 285. Ordinances passed by the City of Bowling Green, Kentucky during the years 1914 to 1944. Includes list of ordinances; all the ordinances are not included with the collection. Also includes copies of various deeds and easements granted to the City of Bowling Green from 1885 to 1958.

Barkley, David M., 1906-1983 (Sc 2051), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 2051. Three letters to David M. Barkley, Paducah, Kentucky, from Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, thanking him for good wishes and expressing regard for Barkely's father, Vice President Alben W. Barkley. An image of one of the letters, dated 14 November 1970 , can be found as an additional file.

Harlin, Maxey B., Jr., 1915-2003 (Mss 262), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and some full-text scans of items (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 262. Correspondence of Maxey B. Harlin, Jr., a Bowling Green, Kentucky attorney and member of the Constitution Revision Assembly; also, minutes of the Constitution Review Commission, a paper, and texts of speeches favoring revision of Kentucky's constitution.

Bush’S Brain (No, Not Karl Rove): How Bush’S Psyche Shaped His Decision Making, Robert Maranto, Richard E. Redding

Education Reform Faculty and Graduate Students Publications

We will summarize the most systematic work on George W. Bush's psyche, stressing that leader personality traits should not be judged as good nor bad: Rather traits which match some situations mismatch others. SAT scores and other available measures indicate that Bush has sufficient intelligence to serve as president. Yet the best studies, in which raters evaluate statements without being aware of their source, suggest that Bush lacks integrative complexity and thus views issues without nuance (Thoemmes and Conway 2007). The leading personality theory (the “5-Factor Model”), as measured by the NEO Personality Inventory, suggests that Bush is highly extraverted …

Bowling Green, Kentucky - City Council (Mss 276), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 276. Minute books of Bowling Green, Kentucky Board of Councilmen (1948-1967), Board of Aldermen (1952-1967), and Board of Commissioners (1967-1987).

Nichter On Heiss And Papacosma, 'Nato And The Warsaw Pact: Intrabloc Conflicts', Luke A. Nichter

Presidential Studies Faculty Articles and Research

A review of NATO and the Warsaw Pact: Intrabloc Conflicts edited by Mary Ann Heiss and S. Victor Papacosma.

Eversole, Margaret B., B. 1927 (Sc 1941), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1941. Brief interview with Margaret B. Eversole conducted by Sue Lynn McDaniel about her remembrances of U S. Congressman William H. Natcher.

St. Louis Currents: The Bi-State Region After A Century Of Planning, Andrew Theising, Mark Abbott Ph.D.

SIUE Faculty Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

This collection of essays by leading scholars examines urban issues facing the St. Louis region in the 2010 era, which is 100 years after the first city plan in the US in 1907.

Warren County, Kentucky - New Deal Programs, 1934-1935 (Mss 253), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 253. Documents related to New Deal relief programs in Warren County, Kentucky and surrounding counties; correspondence of Ida Leighton Hodges, Bowling Green, Area Administrator of the Kentucky Emergency Relief Administration.

Cooper, John Sherman, 1901-1991 (Sc 1906), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1906. Letters from U.S. Senator John Sherman Cooper of Kentucky to constituents dealing with various political issues. He mentions then-senator Lyndon Baines Johnson blocking one of his bills.

The Restriction Of Civil Liberties During Times Of Crisis: The Evolution Of America's Response To National Military Threats, Matthew D. Fairman

Government and International Relations Honors Papers

This treatise explores the nature and significance of the threat posed to civil liberties during times of major national military crisis and evaluates changes in the nature of wartime repression over the course of American history. It tests the thesis that the evolution in Americans’ response to such crises has not been a simple progression toward increasing restraint on the part of federal, state, and local policymakers, as is sometimes assumed. Rather, major twentieth and twenty-first century developments related to the nature of threats to American national security and government capabilities to covertly repress dissent have interacted with evolutionary changes …