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Ua3/9/7 Civility & Embracement, Wku President's Office - Ransdell
Ua3/9/7 Civility & Embracement, Wku President's Office - Ransdell
WKU Administration Documents
Email from WKU president Gary Ransdell to faculty, staff & students regarding civility after 2016 election.
Miller, Winfield, 1852-1947 (Sc 3056), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Miller, Winfield, 1852-1947 (Sc 3056), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3056. Letter, 26 March 1910, to Ridgely B. Hilleary, Indianapolis, Indiana, from Winfield Miller, chairman of a committee charged with welcoming home former Vice President and Mrs. Charles W. Fairbanks from a trip around the world. Miller thanks him for his assistance at the reception held for the couple on 24 March.
Drake, Kentucky - Precinct Directory (Sc 3054), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Drake, Kentucky - Precinct Directory (Sc 3054), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscript Small Collection 3054. Precinct Directory and Voting List for Drake Precinct, Warren County, Kentucky. Contains voters’ names, post office, occupation, party affiliation, race and sex. The list appears to have been compiled for an election to be held on 8 November 1927.
What Goes Up Must Not Come Down: The Tweet Retraction Process Of Politicians, Paige Settles
What Goes Up Must Not Come Down: The Tweet Retraction Process Of Politicians, Paige Settles
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
In 2011, Congressman Anthony Weiner demonstrated the risks politicians face when utilizing Twitter. While past scholarship regarding Twitter has focused on the impact of the tweets candidates share with their voters, academic attention has not been afforded to the tweets candidates delete. This thesis seeks to delve further into the analysis of Twitter as a political campaign tool by examining the practice of tweet retraction. To achieve this end, this research presents two studies. The first analyzes the deleted tweets of members of the 112th Congress between May and November of 2012 in terms of quantity of retractions and the …
Voter Turnout In A Low Interest, Off-Year Election: A Field Experiment, Zachary Miller
Voter Turnout In A Low Interest, Off-Year Election: A Field Experiment, Zachary Miller
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
This thesis is an analysis on the effects of a low cost get out the vote (GOTV) effort through direct mail on a low interest, off year election. By conducting a field experiment divided into two stages, this project measures the effects of direct mail contact on voter turnout in the state of Kentucky. Postcards were sent during the final week of both the 2015 primary and general elections. The expectation is that those who received a postcard will be more likely to vote than non-recipients. Using data provided by the Kentucky Board of Elections, a data set was created …
Menefee, Richard Hickman, 1809-1841 (Sc 3052), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Menefee, Richard Hickman, 1809-1841 (Sc 3052), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3052. Letter, 16 December 1837, of Congressman Richard Hickman Menefee to attorney W. Rochester Beatty, Greenupsburg, Kentucky. Writing from Washington, D.C., Menefee asks Beatty to assume conduct of a lawsuit for a client in Salvisa, Kentucky. Referring perhaps to the Rebellions of 1837 in Upper and Lower Canada, he also declares the administration of President Martin Van Buren to be “astounded by the events of last month” and predicts its presentation of measures to the new session of Congress “timidly and irresolutely” in the face of strong …
Election Districts - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3050), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Election Districts - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3050), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3050. Class action complaint filed by five voters in U.S. District Court, Bowling Green, Kentucky, alleging malapportionment of election districts. The complaint seeks declarative and injunctive relief against the current apportionment and against holding a primary election for justices of the peace and constables. Details of the previous and current apportionments are included.
Ware, Josiah William, 1802-1883 (Sc 3043), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ware, Josiah William, 1802-1883 (Sc 3043), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and full text (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3043. Letter, 9 July 1837, of Josiah Willam Ware to his cousin George W. Williams of Paris, Kentucky. Writing from Springfield, Virginia, Ware describes steamboat mishaps on his trip home from Maysville, Kentucky, and chides Williams good-naturedly on his religion and on his Whig sympathies, which he believes may gain Williams a seat in Congress but will prevent him from becoming president. He also refers to their family’s raising of livestock.
Tillinghast, Joseph Leonard, 1790-1844 (Sc 3029), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Tillinghast, Joseph Leonard, 1790-1844 (Sc 3029), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and full text typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3029. Letter, 14 October 1842, of Joseph L. Tillinghast, Providence, Rhode Island, to a Kentucky political committee. While declining their invitation to visit Frankfort for an event on 26 October, Tillinghast, a Whig and U.S. Representative, offers lengthy praise for the party’s work in the 27th U.S. Congress and pays homage to Henry Clay and Kentucky.
Hise, Elijah, 1802-1867 (Sc 3018), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hise, Elijah, 1802-1867 (Sc 3018), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3018. Letter, 14 November 1844, of Elijah Hise, Russellville, Kentucky. After giving details of a debt collected on behalf of the recipient, Hise requests that "General McCalla," a fellow Democrat, be informed of Hise's delight at the election of James K. Polk to the presidency. He lists eight of the issues at stake in the election that he believes have been resolved by Polk's victory.
Myers, Rodes Kirby, 1900-1960 (Mss 567), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Myers, Rodes Kirby, 1900-1960 (Mss 567), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 567. Correspondence, speeches and scrapbooks related to the life of Rodes Kirby Myers, Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky from 1939 to 1943. Includes clippings and speeches from political campaigns. Also includes three scrapbooks of clippings related to the trial of Henry Herman Denhardt for the murder of Verna Garr Taylor in 1936.
Gates, Lloyd W., 1830-1890 (Sc 2971), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gates, Lloyd W., 1830-1890 (Sc 2971), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2971. Business and political postcards, chiefly sent to attorney Lloyd W. Gates, Calhoun, Kentucky. Topics range from political patronage to debt collection.
American Party - Kentucky (Sc 2972), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
American Party - Kentucky (Sc 2972), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2972. Founding documents, press releases, forms, and announcements related to the American Party in Kentucky. Includes a sermon denouncing the National Council on Churches.
Larsh, Abraham (Sc 2965), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Larsh, Abraham (Sc 2965), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2965. Letter, 3 August 1828, from Abraham Larsh, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to his cousin John Gardner, York County, Pennsylvania. He discusses the emboldening of opposition in Tennessee to Andrew Jackson, President John Quincy Adams’s rival, despite a recent assault by Jackson supporters. He also discusses the likelihood of Jackson’s alliance with former Vice President Aaron Burr in a plot to separate western states from the Union. While pleased with local crop yields and an expressed supporter of internal improvements, Larsh looks “with anxiety” to the completion of the railroad at the Ohio River, …
Elections And Election Campaigns - Gallatin County, Kentucky (Sc 2960), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Elections And Election Campaigns - Gallatin County, Kentucky (Sc 2960), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2960. Certification of vote results in an election in Gallatin County, Kentucky on 3 November 1868 for electors for President and Vice President of the United States and for Member of Congress for Kentucky’s Sixth Congressional District. Includes names and the number of votes received.
Sawyer, Charles W., 1887-1979 (Sc 2961), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sawyer, Charles W., 1887-1979 (Sc 2961), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2961. “Barkley,” a narrative by Charles Sawyer describing his experiences as a delegate-at-large from Ohio to the 1952 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and particularly his efforts to promote the nomination for President of then-Vice President Alben W. Barkley. He includes an anecdote about attending the 1956 convention as an observer.
Westerman, Robert V., B. 1948 - Collector (Sc 2905), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Westerman, Robert V., B. 1948 - Collector (Sc 2905), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2905. Letters to Leonard Burchfield, Louisville, Kentucky, from Representative William O. Cowger (3rd District, Kentucky) and from Representative-elect Gene Snyder thanking him for his assistance in their elections. Includes two postcards from Cowger, sent from Venezuela and Cambodia.
Opinions On Gun Control: Evidence From An Experimental Web Survey, Mallory Treece
Opinions On Gun Control: Evidence From An Experimental Web Survey, Mallory Treece
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
While a sizable literature exists on framing, little research extends this to gun control. In this study I analyze how partisan framing influences support for gun control. Using an experimental web survey, individual level data shows that Democrats in particular respond more favorably when gun control is framed as sponsored by fellow Democrats. In contrast, controlling for partisanship, gun owners more negatively react to gun control framed as Democrat-sponsored. These findings suggest the extent of support for gun control and ways in which parties can frame the issue in their favor.
Denhardt, Henry Herman, 1876-1937 (Mss 533), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Denhardt, Henry Herman, 1876-1937 (Mss 533), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 533. Correspondence, military orders, and instructional materials relating to Henry Herman Denhardt’s World War I service as a field artillery officer and postwar training as an officer in the Kentucky National Guard. Includes a few personal and political items relating to Denhardt’s campaign for Governor of Kentucky.
Brite, Henry Dearing, 1906-1976 (Mss 532), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Brite, Henry Dearing, 1906-1976 (Mss 532), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding Aid only for Manuscripts Collections 532. Letters, programs, invitations, photographs and other political and social mementoes of Elizabeth Brite and her husband Henry, collected primarily during their years in Washington, D.C. when Elizabeth was secretary to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s press secretary, Jonathan W. Daniels.
Ua3/2/1 President's Office-Garrett Correspondence/Subject File, Wku Archives
Ua3/2/1 President's Office-Garrett Correspondence/Subject File, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
General correspondence and subject files regarding Western Kentucky University.
Sebastian, Benjamin, 1741-1832 (Mss 523), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sebastian, Benjamin, 1741-1832 (Mss 523), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 523. Letters and papers of Benjamin Sebastian, associate justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, relating to his involvement in the Spanish Conspiracy and his response to a congressional investigation of his conduct that led to his resignation from the Court.
Grey, Benjamin Edwards, 1809-1875 (Sc 2875), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Grey, Benjamin Edwards, 1809-1875 (Sc 2875), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and full text of letter (click on "Additional File" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2875. Letter, 24 May 1853, of Benjamin Edwards Grey, Henderson, Kentucky, to Hardinsburg, Kentucky lawyer J. B. Bruner. Seeking reelection to Congress, Grey complains of lack of support from his own Whig Party and promises to help reconcile breaches among its members. He encloses a broadside advertising a Democratic Party meeting in Henderson County on 28 May as evidence of its organization and aim to carry the election.
Horse Cave, Kentucky - City Minutes (Mss 22 Box 1 Folder 11), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Horse Cave, Kentucky - City Minutes (Mss 22 Box 1 Folder 11), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
The minutes of the Caverna (later Horse Cave), Kentucky Board of Trustees from 1871 to 1892. Full text of the minutes, in 50-page increments, can be seen by clicking on "Additional Files" below. The community was known as Horse Cave, but changed its name to Caverna in 1869 and later changed its name back to Horse Cave in 1880. Stray material was scanned where it was found in the minute book; blank pages were not scanned. A short index was typescripted from the original minute book and is also included as an "Additional File." This minute book is part of …
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 - Relating To (Sc 2859), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 - Relating To (Sc 2859), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2859. Correspondence, documents, and secondary sources collected by Price Kirkpatrick and related to the “real” birthplace of Abraham Lincoln. Material speculates that Lincoln could have been born in Monroe or Cumberland counties in Kentucky.
Jfk Memory Project At Wku (Mss 491), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jfk Memory Project At Wku (Mss 491), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and full text of remembrances (Click on Additional Files), photographs, and oral history interviews for Manuscripts Collection 491. Materials collected during a commemorative project related to a campaign visit John F. Kennedy made to Bowling Green, Kentucky in October 1960 and to his November 1963 assassination. The core of the collection is a set of remembrances that were sent into the Department of Library Special Collections, WKU about both events. Other items include oral history interviews (8), photos (36), contemporary news clippings as well as clippings about the project, a scrapbook of post-assassination clippings, and assorted other ephemera …
Moore, Robert B., 1860-1937 (Sc 2851), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Moore, Robert B., 1860-1937 (Sc 2851), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2851. Letter, 13 November 1896, of Robert B. Moore, Bowen, Kentucky, to Frank Powers, Grayson, Kentucky. Moore, a lumber dealer, reports an increase in business. He also describes himself as a “sound money” man who voted for William McKinley in the recent presidential election. Despite anticipating a “hot time,” he reports finding no disturbances at his local polling place.
Chelf, Frank Leslie, 1907-1982 (Mss 492), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Chelf, Frank Leslie, 1907-1982 (Mss 492), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 492. Correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, audiotapes, film and miscellaneous material relating primarily to the political career of Democrat Frank L. Chelf, who represented Kentucky’s Fourth District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1944-1966. Includes Chelf’s voting record and bills, research and speeches related to his legislative interests.
Mcchesney, Hardin Field, Jr. (Mss 494), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcchesney, Hardin Field, Jr. (Mss 494), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 494. One reel of 16 mm. film labeled “Chandler Years in Review,” used by Hardin Field McChesney, Jr. in connection with reporting on a scandal involving the campaign of Edward “Ned” Breathitt for governor of Kentucky.
French, Richard, 1792-1854 (Sc 2825), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
French, Richard, 1792-1854 (Sc 2825), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2825. Letter of U.S. Representative Richard French, 29 December 1844, written from Washington, D.C. to his wife in Mount Sterling, Kentucky. He expresses regret for the time spent away from home, acknowledges the need to consult with her about their future after his return, and discusses apparent tensions between her and a farm manager.