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Learn about some of the unique primary source materials in WKU’s Special Collections Library.  To browse further, search TopSCHOLAR and KenCat. Freedom! Let the World Rejoice!! Hence for the f...

https://library.blog.wku.edu/2024/10/voices-from-special-collections/

“The Eighth Wonder of the World.”  It was a title the steamboat Evansville shared with her sister vessel, Bowling Green.  Built in 1880, she carried passengers, tourists, livestock, farm pr...

https://library.blog.wku.edu/2024/08/boiling-the-river-dry/

Though he settled in Hancock County, Kentucky in 1845 at the age of 49, James Prentis retained his solicitude for his native Virginia – “the mother of States” – where he had grown up and ...

https://library.blog.wku.edu/2024/07/never-treason/

Directors and officers. Company history. Operational schedules. Location(s). Lists of products and services. Achievements and awards. Images of massive factories, office towers or other icons of ...

https://library.blog.wku.edu/2024/06/for-further-information-look-no-further/

WKU’s Special Collections Library holds the records of many local women’s clubs in its Manuscripts & Folklife Archives: the Current Events Club, the Browning Club, the Twentieth Century Club,...

https://library.blog.wku.edu/2024/05/the-ladies-art-club/

Edmonson County, Kentucky’s story begins on January 12, 1825, when it was created from land carved out of surrounding Grayson, Hart and Warren counties.  By May 1825, as prescribed in the enab...

https://library.blog.wku.edu/2024/04/a-bench-for-the-court-to-sit-on/

As we know from books like Code Girls, And If I Perish, and A Woman of No Importance, American women served in World War II out of duty and patriotism.  But for some, the war also offered an opp...

https://library.blog.wku.edu/2024/03/from-the-farm-to-the-farms/

After graduating from State Street High School as its valedictorian in 1936, Bowling Green, Kentucky native Lillie Mae (Bland) Carter earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Tennessee Sta...

https://library.blog.wku.edu/2024/02/my-friend-and-critic/

After her husband’s death in 1852, Maria Knott left her home in Lebanon, Kentucky for Missouri, where her son, James Proctor Knott, was beginning his legal and political career (Proctor Knott w...

https://library.blog.wku.edu/2024/01/the-best-government-that-ever-was-made/

As December unfolds and students across the country strive to earn the acclamation of their teachers, not only for academic achievement but for associated good behavior, here are a few historical...

https://library.blog.wku.edu/2023/12/scholars-all/