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,...
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...
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...
From his home near Cloverport in Breckinridge County, Kentucky, George L. Pate kept tabs on his large family: seven children from his 1835 marriage and, after his first wife’s death, five more ...
It was so hush-hush that even his wife was kept in the dark. “She knew I was acting awfully strange. I don’t know if she thought I was carrying on an affair or what.” So recalled Joseph...
At first glance, the January 18, 1968 issue of the College Heights Herald had a scoop that any student journalist would envy. A front-page story told of the arrest of three well-known local phy...
Before beginning his 44-year teaching career at WKU, student Gordon Wilson (1888-1970) witnessed some of the most significant events in the school’s history. In February 1911, he participat...
https://library.blog.wku.edu/2023/08/this-morning-i-registered-at-the-college/