One of the most nationally-recognized, two-year legislative reform initiatives in the U.S. began in Kentucky with the passage of the Kentucky Postsecondary Education Improvement Act of 1997 (HB1). This exploratory, cross-sectional, correlational...
Postal service--History; Postal service--Southwest, Old
In every civilization of which any record has been preserved, there is known to have been some organized plan for maintaining communication by couriers who were either post runners or riders mounted. The relaying of these couriers was an obvious...
School-based management--Kentucky; Decision making
Shortly after the implementation of Kentucky's school-based decision-making councils, it became obvious that minorities were severely underrepresented on these councils. As a result, the Kentucky legislature enacted Section 160.352(3)(f) by which...
The Louisville Leader was an African-American newspaper published from 1917 to 1950 by I. Willis Cole in Louisville, Kentucky. This issue is twelve pages. There are portions missing along the edges of each page of this issue. There are an extra...
Slavery--Political aspects--Kentucky; Kentucky--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
In his 1926 study of the Civil War era in Kentucky, southern historian E. Merton Coulter repeated the old saying that Kentucky was the only state to secede after Appomattox. In an over-simplification of the process, most historians have seen harsh...
The Consumer and Industrial group of the General Electric Company (GE) allocates its shipping truckload to seventeen different trucking companies over 701 different routes from each of its nine terminals to 48 contiguous states. One of the...
Wind energy provides an attractive power source as an alternative to fossil fuels because it is abundant, clean, and produces no harmful emissions. To extract more energy from the wind we need to increase the wind turbine size. However, the...
A group of men in suits and hats, evidently members of the Hopkinsville Bankers Association, stand in front of the Hotel Latham. This Italian Renaissance style hotel was erected in 1894, and named for Hopkinsville native and philanthropist, John C....
The Louisville Leader was an African-American newspaper published from 1917 to 1950 by I. Willis Cole in Louisville, Kentucky. This issue says Vol. 32. No. 10. but is actually Vol. 33. No. 13. There are creases across the center of each page that...
Simmons University (Louisville, Ky.); African American universities and colleges; African Americans--Education (Higher); Education
Includes names of faculty and students, information about the university and its courses, and photos of campus buildings and faculty. The university has gone by many names since its founding in 1879: The Kentucky Normal and Theological Institute...
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Men; Newspaper editors; People associated with education & communication; African Americans
Portrait of editor Phil Brown of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, wearing a jacket and tie. Photograph has spots of discoloration. Handwritten on back of image: Editor, Hopkinsville, Kentucky.
The Louisville Leader was an African-American newspaper published from 1917 to 1950 by I. Willis Cole in Louisville, Kentucky. This issue says Vol. 14. No. 44. but is actually Vol. 14. No. 46. This issue has a page devoted to Hopkinsville that...
The Louisville Leader was an African-American newspaper published from 1917 to 1950 by I. Willis Cole in Louisville, Kentucky. This issue is twelve pages. There are portions missing along the top of each page of this issue and pages nine, ten,...
The Louisville Leader was an African-American newspaper published from 1917 to 1950 by I. Willis Cole in Louisville, Kentucky. This issue is twelve pages. There are small portions missing along the top of each page of this issue. Almost half of...
The Louisville Leader was an African-American newspaper published from 1917 to 1950 by I. Willis Cole in Louisville, Kentucky. This issue is twelve pages. There are portions missing along the edges of each page of this issue.
The Louisville Leader was an African-American newspaper published from 1917 to 1950 by I. Willis Cole in Louisville, Kentucky. This issue says Vol. 15. No. 43. but is actually Vol. 15. No. 44. This issue is twelve pages. There are an additional...
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Men; Government officials
Portrait of Lieutenant Governor James Breathitt, Jr. of Hopkinsville, Kentucky wearing a jacket and striped tie. Photograph has been painted on to crop his image and has several spots of discoloration. Handwritten on back of image: Lieutenant...
James Breathitt, Jr. of Hopkinsville, Kentucky standing inside a courtroom. Photograph has been damaged along the edges and discolored from age. Handwritten on back of image: Lieutenant Governor.
James Breathitt, Jr. of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, overseeing the Kentucky legislature. Handwritten on back of image: Lieutenant Governor Breathitt, 1st Day of Legislature. Stamped on back: (credit) Cusick Studio, Frankfort.
James Breathitt, Jr. and his wife, Natalie Martin Breathitt of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, standing outside in the grass at Bowman Field in Louisville, Kentucky. Handwritten on back of image: Lieutenant Governor. Stamped on back: September 22, 1930.
