Educational change--Kentucky; School improvement programs--Kentucky; Mathematics--Study and teaching (Elementary)--Kentucky
This study examined student achievement scores in Kentucky elementary
schools to determine the relationship between implementing the America's Choice
comprehensive school reform model and student achievement in mathematics. Six
research questions...
Indians of North America--Missions; Jesuits--North America; Wyandot Indians--Religion; Wyandot Indians--Missions; Jesuits--Missions--North America--History
There are perhaps but few passages in history that are more striking than those which tell of heroic efforts of the early French Jesuits to convert the Indians of North America. Many of these efforts are full of dramatic and philosophic interest,...
As my curatorial thesis project, I chose to curate an exhibit of George Washington Morrison's paintings. George Morrison was a well-known portrait painter in New Albany, Indiana during his time here from 1840-1893. His paintings are on display in...
Map of the Great Lakes area extends south to Tennessee and North Carolina covering Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, New York, and the Western Territory. Details include state borders, mountain ranges, rivers, large creeks, cities, and...
Map of the Northern Hemisphere, including the Americas, "Mer du Sud," "Mer du Nord," western Europe, western Africa and eastern Asia, which shows major rivers and ports plus explorers' navigational routes. Illustrations include...
Map of six southern states (Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia) plus the Tennessee Government area and other land east of the Mississippi River, shows cities and towns, mountain ranges, rivers, large lakes,...
Map of five New England states (Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut) plus the District of Main, shows state borders, mountain ranges, rivers, bays, large creeks, cities, and towns. Printed below the title, "by...
Map of the Western Hemisphere, including the Americas, Greenland and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, which shows countries, mountain ranges, bays, rivers, large lakes, towns, and villages. Across the top are bird's eye illustrations of nine...
Printed below the title in French, "By Sr. Janvier, geographer of Paris, engraved by Lattre, S. Jacques Street in the city of Bordeaux 1762 with privilege of the king." National borders are hand colored and relief is shown pictorially....
Map of North and Central America shows rivers, lakes, bays, cities, and towns. Country and state borders are traced in color and lakes are tinted green. Printed beneath the frame of the map "London, Publish'd as the Act directs, July 26, 1794...
"Dali and Gala had every reason to be grateful to America, which had showered them with dollars. Here, as Columbus, the painter kneels on the shore, holding aloft a silver crucifix. Gala appears once more as Virgin Mary, on the banner."...
Side wheelers; Steamboats; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Port side of side-wheeler AMERICA (Way #241), loaded with passengers, at the bank of the Ohio River in Madison, Indiana. AMERICA, a side-wheel packet and excursion boat with wood hull (285 ft. x 45 ft. x 6 ft.), was built in 1917 at Howard...
Map of North and Central America, with hand-colored borders outlining land claimed by France, England and Spain, shows mountain ranges, bays, rivers, large lakes, towns, and villages. According to inscriptions, this map is based on unpublished...
Detailed map of Caribbean islands and most of Central America plus the coasts of Florida and northern South America shows countries, mountain ranges, rivers, lakes, large creeks, cities, and towns. Printed below the title, "by J....
Volunteers in front of Volunteers of America mission hall in Louisville, Kentucky, with advertisement reading: "The Volunteers of America are planning to Feed 1,000 men, women & children on Christmas Day at their Mission Hall-546 E. Market...
Volunteers of America; Charitable organizations; Day care; Children; Signs (Notices)
Group of children and two caregivers posed for photograph on steps of Volunteers of America Headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky; sign hanging from side of building reads: Volunteers of America Headquarters, Free Day Nursery For Children. The...
Group portraits; Costumes; Flags--United States; Buildings; Patriotic societies; People
The Daughters of America pose for a picture outside of Parkland Hall at 3536 Hale Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. The women are mostly dressed in white dresses. Some where sashes and others carry the United States flag. A man in a white outfit sits...
Neef, Joseph, 1770-1854; Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich, 1746-1827
In the early nineteenth century the Pestalossian system of education became very popular in Europe, and, aided by the necessity of something positive to take the place of the decayed and formalistic systems then prevalent, the movement spread...
Bookplates; Labels; National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Kentucky
Woman in a colonial era dress within a circular frame. The circle is contained by a decorative rectangular panel with columns on either side and a scrolled top and base. Above the circle is the phrase "Ex Libris." At the base of the panel...
Bookplates; Labels; National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Kentucky
Circular symbol or seal for the society featuring a coat of arms or shield with a rifle, axe, and a bow and arrows. A man in silhouette stands on either side of the shield. The man on the left is in frontier-style clothes and holds a rifle. The man...
