Hutchins Library
Organization
Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:
Historical Newspapers Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0210-HC 35
Scope and Contents
The Historic Newspaper Collection currently includes more than 450 issues of papers from 72 individual newspaper titles published in the United States from 1856 to 1995. The collection primarily includes newspapers printed in the 1850’s and 1860’s, during World War I and World War II, and during times of significant world events.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1828-1970
Hutchins Library - Indiana University Folktale Workshop
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0245
Abstract
The Hutchins Library - Indiana University Folktale Workshop was a three-week research residency held in Berea July 7-26, 2003. It was sponsored jointly by Berea College, the Folklore Institute at Indiana University, and the Tales Online Project. Participants included students, teachers, storytellers, and researchers. The Primary focus of the study was Berea's Leonard Roberts Folktale Collection.
Activities included archival research, tale transcription of audio recordings, guest speakers,...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 2003
Japanese-American Students During WWII
Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.51
Scope and Contents
A small collection of materials providing information regarding Japanese-American students who attended Berea College as a result of internment or relocation during World War II.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1942-1949
Larry D. Shinn Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 03-3.08
Abstract
Larry Shinn (born January 16, 1942) served as president of Berea College from 1994 to 2012. Prior to this appointment he was Vice-President of Academic Affairs, Dean of Humanities and Head of the Religious Studies Department at Bucknell University. Shinn also taught at Oberlin College for fourteen years prior to his work at Bucknell. He earned his B.A Degree from Baldwin-Wallace College, his Masters of Divinity from Drew Theological School, and his PhD in the History of Religions from...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1994-2012
Louis C. Karpinski Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.29
Abstract
Louis Charles Karpinski (1878 –1956) was an American mathematician born in Rochester, New York. Karpinski received a Teacher’s Diploma from Oswego State Normal School in 1897. In 1898, he went to Kentucky to teach at the normal department of Berea College. He would leave Berea in 1899 to enter Cornell University and would go on to receive his Dr. Phil. Nat. from the American College of the Kaiser Wilhelms-Universitat zu Strassburg in 1903. He also studied (1909–1910) at Columbia, where...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: c. 1906-1940
Watergate Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0206 HC 31
Abstract
On June 17, 1972, five men were arrested after breaking into the National Democratic Party Headquarters located in the Watergate complex in Washington DC. Later it was found that the men were associated with the committee to re-elect Richard Nixon. It was eventually discovered that Nixon was aware of the break in and aided in the resulting cover-up. A special investigation was ordered. In all, twenty men, including some of Nixon's top aides, were convicted of obstruction of justice because...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1973-1975
William B. Stewart Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 03-3.02
Abstract
Stewart, a native of Scotland, was educated there, in Canada, and in the United States. He was ordaineda Baptist minister in Toronto, Canada in 1859. During his career he served as president of three othereducational institutions and as a professor of classical languages. He was named president of BereaCollege in 1890 and his views reflected Fee's perspective in that Berea offered a Christian education.Stewart’s presidency occurred during a period in the College's history marked by adverse...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1879 - 1974; Other: Majority of material found in 1890-1892
William G. Frost Correspondence List (Alphabetical)
Digital Record
Identifier: Frost Correspondence RG 3.03
William Goodell Frost Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 03-3.03
Abstract
Frost, a native of LeRoy, New York, was an 1876 graduate of Oberlin College and taught Greek at him alma materfrom 1876 through 1892. Having refused the presidency of Berea College in 1889, Frost reconsidered theappointment after the resignation of William B. Stewart. Frost was inaugurated in 1892 and served as presidentuntil 1920. Frost is credited with being chiefly responsible for the significant growth of Berea College during thisperiod. His term saw enrollment rise from 350 in 1912 to...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1860 - 1955; Other: Majority of material found in 1860-1894
William J. Hutchins Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 03-3.04
Abstract
Hutchins, born in 1850 and native of Brooklyn, New York, attended Oberlin College, Yale University, and Oberlin Theological Seminary. In 1896 he graduated from Union Theological Seminary and was ordained a Presbyterian minister, receiving his first pastorate at Bedford Church in Brooklyn. Later that same year,Hutchins married Anna Laura Murch of Cleveland (whom he had met at Oberlin).
In 1907, Hutchins was appointed professor of homiletics in the Oberlin Graduate School of Theology. On...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1850 - 1977; Other: Majority of material found within 1900 - 1958
Additional filters:
- Type
- Collection 20
- Digital Record 1
- Subject
- Berea (Ky.) 7
- Appalachian Region. 5
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- History. 4
- Education, higher -- Administration 4
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Social life and customs. 3
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- History -- 20th century. 3
- Abolitionists 2
- African American history. 2
- Appalachian Region -- Economic Conditions. 2
- Appalachian Region, Southern. 2
- Appalachians (People). 2
- Education, Higher -- Appalachian Region -- History. 2
- Madison County (Ky.) -- History. 2
- Minorities -- Education -- United States. 2
- Students, college -- Berea College 2
- African Americans -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources. 1
- Appalachia -- Description and travel. 1
- Appalachian Region -- Economic conditions -- History. 1
- Appalachian Region -- History 1
- Appalachian Region -- Social conditions -- History. 1
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Religious life and customs. 1
- Appalachian Regional Commission. 1
- Appalachians (People) -- History. 1
- Baker-White feud. 1
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Churches, Presbyterian 1
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Marriage records 1
- Callahan-Deaton feud. 1
- Canada -- Clergy, Baptist. 1
- Churches, Presbyterian -- Bedford Presbyterian Church. 1
- Clergy, Presbyterian -- Sermons. 1
- Coal Mining 1
- Coal miners -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States. 1
- Coal mines and mining -- Appalachian Region 1
- Coal mines and mining -- Safety measures. 1
- Coal trade -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Coal. 1
- College trustees. 1
- Folklore -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Hatfield-McCoy feud. 1
- Kentucky Day Law. 1
- Lungs -- Dust diseases -- Law and legislation -- United States. 1
- Mathematics -- Study and teaching. 1
- Mathematics. 1
- Military installations -- World War I. 1
- Miners -- Labor unions. 1
- Mining industry and finance. 1
- Newspapers. 1
- Oral history -- Appalachian region. 1
- Phipps-McNeil feud. 1
- Rural health -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Storytelling -- Appalachian Region 1
- Strikes, Employee. 1
- Strip mining 1
- Strip mining -- Environmental aspects. 1
- Tolliver-Martin-Logan feud. 1
- Travel, foreign -- Missionaries. 1
- Turner-Sowder feud. 1
- Universities and colleges -- Employees. 1
- Vendetta -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Vendetta -- Kentucky. 1
- White Hall (Ky.). 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Military life 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Young Men's Christian Association 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1 + ∧ less
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