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Division VI: African & African American Studies, Appalachian Studies, Education Studies, Peace & Social Justice Studies, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGS)
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.59
Abstract
With academic restructuring in 2011, six divisions were created. Academic divisions report to the Academic Vice President and Dean of the Faculty. Academic Division VI is comprised of the following programs: African and African American Studies, Appalachian Studies, Education Studies, Peace and Social Justice Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 2018-
Dixie Highway-Wilderness Road Collection
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0177 SAA 173
Abstract
Shaped by Native American paths and old buffalo traces, the Wilderness Road was forged in 1775 by Daniel Boone for the Transylvania Company. The trail, and later the road, winded through the Cumberland Gap–a notch in the Appalachian Mountains located near the intersection of Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee–through the interior of Kentucky and to the Ohio River.
The Wilderness Road served as an avenue of westward migration for some 300,000 settlers and led to the establishment of the first...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1920s-1930s
Doc Hopkins Audio Recordings Reference Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0266
Abstract
Doctor Howard Hopkins was a popular performer on mid- western radio in the 1930s and 1940s. Born January 26, 1900, in Harlan County, Kentucky, Hopkins began playing banjo during his boyhood on an instrument his father crafted for him.
The Hopkins family moved to Rockcastle County, where Doc’s neighbors included his future radio colleagues John Lair, Karl Davis, and Harty Taylor. In 1930 Lair invited his schoolmates to Chicago, and Hopkins named the new band the Cumberland Ridge...
Dates:
Other: Date acquired: 05/06/2017
Doc Roberts Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0075 SAA 075
Abstract
Dock Phillip Roberts-- (b. 1897, d. 1978) Roberts was born in Madison County, Kentucky and was among the state’s first traditional musicians to be recorded commercially. His father died at an early age, leaving Dock and his brothers to take care of the family’s farm. However, Roberts also found time to learn music and by age seven had begun playing the fiddle. He picked up songs from local fiddlers, and tried to emulate their styles. Early on, he met Owen Walker, an African-American...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1910-1938; Other: Date acquired: 10/00/1998
David R. Dodrill photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.36
Abstract
Collection of photographs by Berea College 1961 graduate David R. Dodrill.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1959 - 1961
Richard Bryant Drake papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.15
Abstract
Papers of Richard (Dick) Bryant Drake.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1948-2001; Other: Majority of material found in 1960-1995; Other: Date acquired: 02/01/2001
Duplicating Service Center
Collection
Identifier: RG 05-5.08
Scope and Contents
Records of the Duplicating Service Center (previously the Draper Service Center) including communications and Policy-Procedure-Pricing booklets.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1970-1994
Wilma Dykeman collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.16
Abstract
Collection of materials of and about Wilma Dykeman (1920-2006).
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1959-1998
Earl Palmer Photographic Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0073 SAA 073
Scope and Contents
This is a collection of large black and white photographic prints taken by Virginia-based photographer Earl Palmer. The content of the photographs are the Appalachian region and its people over a 40-year period.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1950s-1960s
East Kentucky Food and Dance Trail Oral History Collection
Collection
Identifier: BCA 0262
Abstract
The fourteen oral history interviews in this collection were recorded to contribute to the documentation of combined food and dance gatherings in eastern Kentucky. The interviewing effort is part of the East Kentucky Food and Dance Trail Program at Hindman Settlement School in Hindman, Kentucky.
The Food and Dance Trail Program is directed at highlighting east Kentucky venues that encourage community building, cross-generational...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 2017-2018