Category Archives: American history

Never Let the Facts Get in the Way of a Good Story

Posted on December 6, 2021 by David L. Rice Library

*Post written by Mona Meyer, Archives and Special Collections Metadata Librarian. This phrase has been attributed to Mark Twain (is there anything evenly remotely plausible that hasn’t been attributed to Twain?), but other sources call it proverbial. This itself is … Continue reading →

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Orphan Trains

Posted on September 21, 2021 by David L. Rice Library

*Post written by Mona Meyer, Archives and Special Collections Metadata Librarian. Life in 19th century America was difficult. The very pathways of American life were changing from an agrarian past to an industrialized future. Such a drastic change was not … Continue reading →

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Rabbit Holes Redux Redux …

Posted on February 1, 2021 by David L. Rice Library

*Post written by Mona Meyer, Archives and Special Collections Metadata Librarian. (Double apologies to John Updike!) In the first blog of this series we learned about Camp Nelson and the United States Colored Troops that fought in the Civil War, … Continue reading →

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Rabbit Holes Redux …

Posted on January 25, 2021 by David L. Rice Library

*Post written by Mona Meyer, Archives and Special Collections Metadata Librarian. (Apologies to John Updike!) In the last blog we learned about Camp Nelson and the United States Colored Troops that fought in the Civil War. Let’s take a look … Continue reading →

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Rabbit Holes …

Posted on January 18, 2021 by David L. Rice Library

*Post written by Mona Meyer, Archives and Special Collections Metadata Librarian. I’ve been going down the rabbit hole. In doing some research into black schools in Evansville, I somehow ran across a reference to a Camp Nelson in Kentucky. This … Continue reading →

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