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  • Day of Disaster

    Interviews conducted by Jonathan Kesler with six individuals about the tornado that wreaked death and destruction on Bradenburg, Meade County, Kentucky on April 3, 1974. Includes transcripts of selected interviews and tape summaries for others. These interviews were used to write a paper titled "Day of Disaster: Brandeburg, Knetucky, and the Tornado of April 3, 1974" which is...

  • WKU Veterans History Project

    Video interviews conducted with U.S. veterans, chiefly those who served during wars, from western Kentucky as part of the Veterans History Project. This project was created by the U.S. Congress in 2000 to collect and preserve interviews, memoirs, photographs, letters, diaries and other historical material relating to U.S. war veterans. Dr. Gary L. Villereal, WKU Social Work...

  • American Printing House for the Blind Corporate Memory Project

    This oral history project captures the history of the American Printing House for the Blind (APH) through interviews with APH employees, board members, and ex officio trustees. APH is a nonprofit corporation founded in 1858 and is located in Louisville, Kentucky. The company creates educational, workplace, and independent-living products and services for people who are blind and...

  • Mercer County African American Oral History Project

    This project seeks to document the oral history of African Americans in Mercer County, Kentucky, focusing heavily on residents of Harrodsburg, Kentucky. The content of the interviews focuses heavily on physical locations in the county that have been historically important to the black community, including churches, schools and businesses. Interviewees discuss desegregation of schools...

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