From Combat to Kentucky Oral History Project (C2KY) consists of interviews with veterans of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan who are currently pursuing post secondary education in Kentucky. Veterans interviewed are from various branches of the military...
University of Kentucky
(Collection)
This series concerns the history of medicine in Fayette County in the twentieth century. Physicians discuss their personal and family histories, the University of Kentucky in the 1920s, Good Samaritan Hospital and other hospitals in Lexington during the 1920s and 1930s, internships in the 1930s...
(Collection)
This collection documents the career of Morton Holbrook, Jr., who was born in 1914. He was instrumental in drafting judicial reforms which included the requirement that judges must be lawyers. He was also named Kentucky's Outstanding Lawyer of the Year in 1967 and was named to the...
(Collection)
Otis Arnold Singletary, born in Gulfport, Mississippi, in 1921, received a B.A. degree from Millsaps College in 1947 and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Louisiana State University in 1954. He served in the United States Navy during both World War II and the Korean War. Singletary taught at the University...
(Collection)
This collection documents the experiences of women who have worked at the University of Kentucky. They describe many instances of a hostile work environment, sexist jokes, and demeaning attitudes of their male bosses and peers. Described in these interviews are the frustrations of these women,...
(Collection)
The University of Kentucky Medical Center was founded in 1956 during the second governorship of A. B. "Happy" Chandler (1955--1959). Physicians and others associated with the center discuss the planning and establishment of the facility; the selection of a director, department heads,...
(Collection)
The University of Kentucky Medical Center was founded in 1956 during the second governorship of A. B. "Happy" Chandler (1955--1959). Physicians and others associated with the center discuss the planning and establishment of the facility; the selection of a director, department heads,...
(Collection)
This project consists of interviews concerning the Gender and Women's Studies program at UK. Interviewees talk about the challenge of developing the GWS program with limited resources, their goals, and professionalizing and increasing the credibility of the program. Also discussed are...
(Collection)
This project documents issues confronting women administrators at the University of Kentucky. The complete collection record can be accessed on SPOKEdb, the Nunn Center's online collection catalog: <a href="...
(Collection)
On a cold, dreary day in December 1957, the official groundbreaking ceremony for the new medical center took place. What was once a cornfield in a section of the University's Agriculture Experimental Station farm was on its way to becoming a world-class medical center. The unwavering...
Pages
