The Institute for the Study of Culture and Society (ICS) Digital Collection features posters, flyers, and signage promoting ICS programs and events from 1997-2008.
Established in 1996, the Institute for the Study of Culture & Society (ICS) is a public humanities hub at Bowling Green State…
The Poetic Portraits project was a collaboration between older women in Wood County, Ohio, Sandra L. Faulkner, Professor of Media and Communication, Phil Beskid, Associate Teaching Professor in the School of Media and Communication, and Michelle Sweetser Head Librarian from the BGSU archives. The…
This digital collection features digital reproductions of the Gernert family letters (MS-1269), which date from 1942-1945 and are comprised of letters exchanged during World War II between members of the Gernert family of Bowling Green, Ohio, including William H. (1886-1947) and Lillian Gernert…
This digital collection features select correspondence and visual materials from the Grace McClurg Carson papers (MS-0243) and documents the experiences of Carson - an unmarried woman missionary in China - from 1912 to 1926. As such, they shed light on the role of women in a working situation as…
This digital collection features select correspondence and visual materials from the Dora Giffen papers (MS-0309) and documents the experiences of Giffen - a young 23 year-old female Presbyterian missionary in British-held Egypt between 1920 and 1926. As such, they shed light on the role of women in…
This digital collection features letters from theDwight R. Yates papers(MMS-1805), whichdate from 1898-1964 and contain the personal letters and military service papers of a private from West Millgrove, Ohio who served with Co.D, 6th Ohio Volunteer Infantry in Cuba during the Spanish-American War,…
This digital collection provides access to copies of the Peter Faulk letters(MMS-1644),which date from 1862-1863 and document Faulk's military service during the American Civil War. Faulk was from Stark County, Ohio and served in Co.C, 104th Ohio Volunteer Infantry.SelectBrowse Itemsto view all…
This digital collection features letters from theLouisa Cook Walters correspondence (MMS-1289) which dates from 1862-1865 and documents Cook Walters's overland journey from her home in Huron County, Ohio to Placerville, Idaho on the Oregon Trail. The letters are written to Cook Walters's family…
This digital collection features letters from theBrackney family papers (MMS-0891), which date from 1862-1864 and include Civil War-era correspondence by and to members of theBrackneyfamily, including Oscar Allen, Samuel Brackney, C. M. Powell, Bill McConnell, and Joseph Harden, serving with Co. C,…
This digital collection features letters from the Linus Patrick papers (MMS-1157), whichdate from 1852-1898 and document Patrick's service in Co.K, 121st Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the American Civil War. Patrick was from Rushsylvania, Ohio, and was killed in battle at Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia…
Trailblazing Women in Ohio Politics is a collaboration between WBGU-PBS and Dr. Melissa K. Miller, Professor of Political Science at Bowling Green State University. Both the oral history collection and the companion WBGU-PBS documentary serve as time capsules of an important era when women began…
This digital collection features select items from the Adams, Phillips, and Mix families papers, which dates from 1850-1932 and documents the lives of members of the allied Adams, Phillips, and Mix families of Hancock and Defiance Counties, Ohio, from the late nineteenth through early twentieth…