Western Kentucky University

Special Collections Library - Speakers Bureau

Looking for a speaker? Our faculty and staff provide presentations to community groups on a variety of topics: see below for programs titles. Want to book a speaker or schedule a program? Contact  the individual directly to make arrangements.

Bowling Green/Warren County History

WKU History

Kentucky History

History

Holidays and Customs

Genealogy

Caring for Antiques & Collectibles

Architecture

Gardening & Landscape Design


 
Bowling Green/Warren County History

White Stone Quarry     Christy Spurlock

Kentucky Museum Exhibits and Programming     Christy Spurlock

Kentucky Museum Resources for Educators    Christy Spurlock

Bowling Green Stock Car Racing    Jonathan Jeffrey

If These Stones Could Talk:  A Study of Warren County Tombstones and Epitaphs  Jonathan Jeffrey

Carrie Taylor: Bowling Green Dressmaker and Entrepreneur  Sandy Staebell

A Manly Woman: The Life of Margaret Morehead Hobson     Jonathan Jeffrey

Just Bummin': A Young Woman's Coming of Age in 1890s Bowling Green    Sue Lynn McDaniel

School Days: Higher Ed Choices in Bowling Green, 1880s-1920s
Sue Lynn McDaniel


WKU History

The Hillbuilder: Architect Brinton B. Davis and WKU  Jonathan Jeffrey

WKU History - 100 Years of People and Events  Suellyn Lathrop

The Good Ol' Bowling Green Business University      Sue Lynn McDaniel


Kentucky History

Crowing Hens: Pioneering Kentucky Women Performers        Nancy Richey

Another World: Kentucky's First Penitentiary       Nancy Richey

Fulling Around: The Shaker Fulling Mill at South Union, Kentucky       Donna Parker

Fabric Footnotes: Kentucky Women and Their Quilts      Sandy Staebell

A Hundred Years of Kentucky Funerals        Sue Lynn McDaniel

Housing the Dead: A Look at Kentucky Grave Houses            Jonathan Jeffrey

He Didn't Do Bungalows: Examining the Architectural Lecgacy  of James M. Ingram         Jonathan Jeffrey

The Grand Experiment: Kentucky's Carnegie Libraries       Jonathan Jeffrey

Robert Penn Warren: Kentucky Writer?          Jonathan Jeffrey

No Ordinary Dame: Kentuckian Mildred Potter Lissauer & Her Godey Quilt  Sandy Staebell

Nature's Bounty: Quilts & More        Sandy Staebell

The Kentucky Clothes Closet: 150 Years of Fashionable Dressing      Sandy Staebell

Whoop, Hoop, Hurrah: Victorian Clothing and the Dress Reform Movement 

Sandy Staebell

Annie Fellows Johnston and the Little Colonel   Sue Lynn McDaniel

Scrapbooking: Kentucky Hobby, Kentucky Treasure    Sue Lynn McDaniel

The Kentucky Library: Your Trash May Be Our Treasure   Sue Lynn McDaniel


History

The History of Tea: the Plant That Drove a Global Economy     Timothy J.Mullin

Frances Jewell Goes To Boarding School                     Sue Lynn McDaniel      


Holidays and Customs

Victorian Valentines: Ester Howland's Cottage Industry          Timothy J. Mullin

Christmas Traditions: the Creation of a Victorian Holiday      Timothy J. Mullin

Thanksgiving Traditions      Jonathan Jeffrey

Fun Little Thing Called Love        Sue Lynn McDaniel



Genealogy

Genealogy 100 - Getting Started Finding Your Roots   Suellyn Lathrop

Genealogy 101 - Organizing a Genealogical Research Project     Suellyn Lathrop

Genealogy 102 - Sources in University Libraries     Suellyn Lathrop

Genealogy 200 - Writing Up Your Genealogical Research      Suellyn Lathrop

Beginning African American Genealogy       Nancy Richey

The Top Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Genealogy Before...

Sue Lynn McDaniel


Caring for Antiques & Collectibles

Preserving Your Family Treasures                                           Sandy Staebell

Care of Family Papers and Photographs                             Sue Lynn McDaniel

Capturing Our Past, Creating Interest in Things "Historic"     Sue Lynn McDaniel


Architecture

American Architecture: from Colonial Jamestown to Colonial Revival  Timothy J. Mullin

Buliding the Log Cabin    Timothy J. Mullin

The Hillbuilder: Architect Brinton B. Davis and WKU  Jonathan Jeffrey

He Didn't Do Bungalows: Examining the Architectural Lecgacy  of James M. Ingram         Jonathan Jeffrey

 Historic Preservation: The Ultimate Green       Jonathan Jeffrey


Gardening & Landscape Design

Growing the Victorian Garden: the Revolution in English Landscape  Timothy J. Mullin


 

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