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An index of articles published in the College Heights Herald, August 1994 - April 1999.
An index of articles published in the College Heights Herald, August 1999 - April 2004.
An index of articles published in the College Heights Herald, August 2004 - May 2008.
An index of subjects covered in the meeting minutes of the Board of Regents of...
Versions of ten WKU campus ghost stories, and a list of resources for further reading.
Bowling Green, Kentucky fireman Euclid Porter Dodd (1870-1958) witnessed many changes in the department and...
Some tidbits of WKU history for each day of the month.
Since their first football game in 1931 and their first men's basketball game in 1932,...
From a single main dining room in Potter Hall, WKU’s campus food service has expanded...
Since Western purchased its present campus in 1909, building on the Hill has reflected the...
Throughout Western's history, dogs belonging to faculty and staff, as well as strays who simply...
In the early twentieth century, groups of students from the Western Kentucky State Normal School...
The legend that on leap year day (February 29) a man was obligated to accept...
Since 1912, Western had fielded women's athletic teams, but after 1930 they were restricted to...
Beginning in the 1960s and up until the enactment of Title IX, women students living...
Its earliest landscape architect envisioned the Hill as a pedestrian’s haven, but the automobile age...
Opened in 1889, the Pleasant J. Potter College for Young Ladies was the first occupant...
More than one hundred years after Kitty Hawk, aviation has become a part of the...
Ogden College, an endowed private school for young men, opened in Bowling Green in 1877....
Until relatively recently, instruction in penmanship was an important part of the curriculum in schools...
After World War II, Western Kentucky State College (now Western Kentucky University) faced a severe...
In the early 1970s, African American students at Western Kentucky University took the first steps...
Western Kentucky University’s student recruitment strategies were enthusiastically devised by its first president, Henry Hardin...
In the first decade of the twentieth century, Western Kentucky University’s first president, Henry Hardin...
Before the establishment of Western Kentucky University on its hilltop campus, the area was known...
Gavin G. Craig (1896-1976) joined the faculty of the Western Kentucky State Normal School and...
In 1901, a scandal rocked Potter College for Young Ladies in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Five...
The forty-year journalism career of Smiths Grove, Kentucky native Virginia Wood Davis (1919-1990) took her...
Bowling Green once disposed of its sewage through “sinks,” openings to caverns and underground watercourses...
Under the pen name "Violet Woods," Rosa Praigg Dickerson (1843-1902) wrote poetry and stories for...
Bowling Green native Lida Calvert Obenchain wrote popular fiction and campaigned for woman suffrage. Interviewed...
The 1948 inauguration of Eastern Air Lines' service to Bowling Green was a triumph for...
Before Bowling Green secured a public library, two women's clubs joined in 1898 to create...
In 1931, Depression-struck oil producers in Warren, Simpson and Allen Counties created the Bowling Green...