Arndt Mathis Stickles
At the time he retired in 1954 after more than 46 years at WKU, history professor Arndt Mathis Stickles (1872-1968) held the record as the longest serving professor at an accredited institution of higher learning. His publications included Elements of Government: Political Institutions, Local and National, in the United States (1914), The Critical Court Struggle in Kentucky, 1819-1829 (1929), and Simon Bolivar Buckner: Borderland Knight (1940). Among more than 2,700 items in this collection, now available in the Manuscripts section of WKU’s Special Collections Library, are his speeches, family and professional correspondence, research materials for his books, and a lengthy personal reminiscence of his life and career written for his children. A finding aid for the Stickles Collection can be accessed here.