Valley of the Ohio

Butler, Mann

Sports & Outdoors

Kentucky Historical Society

The most thorough and ambitious study yet made of this significant and turbulent period in Kentucky's history. Over 70 pictures and maps recreate the atmosphere of the times.

Kentucky: Decades of Discord, 1865-1900

History

Tapp, Hambleton

Americas

Libro usado en buenas condiciones, por su antiguedad podria contener señales normales de uso

Master index, Virginia surveys and grants, 1774-1791

Joan Brookes-Smith

Union, the Civil War, and John W. Tuttle: A Kentucky Captain's Account. Ed by Hambleton Tapp

Tuttle, John W.

Kentucky's Abraham Lincoln

Kleber, John E.

Biographies & Memoirs

A History of Blacks in Kentucky: From Slavery to Segregation, 1760-1891: 001

Lucas, Marion Brunson

" Published by the Kentucky Historical Society &amp; Distributed by the University Press of Kentucky This is the second part of a two-volume study which covers the entire spectrum of the black experience in Kentucky from earliest exploration and settlement to 1980. (Click here for information on the first volume, From Slavery to Segregation, 1760-1891.) Mandated and partially funded by the Kentucky General Assembly in 1978, this pathbreaking work is the most comprehensive consideration of the subject ever undertaken. It fills a long-recognized void in Kentucky history. George C. Wright describes the struggle of blacks in the twentieth century to achieve the promise of political, social, and economic equality. From the rising tide of racism and violence at the turn of the century to the civil rights movement and school integration in later decades, Wright describes the accomplishments, frustrations, and defeats suffered by the race, concluding that even in 1980 only a few blacks had actually achieved the long-sought toal of equality.

A History of Blacks in Kentucky, Volume 2: In Pursuit of Equality, 1890-1980

Wright, George C.

A History of Blacks in Kentucky

This volume is the first comprehensive and in-depth history of Kentucky during the first half of the 20th century. State Historian James C. Klotter examines in depth not only the people and their lives but also the state's economy, educational system, cultural activities, politics, and folkways. He demonstrates how, enduring images and stereotypes developed that have shaped the state's progress throughout the century. In his view, the first half of the century were years of unrealized promises and failed dreams. Yet amid poverty there was plenty; along with educational weaknesses were cultural strengths; beside partisanship there was leadership. "This is an account of what happened in Kentucky and to Kentucky," Klotter writes. "It focuses on the process and the possibility of change, and how the people sought to adjust and to balance the positives of their past with the promises of their future. To know better what happened between 1900 and 1950 requires a study of not only the formal actions taken, but also the irony of actions, the presence of paradoxes, and the quieter things that shaped the state's character, its essence, its heart and its soul." A landmark in historical writing about the state, Kentucky: Portrait in Paradox is complemented by more than one hundred photographs and illustrations. Published by the Kentucky Historical Society and distributed by the University Press of Kentucky.

Kentucky: Portrait in Paradox, 1900-1950

Klotter, James C.

We have all spied them as we blast down I-75 scanning the roadside for anything of interest or rolled past one while trying to find that elusive gas station in an unfamiliar small town. Perhaps we have even stopped to read one outside our local courthouse. 
Since 1949, the Kentucky Historical Highway Marker program has erected more than 1,800 markers that highlight the rich diversity of the state’s local and regional history as well as topics of statewide, and sometimes national, importance. They provide on-the-spot Kentucky history lessons, depicting subjects as diverse as a seven-year-old boy who served as a drummer in the Revolutionary War to a centuries-old sassafras tree. 
Roadside History is a key to the markers, enabling travelers to read Kentucky history without stopping to see each marker as they pass. There are two indexes arranged by subject and county.

Roadside History: A Guide to Kentucky Highway Markers

Hay, Melba Porter

Appleton, Thomas H.

Wells, Dianne

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