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Community Memories is a fascinating look into life recalled by African Americans who consider Frankfort their home. Featuring unique oral history recollections and over two hundred candid personal p……続きを見る

For subsistence farmers in eastern Kentucky, wealthy horse owners in the central Bluegrass, and tobacco growers in Western Kentucky, land was, and continues to be, one of the commonwealth's greatest……続きを見る

Published by the Kentucky Historical Society and distributed by the University Press of Kentucky We have all spied them as we blast down I-75 scanning the roadside for anything of interest or rolled……続きを見る

David Wendel Yandell was the most distinguished physician of a family noted for its contributions to the medical profession over a period of generations. Like his father before him, Yandell taught f……続きを見る

Alarmed by infringements upon American commerce during the Napoleonic Wars, Kentuckians were early proponents of war with Great Britain. As a frontier state, Kentucky feared exposure to raids by Bri……続きを見る

Kentucky's rich archaeological heritage spans thousands of years, and the Commonwealth remains fertile ground for study of the people who inhabited the midcontinent before, during, and after Europea……続きを見る

"Winner of the North Carolina Society of Historians Award Jane Hicks Gentry lived her entire life in the remote, mountainous northwest corner of North Carolina and was descended from old Appalachian……続きを見る

When the Louisville and Nashville Railroad was founded in 1850, it was the first major railroad in the west, and the only one headquartered in Kentucky. In the twentieth century, the L&N grew into o……続きを見る

In a powerful and timely response to Mark R. Levin’s “The Democrat Party Hates America,” the new book “The Democratic Party Loves America: Why the Left is Right for the Future of the Nation” offers ……続きを見る

"Gabbie Marshall Biography: Court Queen: The Unstoppable Rise of a Basketball Phenom" details the incredible journey of Gabbie Marshall, a rising basketball star whose skill and tenacity have catapu……続きを見る

A small French settlement thrived for half a century on the west bank of the Mississippi River before the Louisiana Purchase made it part of the United States in 1803. But for the citizens of Ste. G……続きを見る

Esta obra aborda duas formas de representação da história de Malcolm Little (1925–1965) ou Al Hajj Malik Al-Shabazz, conhecido como Malcolm X. O autor compara duas biografias do ativista – o livro A……続きを見る

Tom Leforge was a legend in his time. Interpreter and scout, he lived among the Crow Indians, as a Crow, for decades. If not for a broken collar bone, Leforge would have been with the six Crow scout……続きを見る

The name Sawtelle was derived from the first settler who set up ranching, trapping, and fishing at the base of a mountain in the heart of Island Park, Idaho. His name was Gilman Sawtell. In 1868, hi……続きを見る