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Forge your Future in the Embers of History: A Biography of Anna Marie Rosenberg, Woman of Steel and Silk From a Budapest drawing-room to the roaring furnace of World War II, Anna Marie Rosenberg was……続きを見る

Houses of God is the first broad survey of American religious architecture, a cultural cross-country expedition that will benefit travelers as much as scholars. Beautifully illustrated with over 100……続きを見る

"Sabrina Elaine Ionescu Biography: A Legend in the MakingーThe Untold Story of Basketball's Rising Star" reveals the incredible journey of Sabrina Elaine Ionescu, one of the sport's most gifted play……続きを見る

Drawing on extensive interviews he conducted with environmental activists across rural and urban Appalachia and the Midwest, Randy Cunningham analyzes what motivates activists, how they strategize, ……続きを見る

A History of Blacks in Kentucky traces the role of blacks from the early exploration and settlement of Kentucky to 1891, when African Americans gained freedom only to be faced with a segregated soci……続きを見る

" Published by the Kentucky Historical Society and Distributed by the University Press of Kentucky This period of Kentucky's history began with the unsettled society following the close of the Civil……続きを見る

In this study of Kentucky pioneer life, Charles R. Staples creates a colorful record of Lexington's first twenty-seven years. He writes of the establishment of an urban center in the midst of the fr……続きを見る

Along the isolated headwaters of the Kentucky RiverーCutshin and Greasy creeksーfolklorist Leonard Roberts found the Couches, a remarkable mountain family of gifted memory and imagination. For half ……続きを見る

Otis Rice tells the dramatic story of how the first state beyond the mountains came into being. Kentucky dates its settled history from the founding of Harrodsburg in 1774 and of Boonesborough in 17……続きを見る

The Filson Club History Quarterly, first published in 1926, has long enjoyed a reputation as one of the nation's finest regional historical journals. Over the years it has published excellent essays……続きを見る

From 1826 to 1829, John Bradford, founder of Kentucky's first newspaper, the Kentucky Gazette, reprinted in its pages sixty-six excerpts that he considered important documents on the settlement of t……続きを見る

Kentucky attracted an amazing variety of would-be settlers in pioneer days, but none with brighter talent than John James Audubon. Although his years in the state came long before publication of the……続きを見る

From its origins in the Cumberland Mountains to its entry into the Ohio, the Kentucky River flows through two areas that have made Kentucky known throughout the worldーthe mountains in the eastern p……続きを見る

The three Kentucky presidentsーAbraham Lincoln, Zachary Taylor, and Jefferson Davisーwere profoundly shaped by their experiences in Kentucky, poised as it was on the border between the North and the……続きを見る

As an outpost of the advancing frontier, Kentucky played a crucial military role. Kentucky's state militia, which, under federal law, enrolled every able-bodied male citizen aged eighteen to forty-f……続きを見る

Published by the Kentucky Historical Society & 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 ……続きを見る

The name Albert Kirwan is inextricably bound with the University of Kentuckyーin sports, scholarship, and administration. His skills and interests were so many and varied that his accomplishments in……続きを見る

The Inner Bluegrass Region of Kentucky is a shining jewel of geographyーsynonymous in the minds of many with the state of Kentucky. It is unique in many respects: the character of its land, its nati……続きを見る

This book assesses the role of urban ethnic groups, particularly in terms of the rise of the Democratic Party to national predominance between 1928 and 1932. It builds quantitative and qualitative m……続きを見る

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

Make your next outdoor adventure a historic one! Let's go to a cemetery. Bring your curiosity and this workbook with you as you walk through those hallowed gates. Get ready to seek out images and sy……続きを見る