Kentucky Remembered: An Oral History Series – serie
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16 produkter
Barry Bingham
A Man of His Word
Inbunden, 1993
1188 kr
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Barry Bingham, Sr., was one of this country's most influential journalists. Under his half-century of leadership, the Louisville Courier-Journal became one of America's leading newspapers, as attested by six Pulitzer Prizes. In this illuminating oral history, Samuel Thomas weaves together excerpts …
Conversations with Kentucky Writers II
Inbunden, 1999
655 kr
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In this sequel to Conversations with Kentucky Writers, L. Elisabeth Beattie brings together in-depth interviews with sixteen of the state's premiere wordsmiths. This new volume offers the perspectives of poets, journalists, and scholars as they discuss their views on creativity, the teaching of …
This is Home Now
Kentucky's Holocaust Survivors Speak
Inbunden, 2009
872 kr
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At the end of World War II, many thousands of Jewish Holocaust survivors immigrated to the United States from Europe in search of a new beginning. Most settled in major metropolitan areas, usually in predominantly Jewish communities, where proximity to co-religionists offered a measure of cultural …
Freedom on the Border
An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky
Av Catherine Fosl, Tracy E K'Meyer
Häftad, 2010
533 kr
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Memories fade, witnesses pass away, and the stories of how social change took place are often lost. Many of those stories, however, have been preserved thanks to the dozens of civil rights activists across Kentucky who shared their memories in the wide-ranging oral history project from which this …
Voices from the Peace Corps
Fifty Years of Kentucky Volunteers
Inbunden, 2011
758 kr
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President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps on March 1, 1961. In the fifty years since, nearly 200,000 Americans have served in 139 countries, providing technical assistance, promoting a better understanding of American culture, and bringing the world back to the United States. In Voices …
Crawfish Bottom
Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community
Inbunden, 2011
765 kr
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A small neighborhood in northern Frankfort, Kentucky, Crawfish Bottom was located on fifty acres of swampy land along the Kentucky River. "Craw's" reputation for vice, violence, moral corruption, and unsanitary conditions made it a target for urban renewal projects that replaced the neighborhood …
Arab and Jewish Women in Kentucky
Stories of Accommodation and Audacity
Inbunden, 2012
663 kr
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Outwardly it would appear that Arab and Jewish immigrants comprise two distinct groups with differing cultural backgrounds and an adversarial relationship. Yet, as immigrants who have settled in communities at a distance from metropolitan areas, both must negotiate complex identities. Growing up in …
Burley
Kentucky Tobacco in a New Century
Inbunden, 2013
1030 kr
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Once iconic American symbols, tobacco farms are gradually disappearing. It is difficult for many people to lament the loss of a crop that has come to symbolize addiction, disease, and corporate deception; yet, in Kentucky, the plant has played an important role in economic development and …
Crawfish Bottom
Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community
Häftad, 2013
457 kr
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A small neighborhood in northern Frankfort, Kentucky, Crawfish Bottom was located on fifty acres of swampy land along the Kentucky River. "Craw's" reputation for vice, violence, moral corruption, and unsanitary conditions made it a target for urban renewal projects that replaced the neighborhood …
Arab and Jewish Women in Kentucky
Stories of Accommodation and Audacity
Häftad, 2021
227 kr
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Outwardly it would appear that Arab and Jewish immigrants comprise two distinct groups with differing cultural backgrounds and an adversarial relationship. Yet, as immigrants who have settled in communities at a distance from metropolitan areas, both must negotiate complex identities. Growing up in …
Barry Bingham
A Man of His Word
Häftad, 2014
549 kr
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Barry Bingham, Sr., was one of this country's most influential journalists. Under his half-century of leadership, the Louisville Courier-Journal became one of America's leading newspapers, as attested by six Pulitzer Prizes. In this illuminating oral history, Samuel Thomas weaves together excerpts …
Burley
Kentucky Tobacco in a New Century
Häftad, 2016
533 kr
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Once iconic American symbols, tobacco farms are gradually disappearing. It is difficult for many people to lament the loss of a crop that has come to symbolize addiction, disease, and corporate deception; yet, in Kentucky, the plant has played an important role in economic development and …
Conversations with Kentucky Writers
Häftad, 2003
595 kr
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Kentucky and Kentuckians are full of stories, which may be why so many present-day writers have Kentucky roots. Whether they left and returned, like Wendell Berry and Bobbie Ann Mason, or adopted Kentucky as home, like James Still and Jim Wayne Miller, or grew up and left for good, like Michael …
Tobacco Culture
Farming Kentucky's Burley Belt
Av John van Willigen, Susan C Eastwood
Häftad, 2008
458 kr
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Whereas most crops drive farmers apart as they compete for the best prices, the price controls on tobacco bring growers together. The result is a culture unlike any other in America, one often forgotten or overlooked as federal and state governments fight over the spoils of the tobacco settlement. …
Bert Combs The Politician
An Oral History
Häftad, 2008
500 kr
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Bert T. Combs was governor of Kentucky from 1959 to 1963, but his impact on the Commonwealth continues to be felt. The state sales tax, toll road expansion, and extensive aid to public education are only a few examples of the enduring significance of his administration. This is the story of Combs's …
Food and Everyday Life on Kentucky Family Farms, 1920-1950
Av John van Willigen, Anne van Willigen
Häftad, 2009
500 kr
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Based on interviews conducted by the University of Kentucky's Family Farm Project and supplemented by archival research, photographs, and recipes, Food and Everyday Life on Kentucky Family Farms, 1920--1950 recalls a vanishing way of life in rural Kentucky. Focusing on the family farm in the first …
