Topics in Kentucky History – serie
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How Kentucky Became Southern
A Tale of Outlaws, Horse Thieves, Gamblers, and Breeders
Inbunden, 2010
731 kr
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The conflicts of the Civil War continued long after the conclusion of the war: jockeys and Thoroughbreds took up the fight on the racetrack. A border state with a shifting identity, Kentucky was scorned for its violence and lawlessness and struggled to keep up with competition from horse breeders …
History of Education in Kentucky
Inbunden, 2011
683 kr
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Kentucky is nationally renowned for horses, bourbon, rich natural resources, and unfortunately, hindered by a deficient educational system. Though its reputation is not always justified, in national rankings for grades K-12 and higher education, Kentucky consistently ranks among the lowest states …
Family Legacy of Henry Clay
In the Shadow of a Kentucky Patriarch
Inbunden, 2011
704 kr
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Known as the Great Compromiser, Henry Clay earned his title by addressing sectional tensions over slavery and forestalling civil war in the United States. Today he is still regarded as one of the most important political figures in American history. As Speaker of the House of Representatives and …
Madam Belle
Sex, Money, and Influence in a Southern Brothel
Inbunden, 2014
518 kr
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Belle Brezing made a major career move when she stepped off the streets of Lexington, Kentucky, and into Jennie Hill's bawdy house -- an upscale brothel run out of a former residence of Mary Todd Lincoln. At nineteen, Brezing was already infamous as a youth steeped in death, sex, drugs, and …
Committed to Victory
The Kentucky Home Front During World War II
Inbunden, 2015
872 kr
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When World War II broke out in Europe in September 1939, Kentucky was still plagued by the Great Depression. Even though the inevitably of war had become increasingly apparent earlier that year, the citizens of the Commonwealth continued to view foreign affairs as a lesser concern compared to …
Alben Barkley
A Life in Politics
Inbunden, 2016
627 kr
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Born to poor tenant farmers in a log cabin in Graves County, Kentucky, Alben Barkley (1877--1956) rose to achieve a national political stature equaled by few of his contemporaries. His memorable public career ranged from the Progressive era to the early years of the Cold War, and he witnessed or …
Kentucky and the Great War
World War I on the Home Front
Inbunden, 2016
758 kr
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From five thousand children marching in a parade, singing, "Johnnie get your hoe.... Mary dig your row," to communities banding together to observe Meatless Tuesdays and Wheatless Wednesdays, Kentuckians were loyal supporters of their country during the First World War. Kentucky had one of the …
Madam Belle
Sex, Money, and Influence in a Southern Brothel
Häftad, 2016
410 kr
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Belle Brezing made a major career move when she stepped off the streets of Lexington, Kentucky, and into Jennie Hill's bawdy house -- an upscale brothel run out of a former residence of Mary Todd Lincoln. At nineteen, Brezing was already infamous as a youth steeped in death, sex, drugs, and …
Our Rightful Place
A History of Women at the University of Kentucky, 1880--1945
Av Terry L Birdwhistell, Deirdre A Scaggs
Inbunden, 2020
683 kr
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In 1880, forty-three women walked into the president's office at the University of Kentucky (UK) and signed the student register, becoming the first female students at a public college in the commonwealth. But gaining admittance was only the beginning. For the next sixty-five years -- encompassing …
