A new history of Kentucky / James C. Klotter and Craig Thompson Friend.
Klotter, James C., author.; Friend, Craig Thompson, author.
2018
F451 .K665 2018eb
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Title A new history of Kentucky / James C. Klotter and Craig Thompson Friend.
Author Klotter, James C., author.
Edition Second edition.
ISBN 9780813176512 (electronic book)
0813176514 (electronic book)
9780813176307
0813176301
Published Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2018]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xviii, 563 pages) : illustrations, maps
Call Number F451 .K665 2018eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 976.9
Summary This volume includes an overview of the state and its economic, educational, environmental, racial, and religious histories. At its essence, Kentucky's story is about its people - not just the notable and prominent figures but also lesser-known and sometimes overlooked personalities. The human spirit unfolds through the lives of individuals such as Shawnee peace chief Nonhelema Hokolesqua and suffrage leader Madge Breckinridge, early land promoter John Filson, author Wendell Berry, and Iwo Jima flag-raiser Private Franklin Sousley. They lived on a landscape defined by its topography as much as its political boundaries, from Appalachia in the east to the Jackson Purchase in the west, and from the Walker Line that forms the Commonwealth's southern boundary to the Ohio River that shapes its northern boundary. Along the journey are traces of Kentucky's past - its literary and musical traditions, its state-level and national political leadership, and its basketball and bourbon. Yet this volume also faces forthrightly the Commonwealth's blemishes - the displacement of Native Americans, African American enslavement, the legacy of violence, and failures to address poverty and poor health.--description provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Added Author Friend, Craig Thompson, author.
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A Place Called Kentucke
The Invasion of Kentucky
Colonial Kentucky, 1774-1792
Kentucky in the New Nation
The First Generation of Kentuckians
The World They Made
The Age of the Whigs
Antebellum Kentucky
The Civil War in a Border State
1865 and After
Reconstruction, Readjustment, and Race, 1865-1875
Decades of Discord, 1875-1900
Progressivism, Prohibition, and Politics, 1900-1920
Bourbon Barons, Tobacco Tycoons, and King Coal
Culture and Communications, 1865-2015
The Transitional Twenties
Old Problems and a New Deal
Education and Equality, 1865-2015
A Half Century of Kentucky Politics, 1945-2015
A Political Metamorphosis, 1995-2015
New Challenges, Old Traditions.

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