Kentucky History

 

All That Fits a Woman: Training Southern Baptist Women for Charity and Mission, 1907-1926
by T. Laine Scales, Laine Scales
Hardcover from Mercer University Press

Appalachia: A History
by John Alexander Williams
Paperback from The University of North Carolina Press
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Blood in the Hills: A History of Violence in Appalachia (New Directions in Southern History)
Hardcover from The University Press of Kentucky

A History of Appalachia
by Richard B. Drake
Paperback from The University Press of Kentucky

Creeker: A Woman's Journey (Women in Southern Culture)
by Linda Scott DeRosier
Linda Sue Preston was born on a feather bed in the upper room of her Grandma Emmy's log house in the hills of eastern Kentucky. More than fifty years later, Linda Scott DeRosier has come to believe that you can take a woman out of Appalachia but you can't take Appalachia out of the woman. DeRosier's humorous and poignant memoir is the story of an educated and cultured woman who came of age in Appalachia. She remains unabashedly honest about and proud of her mountain heritage. Now a college professor, decades and notions removed from the creeks and hollows, DeRosier knows that her roots run deep in her memory and language and in her approach to the world. DeRosier describes an Appalachia of complexity and beauty rarely seen by outsiders. Hers was a close-knit world; she says she was probably eleven or twelve years old before she ever spoke to a stranger. She lovingly remembers the unscheduled, day-long visits to friends and family, when visitors cheerfully joined in the day's chores of stringing beans or bedding out sweet potatoes. No advance planning was needed for such trips. Residents of Two-Mile Creek were like family, and everyone was ""delighted to see each other wherever, whenever, and for however long."" Creeker is a story of relationships, the challenges and consequences of choice, and the impact of the past on the present. It also recalls one woman's struggle to make and keep a sense of self while remaining loyal to the people and traditions that sustained her along life's way. Told with wit, candor, and zest, this is Linda Scott DeRosier's answer to the question familiar in Appalachia--""Who are your people?""
Paperback from The University Press of Kentucky

The First American Frontier: Transition to Capitalism in Southern Appalachia, 1700-1860 (The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)
by Wilma A. Dunaway
Paperback from The University of North Carolina Press
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Welsh Americans: A History of Assimilation in the Coalfields
by Ronald L. Lewis
Hardcover from The University of North Carolina Press
2008-

Our Appalachia: An Oral History
Paperback from The University Press of Kentucky
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Moonshiners and Prohibitionists: The Battle over Alcohol in Southern Appalachia (New Directions in Southern History)
by Bruce E. Stewart
Hardcover from The University Press of Kentucky

Natural Gas Industry in Appalachia: A History from the First Discovery to the Maturity of the Industry
by David A. Waples
Hardcover from Mcfarland & Co Inc Pub
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The Electronic Front Porch: An Oral History of the Arrival of Modern Media in Rural Appalachia and the Melungeon Community (Melungeons: History, Culture, Ethnicity, & Literature)
by Jacob J. Podber
Hardcover from Mercer Univ Pr

An Oral History of Southern Appalachia
by Laurence Armand French
Hardcover from Edwin Mellen Pr

Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes
by Jeff Todd Titon
Listed under Bluegrass Music
 

American Still Life : The Jim Beam Story and the Making of the World's #1 Bourbon by F. Paul Pacult Hardcover from John Wiley & Sons

Appalachian Legacy
by Shelby Lee Adams
Listed under Shelby Lee Adams

Banners to the Breeze: The Kentucky Campaign, Corinth, and Stones River (Great Campaigns of the Civil War)
by Earl J. Hess
Listed under Civil War Kentucky

Baptists on the American Frontier: A History of Ten Baptist Churches of Which the Author Has Been Alternately a Member
by John Taylor, Chester Raymond Young
Hardcover from Mercer University Press

Blue Yonder : Kentucky : The United State of Basketball
by Lonnie Wheeler
Hardcover from Orange Frazer Pr

But Always Fine Bourbon : Pappy Van Winkle and the Story of Old Fitzgerald
by Sally Van Winkle Campbell
(Hardcover)
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Baron of the Bluegrass : Winning Words of Wisdom by and About Adolph Rupp, Legendary Kentucky Basketball Coach
by Mike Embry, Adolph Rupp
Listed under College Basketball

Central Kentucky: Bullitt, Marion, Nelson, Spencer, and Washington Counties (Postcard History Series)
by Dixie Hibbs
Listed under Collectible Postcards

Civil War in Kentucky
by Lowell Hayes Harrison
Listed under Civil War Kentucky

Cane Ridge: America's Pentecost
by Paul Keith Conkin
Paperback from University of Wisconsin Press
1991

Creeker: A Woman's Journey (Women in Southern Culture, 1)
by Linda Scott Derosier
Paperback from University Press of Kentucky

 

Daniel Boone: An American Life by Michael A. Lofaro Hardcover from University Press of Kentucky

Daniel Boone: His Own Story & the Adventures of Daniel Boone: The Kentucky Rifleman
by Daniel Boone, Francis L. Hawks
Paperback from Applewood Books

Days of Darkness: The Feuds of Eastern Kentucky
by John Ed Pearce
Hardcover from University Press of Kentucky
1994

Down Cut Shin Creek : The Packhorse Librarians of Kentucky
by Kathi Appelt, Jeanne Cannella Schmitzer

The Encyclopedia of Louisville
by John E. Kleber, Mary Jean Kinsman, Thomas D. Clark, Clyde F. Crews, George H. Yater
Hardcover from University Press of Kentucky

From Red Hot to Monkey's Eyebrow: Unusual Kentucky Place Names
by Robert M. Rennick

Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in the Kentucky Borderland
by J. Blaine Hudson
Hardcover from McFarland & Company

Genealogies of Kentucky Families from the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society and the The Filson Club Quarterly (3 Volumes)
Listed under Kentucky Genealogy

Greetings from Kentucky : A Post Card Tour, 1900-1950
by Wade Hall
Listed under Collectible Postcards

Hannah Fowler
by Janice Holt Giles
Historical Fiction
Paperback from University Press of Kentucky
1992

Heroes and Horses : Tales of the Bluegrass

Haunted Houses and Family Ghosts of Kentucky
by William Lynwood Montell
Hardcover from University Press of Kentucky

A History of Kentucky
by Thomas Dionysius Clark
Hardcover from Jesse Stuart Foundation
1992

Horse Racing's Holy Grail: The Epic Quest for the Kentucky Derby
by Steve Haskin
Hardcover from Eclipse Press

 

The Hunters of Kentucky: A Narrative History of America's First Far West, 1750-1792 by Ted Franklin Belue Hardcover from Stackpole Books

In Lincoln's Footsteps: A Historical Guide to the Lincoln Sites in Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky
by Don Davenport
Paperback from Trails Books

Kentucky's Domain of Power, Greed and Corruption
by Betty Boles Ellison
Paperback from Writers Club Press

Kentucky Ancestry: A Guide to Genealogical and Historical Research
by Roseann Reinemuth Hogan
Listed under Kentucky Genealogy

The Kentucky Basketball Encyclopedia
by Tom Wallace, Brooks Downing
Listed under College Basketball

Kentucky Frontiersmen: The Adventures of Henry Ware, Hunter and Border Fighter
by Joseph A. Altsheler, et al
(Hardcover - February 1989)

The Kentucky Encyclopedia
by John E. Kleber, Harrison Lowell H., James C. Klotter, Lowell H. Harrison, Thomas Dionysius Clark
Hardcover from University Press of Kentucky
1992

Kentucky Place Names
by Robert M. Rennick
Paperback from University Press of Kentucky
1988

Kentucky: Portrait in Paradox, 1900-1950
by James C. Klotter
Hardcover from Kentucky Historical Society

Kentucky (America the Beautiful. Second Series)
by R. Conrad Stein
School & Library Binding from Children's Book Press

Kentucky Straight (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Chris Offutt

Kentucky Derby Stories
by Jim Bolus

Kentucky Derby Stories
by Jim Bolus
Paperback: ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.68 x 8.44 x 5.53
Publisher: Pelican Pub Co; (November )
ISBN: 156554465X

Kentucky's Domain of Power, Greed and Corruption
by Betty Boles Ellison
Book Description College athletics are all about multi-million-dollar programs, billion-dollar television contracts, corporate control and cronyism.

Kentucky Derby Glasses Price Guide : 2000-2001
by Judy L. Marchman (Editor)
Listed under Glass Collectibles

Kentucky Bride

Lexington, Kentucky (Black America)
by Gerald L. Smith
Paperback from Arcadia

 

The Life of Daniel Boone by Lyman Copeland Draper, Ted Franklin Belue Hardcover from Stackpole Books

A Little Better Than Plumb: The Biography of a House
by Henry Giles, Janice Holt Giles, Linda Beattie
Paperback from University Press of Kentucky

Mammoth Cave and the Kentucky Cave Region (Images of America: Kentucky)
by Bob Thompson, Judi Thompson
Paperback from Arcadia

Morehead Memories: True Stories from Eastern Kentucky
by Jack D. Ellis
Book Description: Morehead Memories recalls the struggle of a city and a county to advance from a raw, violent, feud filled region into a modern educational, commercial, cultural and medical center in Eastern Kentucky. The author uses interviews, documented research and personal memories to vividly tell the story of the people, places, institutions and events through which this marvelous transformation was accomplished. 
Hardcover from Jesse Stuart Foundation

 

My Father, Daniel Boone: The Draper Interviews With Nathan Boone by Nathan Boone, Neal O. Hammon, Olive Van Bibber Boone, Lyman Copeland Draper, Nelson L. Dawson Hardcover from University Press of Kentucky

None Shall Look Back (Southern Classics Series)
by Caroline Gordon, Caroline Gorden, Eileen Gregory
Paperback from J S Sanders & Co
1992

A New History of Kentucky
by James C. Klotter, Lowell Hayes Harrison
Hardcover from University Press of Kentucky

Petitions of the Early Inhabitants of Kentucky to the General Assembly of Virginia
by James Rood Robertson

Rock Fences of the Bluegrass (Perspective on Kentucky's Past)
by Carolyn Murray-Wooley, Karl Raitz, Ron Garrison, Carolyn Murray Wooley
Hardcover from University Press of Kentucky
1992

Roadside History: A Guide to Kentucky Highway Markers
by Dianne Wells, Melba Porter Hay, Thomas H. Appleton, Thomas H. Appleton Jr
Paperback from Kentucky Historical Society

 

Secret Recipe: Why KFC Is Still Cookin' After 50 Years by Bob Darden, Robert Darden Hardcover from Tapestry Press

Slavery Days in Old Kentucky
by Isaac Johnson, Cornel J. Reinhart
Paperback from Syracuse University Press
1994

A Southern Boy in Blue: The Memoir of Marcus Woodcock, 9th Kentucky Infantry (U.S.A.) (Voices of the Civil War)
by Kenneth W. Noe
Paperback from Univ of Tennessee Pr

The Senator from Slaughter County
by Harry M. Caudill, Margaret Ripley Wolfe
Book Description Harry M. Caudill's explosive novel tells the story of Appalachia's shrewdest, most powerful political boss, Dr. Tom Bonhom. Educated well beyond his fellow mountaineers, Doc Bonhom started out as a well-paid coal company doctor. He ran for office only once-as a reform candidate-and lost. His defeat turned him to gathering political power from the influential rich instead of from the voters and he built a political machine that controlled Slaughter County for over three decades. He brought jobs, schools, roads, and millions of state and federal dollars into his county. At the same time, he unwittingly brought his people to complete dependency on government aid and unthinkingly encouraged the destruction of the countryside through strip mining. His critics claimed that Doc Bonham was an opportunist who rose as his community sank. Yet through it all, he remained as American as apple pie, and when the governor appointed him to fill an unexpired term in the U.S. Senate, he went there a hero. This book contains some adult language and may not be suitable for younger readers.
Paperback: 368 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.00 x 9.25 x 6.25
Publisher: Jesse Stuart Foundation;
ISBN: 0945084668

South from Hell-Fer-Sartin: Kentucky Mountain Folk Tales
by Leonard W. Roberts

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky : Soldiers of the War of 1812
Publisher: Southern Historical Press; (December )

'To Shoot, Burn, and Hang' : Folk-History from a Kentucky Mountain Family and Community
by Daniel N. Rolph
Publisher: Univ of Tennessee Pr;

Which Side Are You on: The Harlan County Coal Miners, 1931-39
by John W. Hevener
Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr (Pro Ref); Reprint edition
 

The Kentucky Derby : Run for the Roses
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The Rugged Southern Appalachia: Hatfield-McCoy Feud : Biographical and Historical
by Willard Mounts, Beatrice Brandhorst (Editor)
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