Belles, Bourbon, Bluegrass, and Black Gold: Kentucky from 1750 to the Present
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2017
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 336
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Kentucky’s history, although fraught often with danger and marred by controversy and violence, has nevertheless been colorful and exciting.
Belles, Bourbon, Bluegrass, and Black Gold offers detailed coverage of selected events and people to stimulate discussion and hopefully more research among faculty and students about Kentucky’s illustrious past.
While it does not cover every historical event or person in Kentucky’s past, Belles, Bourbon, Bluegrass, and Black Gold covers major events that have shaped the people and story of the commonwealth.
Belles, Bourbon, Bluegrass, and Black Gold by Doug Cantrell:
- Examines how industrialization, originally starting in Kentucky with the timber and coal industries, changed the country from an agrarian nation into a manufacturing giant.
- Discusses how Kentucky women, such as Laura Clay and Madge Breckinridge, became national leaders in the Women’s Rights Movement
- Analyzes how wars that the nation fought affected Kentucky. The state and its residents played a prominent role in all America’s various conflicts – from the Revolutionary War through the Persian Gulf Conflict.
- Features a chapter dedicated to the 1997 act that reorganized Kentucky’s system of higher education by taking the Community Colleges from the University of Kentucky and combining them with the state’s technical schools to create the Kentucky Community and Technical College system - the largest institution of public higher education in the state.
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Introduction
Dispelling the Myth: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Indian Life in Kentucky
A. Gwynn Henderson
“What Shall I Do Now?” The Story of the Indian Captivities of Margaret Paulee, Jones Hoy, and Jack Callaway, 1779–ca. 1789
Anne Crabb
African Americans on the Kentucky Frontier
Marion B. Lucas
The Ethnic Descent of Kentucky’s Early Population: A Statistical Investigation of European and American Sources of Emigration, 1790–1820
Thomas L. Purvis
An Appraisal of the Blue Licks Battle
Michael C. C. Adams
Compact with Virginia: An Act Concerning the Erection of the District of Kentucky into an Independent State. Approved December 18, 1789
Commonwealth of Virginia
First Constitution of Kentucky (1792)
“The Fuss I Had with Sam Dudley”: Robert Wickliffe and Slavery in Mid-Nineteenth Century Lexington, Kentucky
Art Wrobel
Cassius M. Clay: Racist, Emancipationist, and Kentucky Politician
Doug Cantrell
The Louisville Riots of August 1855
Wallace S. Hutcheon, Jr.
General Zollicoffer Addresses the People of Southeastern Kentucky
F. K. Zollicoffer, Brig.-Gen.
Lincoln and Compensated Emancipation in Kentucky
Lowell H. Harrison
An Early Instance of Nonviolence: The Louisville Demonstrations of 1870–1871
Marjorie M. Norris
The Freedman’s Bureau in the Border States
W. A. Low
Women Under Kentucky Law
Laura Clay
Immigrants and Community in Harlan County, 1910–1930
Doug Cantrell
Victor Delpont Interview
Interviewed by Doug Cantrell
Kathryn B. Overbeck Interview
Interviewed by Doug Cantrell
Himlerville: Hungarian Cooperative Mining in Kentucky
Doug Cantrell
Himler, Himlerville, and a Historian’s Quest
Doug Cantrell
New Deal Art Work in Kentucky Post Offices
Doug Cantrell
The Home Front: The Women of Lexington, Kentucky during World War II
Theresa Cecilia Sharkey
Rolling Bandages and Building Thunderbolts: A Woman’s Memories of the Kentucky Home Front, 1941–45
Edited by James Russell Harris
Agrarian Tragedy: Harriett Arnow’s The Dollmaker
Steve Mooney
A New Deal in the Cold War: Carl D. Perkins, Coal, and the Political Economy of Poverty in Eastern Kentucky, 1948–1964
Robert S. Weise
Eastern Kentucky and the War on Poverty: Grass-roots Activism, Regional Politics, and Creative Federalism in the Appalachian South during the 1960s
Margaret Ripley Wolfe
Excerpts from the Civil Rights Act of 1966
The Kentucky National Guard in Vietnam: The Story of Bardstown’s Battery C at War
Anthony A. McIntire
Governor Martha Layne Collins Lands Toyota Plant (December 1985)
The Kentucky Postsecondary Education Improvement Act of 1997