Kentucky through the Centuries: A Collection of Documents and Essays
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2005
Pages: 475
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2005
Pages: 476
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Kentucky through the Centuries: A Collection of Documents and Essays is divided
into five sections: Prehistoric Kentucky through Settlement and Statehood, Statehood through the Civil War, Readjustment to 1900, The Progressive Period through the Great Depression, and World War II to the Present. The articles and documents selected for inclusion within each section are arranged in chronological order and hopefully provide balance in terms of geography, content, and scholarship. The editors/authors are indebted to Kendall/Hunt Publishing for enthusiastically
taking on this project. Without the assistance of Lara Sanders and others at Kendall Hunt Publishing, the project could not have been completed. A debt is also owed to the Kentucky Historical Society in Frankfort and the Filson History Society of Louisville for graciously allowing several articles that originally appeared in the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society and the Filson History Quarterly to be reprinted in Kentucky through the Centuries: A Collection of Documents and Essays.
Chapter 1: Prehistory through Statehood
Introduction
Big Bone Lick and the American Enlightenment
African Americans on the Kentucky Frontier
An Appraisal of the Blue Licks Battle
Compact with Virginia
First Constitution of Kentucky
Antifederalism in Kentucky 61
Questions
Chapter 2: Statehood through the Civil War
Introduction
The Gasper River Meeting House
“The Fuss I Had with Sam Dudley”: Robert Wickliffe and Slavery in Mid- Nineteenth Century Lexington, Kentucky
The Louisville Riots of August 1855
Henry Clay’s Constitutional Unionism
George W. Johnson and Richard Hawes: The Governors of Confederate Kentucky
Letter of a Young Soldier
The Battle of Perryville
Lincoln and Compensated Emancipation in Kentucky
Questions
Chapter 3: Readjustment (Reconstruction) through 1900
Introduction
Confederate Memorial & Memorial Chapel Riverside Cemetery, Hopkinsville, KY
An Early Instance of Nonviolence: The Louisville Demonstrations of 1870–1871
The Freedmen’s Bureau in the Border States
Tracking Jesse James in Kentucky
Glimpses of Union Activity Among Coal Miners in Nineteenth-Century Eastern Kentucky
The Hatfield-McCoy Feud
Questions
Chapter 4: Progressivism through the Great Depression
Introduction
Women Under Kentucky Law
The Tobacco Wars: Kentuckians Divided and Conquered
Immigrants and Community in Harlan County, 1910–1930
Himlerville: Hungarian Cooperative Mining in Kentucky
Victor Delpont Interview
Kathryn B. Overbeck Interview
Harlan: Working Under the Gun
New Deal Art Work in Kentucky Post Offices
Questions
Chapter 5: World War II to the Present
Introduction 395 Swastikas in the Bluegrass State: Axis Prisoners of War in Kentucky, 1942–46
Governor Chandler on Taxes
Excerpts from The Civil Rights Act of 1966
Edgar Tolson, Folk Artist
The Kentucky National Guard in Vietnam: The Story of Bardstown’s Battery C at War
The Equal Rights Amendment and Kentucky
Governor Martha Layne Collins Lands Toyota Plant (December 1985)
The Kentucky Postsecondary Education Improvement Act of 1997
1904 and 2004: The Day Law Yesterday and Today
Questions
Conclusion
Doug Cantrell is professor of history at Elizabethtown Community and Technical College where he has taught American and Kentucky History classes since 1987. He holds degrees in history and political science from Berea College and the University of Kentucky and is co-author of American Dreams and Reality: A Retelling of the American Story, Historical Perspectives: A Reader and Study Guide, and The Western Dream of Civilization. In addition, he has written on the new immigration to the coal fields of eastern Kentucky for the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society and the Filson Club History Quarterly, has articles published in both the Kentucky Encyclopedia and Encyclopedia of Appalachia, has published numerous book reviews in academic journals, and is currently working on a book-length manuscript exploring the new immigrant experience in the coal fields of Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky. Students have nominated Professor Cantrell on six occasions for inclusion in Who’s Who Among American Teachers. He resides in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, with his wife Lisa and three adorable cats—Boo Boo Benski, Jasper Jenkins, and Buff Puff—and spends most of his free time fishing for trout in the famed Cumberland River or bass on Nolin Reservoir
Richard E. Holl is professor of history at Hazard Community and Technical
College. Holl’s latest article on Axis prisoners of war in Kentucky won the Collins Award for best article appearing in the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society dur-ing 2002 and is included in this book. The University of Rochester Press published his monograph, From the Board Room to the War Room: America’s Corporate Liberals and FDR’s Preparedness Program, in 2005.
Lorie A. Maltby holds the rank of professor at Henderson Community College
where she has been teaching history and political science courses since 1987. She received her B.A. in history and French and M.A. in history at Ohio University. In addition to teaching, Lorie coaches the HCC Academic Team and sponsors the History Club. Lorie belongs to several professional organizations, including the American Association of Women in Community Colleges, Delta Kappa Gamma Society International, and the Organization of American Historians. She also served as the 2004 president of the Kentucky Association of Teachers of History. While at HCC
Professor Maltby has been involved in several history-related projects, including the “Always a River” celebration, the Kentucky Encyclopedia project, and National History Day. She has received HCC’s Great Teacher Award, been recognized for excel-lence in teaching in Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, and received the 2004 Kentucky Community and Technical College New Horizons’ Faculty Excellence Award