The University Press Of Kentucky imprint: 774 books
by Janice Holt Giles
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
After writing Hill Man, Janice Holt Giles said, "I was struck by its strength. It is the most realistic ridge book we have written, completely honest and presenting the truest picture of most of the ridge men."
Giles originally published the book in paperback in 1954 under the pseudonym...
by Raymond Bial
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2010
The Shaker faith is estimated to have had a total of fewer than 20,000 members across its 250-year history, yet more than 100,000 people visit the various Shaker villages and museums scattered across the eastern United States every year. We are still fascinated with the world of the Shakers, and authentic...
Haunts of Old Louisville
Gilded Age Ghosts and Haunted Mansions in America's Spookiest Neighborhood
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Old Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky, is the third-largest National Preservation District in the United States and the largest Victorian-era neighborhood in the country. Beneath the balconies and terraces of the district's Gothic, Queen Anne, and Beaux Arts mansions, current residents trade riveting...
Short of the Glory
The Fall and Redemption of Edward F. Prichard Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Arthur Schlesinger Jr. thought that he might one day become president. He was a protege of Felix Frankfurter and Fred Vinson--a political prodigy who held a series of important posts in the Roosevelt and Truman administrations. Whatever became of Edward F. Prichard, Jr., so young and brilliant and...
Next Door to the Dead
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
When Kathleen Driskell tells her husband that she's gone to visit the neighbors, she means something different than most. The noted poet -- whose last book, Seed across Snow, was twice listed as a national bestseller by the Poetry Foundation -- lives in an old country church just outside Louisville,...
by Otis K. Rice
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
The Hatfield-McCoy feud has long been the most famous vendetta of the southern Appalachians. Over the years it has become encrusted with myth and error. Scores of writers have produced accounts of it, but few have made any real effort to separate fact from fiction. Novelists, motion picture producers,...
Taking Shergar
Thoroughbred Racing's Most Famous Cold Case
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
It was a cold and foggy February night in 1983 when a group of armed thieves crept onto Ballymany Stud, near The Curragh in County Kildare, Ireland, to steal Shergar, one of the Thoroughbred industry's most renowned stallions. Bred and raced by the Aga Khan IV and trained in England by Sir Michael...
Mammoth Cave National Park
Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park is home to the world's longest cave system, boasting over 350 miles of explored and mapped passageways. Geologists estimate that there could be many more miles of this vast subterranean world that remain unexplored. In addition to the renowned Mammoth Cave, the...
Rereading Appalachia
Literacy, Place, and Cultural Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Appalachia faces overwhelming challenges that plague many rural areas across the country, including poorly funded schools, stagnant economic development, corrupt political systems, poverty, and drug abuse. Its citizens, in turn, have often been the target of unkind characterizations depicting them...
Irvin S. Cobb
The Rise and Fall of an American Humorist
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
"Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn." -- Irvin S. Cobb
Born and raised in Paducah, Kentucky, humorist Irvin S. Cobb (1876--1944) rose from humble beginnings to become one of the early twentieth century's most celebrated writers. As a staff reporter for...
Madam Belle
Sex, Money, and Influence in a Southern Brothel
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
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 scandal....
A Girl's A Gun
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Haunting and candid, A Girl's A Gun introduces a poet whose bold voice merges heightened lyricism with compelling narrative. Steeped in storytelling traditions, the poems in Rachel Danielle Peterson's debut collection exhibit linguistic dexterity and mastery of form as the poet mixes lyrical paragraphs,...
by Garin Pirnia
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
The ingredients are simple -- beer, cheese, and spices -- and the result is delicious. Still, beer cheese is a rarefied dish not common in cookbooks or on menus. Since the 1940s, this creamy appetizer with a kick, traditionally served with pretzels, has quietly found its way into pubs and restaurants...
Creeker
A Woman's Journey
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
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...