The University Press Of Kentucky imprint: 774 books
Lessons in Likeness
Portrait Painters in Kentucky and the Ohio River Valley, 1802-1920
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
From 1802, when the young artist William Edward West began painting portraits on a downriver trip to New Orleans, to 1918, when John Alberts, the last of Frank Duveneck's students, worked in Louisville, a wide variety of portrait artists were active in Kentucky and the Ohio River Valley. Lessons in...
One of Morgan's Men
Memoirs of Lieutenant John M. Porter of the Ninth Kentucky Cavalry
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2011
John Marion Porter (1839--1898) grew up working at his family's farm and dry goods store in Butler County, Kentucky. The oldest of Reverend Nathaniel Porter's nine children, he was studying to become a lawyer when the Civil War began. As the son of a family of slave owners, Porter identified with...
This is Home Now
Kentucky's Holocaust Survivors Speak
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
The term "Holocaust survivors" is often associated with Jewish communities in New York City or along Florida's Gold Coast. Traditionally, tales of America's Holocaust survivors, in both individual and cultural histories, have focused on places where people fleeing from Nazi atrocities congregated...
Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey
An American Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
On May 4, 1964, Congress designated bourbon as a distinctive product of the United States, and it remains the only spirit produced in this country to enjoy such protection. Its history stretches back almost to the founding of the nation and includes many colorful characters, both well known and obscure,...
Blue-grass and Rhododendron
Out-doors in Old Kentucky
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Serving as tour guide, Fox invites his audience to go with him log rafting down the Kentucky River, bass fishing in the Cumberland Mountains, rabbit hunting in the Bluegrass, and chasing outlaws in the border country of Kentucky and Virginia. Along the route we meet Old South colonels and their ladies,...
A Few Honest Words
The Kentucky Roots of Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
In industry circles, musicians from Kentucky are known to possess an enviable pedigree -- a lineage as prized as the bloodline of any bluegrass-raised Thoroughbred. With native sons and daughters like Naomi and Wynonna Judd, Loretta Lynn, the Everly Brothers, Joan Osborne, and Merle Travis, it's no...
Kentucky Heirloom Seeds
Growing, Eating, Saving
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Saving seeds to plant for next year's crop has been key to survival around the globe for millennia. However, the twentieth century witnessed a grand takeover of seed producers by multinational companies aiming to select varieties ideal for mechanical harvest, long-distance transportation, and long...
From Red Hot to Monkey's Eyebrow
Unusual Kentucky Place Names
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
" Of course you'll find Paradise in Kentucky, but it's only one of the many unusual place names in the Commonwealth. Meeting these names for the first time, visitors and residents alike assume that some clever or funny stories lie behind them. So they ask, how did Elkhorn Creek get its name?...
by William Lynwood Montell
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
" Headless visions -- howls and moans -- ghostly ladies dressed in black and white -- a fiddling spirit dancing on the road. Such are the sights and sounds that inhabit the pages of Lynwood Montell's Kentucky Ghosts. This collection is representative of the rich tradition of ghost or "haint"...
Writing the Legal Record
Law Reporters in Nineteenth-Century Kentucky
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Any student of American history knows of Washington, Jefferson, and the other statesmen who penned the documents that form the legal foundations of our nation, but many other great minds contributed to the development of the young republic's judicial system -- figures such as William Littell, Ben...
Never Say Die
A Kentucky Colt, the Epsom Derby, and the Rise of the Modern Thoroughbred Industry
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
A quarter of a million people braved miserable conditions at Epsom Downs on June 2, 1954, to see the 175th running of the prestigious Derby Stakes. Queen Elizabeth II and Sir Winston Churchill were in attendance, along with thousands of Britons who were all convinced of the unfailing superiority of...
The Family Legacy of Henry Clay
In the Shadow of a Kentucky Patriarch
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Known as the Great Compromiser, Henry Clay earned his title by addressing sectional tensions over slavery and forestalling civil war in the United States. Today he is still regarded as one of the most important political figures in American history. As Speaker of the House of Representatives and secretary...
Perryville
This Grand Havoc of Battle
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Winner of the Seaborg Award A History Book Club Selection
On October 8, 1862, Union and Confederate forces clashed near Perryville, Kentucky, in what would be the largest battle ever fought on Kentucky soil. The climax of a campaign that began two months before in northern Mississippi, Perryville...
Murder and Madness
The Myth of the Kentucky Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
The "Kentucky Tragedy" was early America's best known true crime story. In 1825, Jereboam O. Beauchamp assassinated Kentucky attorney general Solomon P. Sharp. The murder, trial, conviction, and execution of the killer, as well as the suicide of his wife, Anna Cooke Beauchamp -- fascinated Americans....