The University Press Of Kentucky imprint: 774 books
by Arthur B. Lander Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
" This updated fishing guide by expert fisherman Art Lander will help anglers of all skill levels make the most of their time at any of the state's twenty-two most important reservoirs. Lander reveals what type of fishing is best at each lake, where fish can be found during the various seasons,...
Bloody Breathitt
Politics and Violence in the Appalachian South
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
The notorious conflict between the Hatfield and the McCoy families of West Virginia and Kentucky is often remembered as America's most famous feud, but it was relatively brief and subdued compared to the violence in Breathitt County, Kentucky. From the Reconstruction period until the early twentieth...
by Phillip Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
This is an account of a Native American family in central Kentucky in the year 1585. Fishes-With-Hands, his wife She-Who-Watches, and their family grind corn, make cooking pots, and build their homes while in their summer village. In autumn, they attend the funeral and mourning feast of Masked-Eyes....
Every Leaf a Mirror
A Jim Wayne Miller Reader
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Jim Wayne Miller (1936--1996) was a prolific writer, a revered teacher and scholar, and a pioneer in the field of Appalachian studies. During his thirty-three-year tenure at Western Kentucky University, he helped build programs in the discipline in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Ohio, and worked tirelessly...
The Mentelles
Mary Todd Lincoln, Henry Clay, and the Immigrant Family Who Educated Antebellum Kentucky
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Though they were not, as Charlotte claimed, refugees from the French Revolution, Augustus Waldemar and Charlotte Victoire Mentelle undoubtedly felt like exiles in their adopted hometown of Lexington, Kentucky -- a settlement that was still a frontier town when they arrived in 1798. Through the years,...
Kentucky by Design
The Decorative Arts and American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
The Index of American Design was one of the most significant undertakings of the Federal Art Project -- the visual arts arm of the Works Progress Administration. Part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, this ambitious initiative set out to discover and document an authentic American style...
Civil Rights in the Gateway to the South
Louisville, Kentucky, 1945-1980
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Situated on the banks of the Ohio River, Louisville, Kentucky, represents a cultural and geographical intersection of North and South. Throughout its history, Louisville has simultaneously displayed northern and southern characteristics in its race relations. In their struggles against racial injustice...
The Birth of Bourbon
A Photographic Tour of Early Distilleries
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
Whiskey making has been an integral part of American history since frontier times. In Kentucky, early settlers brought stills to preserve grain, and they soon found that the limestone-filtered water and the unique climate of the scenic Bluegrass region made it an ideal place for the production of...
Slender Is The Thread
Tales from a Country Law Office
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
In a supplement to his The American Language, H.L. Mencken encapsulated the early history of Kentucky: "What is now Kentucky was the first region beyond the mountains to be settled. Pioneers began to invade it before the Revolution, and by 1782 it had more than 30,000 population. It was originally...
Basil Wilson Duke, CSA
The Right Man in the Right Place
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2005
By the early twentieth century, Basil Wilson Duke had established himself as one of Kentucky's most popular storytellers, but unlike many other talented raconteurs, Duke was not merely a man of words. In Basil Wilson Duke, CSA, the first full-length biography of this distinguished American, Gary Robert...
College for the Commonwealth
A Case for Higher Education in American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
In the past decade, states across the nation have cut higher education spending per student by more than 15 percent. Kentucky has experienced some of the largest cuts in the country, leading many to claim that higher education is in a state of crisis. In spite of this turmoil, however, Kentucky's...
Horace Holley
Transylvania University and the Making of Liberal Education in the Early American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Outspoken New England urbanite Horace Holley (1781--1827) was an unlikely choice to become the president of Transylvania University -- the first college established west of the Allegheny Mountains. Many Kentuckians doubted his leadership abilities, some questioned his Unitarian beliefs, and others...
by Verna Mae Slone
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
"This first work of fiction by Verna Mae Slone, firmly grounded in her own background, is set in the 1920s and 1930s in a closeknit community in eastern Kentucky, where family roots run deep. At its center stands as strong and resilient a heroine as any in American literature. Verna Mae Slone, a native...
Home and Beyond
An Anthology of Kentucky Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
With an introduction by Wade Hall
Morris Grubbs has sifted through vintage classics, little-known gems, and stunning debuts to assemble this collection of forty stories by popular and critically acclaimed writers. In subtle and profound ways they challenge and overturn accepted stereotypes...