The University Press Of Kentucky: 775 books
Freedom on the Border
An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
Memories fade, witnesses pass away, and the stories of how social change took place are often lost. Many of those stories, however, have been preserved thanks to the dozens of civil rights activists across Kentucky who shared their memories in the wide-ranging oral history project from which this...
Violence against Women in Kentucky
A History of U.S. and State Legislative Reform
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
For more than two centuries, Kentucky women have fought for the right to vote, own property, control their wages, and be safe at home and in the workplace. Tragically, many of these women's voices have been silenced by abuse and violence. In Violence against Women in Kentucky: A History of U.S. and...
by Lowell H. Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
"Much has been written about the famous conflicts and battlegrounds of the East during the American Revolution. Perhaps less familiar, but equally important and exciting, was the war on the western frontier, where Ohio Valley settlers fought for the land they had claimed -- and for their very...
by William Lynwood Montell
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
From frontier times to the present day, Kentucky nurses have served with intelligence and energy, always ensuring that their patients received the best available care. Noted folklorist and oral historian William Lynwood Montell collects nearly two hundred stories from these hard-working men and women...
Integrated
The Lincoln Institute, Basketball, and a Vanished Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
In Integrated, James W. Miller explores an often ignored aspect of America's struggle for racial equality. He relates the story of the Lincoln Institute -- an all-black high school in Shelby County, Kentucky, where students prospered both in the classroom and on the court. In 1960, the Lincoln Tigers...
Berea College
An Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2006
The motto of Berea College is "God has made of one blood all peoples of the earth," a phrase underlying Berea's 150-year commitment to egalitarian education. The first interracial and coeducational undergraduate institution in the South, Berea College is well known for its mission to provide...
Committed to Victory
The Kentucky Home Front During World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
When World War II broke out in Europe in September 1939, Kentucky was still plagued by the Great Depression. Even though the inevitably of war had become increasingly apparent earlier that year, the citizens of the Commonwealth continued to view foreign affairs as a lesser concern compared to issues...
The US Senate and the Commonwealth
Kentucky Lawmakers and the Evolution of Legislative Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Kentucky has long punched above its weight in the US Senate, as some of the nation's most distinguished senators have hailed from the Commonwealth. Despite its relatively small population for much of American history, Kentucky has produced a record two Senate majority leaders, a record three Senate...
by Melba Porter Hay
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
Preeminent Kentucky reformer and women's rights advocate Madeline McDowell Breckinridge (1872--1920) was at the forefront of social change during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A descendant of Henry Clay and the daughter of two of Kentucky's most prominent families, Breckinridge...
by William Lynwood Montell
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2008
The nearly 350 humorous, heartwarming, and sometimes tragic accounts presented in William Lynwood Montell's latest book, Tales from Kentucky Doctors, offer an unusual perspective on the culture and tradition of Kentucky health-care practice. From the laughable to the laudable, Tales from Kentucky...
Plant Life of Kentucky
An Illustrated Guide to the Vascular Flora
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2005
Plant Life of Kentucky is the first comprehensive guide to all the ferns, flowering herbs, and woody plants of the state. This long-awaited work provides identification keys for Kentucky's 2,600 native and naturalized vascular plants, with notes on wildlife/human uses, poisonous plants, and medicinal...
Kentucky Bourbon
The Early Years of Whiskeymaking
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Bourbon whiskey is perhaps Kentucky's most distinctive product. Despite bourbon's prominence in the social and economic life of the Bluegrass state, many myths and legends surround its origins. In Kentucky Bourbon, Henry C. Crowgey claims that distilled spirits and pioneer settlement went hand in...
by Robert M. Rennick
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
" From the wealth of place names in Kentucky, Rennick has selected those of some 2,000 communities and post offices. These places are usually the largest, the best known, or the most important as well as those with unusual or inherently interesting names. Including perhaps one-fourth of all such...
Kentucky Agate
State Rock and Mineral Treasure of the Commonwealth
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Among the rarest and most prized minerals, agate is one of the most exquisite examples of nature's artwork. A striking rock that occurs in various shapes and sizes, with a vivid assortment of colors, agates are coveted by collectors and becoming rarer across the globe. Although the Bluegrass State...