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My century in history : memoirs /

When Thomas D. Clark was hired to teach history at the University of Kentucky in 1931, he began a career that would span nearly three-quarters of a century and would profoundly change not only the history department and the university but the entire Commonwealth. His still-definitive History of Kent...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Clark, Thomas Dionysius, 1903-2005
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The long road home
  • Old place, new place
  • A world in change
  • The road taken
  • Out of the cotton patch
  • Big river
  • West to Kentucky
  • The way to Durham
  • Year of decision
  • Depression years
  • Putting down roots
  • Building the special collections
  • Years of passage
  • Indiana University
  • Breaking the racial barrier
  • Teaching and lecturing abroad
  • An ancient land in the grip of history
  • The road to professionalism
  • Speaking Kentucky (and a lot of other places)
  • The book thieves
  • Family
  • A time of reckoning.