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Faces of Kentucky /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Kentucky :
The University Press of Kentucky,
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Table of Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1 Frontiers-Then and Now; The Past; Writing about the Past; Native Americans in Kentucky; Paleoindians, 10,000 B.c.-8,000 B.C.; Archaic Period, 8,000 B.c.-1,000!l.c.; Woodland Period, 1,000 B.C.-A.D. 1000; Late Prehistoric Period, A.D. 1000-1750; The Great Dying; The Name ""Kentucky""; Chapter 2 Starting a State; The First West; The First Explorers; What They Found; Coming to Kentucky; Settling a State; Daniel Boone; Hard Times; Choices; The End or the Frontier; Statehood; Chapter 3 Different Kentuckys; The People of Kentucky.
- Kentucky HomesThe Land; Climate; Geographic Regions; Jackson Purchase; Pennyroyal (or Pennynle); Western Coal Fields; Bluegrass; Mountains (Eastern Coal Fields); Cultural or Human Regions; Appalachia (Eastern Kentucky); Northern Kentucky; Bluegrass; South-Central Kentucky; Louisville; West Kentucky; Jackson Purchase; Regionalism; Kentucky Names; Chapter 4 The Government of Kentucky; Government; The Kentucky Constitulion; Change; Levels of Government; Branches of Government; The Executive Branch (the Governor); The Judicial Branch (the Courts); The Legislative Branch (the General Assembly).
- The Mystery of ""Honest Dick"" TateChapter 5 Living in Kentucky; Daily Life; Clothes and Fashion; Food; Work; Health; Fun and Games; Basketball; Religion; Chapter 6 From Statehood to the Civil War; Slavery; Slave Life; Freedom; Antislavery; Key Political Leaders; Three Kentucky Presidents; Chapter 7 The Civil War and the End of a Century; The Brothers' War; On the Battlefield; Guerrillas; Results of the War; From the End of the Civil War to the Start of a New Century; Feuds and Murders; Chapter 8 Working in Kentucky; Farming; Early Business and King Coal; Modern Industries; Global Kentucky.
- Chapter 9 Words, Music, and MoreEarly Writing; Twentieth-century Writers; Modern Writers; Writing History, Poetry, and Drama; Newspapers; Music; What the Eye Sees; Motion Pictures; Chapter 10 Kentucky in the Twentieth Century; The Transportation Revolution; The Communication Revolution; The New Deal; Wars; Out-Migration; Equal Rights; Equal Rights for Women; Equal Rights for All Races; Politics; Chapter 11 Going to School; Early Kentucky Schools; Life in School; Special Schools; Schools in the Twentieth Century and Beyond; Colleges and Universities; Going to College.
- Chapter 12 Today and Tomorrow in KentuckyA Typical Kentuckian; Saving Pans of the Past; Future Issues; Your Future; Appendixes; Additional Sources for Research; Acknowledgments; Credits; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.