A New History of Kentucky /

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This volume includes an overview of the state and its economic, educational, environmental, racial, and religious histories. At its essence, Kentucky's story is about its people - not just the notable and prominent figures but also lesser-known and sometimes overlooked personalities. The human...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Klotter, James C. (Author), Friend, Craig Thompson (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2018]
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Kentucky > History.
Kentucky > Histoire.
Kentucky
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A Place Called Kentucke
  • The Invasion of Kentucky
  • Colonial Kentucky, 1774-1792
  • Kentucky in the New Nation
  • The First Generation of Kentuckians
  • The World They Made
  • The Age of the Whigs
  • Antebellum Kentucky
  • The Civil War in a Border State
  • 1865 and After
  • Reconstruction, Readjustment, and Race, 1865-1875
  • Decades of Discord, 1875-1900
  • Progressivism, Prohibition, and Politics, 1900-1920
  • Bourbon Barons, Tobacco Tycoons, and King Coal
  • Culture and Communications, 1865-2015
  • The Transitional Twenties
  • Old Problems and a New Deal
  • Education and Equality, 1865-2015
  • A Half Century of Kentucky Politics, 1945-2015
  • A Political Metamorphosis, 1995-2015
  • New Challenges, Old Traditions.

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