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Bonds of Union
This vivid history of the Civil War era reveals how unexpected bonds of union forged among diverse peoples in the Ohio-Kentucky borderlands furthered emancipation through a period …
Fredericksburg Campaign
It is well this is so terrible! We should grow too fond of it,"e; said General Robert E. Lee as he watched his troops repulse the Union attack at Fredericksburg on 13 December …
Autobiography of John G. Fee, Berea, Kentucky
Published in 1891, Autobiography of John G. Fee, Berea, Kentucky describes various incidents that epitomize Fee's experience as an abolitionist in the South, beginning with his …
Way Up North in Louisville
Luther Adams demonstrates that in the wake of World War II, when roughly half the black population left the South seeking greater opportunity and freedom in the North and West, the …
Creating a Confederate Kentucky
Historian E. Merton Coulter famously said that Kentucky ""waited until after the war was over to secede from the Union."" In this fresh study, Anne E. Marshall traces the …
Kentucky, 1861
Kentucky, 1861 pulls students into the secession crisis following Lincoln's 1860 election. During a special session of the Kentucky legislature, set against the looming threat of …
From Brown to Meredith
When the Supreme Court overturned Louisville's local desegregation plan in 2007, the people of Jefferson County, Kentucky, faced the question of whether and how to maintain racial …
Civil War and Readjustment in Kentucky
The purpose of this study was to discover what was typical in the history and character of the state during the period of the Civil War and the readjustment that followed. The …
Slavery Days in Old Kentucky
Isaac Johnson was born in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, in 1844. His father, Richard Yeager, was a white farmer and his mother, Jane Johnson, was an enslaved African from Madagascar. …
Kentucky, 1861
Kentucky, 1861 pulls students into the secession crisis following Lincoln's 1860 election. During a special session of the Kentucky legislature, set against the looming threat of …