The University Press Of Kentucky: 775 books
Kentucky Maverick
The Life and Adventures of Colonel George M. Chinn
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Colonel George M. Chinn's (1902--1987) life story reads more like fiction than the biography of a Kentucky soldier. A smart and fun-loving character, Chinn attended Centre College and played on the famous "Praying Colonels" football team that won the 1921 national championship. After graduation,...
My Old Confederate Home
A Respectable Place for Civil War Veterans
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
In the wake of America's Civil War, hundreds of thousands of men who fought for the Confederacy trudged back to their homes in the Southland. Some -- due to lingering effects from war wounds, other disabilities, or the horrors of combat -- were unable to care for themselves. Homeless, disabled, and...
Crawfish Bottom
Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
A small neighborhood in northern Frankfort, Kentucky, Crawfish Bottom was located on fifty acres of swampy land along the Kentucky River. "Craw's" reputation for vice, violence, moral corruption, and unsanitary conditions made it a target for urban renewal projects that replaced the neighborhood...
Cora Wilson Stewart and Kentucky's Moonlight Schools
Fighting for Literacy in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2006
The first woman elected superintendent of schools in Rowan County, Kentucky, Cora Wilson Stewart (1875--1958) realized that a major key to overcoming the illiteracy that plagued her community was to educate adult illiterates. To combat this problem, Stewart opened up her schools to adults during moonlit...
Hitchhiker
Stories from the Kentucky Homefront
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Growing up next door to his Granny's country store in McCracken County, Kentucky, a very young Bob Thompson had unlimited access to the cold-drink box and shelves of candy. Only later did he realize that the greatest benefit of this arrangement was that his playmates and best friends were all adults...
Burgoo, Barbecue, and Bourbon
A Kentucky Culinary Trinity
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Burgoo, barbecue, and bourbon have long been acknowledged as a trinity of good taste in Kentucky. Known as the gumbo of the Bluegrass, burgoo is a savory stew that includes meat -- usually smoked -- from at least one "bird of the air," at least one "beast of the field," and as...
Kentucky Confederates
Secession, Civil War, and the Jackson Purchase
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
During the Civil War, the majority of Kentuckians supported the Union under the leadership of Henry Clay, but one part of the state presented a striking exception. The Jackson Purchase -- bounded by the Mississippi River to the west, the Ohio River to the north, and the Tennessee River to the east...
Kentucky Marine
Major General Logan Feland and the Making of the Modern USMC
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
A native of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, Major General Logan Feland (1869--1936) played a major role in the development of the modern Marine Corps. Highly decorated for his heroic actions during the battle of Belleau Wood in World War I, Feland led the hunt for rebel leader Augusto César Sandino during...
George Keats of Kentucky
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
John Keats's biographers have rarely been fair to George Keats (1797--1841) -- pushing him to the background as the younger brother, painting him as a prodigal son, or labeling him as the "business brother." Some have even condemned him as a heartless villain who took more than his fair...
Arab and Jewish Women in Kentucky
Stories of Accommodation and Audacity
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Outwardly it would appear that Arab and Jewish immigrants comprise two distinct groups with differing cultural backgrounds and an adversarial relationship. Yet, as immigrants who have settled in communities at a distance from metropolitan areas, both must negotiate complex identities. Growing up in...
Forty Minutes to Glory
Inside the Kentucky Wildcats' 1978 Championship Season
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
"Winning a national title... winning it at Kentucky? There's nothing like it. You're always going to be remembered." -- Truman Claytor, member of UK's 1977--1978 NCAA National Championship team
Joe B. Hall, Jack "Goose" Givens, Rick Robey, and Kyle Macy -- these names occupy...
Burley
Kentucky Tobacco in a New Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Once iconic American symbols, tobacco farms are gradually disappearing. It is difficult for many people to lament the loss of a crop that has come to symbolize addiction, disease, and corporate deception; yet, in Kentucky, the plant has played an important role in economic development and prosperity....
by Josie Underwood
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
A well-educated, outspoken member of a politically prominent family in Bowling Green, Kentucky, Josie Underwood (1840--1923) left behind one of the few intimate accounts of the Civil War written by a southern woman sympathetic to the Union. This vivid portrayal of the early years of the war begins...
Kentucky's Frontier Highway
Historical Landscapes along the Maysville Road
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Eighteenth-century Kentucky beckoned to hunters, surveyors, and settlers from the mid-Atlantic coast colonies as a source of game, land, and new trade opportunities. Unfortunately, the Appalachian Mountains formed a daunting barrier that left only two primary roads to this fertile Eden. The steep...