Overview :On June 1,1792, Kentucky became the fifteenth state in the new nation and the first west of the Alleghenies. Lowell Harrison reviews the tan... Read More
Overview :Most Hilltoppers believe that Western Kentucky University is unique. They take pride in its lovely campus, its friendly spirit, the loyalty ... Read More
Overview :Young Abraham Lincoln and his family joined the migration over the Ohio River, but it was Kentucky--the state of his birth--that shaped his ... Read More
Overview :Compiled and edited by Lowell H. Harrison, the essays in Kentucky's Governors profile every chief executive of the Bluegrass State from eigh... Read More
Overview :As one of only two states in the nation to still allow slavery by the time of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865, Kentucky's history of slaver... Read More
Overview :The Civil War scene in Kentucky, site of few full-scale battles, was one of crossroad skirmishes and guerrilla terror, of quick incursions a... Read More
Overview :"Much has been written about the famous conflicts and battlegrounds of the East during the American Revolution. Perhaps less familiar, but e... Read More
Overview : The Filson Club History Quarterly, first published in 1926, has long enjoyed a reputation as one of the nation's finest regional historical... Read More
Overview : The Filson Club History Quarterly, first published in 1926, has long enjoyed a reputation as one of the nation's finest regional historical... Read More