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  • The Gateway Arch: A Biography by Tracy Campbell

    The Gateway Arch: A Biography

    Rising to a triumphant height of 630 feet, the Gateway Arch in St. Louis is a revered monument to America’s western expansion. Envisioned in 1947 but not completed until the mid-1960s, the arch today attracts millions of tourists annually and is one of the world’s most widely recognized structures. By weaving together social, political, and cultural history, historian Tracy Campbell uncovers the complicated and troubling history of the beloved structure. This compelling book explores how a medley of players with widely divergent motivations (civic pride, ambition, greed, among others) brought the Gateway Arch to fruition, but at a price the ...Read More

  • The Historic Kentucky Kitchen: Traditional Recipes for Today's Cook by Dierdre A. Scaggs and Andrew W. McGraw

    The Historic Kentucky Kitchen: Traditional Recipes for Today's Cook

    Kitchens serve as more than a place to prepare food; they are cornerstones of the home and family. Just as memories are passed down through stories shared around the stove, recipes preserve traditions and customs for future generations. The rich, diverse heritage of Kentucky’s culinary traditions offers a unique way to better understand and appreciate the history of the commonwealth.

    The Historic Kentucky Kitchen assembles more than one hundred dishes from nineteenth and twentieth-century Kentucky cooks. Deirdre A. Scaggs and Andrew W. McGraw collected recipes from handwritten books, diaries, scrapbook clippings, and out-of-print cookbooks from the University of Kentucky Libraries ...Read More

  • Crawfish Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community by Douglas A. Boyd

    Crawfish Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community

    A small neighborhood in north 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 state funded urban renewal projects that replaced the neighborhood with Frankfort's Capital Plaza in the mid 1960s. This book traces the evolution of the controversial, yet close-knit community that saw 400 families ultimately displaced by urban renewal policies. Using oral histories and first-hand memories, this book not only provides a record of a vanished neighborhood and its culture but also exemplifies the ways in ...Read More

  • Star-Spangled Hearts: American Women Veterans of World War II by Jeffrey S. Suchanek and Jeanne Ontko Suchanek

    Star-Spangled Hearts: American Women Veterans of World War II

    During World War II well over a quarter of a million American women volunteered for military service, participating in all branches of the armed forces (army, navy, marines and coast guard) in newly-created all-female auxiliaries as well as the U.S. Army Nurse Corps. However, until recently their contribution to the war effort has been largely absent from the histories of that conflict, overshadowed by the attention to the iconic “Rosie the Riveter” representing women’s service on the home front and in industry.

    In “Star-Spangled Hearts”: American Women Veterans of World War II, oral historian Jeffrey S. Suchanek at last accords ...Read More

  • Clay Lancaster's Kentucky: Architectural Photographs of a Preservation Pioneer by James D. Birchfield

    Clay Lancaster's Kentucky: Architectural Photographs of a Preservation Pioneer

    "Clay Lancaster was infected by a love of architecture at an early age, a gentle madness from which he never cared to recover.”—From the Foreword, by Roger W. Moss

    It is easy to take for granted the visual environment that we inhabit. Familiarity with routes of travel and places of work or leisure leads to indifference, and we fail to notice incremental changes. When a dilapidated building is eliminated by new development, it is forgotten as soon as its replacement becomes a part of our daily landscape. When an addition is grafted onto the shell of a house fallen out ...Read More

  • Community Memories: A Glimpse of African American Life in Frankfort, Kentucky by Winona L. Fletcher, Sheila Mason Burton, James E. Wallace, and Douglas A. Boyd

    Community Memories: A Glimpse of African American Life in Frankfort, Kentucky

    Community Memories is a fascinating look into life recalled by African Americans who consider Frankfort their home. Featuring unique oral history recollections and over two hundred candid personal photographs collected from community residents, the book provides an enlightening expression of the black experience in Kentucky’s capital. The memories focus on the elusive concept of community—that which binds together individuals in the living of everyday life. A satisfying blend of public history and local accounts, Community Memories explores the neighborhood, familial, religious, occupational, social, and educational components of the daily community experience of twentieth-century African Americans in Frankfort.

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  • Time on Target: The World War II Memoir of William R. Buster by William R. Buster, Jeffrey S. Suchanek, and William J. Marshall

    Time on Target: The World War II Memoir of William R. Buster

    William R. Buster, born in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, knew a soldier’s combat experience and left a first hand account of it. He graduated from West Point in 1939, just in time to serve through one of the most crucial periods in national and world history. His story includes accounts of the incredible expansion, arming, and training of the US Army, as well as his experience in the great conflict itself, from North Africa and Sicily to the hedgerow country of Normandy, the Battle of the Bulge, and on to Berlin. For his service, he received the Silver Star with Oak Leaf ...Read More

  • Library Service to African Americans in Kentucky, from the Reconstruction Era to the 1960s by Reinette F. Jones

    Library Service to African Americans in Kentucky, from the Reconstruction Era to the 1960s

    Although the majority of libraries in the state of Kentucky did not offer services to African Americans between the years 1860 and 1960, public libraries did employ them. The Louisville Public Library, a leader in the development of library management and education from 1905 to 1925, began in 1912 offering classes to train African American women to be librarians in segregated public library branches that were opening in the South. In 1925, an academic library program was developed for African Americans at the Hampton Institute in Virginia to continue the work that began in Kentucky. This movement culminated with Helen ...Read More

  • Baseball's Pivotal Era, 1945-1951 by William J. Marshall

    Baseball's Pivotal Era, 1945-1951

    With personal interviews of players and owners and with over two decades of research in newspapers and archives, Bill Marshall tells of the players, the pennant races, and the officials who shaped one of the most memorable eras in sports and American history.

    At the end of World War II, soldiers returning from overseas hungered to resume their love affair with baseball. Spectators still identified with players, whose salaries and off-season employment as postmen, plumbers, farmers, and insurance salesmen resembled their own. It was a time when kids played baseball on sandlots and in pastures, fans followed the game on ...Read More

  • The Politics of Despair: Power and Resistance in the Tobacco Wars by Tracy Campbell

    The Politics of Despair: Power and Resistance in the Tobacco Wars

    Shortly after 1900, tens of thousands of tobacco growers throughout Kentucky and Tennessee convulsed the region for nearly a decade in a revolt against the monopolistic practices of the American Tobacco Company. Though the revolt known as the Tobacco Wars remains one of the more remarkable insurgencies of rural America, it is also one of the more misunderstood. In this first major account of the uprising in over half a century, Tracy Campbell tells the story of these embattled farmers and casts a provocative new light on the issues that fueled the Tobacco Wars.

    When tobacco prices fell below the ...Read More

 
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