In the second half of the eighteenth century, the population of the American nation doubled every 20 years or so. And people were on the...

From the Kentucky Historical Society online archives (Accession no. SC1069), a verbatim excerpt from a four-page letter from J. M....

Henry Watterson (1840-1921) (photo above), a leading journalist of his era, elevated the Louisville Courier-Journal to perhaps the most...

● The past is what happened before now. ● History is the reconstruction and interpretation of the past using extant objects and...

Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade - Database (slavevoyages.org)

Now is fiercely the time to make real the always urgent mountaintop dream of helping America keep its palace of justice promises that...

The sun shines bright on my old Kentucky home, 'Tis winter, the ladies are gay, The corn top's gone, prohibition's on the swing, The...

In the first decade of the twentieth century, the nearly 38 percent growth in Muhlenberg County's population was the highest of all the...

I was extremely fortunate to obtain a National Endowment for the Humanities cartographic research fellowship at the world-class Newberry...

Newly installed Supreme Court Justice Katanji Brown Jackson swore her oath on two Bibles. One was the Harlan Bible of Justice John...

Some years ago, I compiled these data about cotton production in Kentucky for 1840. The Bluegrass State was not included in what is known...

The nineteenth-century "Kentucky breakfast" was popular among militia colonels on "muster days." It consisted of a quart of whiskey, a...