MUHLENBERG: TRACING A LAND BETWEEN
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...
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A knowledge of history is a means of strength...
preparing us for the crisis of the present and the challenge of the future.
John F. Kennedy
Imaginative Traces
on the Historical Shore
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leedurhamstone4
Nov 30, 20231 min read
IF HE IS A BAPTIST AND UNION MAN, HE'S ALRIGHT
From the Kentucky Historical Society online archives (Accession no. SC1069), a verbatim excerpt from a four-page letter from J. M....
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leedurhamstone4
Oct 4, 20231 min read
FREE LOVE LURKING BEHIND WOMEN'S VOTE
Henry Watterson (1840-1921) (photo above), a leading journalist of his era, elevated the Louisville Courier-Journal to perhaps the most...
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leedurhamstone4
Sep 27, 20231 min read
THE DIFFERENCE AMONG THE PAST, HISTORY, AND HISTORIOGRAPHY
● The past is what happened before now. ● History is the reconstruction and interpretation of the past using extant objects and...
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leedurhamstone4
Sep 24, 20231 min read
KINETIC TIME-LAPSE MAP OF THE TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE (click on the link)
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade - Database (slavevoyages.org)
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leedurhamstone4
Aug 28, 20231 min read
DREAMTIME ON PROMISE MOUNTAIN
Now is fiercely the time to make real the always urgent mountaintop dream of helping America keep its palace of justice promises that...
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leedurhamstone4
Aug 18, 20231 min read
WEEP NO MORE FOR THE BRIGHT BALLOT
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...
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leedurhamstone4
Jul 30, 20233 min read
OPEN A MINE, AND THE PEOPLE WILL COME
In the first decade of the twentieth century, the nearly 38 percent growth in Muhlenberg County's population was the highest of all the...
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leedurhamstone4
Jul 21, 20231 min read
DURER SPHERICITY ETCHED INTO MY RECTANGLED LIFE
I was extremely fortunate to obtain a National Endowment for the Humanities cartographic research fellowship at the world-class Newberry...
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leedurhamstone4
Jul 3, 20231 min read
SWEARING ON THE KENTUCKY BIBLE OF THE 'GREAT DISSENTER'
Newly installed Supreme Court Justice Katanji Brown Jackson swore her oath on two Bibles. One was the Harlan Bible of Justice John...
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leedurhamstone4
Jun 13, 20231 min read
WESTERN KENTUCKY IN THE MISSISSIPPIAN EMPIRE, 1840
Some years ago, I compiled these data about cotton production in Kentucky for 1840. The Bluegrass State was not included in what is known...
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leedurhamstone4
Jun 6, 20232 min read
MILITIA MUSTERING AND BELLIGERENT BLUSTERING
The nineteenth-century "Kentucky breakfast" was popular among militia colonels on "muster days." It consisted of a quart of whiskey, a...
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