A Concise History of Kentucky

by Klotter, James C.

• ISBN13: 9780813191928
• ISBN10: 0813191920
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-03-21
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Kentucky

Summary

Kentucky is most commonly known for horses, tobacco fields, bourbon, and coal mines. There is much more to the state, though, than stories of feuding families and Colonel Sanders's famous fried chicken.

Author Biography

James C. Klotter is professor of history at Georgetown College and the state historian of Kentucky. He is the author or coauthor of several books, including A New History of Kentucky.



Freda C. Klotter has twenty-five years of classroom experience and currently serves as an educational consultant for the nonprofit Kentucky Collaborative for Teaching and Learning.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Frontiers-Then and Now	p. 1
The Past	p. 3
Writing about the Past	p. 3
Native Americans in Kentucky	p. 4
Paleo-Indians, 10,000 to 8000 B.C.	p. 5
Archaic Period, 8000 to 1000 B.C.	p. 6
Woodland Period, 1000 B.C. to A.D. 1000	p. 6
Late Prehistoric Period, A.D. 1000 to 1750	p. 7
The Great Dying	p. 8
The Name "Kentucky"	p. 9
Starting a State	p. 11
The First West	p. 14
The First Explorers	p. 15
What They Found	p. 17
Coming to Kentucky	p. 20
Settling a State	p. 21
Daniel Boone	p. 24
Hard Times	p. 26
Choices	p. 27
The End of the Frontier	p. 30
Statehood	p. 30
Different Kentuckys	p. 33
The People of Kentucky	p. 33
Kentucky Homes	p. 34
The Land	p. 35
Climate	p. 40
Geographic Regions	p. 41
Jackson Purchase	p. 41
Pennyroyal (or Pennyrile)	p. 42
Western Coal Fields	p. 42
Bluegrass	p. 43
Mountains (Eastern Coal Fields)	p. 43
Cultural or Human Regions	p. 44
Appalachia (Eastern Kentucky)	p. 45
Northern Kentucky	p. 46
Bluegrass	p. 46
South-Central Kentucky	p. 48
Louisville	p. 49
West Kentucky	p. 50
Jackson Purchase	p. 52
Regionalism	p. 52
Kentucky Names	p. 53
The Government of Kentucky	p. 55
The Kentucky Constitution	p. 55
Levels and Branches of Government	p. 56
The Executive Branch	p. 57
The Judicial Branch	p. 59
The Legislative Branch	p. 62
The Mystery of "Honest Dick" Tate	p. 62
Living in Kentucky	p. 65
Daily Life	p. 65
Clothes and Fashion	p. 67
Food	p. 68
Work	p. 71
Health	p. 74
Fun and Games	p. 78
Religion	p. 85
From Statehood to the Civil War	p. 91
Slavery	p. 91
Slave Life	p. 92
Freedom	p. 96
Antislavery	p. 100
Key Political Leaders	p. 101
Three Kentucky Presidents	p. 103
The Civil War and the End of a Century	p. 109
The Brothers' War	p. 111
On the Battlefield	p. 112
Guerrillas	p. 116
Results of the War	p. 117
From the End of the Civil War to the Start of a New Century	p. 120
Feuds and Murders	p. 122
Working in Kentucky	p. 127
Farming	p. 127
Early Business and King Coal	p. 130
Modern Industries	p. 132
Global Kentucky	p. 140
Words, Music, and More	p. 143
Early Writing	p. 143
Twentieth-Century Writers	p. 146
Modern Writers	p. 149
Writing History, Poetry, and Drama	p. 150
Newspapers	p. 154
Music	p. 155
Radio and Television	p. 159
Visual Arts	p. 160
Motion Pictures	p. 161
Kentucky in the Twentieth Century	p. 163
The Transportation Revolution	p. 163
The Communication Revolution	p. 165
The New Deal	p. 167
Wars	p. 168
Out-Migration	p. 171
Equal Rights	p. 172
Equal Rights for Women	p. 172
Equal Rights for All Races	p. 175
Politics	p. 179
Kentucky's Best Year	p. 182
Going to School	p. 183
Early Kentucky Schools	p. 183
Life in School	p. 185
Special Schools	p. 189
Schools in the Twentieth Century and Beyond	p. 190
Colleges and Universities	p. 192
College Life	p. 194
Today and Tomorrow in Kentucky	p. 197
A Typical Kentuckian	p. 197
Saving Parts of the Past	p. 198
Identifying Future Issues	p. 199
The Future	p. 200
Appendixes	p. 203
Additional Sources for Research	p. 219
Index	p. 221
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