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General Print Sources
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Campbell, Tracy. The Kentucky Adventure, student ed. Salt Lake City, Utah: Gibbs Smith, 2007.

Clark, Thomas D. A History of Kentucky. Ashland, KY: Jesse Stuart Foundation, 1988 [1937].

Harrison, Lowell H., and James C. Klotter. A New History of Kentucky. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1997.

Kleber, John E., Thomas D. Clark, Lowell H. Harrison, and James C. Klotter, eds. The Kentucky Encyclopedia. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1993.
Also available online at: http://www.kyenc.org/.

Klotter, James C., ed. Our Kentucky: A Study of the Bluegrass State, 2nd ed., student ed. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2000.

Klotter, James C., and Freda C. Klotter. Faces of Kentucky, student ed. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2006.

Kuster, Lewis Sylvia, and Barbara Donnell Hamilton. Kentucky: Land of Beauty and Wonder, student ed. Atlanta, GA: Clairmont Press, 2007.


General Online Sources
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"Kentucky Atlas & Gazetteer." http://www.uky.edu/KentuckyAtlas/kentucky-atlas.html (accessed October 13, 2008).

"Kentucky Tales." http://www.kytales.com/ (accessed October 13, 2008).

NETSTATE. "Kentucky, The Bluegrass State." http://www.netstate.com/states/intro/ky_intro.htm (accessed October 13, 2008).


Additional Sources by Theme

→ Early Exploration (1750-1785) ←
Claiming Kentucky
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American Memory Project. "Encountering the First American West." Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/icuhtml/fawsp/fawsp.html (accessed October 13, 2008).

Cotterill, R.S. History of Pioneer Kentucky. Cincinnati: Johnson & Hardin, 1917.

Hammon, Neal O. Early Kentucky Land Records, 1773-1780. Louisville, KY: Filson Club, 1992.


→ Building A New State (1780-1800) ←
Two Constitutions (1780-1792)
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Jillson, Willard Rouse. The First Printing in Kentucky: Some Account of Thomas Parvin and John Parvin and John Bradford and the Establishment of the Kentucky Gazette in Lexington in the year 1787, with a Bibliography of Seventy Titles. Louisville, KY: C.T. Dearing Printing Co., 1936.

Journal of the First Constitutional Convention of Kentucky, held in Danville, Kentucky, April 2 to 19, 1792. Lexington, KY: State Bar Association of Kentucky, 1942.

"Kentucky’s State Capitols." Kentucky Department of Libraries and Archives. http://www.kdla.ky.gov/resources/kycapitol.htm (accessed October 13, 2008).

"Kentucky’s State Seal." Kentucky Department of Libraries and Archives. http://www.kdla.ky.gov/resources/kyseal.htm (accessed October 13, 2008).

Young, Bennett H. History and texts of the three constitutions of Kentucky: with illustrative state history prefacing them and marginal notes showing all alterations in fundamental law... Louisville, KY: Courier-Journal Job Print. Co., 1890.


→ Growth of a New State (1800-1860) ←
The Nation’s New Commonwealth
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"African–American Residents." Stephen Decatur House Museum. http://www.decaturhouse.org/people/africanamericans.htm (accessed July 22, 2009).

Boulware, Tyler. "Cherokee Indians." New Georgia Encyclopedia. 20 January 2009, http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-3539&sug=y (accessed July 22, 2009).

"Henry Clay." Ashland: The Henry Clay Estate. 2009, http://www.henryclay.org/henry-clay (accessed July 22, 2009).

Henson, Josiah. Autobiography of Josiah Henson: An Inspiration for Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2003[1969].

"Jackson Purchase." Kentucky Land Office. http://apps.sos.ky.gov/land/nonmilitary/jacksonpurchase (accessed July 22, 2009).

Johnston, J. Stoddard. Kentucky–Tennessee Boundary Line. History of 36:30, the Boundary Line between Virginia and North Carolina and between Kentucky and Tennessee. Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 6, no. 18 (Sept. 1908), 25–35.

Kentucky Lewis & Clark Bicentennial Commission "Lewis and Clark in Kentucky." http://www.lewisandclarkinkentucky.org/index.html (accessed July 22, 2009).

Kinkead, Elizabeth Shelby. History of Kentucky. Cincinnati: American Book Co., 1896.

Price, Samuel Woodson. Old Masters of the Bluegrass: Jouett, Bush, Grimes, Frazer, Morgan Hart. Louisville, KY: J.P. Morton, 1902.


Economic Infancy
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Ellis, William E. The Kentucky River. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2003.

Hopkins, James F. A History of the Hemp Industry in Kentucky. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1998.

Thompson, Ed Porter. Kentucky’s First Railroad which was the First One West of the Allegheny Mountains." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 1 (Jan. 1903), 18-25.


Antebellum Kentucky Character
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American Memory Project. "Encountering the First American West." Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/icuhtml/fawsp/fawsp.html (accessed October 13, 2008).

Coleman, J. Winston, Jr. The Springs of Kentucky: An Account of the Famed Watering-Places of the Bluegrass State, 1800-1935. Lexington, KY: Winburn Press, 1955.

Connelley, William, and E.M. Coulter. Vol. 1 of History of Kentucky. Edited by Charles Kerr. Chicago: American Historical Society, 1922.

Flahardy, Jason, Bill Marshall, and Dierdre Scaggs. Identification of 19th and Early 20th Century Photographic Processes. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Special Collections; School of Library & Information Sciences, 2006. [LIS 643 Photo CD].

"Kentucky’s State Song: My Old Kentucky Home." Kentucky Department of Libraries and Archives. http://www.kdla.ky.gov/resources/kysong.htm (accessed October 13, 2008).

Ritzenthaler, Mary Lynn, and Diane Vogt-O’Connor. Photographs: Archival Care and Management. Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2006.

"Stephen Bishop (cave explorer)." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Bishop_(cave_explorer) (accessed October 13, 2008).


→ Civil War (1860-1865) ←
Fighting Kentucky
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"Kentucky Civil War Map of Battles." http://americancivilwar.com/statepic/kentucky.html (accessed October 13, 2008).

"Kentucky Civil War Vocabulary Words." KET. http://www.ket.org/civilwar/vocab.html (accessed October 13, 2008).

"Kentucky in the American Civil War." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_in_the_American_Civil_War (accessed October 13, 2008).

Speed, Thomas. The Union Cause in Kentucky, 1860-1865. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1907.

"Sue Mundy." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_Mundy (accessed October 13, 2008).

"Timeline of the Civil War in Kentucky." KET. http://www.ket.org/content/civilwar/timeline.html (accessed October 13, 2008).

Walden, Geoff, and Laura Cook. "First Kentucky Orphan Brigade — History." Rootsweb. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~orphanhm/history.htm (accessed October 13, 2008).


→ Industrial Kentucky (1870-1970) ←
King Coal
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"Appalachian Research Files: CoalField History." In Anne and Harry M. Caudill Collection, 1854-1996. 91M2. Lexington, KY: Special Collection and Digital Programs, University of Kentucky Libraries.

Kentucky Coal Council. "Kentucky Coal Education." http://www.coaleducation.org (accessed October 13, 2008).

"Mayo, John Caldwell Calhoun." In Vol. 45 of The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, 172-173. New York: J.T. White, 1962.

National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners. Harlan Miners Speak: Report on Terrorism in the Kentucky Coalfields. New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Co., 1932.

Norris, Randall, and Jean-Philippe Cypres. Women of Coal. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1996.


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