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Faces of KentuckyJames C. Klotter and Freda C. Klotter.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lexington, Ky. : Univerity Press of Kentucky, (c)2006.Description: 1 online resource (309 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813160528
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • F451 .F334 2006
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Title; Copyright; Table of Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1 Frontiers-Then and Now; The Past; Writing about the Past; Native Americans in Kentucky; Paleoindians, 10,000 B.c.-8,000 B.C.; Archaic Period, 8,000 B.c.-1,000!l.c.; Woodland Period, 1,000 B.C.-A.D. 1000; Late Prehistoric Period, A.D. 1000-1750; The Great Dying; The Name ""Kentucky""; Chapter 2 Starting a State; The First West; The First Explorers; What They Found; Coming to Kentucky; Settling a State; Daniel Boone; Hard Times; Choices; The End or the Frontier; Statehood; Chapter 3 Different Kentuckys; The People of Kentucky.

Kentucky HomesThe Land; Climate; Geographic Regions; Jackson Purchase; Pennyroyal (or Pennynle); Western Coal Fields; Bluegrass; Mountains (Eastern Coal Fields); Cultural or Human Regions; Appalachia (Eastern Kentucky); Northern Kentucky; Bluegrass; South-Central Kentucky; Louisville; West Kentucky; Jackson Purchase; Regionalism; Kentucky Names; Chapter 4 The Government of Kentucky; Government; The Kentucky Constitulion; Change; Levels of Government; Branches of Government; The Executive Branch (the Governor); The Judicial Branch (the Courts); The Legislative Branch (the General Assembly).

The Mystery of ""Honest Dick"" TateChapter 5 Living in Kentucky; Daily Life; Clothes and Fashion; Food; Work; Health; Fun and Games; Basketball; Religion; Chapter 6 From Statehood to the Civil War; Slavery; Slave Life; Freedom; Antislavery; Key Political Leaders; Three Kentucky Presidents; Chapter 7 The Civil War and the End of a Century; The Brothers' War; On the Battlefield; Guerrillas; Results of the War; From the End of the Civil War to the Start of a New Century; Feuds and Murders; Chapter 8 Working in Kentucky; Farming; Early Business and King Coal; Modern Industries; Global Kentucky.

Chapter 9 Words, Music, and MoreEarly Writing; Twentieth-century Writers; Modern Writers; Writing History, Poetry, and Drama; Newspapers; Music; What the Eye Sees; Motion Pictures; Chapter 10 Kentucky in the Twentieth Century; The Transportation Revolution; The Communication Revolution; The New Deal; Wars; Out-Migration; Equal Rights; Equal Rights for Women; Equal Rights for All Races; Politics; Chapter 11 Going to School; Early Kentucky Schools; Life in School; Special Schools; Schools in the Twentieth Century and Beyond; Colleges and Universities; Going to College.

Chapter 12 Today and Tomorrow in KentuckyA Typical Kentuckian; Saving Pans of the Past; Future Issues; Your Future; Appendixes; Additional Sources for Research; Acknowledgments; Credits; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.

Written by Kentuckians for Kentuckians, Faces of Kentucky is a comprehensive history of Kentucky designed for young students. The state's story comes alive as never before through the images and life stories of the diverse people of the Commonwealth. The product of a collaboration of the state historian of Kentucky and an award-winning teacher (both native Kentuckians), Faces of Kentucky approaches learning as a voyage of discovery. Numerous illustrations, thought-provoking questions, and historical mysteries to be solved seek to challenge young readers and to help them think about their sta.

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