When Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky in 1809, his cousin Dennis recalled holding "the wee one a minute... it tickled me to hold the pulpy, red little Lincoln." Dennis claimed he taught Lincoln how to read and write, something he took to quickly, in large ...
When Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky in 1809, his cousin Dennis recalled holding "the wee one a minute... it tickled me to hold the pulpy, red little Lincoln." Dennis claimed he taught Lincoln how to read and write, something he took to quickly, in large p...
In The Guns of the South, former President Abraham Lincoln invokes the name of Nathan Hale as one the iconic figures of America in his speech to the people of Louisville on April 14, 1865. Lincoln admonishes that if Kentucky left the Union to join the Confederacy, the people would be turn...
研究方向:HISTORY《肯塔基州历史学会登记册》(Register Of The Kentucky Historical Society)是一本以HISTORY综合研究为特色的国际期刊。该刊该刊已被国际重要权威数据库SCIE收录。期刊聚焦HISTORY领域的重点研究和前沿进展,及时刊载和报道该领域的研究成果,致力于成为该领域同行进行快速学术交流的信息窗口与平台。投稿...
“Jane Austen:Pride and PrejudiceandEmma,” inHer Bread to Earn: Women, Money and Society from Defoe to Austen(Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 1993), 209–10 for a brief discussion of this conversation and its explication of the status of a younger son in an aristocratic...
“How far is too far, in scrubbing away a history so that we won’t remember it wrong — or, indeed, have occasion to remember it at all?” Mark Summers, a University of Kentucky history professor, asked. “I’ve always felt that honor to the past shouldn’t be done by having fewe...
The articles in the journal come from a wide range of sources, including in-depth research by professional historians and new interpretations of specific historical events and figures. For example, there may be a detailed analysis of the role played by Kentucky during the Civil War, or a tracin...
Michael Simenshas bought, sold and collected some of the most exciting and important American Artifacts known to exist, consisting of Investment Quality Antique Colt Revolvers, Winchester Rifles, Tiffany Presentation Swords and a variety of other Historical Artifacts dating from the Revolutionary War thr...
The bare facts we have are that, after moving from Kentucky to Indiana, his mother died. Though he appears to have preferred reading and writing to physical work, his father relied financially on his labor, and he grew strong. He took up wrestling, and another tale has it that he ...
John Adair was an American pioneer, slave trader, soldier, General in the War of 1812, who led the Kentucky troops into the battle of New Orleans and Governor of Kentucky. JACKSON, Andrew (1767-1845) Bold, Free Franking signature on an address panel addressed in another hand to Miss E.M...