Meet Dr. Allen Fletcher, the new host of our podcast, #KentuckyChronicles.
Season 3 is now streaming on Spotify, Apple, YouTube, Amazon, iHeart, SoundCloud, and other platforms. Listen to all seasons here: history.ky.gov/khs-podcasts
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Our 2025 Register Derby winner has crossed the finish line! Congratulations to #8 Sex, Drugs, and Country Music: Loretta Lynn, Gender Politics, and the Health Environment in Mid-Twentieth Century Rural Kentucky by Brian Ward. #RegisterKHS Official results here: bit.ly/4k7Jjzf
Finally - Sex, Drugs, and Country Music: Loretta Lynn, Gender Politics, and the Health Environment in Mid-Twentieth Century Rural Kentucky by Brian Ward #RegisterKHS #Derby #skystorians
Vote Here: surveymonkey.com/r/KWJZ298
Next - Laughed Out of the Union: Northern Humor and Kentucky, 1860-1877 by Daniel J. Burge #RegisterKHS #skystorians #derby
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Recap of the final three articles in #RegisterKHS Derby. Voting ends at 6:00 pm EST TODAY. First up -Examining the Early History of Stadia at the University of Kentucky: From City Park to Stoll Field at McLean Stadium by Chad Seifried & Tiffany Demiris surveymonkey.com/r/KWJZ298
#Derby Day #skystorians - cast your vote for your favorite article in the 2025 #RegisterKHS Derby. Overall winner announced TONIGHT at 6:00 pm EST. Vote for your favorite here: surveymonkey.com/r/KWJZ298
The winner of round 3 of the #RegisterKHS Derby is horse #8 "Sex, Drugs, and Country Music" by Brian Ward. Congrats! See the official results here: bit.ly/4d65uDI. The field is set for tomorrow's race, and voting begins tomorrow morning! #twitterstorians
It's the third and final round—the official call to post Round Three! Read the selected articles on ProjectMUSE (ow.ly/cyPG50Rco0w for links) and pick your favorite (link below) before 5 p.m. ET on Friday, May 2! #RegisterKHS #kyhistory
Pick your favorite: surveymonkey.com/r/695TQB8
OFFICIAL CALL TO POST! Round One of the 2025 #RegisterKHS Derby starts NOW! Read FREE articles on Project MUSE (visit ow.ly/AJ5X50VxPCU) and pick your favorite by 5 PM ET on April 18th: surveymonkey.com/r/69K38W8
The Register Derby is back! Starting Monday, #RegisterKHS will host a friendly competition with 9 articles. Voting for the first 3 articles below will begin Monday - check back for link to vote. Top 3 winners will go head-to-head on Derby Day! Read for FREE on Project Muse. ow.ly/AJ5X50VxPCU
After the podcast, read the full #RegisterKHS article, "Sex, Drugs, and Country Music: Loretta Lynn, Gender Politics, and the Health Environment in Mid-Twentieth Century Rural Kentucky" by @brian222ward.bsky.social here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/142/arti...
Free January #RegisterKHS articles "Unionism, Emancipation, & the Origins of Kentucky’s Confederate Identity" by Jacob Lee muse.jhu.edu/pub/142/arti... & "How to Jim Crow a Coalfield: Land, Politics, & Race in Appalachian Kentucky Before World War I" by Matthew O’Neal
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For those interested in Civil War history, the second FREE November #RegisterKHS article is "Lincoln's Judge Advocate General: Joseph Holt of Kentucky" by Elizabeth Leonard. Read it here #twitterstorians: muse.jhu.edu/pub/142/arti...
With election season in full swing, we take a historical look at presidential cartoons in "Rowed Up Salt River: The Kentucky Origins of an American Political Expression" by Daniel J. Burge. This #RegisterKHS article is FREE in November on @ProjectMUSE. #skystorians
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Special Register issue - Stating History: Arizona and Kentucky in Comparison. Kentucky Thoroughbreds in a pasture (colorized) in top image and towering saguaros in Saguaro National Monument in bottom image.
A special #RegisterKHS issue comparing #Kentucky & #Arizona? That's right - we partnered with @AZHistSociety on a special issue that brought together Southern & Western historians for series of fascinating articles & roundtables. Read the FREE issue here #skystorians: muse.jhu.edu/issue/52292
"October 24, 1862. We heard of the Battle of Perryville."
Third FREE September #RegisterKHS article on Project Muse deals with memory, gender, and #civilwarhistory in #Kentucky - "Josie Underwood’s Civil War Diary, Part Two" by Nancy D. Baird. #skystorians #kyhistory muse.jhu.edu/pub/142/arti...
Next FREE September #RegisterKHS article on Project Muse - "Kentucky Historical Society Civil War History Day Roundtable" with Cameron Boutin, Charlene Fletcher, Christopher Phillips, & @cwelsko.bsky.social - discusses memory & #civilwarhistory in #Kentucky. #kyhistory muse.jhu.edu/pub/142/arti...
FREE September #RegisterKHS articles - first, Civil War memory forms core of “Young and Littlefield’s Folly”: Fundraising, Confederate Memorialization, and the Construction of the Jefferson Davis Monument in Fairview, Kentucky, 1907–1924 by Joy M. Giguere. #kyhistory muse.jhu.edu/pub/142/arti...
JSTOR Daily story Gay Radicalism, Made in Kentucky highlights research by #RegisterKHS author Jonathan Coleman. #LGBTQhistory is embedded in cities. But, Coleman notes impact on early gay rights movement came from different places, as story of Lige Clarke shows. daily.jstor.org/gay-radicali...
This is a University of Kentucky blue hand fan with white lettering and a wooden handle. KHS collections 2003.50.17.
FREE for August on Project Muse - #RegisterKHS article "Doing Just What the Others Were Doing": The University of Kentucky Wildcats and the Debate over Commercialized College Athletics, 1946–1954 by Chad Carlson. Read it here sports #skystorians: muse.jhu.edu/pub/142/arti...
Education, technology, & Appalachian #skystorians - #RegisterKHS article “Signals to Every Dip and Hollow”: The Rise and Fall of the Appalachian Education Satellite Program & the Appalachian Community Service Network by Carson Benn is FREE on Project Muse in August. muse.jhu.edu/pub/142/arti...
Celano interweaves the story between her analysis of Kentucky’s fugitive slave laws & criminal system. Celano's article is part of a larger special #RegisterKHS issue focusing on KHS's #CWGK project. The article, and full issue, is available on @ProjectMUSE: muse.jhu.edu/issue/50597
#ICYMI #CWGK's Daniele Celano talks about her #RegisterKHS article, "'In Consequence of Such Escape': Jailbreaks, Criminality, and Unfreedom on the Eve of Civil War." Celano describes murder trial of Jane, an enslaved woman, before the Civil War. Read interview here: history.ky.gov/news/celano-...
Early #Kentucky political economy and western expansion topic of #RegisterKHS article "Borderland Diplomacy: Western Elites and the 'Spanish Conspiracy'" by Susan Gaunt Stearns. Read it for FREE in July: muse.jhu.edu/pub/142/arti....
Political & diplomatic history subject of July's FREE #RegisterKHS articles #twitterstorians. First up, "The Diplomacy of Quiet Candor: John Sherman Cooper's Tenure as Ambassador to India" by Andrew L. Johns. Read it here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/142/arti...
CALL TO POST! Round One of the #RegisterKHS Derby rounded the first bend! Read the selected articles FREE on Project MUSE (visit ow.ly/cyPG50Rco0w for links) and pick your favorite (link below) before 5:00 pm ET on Friday, April 19th. #twitterstorians Pick your favorite: surveymonkey.com/r/GQZ5VY7
