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Juvenile audience. 2 volumes; illustrations. Brief biographies of thirty-eight First Ladies and White House hostesses from Martha Washington to Patricia Nixon. Volume 1: 1789-1865; Volume 2: 1865-present day.

Picture book. After sleeping all winter in their den, a mother bear and her cub wake up and enjoy the first days of spring together.

Juvenile audience; 47 pages. Describes the methods currently being used to mine "black gold" and explores the problems that confront coal miners, mine owners, manufacturers, and consumers.

Juvenile fiction; 152 pages. After living with his grandparents all his life, twelve-year-old Freeman is shocked to learn that his parents are not dead, but returning home now that his father is out of prison.

Picture book. A boy describes his favorite tree and the many games his friends play there.

Juvenile fiction; 169 pages; illustrations. Tired of constant moves, a ten-year-old boy tries to find a way to help his family settle permanently in Appalachia.

Picture book. With a new baby sister in the house, Tommy doesn't know where he belongs anymore.

Picture book. Young Jimmy Jack Blackburn searches for fuel to keep his mother and baby sister warm through a severe Appalachian winter.

Juvenile audience.

Poems; 54 pages.

Poems; 32 pages.

Poems; 48 pages.

Poems; 51 pages.

Poems; 22 pages.

Journal. Lillie D. Chaffin, editor.

Poems; 52 pages.

Poems; 25 pages.

Includes: Portrait / Robert Penn Warren; One more time / Caroline Gordon; Drawing names / Bobbie Ann Mason.

Brief autobiographical work with several photos by Lillie Chaffin, a native of Pike County, Kentucky, who was a poet, an editor, a librarian, a teacher, and a Kentucky Poet Laureate. She published 17 books, and was an advocate of women, Appalachian writers, and young writers. 64 pages; illustrations.

A history of Kentucky's poets laureate since 1926. Contains works by J.T. Cotton Noe, Edward Gay Hill, Louise Scott Phillips, Edwin Carlisle Litsey, Jesse Hilton Stuart, Lowell Allen Williams, Lillian D. Chaffin, Senator Tom Mobley, Agnes Todd Saffell O'Rear, Clarence "Soc" Henry Clay, Lee Pennington, Paul Salyers, Dale Faughn, Jim Wayne Miller, Henry E. Pilkenton, James H. Patton, James Still, Joy Bale Boone, Richard Lawrence Taylor, James Baker Hall and Joe Survant.

It is Macie's first day of school and she is so excited! On her journey to find her new teacher, Macie meets and learns about the roles and responsibilities of several other important people who work in her school. Macie Meets Her New Teacher is a perfect read-aloud story to make even those children who are a little overwhelmed and nervous about their first day aware of how many people there are to make school a safe and fun learning environment.

High impact practices are a twenty-first-century phenomenon, but if you've read any of the authors' books, you know, for instance, that for many years they have been collaborating, instructing undergraduates how to research like full professors, and teaching writing intensive courses-in short, employing some high impact practices, even though, back then, they were merely effective teaching strategies.What impresses the authors the most about HIPs is that they have been rigorously assessed, and no doubt remains that they work, resulting in deeper learning. Moreover, what started as a top-ten practices list has already grown to eleven with the demonstrated efficacy of the e-portfolio. And that list will surely grow as more and more research is performed.For this title, there is one point the authors would like to stress: No law exists that prevents you from using more than one HIP at a time in a learning experience. In fact, as their PLC experience proved, piggybacking the HIPs makes them even more effective, or, as Mae West said, "Too much of a good thing can be . . . wonderful."

"Through the growing and nurturing years there is no influence as important as the coaching a youngster receives. Those he selects as his heroes mold his character and create the fiber of the individual". So preached Dan Chandler the son of Happy Chandler, beloved two-time Kentucky governor and baseball commissioner, and the wildly eccentric father of Erin and Chan. Dan uprooted his kids from their southern aristocratic roots and the political world of the Governors mansion and deposited them into the gaudy yet glamorous life of 1970's Las Vegas, where debauchery and brutishness was respected and everyone practiced the Golden Rule.... "The guy with the gold makes the rule."After years of living a roller coaster life on his coattails, becoming adults proved to be their biggest challenge. Chan took the cowboy approach to life, on the road from one end of the country to the other, packing guns, breaking hearts and staying one step ahead of the law... usually. Erin followed the Vegas showgirls of her youth and found Hollywood. The brother and sister struggle to create balance. Author and playwright, Erin Chandler is candid in the telling of her life long difficulties with her loving, although overwhelming, alcoholic father, her heartbreaking challenges with her charming but dangerously self destructive brother, and her own relentless demons. Dark yet uplifting, filled with humor and insight, June Bug Versus Hurricane will leave audiences as haunted as its characters.

Life is a moving, changing thing which insists we be flexible. Thankfully, we are given endless opportunities to grow and move forward when old opinions, attitudes, and ambitions no longer suit who we are today. A rich and abundant history of intellectuals and artists have paved the way for us to make the most out of this time on earth. With Cinderella Sweeping Up, Erin Chandler combines her own hard-earned life lessons with those of our history's most influential thinkers. Whether it be Albert Camus, a French philosopher in the 1950s, Buster Keaton, the Vaudevillian genius from the 1920s, Hunter S. Thompson in 1995, Oscar Wilde in 1880 or Buddhist Monk, Huineng in 680 A.D., we learn from each other what it means to be alive. Each of the seventy essays studies a beautiful or damned circumstance and takes a celebratory look at life.

Poems; 162 pages.

Poems, 177 pages.

DVD, approx. 107 minutes. A man overdoses and must plead his case before God. He tells the story of his life as a gay man in the American South. Originally produced as motion picture in 2000. Cast: Leslie Jordan, Erin Chandler, Mark Pellegrino, John Ritter, Marilu Henner, Michelle Phillips, Kathy Kinney, Sheryl Lee Ralph.

On the first day of Christmas my parents gave to me . . . a holiday book about my very own state! Merry Christmas from the Bluegrass State! Come along on a wild ride through Kentucky as Marybeth introduces her cousin Martin to all her favorite places, activities, and foods. While they travel from Lexington to Louisville to Paducah, Marybeth gives Martin some really cool gifts--like 4 lucky horseshoes when they visit the Kentucky Derby and 10 lumps of black gold from the Coal Mining Museum in Benham. This joyful entry in "The Twelve Days of Christmas in . . . " series entry features terrific art and lively text by a native Kentuckian that perfectly captures the state's spirit.

Uses picture puzzles to provide practice learning addition facts. "Students will solve the equations which bring to life simple and delightful images, all while learning math!"--Page 4 of cover.

Ages: 10-14.

Help kids ages 4 to 6 build problem-solving skills Playing brain games is one of the easiest and most engaging ways for pre-K and kindergarten students to strengthen thinking skills, grow their confidence, and get creative. This activity book for kids is packed with puzzles designed to challenge their developing brains. Children will learn the skills to focus on a problem and build a solution, creating a critical-thinking tool kit that will set them up for success in the classroom and beyond.

Grades 3 & up.

"Over 100 puzzles to solve"--Cover.

Uses picture puzzles to provide practice learning division facts. "Students will solve the equations which bring to life simple and delightful images, all while learning math!"--Page 4 of cover.

Uses picture puzzles to provide practice learning decimal facts. After students have solved the equations, the answers provide color-coded clues for revealing the secret name of an animal hidden in the coordinating grid.

Do you know the state flower or the state motto? Which presidents lived in Kentucky? Can you name two Kentucky universities that have won national basketball championships? Grab a pencil and put on your thinking cap--you'll need both to get through these Bluegrass brainteasers. Wind your way through mazes, word games and math mysteries, and enjoy a different kind of puzzle on every page with difficulty levels from easy to complex.

Books contain puzzles involving a string of simple equations. The puzzles start off with the student solving for the final number in the equation and eventually move to the student figuring out a missing number or operation from within the equation to get the final number given.
Level A : Grades 2-4 --
Level B : Grades 4-6.

Boys and girls, test yourself with 100 brand new puzzles and find out whether you are a Mensa-level genius! Acclaimed teacher and puzzler Evelyn B. Christensen has created one hundred brand-new perplexing and adorably illustrated games for young puzzlers. There is something for every type of learner here, including number puzzles, word puzzles, logic puzzles, and visual puzzles. She has also included secret clues the solver can consult if they need a hint, making the puzzles even more flexible for a wide skill range of puzzle-solvers. Arranged from easy to difficult, this is a great book for any beginning puzzler. With the game types intermixed throughout, it's easy for a child who thinks they like only math or only word puzzles to stumble across a different kind of puzzle, get hooked, and discover--oh, they like that kind, too! Regularly practicing a variety of brain games can help improve and develop memory, concentration, creativity, reasoning, and problem-solving skills. Mensa's® Fun Puzzle Challenges for Kids is a learning tool everyone will enjoy!

Uses picture puzzles to provide practice for the multiplication tables.

"Everybody enjoys solving a good mystery or cracking a code. Shine up your Sherlock sleuthing skills with Math Busters: Multiplication! Each puzzle page includes a mystery question which young math students answer as they solve the multiplication problems.
The puzzles also help students practice important map-reading skills. Each clue is given in terms of north, south, east or west direction. To solve the mystery, students must follow the directions correctly and make their way through a maze of letters." -- from back cover.

Uses picture puzzles to provide practice for the multiplication tables. "Students will solve the equations which bring to life simple and delightful images, all while learning math!"--Page 4 of cover.

Quality, classroom-proven, hands-on resources and instructional materials that assist teachers in elevating student learning.

Uses picture puzzles to provide practice learning subtraction facts. "Students will solve the equations which bring to life simple and delightful images, all while learning math!"--Page 4 of cover.

"Logical thinking will uncover the correct twisting, turning, bending, looping path through these maze-like puzzles. Challenge yourself even further by finding alternative paths for puzzles that have more than one solution."--Publisher's website.
Level A : Grades 6 and up --
Level B : Grades 9 and up.

Grades 2 & up.

Level A : Pre K-Grade 2 --
Level B : Grades 3-6 --
Level C : Grades 6-9 --
Level D : Grades 9-12.

During the early 1990s, the diet drugs fen-phen and Redux achieved tremendous popularity. The chemical combination was discovered by chance, marketed with hyperbole, and prescribed to millions. But as the drugs' developer, pharmaceutical giant American Home Products, cashed in on the miracle weight-loss pills, medical researchers revealed that the drugs caused heart valve disease. This scandal was, incredibly, only the beginning of an unbelievable saga of greed. In Fat Chance, Rick Christman recounts a story that a judicial tribunal later described as "a tale worthy of the pen of Charles Dickens." Bill Gallion, Shirley Cunningham, and Melbourne Mills contrived to bring a class-action lawsuit against American Home Products in Covington, Kentucky. Their hired trial consultant, Mark Modlin, had a bizarre relationship with the presiding judge, Jay Bamberger of Covington, who was once honored as the Kentucky Bar Association's "Judge of the Year." Soon after, Stan Chesley, arguably the most successful trial attorney in the United States, joined the class-action suit. Ultimately, their efforts were rewarded with $200 million for the 431 plaintiffs, and the four lawyers immediately began to plunder their clients' money. When the fraud was discovered, two of the attorneys received long prison sentences and another was acquitted after claiming an alcoholism defense. All four were permanently banished from the practice of law and Judge Bamberger was disbarred and disrobed. Recounting a dramatic affair that bears conspicuous similarities to opioid-related class-action litigation against the pharmaceutical industry, Christman offers an engaging, if occasionally horrifying, account of one of America's most prominent product liability cases and the settlement's aftermath.

In the little Appalachian town of Sourwood, life at the end of the Great Depression may have been tough, but it was rich beyond compare. Building on a distinguished body of work celebrating and preserving mountain culture, renowned writer Billy C. Clark once again revisits his boyhood during a bygone era. By Way of the Forked Stick offers four fictional stories drawn from the author's childhood experiences of the 1930s--tales that vividly convey the down-home spirit of a lost way of life. Clark's youthful narrator introduces us to Apache, the charismatic termite exterminator who traded the boy a hound aptly named Sneakin. The narrator admits to his own share of sneaking--past the watchful eye of the never-smiling Beulah Whitlock into her picture show, where the scent of popcorn drew rats up from the river in droves. He recalls being drawn himself into the world of cockfighting, where handler Blinddog Alley was said to be able to talk to roosters. And he relates how his brother Caleb's quest for girls led the boys into frequenting a church where "almost any movement was the sign that the Spirit was struggling to get inside you"--and where baptism at the Glory Hole in Sourwood Creek was only slightly less chilling than the minister's handling of snakes. Drawing on the region's rich tradition of storytelling, Clark conveys the charm and color of Sourwood Mountain and its environs in finely honed yarns that brim with humor. Here are characters so authentic it seems as though they have stepped off the page: Apache's wife, Lottie the gospel woman, and her brother Weasel; Hyford Copley who ran the projector at the theater; and Brother Brimstone with his cries of "Penance!" and fondness for serpents--not to mention the charming small-town girls that Caleb was always trying to woo. Although Appalachian residents in the Depression era were considered among the most impoverished people in America, Clark shows how a young boy unaware of this supposed misfortune enjoyed life through the blessing of imagination. Billy C. Clark shares a childhood that was hard but wonderful--wanting for nothing but a good hound dog--in a book that will delight as surely as it rekindles our faith in vanishing values. The Author: Billy C. Clark is the author of eleven other books, including Sourwood Tales and A Long Row to How. He received the Appalachian Treasure Award in 1999 and is presently writer-in-residence at Longwood College and editor of Virginia Writing, having founded both that publication and Kentucky Writing.

Fiction. Juvenile audience. Originally published in 1966. Thirteen-year-old Aram Tate agrees to teach an Appalachian woodsman how to read and write in exchange for a hound dog and lessons about the "varmints and the mountains." 251 pages; illustrations.

Fiction. Juvenile audience. Originally published in 1964. Follows the misadventures of a country boy from Kentucky and his mischievous mule. 274 pages; illustrations.

Fiction. Only the most serious students of Clark's career know that before he enjoyed national success, a collection of four stories, A Heap of Hills, was published while he was a college student. This modest and obscure little book was issued in 1953 by the University of Kentucky s Phi Beta Kappa society as an Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Writing. From that copy, the Jesse Stuart Foundation has produced a facsimile reprint as a token of our respect for Billy C. Clark. Although these stories were later reprinted in other publications, this book is a fond reminder of one of Kentucky s most loved and respected authors and educators. Following six new frontal pages and cover, Clark fans can treasure a reproduction of the original copy of A Heap of Hills with no changes in text or format.

The mountain is a lonely place. Welcome to Sourwood, a small Kentucky town inhabited by men and women unique and yet eerily familiar. Among its joyful and tragic citizens we meet the crafty, spirited Caleb and his curious younger brother; Pearl, a suspected witch, and her sheltered daughter, Thanie; superstitious Eli; and the doomed orphan Girty. In Sourwood, the mountain is both a keeper of secrets and an imposing, isolating presence, shaping the lives of all who live in its shadow. Strong in both the voice and sensibilities of Appalachia, the stories in Miss America Kissed Caleb are at turns heartbreaking and hilarious. In the title story, young Caleb turns over his hard-earned dime to the war effort when he receives a coaxing kiss from Miss America, who sweeps into Sourwood by train, "pretty as a night moth." Caleb and his brother share in the thrills and uncertainties of growing up, making an accidental visit to a brothel in "Fourth of July" and taming a "high society" pooch in "The Jimson Dog." These stories invoke a place and a time that have long passed -- a way of living nearly extinct -- yet the beauty of the language and the truth revealed in the characters' everyday lives continue to resonate with modern readers.

Fiction. Juvenile audience. Originally published in 1958. Sequel to: The Trail of the Hunter's Horn. A contest to find the best coon hound in Kentucky tests Jeb's belief in his half-blind dog Mooneye. 144 pages; illustrations.

Fiction. Juvenile audience. Originally published in 1958. Brad's quiet world and his friend Dan Tackett's very existence in his cabin on the Big Sandy river are threatened by a plan to build a flood wall. 160 pages; illustrations.

Fiction. Juvenile audience. Originally published in 1957. Having grown old living in his shantyboat on the Big Sandy River in eastern Kentucky, John engages in a final battle with Scrapiron Jack, the huge catfish he has been trying to catch for years. 176 pages; illustrations.

Fiction. Short stories. Originally published in 1968. Sourwood Tales is a collection of eighteen short stories that present an accurate picture of life in the Big Sandy region of Eastern Kentucky during the Great Depression of the 1930's. Clark is a masterful story teller who captures local life and lore in a way that fascinates both children and adults. 256 pages; illustrations.

Fiction. 97 pages; illustrations.

Fiction. Juvenile audience. Originally published in 1957. Anxious to acquire a good coon dog, which is a badge of manhood in his Kentucky mountains, Jeb is dismayed when the pup he awaits is born with a stub tail and moon eye.

Fiction. Juvenile audience. Originally published in 1961. Thirteen-year-old Caleb trades a small pig for an old, ugly, crippled dog that nobody wants and he and the dog soon become inseparable friends. 144 pages; illustrations.

Poetry. 72 pages.

Originally published: New York : Crowell, 1960. Recollections of a boyhood spent in rural Kentucky. 285 pages; illustrations.

Poetry. One of the South's greatest writers once again writes to us from the village of Sourwood, a locale of the heart, as he presents a collection of sharply observed impressions of Appalachian rural life that touch on universal themes. 104 pages; illustrations.

A collection of poems that reveal Billy Clark's knowledge of, and love for, the land and waters of Kentucky.

Poetry. 80 pages.

With an introduction by Wade Hall, Morris Grubbs has sifted through vintage classics, little-known gems, and stunning debuts to assemble this collection of forty stories by popular and critically acclaimed writers. In subtle and profound ways they challenge and overturn accepted stereotypes about the land their authors call home, whether by birth or by choice. Kentucky writers have produced some of the finest short stories published in the last fifty years, much of which focuses on the tension between the comforts of community and the siren-like lure of the outside world. Arranged chronologically, from Robert Penn Warren's "Blackberry Winter" to Crystal E. Wilkinson's "Humming Back Yesterday," these stories are linked by their juxtaposition of departures and returns, the familiar and the unknown, home and beyond. Contributors: Robert Penn Warren, Caroline Gordon, James Still, Jane Mayhall, Elizabeth Hardwick, Dean Cadle, Jesse Stuart, Billy C. Clark, Janice Holt Giles, A.B. Guthrie, Jr., Hollis Summers, Ed McClanahan, Sallie Bingham, Robert Hazel, Jack Cady, Jim Wayne Miller, David Madden, Gayl Jones, Jane Stuart, Gurney Norman, Walter Tevis, Bobbie Ann Mason, Joe Ashby Porter, Leon V. Driskell, Mary Ann Taylor-Hall, Richard Cortez Day, Sena Jeter Naslund, Pat Carr, Wendell Berry, James Baker Hall, Lisa Koger, Barbara Kingsolver, Normandi Ellis, Guy Davenport, Kim Edwards, Chris Holbrook, Paul Griner, Chris Offutt, Dwight Allen, Crystal E. Wilkinson. Edited by Morris Allen Grubbs; with an introduction by Wade Hall and an afterword by Charles E. May.

Microfiche (negative). Louisville, Ky., Lost Cause Press, 1974. Reprinted from Sunday Herald-Leader, Lexington, Ky., May 20, 1973, p. 5.

Archival material. Papers collected by Woodbridge for a proposed biographical/bibliographical dictionary of Ky. authors. The bulk of the papers consist of letters from authors giving details of their lives and work. Also included are newspaper clippings containing information on various authors. Authors include Richard A. Briggs, Billy Curtis Clark, Janice Holt Giles, James A. Jewell, Robbie Trent, Lowell A. Williams, and others.

Academic thesis, University of Kentucky.

Fiction, mystery; 224 pages.

Fiction, mystery; 189 pages.

Fiction, mystery; 222 pages. "Pan fled to Tennessee in hysterical fear when her brand new husband practically accused her of murdering her father. Her terror and bewilderment increased when she found that her "husband" was already married, and when a clerk in a department store was murdered, apparently for the red wedding suit Pan had just discarded." --Goodreads, The Book Buyer's Guide

Fiction; 128 pages.

Biography; "Philanthropist -- Horseman -- Businessman extraordinary. Through Graham Brown's life contained every element of drama, and certainly he worked as hard as any Horatio Alger hero in attaining his success, his story is not a "Rags to Riches" saga. From boyhood he was taught that money literally does grow on trees. "My father told me," he once said, "that there were only two things worth owning -- gold and standing timber. I couldn't get to the gold so I bought all the timber I could." And long after his expansion of interests theatre, real estate et al -- he declared: "The lumber business? I love it That's where I make the jack." He made so much "jack" over his 65 years business career that he died the richest man in the state in 1969 in spite of having given away about!100,000,000 to civic, charitable, and personal-need causes in his lifetime. At his death the whole community became the beneficiary of his will. He left his estate estimated at nearly $100,000,000 to his Foundation emphasizing that substantial funds be used to promote the well-being of Louisville and Kentucky residents in matters of business, education, health, general welfare, and advancement. A rugged individualist if ever there was one, a fighter, shrewd trader, strict economizer in his businesses, he was also warmly human in countless unheralded generosities large and small, truly a tight fist with an open hand. The very contrasts of the character make a fascinating study, the crises of his life and how he met them a startling commentary on the times in which he lived and on the man himself"--Dust jacket cover.

History; 26 pages, illustrations.

Instructional manual; 83 pages. "In Sherwood Forest, a Robin Hood puppet play": p. 71-83.

Juvenile plays. Contents: Poor giraffe -- Li'l Hannibal -- In old Kentucky -- The big ole alligator -- Bianca's tea party -- Old Father Christmas (a St. George play) -- In Sherwood forest.

Juvenile operetta: vocal scores with piano; 46 pages. Operetta composed of excerpts principally from works by Mozart and also by Joseph Haydn. Includes spoken dialogue. Libretto by Helen Boswell and Dorothy Park Clark.

Juvenile operetta, vocal scores with piano; 80 pages. "With the exception of three folk songs of the period, all music employed in this operetta is Handel's own." Synopsis and foreword on p. [2].

Originally published: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©1977, in series: The Kentucky Bicentennial bookshelf. For subsistence farmers in eastern Kentucky, wealthy horse owners in the central Bluegrass, and tobacco growers in Western Kentucky, land was, and continues to be, one of the commonwealth's greatest sources of economic growth. It is also a source of nostalgia for a people devoted to tradition, a characteristic that has significantly influenced Kentucky's culture, sometimes to the detriment of education and development. As timely now as when it was first published, Thomas D. Clark's classic history of agrarianism prepares readers for a new era that promises to bring rapid change to the land and the people of Kentucky.

The American Frontier Series. 464 pages; illustrations (some color).

Clark's first publication. 107 pages.

Second edition. First edition published in 1961. 341 pages.

Originally published in 1989. In the fall of 1829, young Robert Wilmot Scott rode away from Frankfort, Kentucky, on a trip that would take him through nine states. His journal entries about those travels present a vivid picture of Jacksonian America and of the prominent people of that era. Excellent pen portraits of James and Dolly Madison, James Monroe, John Marshall, James Buchanan, Sam Houston, Edward Everett, John C. Calhoun, John Randolph, John Quincy Adams, and others show Scott to be a careful and detailed observer. Present at the famous Webster-Hayne debate, he gives a rich account of that discussion and its personalities. But not only people attracted Scott's observations. In visits to Richmond, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and Pittsburgh, among other places, he gave close attention to public buildings, universities, theaters, churches, and manufacturing establishments. His comments on culture and industry detail the quickening pulse of a burgeoning nation, and compare favorably with more familiar accounts by James Silk Buckingham or Thomas Hamilton. In the second half of this work, author Thomas D. Clark traces the later life of this fascinating diarist. Scott became master of a model Kentucky plantation, "Locust Hill," and proved to be an important agricultural reformer. He was active, as well, in education and in politics. In outlining the career of this agrarian, Dr. Clark has made an important contribution to the study of southern agriculture and the men who shaped it. Scott, in his diary comments, made his own contribution to history by offering fine insights about the world in which he lived.

First edition. "This comprehensive study of the American frontier vividly characterizes the frontiermen and settlers and their existence, and emphasizes social and economic aspects of history. The author-- begins with the Allegheny frontier and winds up his account in 1890, a continent and more than a century afterwards"--Publisher's Weekly.

Originally published in 1984. In the early 1920s, in many a sawmill town across the South, the last quitting-time whistle signaled the cutting of the last log of a company's timber holdings and the end of an era in southern lumbering. It marked the end as well of the great primeval forest that covered most of the South when Europeans first invaded it. Much of the first forest, despite the labors of pioneer loggers, remained intact after the Civil War. But after the restrictions of the Southern Homestead Act were removed in 1876, lumbermen and speculators rushed in to acquire millions of acres of virgin woodland for minimal outlays. The frantic harvest of the South's first forest began; it was not to end until thousands of square miles lay denuded and desolate, their fragile soils -- like those of the abandoned cotton lands -- exposed to rapid destruction by the elements. With the end of the sawmill era and the collapse of the southern farm economy, the emigration routes from the South to the industrial cities of the North and Midwest were thronged with people forced from the land. Yet in the first quarter of this century, even as the destruction of forest and land continued, a day of renewal was dawning. The rise of the conservation movement, the beginnings of the national forests, the development of scientific forestry and establishment of forest schools, the advance of chemical research into the use of wood pulp -- all converged even as the 1930s brought to the South the sweeping reclamation programs of the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Tennessee Valley Authority; in their wake came a new generation of wood-using industries concerned not so much with the immediate exploitation of timber as with the maintenance of a renewable resource. In The Greening of the South, this dramatic story is told by one of the participants in the renewal of the forest. Thomas D. Clark, author of many books about southern history, is also an active timber producer on lands in both Kentucky and South Carolina

Originally published in 1979. The Inner Bluegrass Region of Kentucky is a shining jewel of geography -- synonymous in the minds of many with the state of Kentucky. It is unique in many respects: the character of its land, its native vegetation, and its indigenous animal life. The way of life developed by its human inhabitants over the past two hundred years, especially its focus on the Thoroughbred horse, is also unique. The interaction of these two forces -- natural and human -- is the focus for this important work. The book includes color plates of representative plant and animal species and typical habitats. The annotated lists of 474 animal and nearly 1,200 plant species describe habitat, frequency, and distribution. Bluegrass Land and Life is a book that will delight all who share an interest in the Bluegrass region's past and present and a concern for its future.

Publication date of 1992 and copyright date of 1988 is given on verso of title page. Preface, which states this is revised and 6th edition, is dated 1977. Originally published: New York : Prentice-Hall, 1937.

Published in London, Kentucky by the Laurel County Historical Society. 476 pages; illustrations; map.

Bicentennial edition. With a new forward by the author. From its origins in the Cumberland Mountains to its entry into the Ohio, the Kentucky River flows through two areas that have made Kentucky known throughout the world -- the mountains in the eastern part of the state and the Bluegrass in its center. In The Kentucky, Thomas D. Clark paints a rich panorama of history and life along the river, peopled with the famous and infamous, ordinary folk and legendary characters. It is a canvas distinctly emblematic of the American experience. The Kentucky was first published in 1942 as part of the "Rivers of America" series and has long been out of print. Reissued in this new enlarged edition, it brings back to life a distinguished contribution to Kentuckiana and is itself a historical document. In his new conclusion for this edition, Dr. Clark discusses some of the tremendous changes that have taken place since the book's initial publication.

304 pages; maps (some color).

During the early years of the U.S. Republic, its vital southwestern quadrant--encompassing the modern-day states between South Carolina and Louisiana--experienced nearly unceasing conflict. In The Old Southwest, 1795-1830: Frontiers in Conflict, historians Thomas D. Clark and John D. W. Guice analyze the many disputes that resulted when the United States pushed aside a hundred thousand Indians and overtook the final vestiges of Spanish, French, and British presence in the wilderness. Leaders such as Andrew Jackson, who emerged during the Creek War, introduced new policies of Indian removal and state making, along with a decided willingness to let adventurous settlers open up the new territories as a part of the Manifest Destiny of a growing country.

Originally published in 1944. The country store and its influence on life in the Southern United states from the end of the Civil War to 1915. 306 pages.

Second edition. Originally published in 1968 by Pleasant Hill Press.

Originally published in 1939. 350 pages.

"First published in 1948, The Southern Country Editor is a study of the country press from the time of the Civil War to the 1930s. More than a mere account of the country newspaper, it is a picture of eighty years of Southern life and thought."--Back cover.

Reprint of the ed. published by Oxford University Press, New York, 1967. 438 pages.

American heritage series. 612 pages.

Originally published in 1968. The casual and the serious of American history -- fiddlers, yarn spinners, and riverboat gamblers, politicians, educators, and social reformers -- have all concerned Thomas D. Clark, celebrated historian of the Western frontier and the changing South. Three American Frontiers, a volume of his selected writings, draws from works produced throughout Clark's long career as a writer, teacher, and lecturer on the frontier West, social change in the South, and the cutting-edge of historical research. An avid researcher and a tenacious collector of original materials, Clark looks to the everyday items like the record book of a country store, the file of a small-town newspaper, or the diary of a young Gold Rusher for aids to the analysis of larger trends in history. Holman Hamilton conveys Clark's unique approach to his material and his enthusiasm for the common man in America's past.

Fiction. Short stories. 376 pages.

Housed at the Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort, Kentucky.

DVD. "In interviews conducted over the last two years of his life, distinguished Kentucky historian Dr. Thomas D. Clark (1903-2005) reflects on the state's past; current issues facing the Commonwealth; and his own 70-year career as researcher, writer, teacher, and advocate."--Publishers website.

History. Juvenile literature. 349 pages; illustrations; map.

When Thomas D. Clark was hired to teach history at the University of Kentucky in 1931, he began a career that would span nearly three-quarters of a century and would profoundly change not only the history department and the university but the entire Commonwealth. His still-definitive History of Kentucky (1937) was one of more than thirty books he would write or edit that dealt with Kentucky, the South, and the American frontier. In addition to his wide scholarly contributions, Clark devoted his life to the preservation of Kentucky's historical records. He began this crusade by collecting vast stores of Kentucky's military records from the War of 1812, the Mexican War, and the Civil War. His efforts resulted in the Commonwealth's first archival system and the subsequent creation of the Kentucky Library and Archives, the University of Kentucky Special Collections and Archives, the Kentucky Oral History Commission, the Kentucky History Center (recently named for him), and the University Press of Kentucky. Born in 1903 on a cotton farm in Louisville, Mississippi, Thomas Dionysius Clark would follow a long and winding path to find his life's passion in the study of history. He dropped out of school after seventh grade to work first at a sawmill and then on a canal dredgeboat before resuming his formal education. Clark's earliest memories -- hearing about local lynch-mob violence and witnessing the destruction of virgin forest -- are an invaluable window into the national issues of racial injustice and environmental depredation. In many ways, the story of Dr. Clark's life is the story of America in the twentieth century. In My Century in History, Clark offers vivid memories of his journey, both personal and academic, a journey that took him from Mississippi to Kentucky and North Carolina, to leadership of the nation's major historical organizations, and to visiting professorships in Austria, England, Greece, and India, as well as in universities throughout the United States. An enormously popular public lecturer and teacher, he touched thousands of lives in Kentucky and around the world. With his characteristic wit and insight, Clark now offers his many admirers one final volume of history -- his own.

Originally published: New York : Farrar & Rinehart, 1943. No part of American history is more exciting than the 1770's, when Europeans first settled west of the Appalachian mountains in the land now known as Kentucky. Simon Kenton's story is synonymous with the story of that era. His life of excitement, adventure, and danger on the frontier made him one of the leading heroes of that time and eventually, a Kentucky legend. 208 pages.

American Exploration and Travel Series, 36. In v. 2, this work is incorrectly listed as v. 37, in the series.
v. 1. The postwar South, 1865-1900
v. 2. The twentieth-century South, 1900-1955

Originally published in 3 volumes: Norman, Okla. : University of Oklahoma Press, 1956-1959.
v. 1. The formative years, 1527-1783: from the Spanish explorations through the American Revolution --
v. 2. The expanding South, 1750-1825: the Ohio Valley and the cotton frontier --
v. 3. The ante-bellum South, 1825-1860: cotton, slavery, and conflict.

"Designed by P.J. Conkwright ... fifty copies bound by Jonathan Greene in Fabriano handmade paper ..."
Limited ed. of 51 copies.
Signed: Bruce F. Denbo & Kenneth W. Elliott.

Archival material. Consists primarily of research notes compiled by Thomas Clark and his research assistants for use in the writing of Indiana University, Midwestern pioneer. A second series contains transcripts of interviews conducted by Clark with faculty and administrators of Indiana University. A third series contains some page and galley proofs, typescripts, and illustration lists.

Special numbered leather-bound edition, signed by Dr. Clark! By the flip of a coin, Thomas Dionysius Clark became intertwined in the vast history of Kentucky. In 1928, Clark received scholarships to both the University of Cincinnati and to the University of Kentucky. Kentucky won the coin toss and the claim to one of the South's eminent historians. In 1990, when the Kentucky General Assembly honored Clark by declaring him Kentucky's Historian Laureate for life, Governor Brereton Jones described Clark as "Kentucky's greatest treasure." Historian, advocate, educator, preservationist, publisher, writer, mentor, friend, Kentuckian -- Dr. Clark has filled all these roles and more. Thomas D. Clark of Kentucky is a celebration of his life and career by just a few of those who have felt his influence and shared his enthusiasm for his adopted home state of Kentucky.

"What Adolph Rupp was to Kentucky basketball, Thomas Clark is to Kentucky history." Those words of Bill Cunningham, lawyer and author from Kuttawa, Kentucky, sum up--in a way Kentuckians can appreciate--the tremendous talent and knowledge of the late Dr. Thomas D. Clark, premiere historian of the South.

Photographs by Charles Bertram and David Stephenson; text by Jim Warren. 64 pages; color illustrations; 24 x 28 cm.

First published in 1999. In this sequel to Conversations with Kentucky Writers, L. Elisabeth Beattie brings together in-depth interviews with sixteen of the state's premiere wordsmiths. This new volume offers the perspectives of poets, journalists, and scholars as they discuss their views on creativity, the teaching of writing, and the importance of Kentucky in their work. They talk frankly about how and why they do what they do. The writers speak for themselves, and their thoughts come alive on the page. Beattie's interviews reveal the allegiances and alliances among Kentucky writers that have shaped literary trends by bringing together people with shared interests, values, subjects, and styles. The interviewees include authors who are captivated in other writers and in what they have to say about the process and craft of writing; educators who are interested in Kentucky writers and what their work reveals about the nature of creativity; and historians who are concerned with Kentucky's literary and cultural heritage. The interviews reveal patterns in Kentucky literature from mid-century to the millennium, as authors talk about how their sense of place has changed over the decades and reveal the ways in which the roots of Kentucky writing have produced a literary flowering at the century's end. Includes: Sallie Bingham, Joy Bale Boone, Thomas D. Clark, John Egerton, Sarah Gorham, Lynwood Montell, Maureen Morehead, John Ed Pearce, Ameilia Blossom Pegram, Karen Robards, Jeffrey Skinner, Frederick Smock, Frank Steele, Martha Bennett Stiles, Richard Taylor, and Michael Williams.

Poems; 127 pages.

DVD video. This disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives. Originally produced as a motion picture in 2001; broadcast on television on KET Kentucky Educational Television's Kentucky Muse series on February 5, 2008.
"Coal Black voices is an intimate mosaic of images, poetry, and storytelling by Afrilachian poets as they give glimpses of life in the American Black South and Appalachian region. The ensemble of African-American writers challenge simple notions of an all white Appalachian region and culture while drawing on the traditions such as the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, and the experiences of the African Disapora. The poetry of the Affrilachian poets celebrates their African heritage and rural roots while encompassing themes of racism and Black identity. In this documentary they give voice to the pleasures of family, land, good food, artistic community, music and transformation"--Container.

Published later as v. 4 of "The life, correspondence and speeches of Henry Clay," in 6 volumes. 639 pages; illustrations.

11 volumes.

Electronic eBook.

Speech delivered in the Senate of the United States, February 2nd, 3rd, and 6th, 1832.

Speech delivered in the Senate of the United States, December 26, 30, 1833.

10 volumes.

2 volumes.

In 1850, with Northerners demanding that slavery be outlawed in the vast new territory America had just acquired in the Mexican- American War, Southerners threatened to secede from the Union. Veteran statesman Henry Clay proffered a solution: the Compromise of 1850, which saved the Union from dissolution for the next ten years and gave the North time to build its industrial might so that it could defeat the South once secession was at hand. Historian Robert V. Remini masterfully shows how Clay's recognition of the need for bipartisanship in times of crisis saved the Union--not once, but twice.

Known as the Great Compromiser, Henry Clay earned his title by addressing sectional tensions over slavery and forestalling civil war in the United States. Today he is still regarded as one of the most important political figures in American history. As Speaker of the House of Representatives and secretary of state, Clay left an indelible mark on American politics at a time when the country's solidarity was threatened by inner turmoil, and scholars have thoroughly chronicled his political achievements. However, little attention has been paid to his extensive family legacy. In The Family Legacy of Henry Clay: In the Shadow of a Kentucky Patriarch, Lindsey Apple explores the personal history of this famed American and examines the impact of his legacy on future generations of Clays. Apple's study delves into the family's struggles with physical and emotional problems such as depression and alcoholism. The book also analyzes the role of financial stress as the family fought to reestablish its fortune in the years after the Civil War. Apple's extensively researched volume illuminates a little-discussed aspect of Clay's life and heritage, and highlights the achievements and contributions of one of Kentucky's most distinguished families.

Enormously powerful, intensely ambitious, the very personifications of their respective regions--Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and John C. Calhoun represented the foremost statemen of their age. In the decades preceding the Civil War, they dominated American congressional politics as no other figures have. Now Merrill D. Peterson, one of our most gifted historians, brilliantly re-creates the lives and times of these great men in this monumental collective biography. Arriving on the national scene at the onset of the War of 1812 and departing political life during the ordeal of the Union in 1850-52, Webster, Clay, and Calhoun opened--and closed--a new era in American politics. In outlook and style, they represented startling contrasts: Webster, the Federalist and staunch New England defender of the Union; Clay, the "war hawk" and National Rebublican leader from the West; Calhoun, the youthful nationalist who became the foremost spokesman of the South and slavery. They came together in the Senate for the first time in 1832, united in their opposition of Andrew Jackson, and thus gave birth to the idea of the "Great Triumvirate." Entering the history books, this idea survived the test of time because these men divided so much of American politics between them for so long. Peterson brings to life the great events in which the Triumvirate figured so prominently, including the debates on Clay's American System, the Missouri Compromise, the Webster-Hayne debate, the Bank War, the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, the annexation of Texas, and the Compromise of 1850. At once a sweeping narrative and a penetrating study of non-presidential leadership, this book offers an indelible picture of this conservative era in which statesmen viewed the preservation of the legacy of free government inherited from the Founding Fathers as their principal mission. In fascinating detail, Peterson demonstrates how precisely Webster, Clay, and Calhoun exemplify three facets of this national mind.

From New York Timesbestselling historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how, in nineteenth-century America, a new set of political giants battled to complete the unfinished work of the Founding Fathers and decide the future of our democracy In the early 1800s, three young men strode onto the national stage, elected to Congress at a moment when the Founding Fathers were beginning to retire to their farms. Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, a champion orator known for his eloquence, spoke for the North and its business class. Henry Clay of Kentucky, as dashing as he was ambitious, embodied the hopes of the rising West. South Carolina's John Calhoun, with piercing eyes and an even more piercing intellect, defended the South and slavery. Together these heirs of Washington, Jefferson and Adams took the country to war, battled one another for the presidency and set themselves the task of finishing the work the Founders had left undone. Their rise was marked by dramatic duels, fierce debates, scandal and political betrayal. Yet each in his own way sought to remedy the two glaring flaws in the Constitution- its refusal to specify where authority ultimately rested, with the states or the nation, and its unwillingness to address the essential incompatibility of republicanism and slavery. They wrestled with these issues for four decades, arguing bitterly and hammering out political compromises that held the Union together, but only just. Then, in 1850, when California moved to join the Union as a free state, "the immortal trio" had one last chance to save the country from the real risk of civil war. But, by that point, they had never been further apart. Thrillingly and authoritatively, H. W. Brands narrates an epic American rivalry and the little-known drama of the dangerous early years of our democracy.

Among the nineteenth-century Americans, few commanded the reverence and respect accorded to Henry Clay of Kentucky. As orator and as Speaker of the House for longer than any man in the century, he wielded great power, a compelling presence in Congress who helped preserve the Union in the antebellum period. Remini portrays both the statesman and the private man, a man whose family life was painfully torn and who burned with ambition for the office he could not reach, the presidency.

He was the Great Compromiser, a canny and colorful legislator whose life mirrors the story of America from its founding until the eve of the Civil War. Speaker of the House, senator, secretary of state, five-time presidential candidate, and idol to the young Abraham Lincoln, Henry Clay is captured in full at last in this rich and sweeping biography. David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler present Clay in his early years as a precocious, witty, and optimistic Virginia farm boy who at the age of twenty transformed himself into an attorney. The authors reveal Clay's tumultuous career in Washington, including his participation in the deadlocked election of 1824 that haunted him for the rest of his career, and shine new light on Clay's marriage to plain, wealthy Lucretia Hart, a union that lasted fifty-three years and produced eleven children. Featuring an inimitable supporting cast including Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Abraham Lincoln, Henry Clay is beautifully written and replete with fresh anecdotes and insights. Horse trader and risk taker, arm twister and joke teller, Henry Clay was the consummate politician who gave ground, made deals, and changed the lives of millions.

Biography. Series: Library of American Biography. 209 pages.

Though he was best known as a politician, Henry Clay (1777-1852) maintained an active legal practice for more than fifty years. He was a leading contributor both to the early development of the U.S. legal system and to the interaction between law and politics in pre-Civil War America. During the years of Clay's practice, modern American law was taking shape, building on the English experience but working out the new rules and precedents that a changing and growing society required. Clay specialized in property law, a natural choice at a time of entangled land claims, ill-defined boundaries, and inadequate state and federal procedures. He argued many precedent-setting cases, some of them before the U.S. Supreme Court. Maurice Baxter contends that Clay's extensive legal work in this area greatly influenced his political stances on various land policy issues. During Clay's lifetime, property law also included questions pertaining to slavery. With Daniel Webster, he handled a very significant constitutional case concerning the interstate slave trade. Baxter provides an overview of the federal and state court systems of Clay's time. After addressing Clay's early legal career, he focuses on Clay's interest in banking issues, land-related economic matters, and the slave trade. The portrait of Clay that emerges from this inquiry shows a skilled lawyer who was deeply involved with the central legal and economic issues of his day.

First published in 1887. Biography.

Reprint. Originally published in 1913. This is a biography of a great American statesman and U.S. Senator of the nineteenth century.

Though they were not, as Charlotte claimed, refugees from the French Revolution, Augustus Waldemar and Charlotte Victoire Mentelle undoubtedly felt like exiles in their adopted hometown of Lexington, Kentucky -- a settlement that was still a frontier town when they arrived in 1798. Through the years, the cultured Parisian couple often reinvented themselves out of necessity, but their most famous venture was Mentelle's for Young Ladies, an intellectually rigorous school that attracted students from around the region and greatly influenced its most well-known pupil, Mary Todd Lincoln. Drawing on newly translated materials and previously overlooked primary sources, Randolph Paul Runyon explores the life and times of the important but understudied pair in this intriguing dual biography. He illustrates how the Mentelles' origins and education gave them access to the higher strata of Bluegrass society even as their views on religion, politics, and culture kept them from feeling at home in America. They were intimates of statesman Henry Clay, and one of their daughters married into the Clay family, but like other immigrant families in the region, they struggled to survive. Throughout, Runyon reveals the Mentelles as eloquent chroniclers of crucial moments in Ohio and Kentucky history, from the turn of the nineteenth century to the eve of the Civil War. They rankled at the baleful influence of conservative religion on the local college, the influence of whiskey on the local population, and the scandal of slavery in the land of liberty. This study sheds new light on the lives of a remarkable pair who not only bore witness to key events in early American history, but also had a singular impact on the lives of their friends, their students, and their community.

Often forgotten and overlooked, the U.S.-Mexican War featured false starts, atrocities, and daring back-channel negotiations as it divided the nation, paved the way for the Civil War a generation later, and launched the career of Abraham Lincoln. Amy S. Greenberg's skilled storytelling and rigorous scholarship bring this American war for empire to life with memorable characters, plotlines, and legacies.nbsp; nbsp; When President James K. Polk compelled a divided Congress to support his war with Mexico, it was the first time that the young American nation would engage another republic in battle. Caught up in the conflict and the political furor surrounding it were Abraham Lincoln, then a new congressman; Polk, the dour president committed to territorial expansion at any cost; and Henry Clay, the aging statesman whose presidential hopes had been frustrated once again, but who still harbored influence and had one last great speech up his sleeve. Beyond these illustrious figures, A Wicked War follows several fascinating and long-neglected characters: Lincoln's archrival John Hardin, whose death opened the door to Lincoln's rise; Nicholas Trist, gentleman diplomat and secret negotiator, who broke with his president to negotiate a fair peace; and Polk's wife, Sarah, whose shrewd politicking was crucial in the Oval Office. This definitive history of the 1846 conflict paints an intimate portrait of the major players and their world. It is a story of Indian fights, Manifest Destiny, secret military maneuvers, gunshot wounds, and political spin. Along the way it captures a young Lincoln mismatching his clothes, the lasting influence of the Founding Fathers, the birth of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and America's first national antiwar movement. A key chapter in the creation of the United States, it is the story of a burgeoning nation and an unforgettable conflict that has shaped American history.nbsp;nbsp;

The ultimate book on hunting in Kentucky by a master photojournalist and outdoorsman. Tips on the sport are intermixed with stories of the author's experiences in the wild and with other hunters.

An informative and entertaining look at bass fishing in Kentucky provided by a well-known sports fisherman and outdoor writer, Soc Clay.

A history of Kentucky's poets laureate since 1926. Contains works by J.T. Cotton Noe, Edward Gay Hill, Louise Scott Phillips, Edwin Carlisle Litsey, Jesse Hilton Stuart, Lowell Allen Williams, Lillian D. Chaffin, Senator Tom Mobley, Agnes Todd Saffell O'Rear, Clarence "Soc" Henry Clay, Lee Pennington, Paul Salyers, Dale Faughn, Jim Wayne Miller, Henry E. Pilkenton, James H. Patton, James Still, Joy Bale Boone, Richard Lawrence Taylor, James Baker Hall and Joe Survant.

Nick Clooney, one of America's most respected film critics and historians, presents a distinctive catalog of movies that have influenced and altered not only the world of cinema, but also the world in which we live. Since the advent of moving pictures, there have been films that exist as more than just entertainment. These rare movies have touched the collective soul of the public with such passion and artistic skill that they have actually changed the way we view life, history, and ourselves. Some have transformed the way movies are made and viewed -- and some have actually transformed us. In The Movies That Changed Us, Clooney explores, explains, and theorizes upon twenty films -- reaching from 1998 back to 1915 -- that forever shifted our perceptions about race, religion, sex, politics, and the very definition of humanity. From the ambitiously epic -- though manifestly racist -- Birth of a Nation, to the controversial violence of Taxi Driver, to the mythic idealism and visual cornucopia of 2001:A Space Odyssey and Star Wars, Clooney relates the stories behind the camera in an informative, engaging, and personal chronicle of cinema and society. First published in 2002.

"My Kentucky Home is a loving tribute to Kentucky told through the profiles of some of its most accomplished individuals. From those who attained celebrity status for their achievements in art, entertainment and sports, to those who worked tirelessly with or without recognition to move Kentucky forward, the book illuminates what has always been the state's greatest aspect, its people."

Columnist & radio personality Nick Clooney shares his life experiences with stories & observations in this 300-page book with family photos of the popular Clooney family. Nick's son, actor George Clooney, & Nick's sister, entertainer Rosemary Clooney, are featured throughout the book.

DVD. Documentary. "In April 2006 veteran journalist Nick Clooney was asked by his son, George, to accompany him to the troubled region of Darfur. The goal was to shine a light on the modern day genocide occurring in this remote and desolate region of Africa. They went unannounced; without press, without escort and without security, just Nick, George and cameraman, Mike Herron, a personal friend. This documentary is an account of their journey, the stories of unimaginable violence that have befallen the Darfurians and the courage of the aid workers who struggle to provide relief to two hundred thousand refugees. The documentary also provides background on the crises and the efforts of individuals and groups to stand up and say, "Not on our watch!"