Author of 5 books, including the new “Anatomy of a Duel.” Past exec dir of Perryville Battlefield Preservation Assoc. Work in public history.
Joined January 2014
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8,600 interviews. 20 years of work. Countless Kentucky stories!
KHS has digitized its entire oral history collection, preserving voices from across the Commonwealth for future generations.
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RIP to Wendell Berry, one or the best literary voices this state has ever produced.
Berry was a brilliant writer who spent his life advocating for environment, conservation and the small farmer in rural America
A genius from Henry County who was the best of the Commonwealth
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Christopher Gist was a frontiersman and surveyor whose knowledge and experience of western lands George Washington relied on while they traveled to the Ohio Country in 1754.
This recently acquired journal opens in November of 1753 when Washington requests Gist's services to address the French encroachment in the Ohio Valley. This is one of a few documents that help us shed light on a young George Washington.
You can read that and more online here: bit.ly/4pxWfSX
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Tonight at 8/7, or streaming anytime, Kentucky Life. Lost River Cave, dog mayors, Thomas D. Clark Center for Kentucky History, and The Official Burt the Cat Fanclub newsletter. ket.org/program/kentucky-lif…
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Tune in at 8 on KET as Kentucky Tonight explores state history with John Kleber of @moreheadstate, @simonmeiners of Frazier History Museum, @StuartWSanders of @KyHistSoc and Gerald Smith of @universityofky.
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Hatched ca. 1832–the same year Lincoln first ran for IL House of Representatives!
Jonathan the oldest tortoise is alive and well - and enjoying some bananas today on St. Helena 🐢🍌
🎥 @sthelenatourism @GO_ASHT
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On October 3, 1863, President Lincoln issued a proclamation designating “the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving.” Lincoln’s announcement marked the culmination of a multi-decade campaign by Sarah Josepha Hale to make Thanksgiving into a national holiday.
📄 Read the proclamation here: bit.ly/4eM2iMV
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Lexington’s historic Pope Villa was home for KY politician John Pope kentucky.com/news/know-your-…
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CAPE VERDE, POPULATION 560,000, QUALIFY FOR A FIRST-EVER WORLD CUP 🇨🇻
The second-smallest nation ever to achieve that feat. Every US state has a bigger population, yet the Blue Sharks are on their way to football's big dance 🦈
Soak up these scenes 💙
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Hard to believe it's fall but...research funding alert 🚨 #twitterstorians. Fall deadline for the KHS research fellowship program is October 1, 2025. Funding available for wide range of research topics & time periods. Come see us in #Kentucky! 🐎 history.ky.gov/khs-for-me/fo…
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A 7-year-study of 70,000 elderly people from 19 towns in Japan has found that the more public library books there are in a town, the fewer residents need long-term nursing care.
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Veterans of the Civil War are often depicted as having reconciled in reunions in the late nineteenth century. Grainy images often show grizzled veterans shaking hands, symbolically pulling the nation back together. Yet how accurate is this portrayal?
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Last year while in Cincy, I found this Black Brigade of Cincinnati marker. After CSA forces in KY threatened Cincinnati in 1862, black men in the city were rounded up and forced to build fortifications on both sides of the river. Many of them later served in USCT units. #CivilWar
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Established in 1949, Kentucky's Historical Marker Program is among the oldest and largest in the U.S., with over 2,400 markers across all 120 counties.
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