Our Kentucky: A Study of the Bluegrass State

by James C. Klotter

Book Overview

Originally published in 1992 in conjunction with Kentucky's bicentennial observations and designed for use in the high school classroom, Our Kentucky remains one of the most concise, well-written introductions to the Bluegrass State. While the focus is on history, specialists in other fields contribute chapters that provide a comprehensive description of Kentucky's people and their past, present, and future. This new, expanded edition brings the scholarship...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813121450
• ISBN13: 9780813121451
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

A New History for the Commonwealth

Our Kentucky, appeared in 1993 as the first new Kentucky History text in over two decades. Since that time it has more or less become the standard text for high school Kentucky History students. The book contains sections written by several of the most distinguished Kentucky Historians including Lowell Harrison, William Ellis, Robert Ireland and Thomas D. Clark. Our Kentucky, provides a survey of the highlights of the states history up until 1993 in a more or less chronological order. The book is fairly well written yet, as stated earlier it is a survey which hits only the high points and thus leaves out quite a bit of rather important information about the Bluegrass State. The sister book of Our Kentucky, The New History of Kentucky is much more thorough and is used in most college level studies of the Bluegrass State.