History > Kentucky
Contributor --
Don Rightmyer, Reference Librarian,
Boyle County Public Library
- Camp Breckinridge Museum and Arts Center
- This is a new museum in Union County in Western Kentucky. The news button has a virtual tour of the facility and the murals button has pictures of the murals painted by a German prisoner-of-war interned at the camp. The news stories about the dedication ceremony do carry some historical information like the fact that German prisoners-of-war and some Italian POWs were interned at Camp Breckinridge during World War II. Several other military installations in the United States were POW camps for Allied prisoners from Europe and Africa.
- Civil War in Kentucky
- A website devoted to the history of the Civil War in Kentucky. This site provides a bibliography of books and articles as well as a time line of events in Kentucky and links to other sites.
- Filson Historical Society
- The Filson Club has the distinction of being the oldest historical society in the state of Kentucky.
- Greater Cincinnati Memory Project
- Created by the Greater Cincinnati Library Consortium, this project includes historic
pre-1940's images from seven participating libraries and museums.
- Hazard, Kentucky and Perry County
- This site is A collection of photographs, articles and memories exploring the early history of this Appalachian community.
- Kentuckiana Digital Library
- This site is a searchable database of primary historical documents and finding aids. It includes photos, diaries, letters, and much more. Materials are from the special collections and archives of Kentucky libraries. Created by the KYVL and Kentucky libraries.
- Kentucky Historical Information
- This site is provided by the Kentucky Department of Libraries and Archives. Among other things, there is a wonderful list of Kentucky governors with images and brief information. There is also a list of state symbols.
- Kentucky Historical Society
- The Kentucky Historical Society is a state agency and nonprofit membership
organization that reaches across the commonwealth to collect oral histories,
promote folk life traditions and more.
- Kentucky History
- This is an un-annotated collection of sites created by the University of Louisville Library.
- Kentucky Information Page
- This site provides the most direct and quickest access to information about Kentucky. This is a good site to begin your research.
- Links to the Past
- Explore the National Park Service's resources.
- Local History Index
- "The Lexington Public Library's Local History Index is a very selective index to newspaper articles pertaining to significant people, places, events, churches, businesses and organizations in Lexington and Fayette County. In recent years some articles relating to key issues in the state of Kentucky, such as strip mining, hazardous waste and state government have been included as well."
- Travel and Tourism in 19th Century Kentucky
- Read an article on how Kentuckians got around in the 19th Century.
- Signs of History-Kentucky
- This site lists Kentucky's historical highway markers by county and includes pictures of the markers.
- Summaries of Kentucky Civil War Battles
- This site, from the National Park Service, gives information about Civil War battlegrounds in Kentucky.
- Women in Kentucky
- This site, part of a 4-part partnership project with the Kentucky Commission on Women, the Kentucky Department of Education, and KET, contains a sampling of digitized photos and primary documents from women's archival collections around the state.
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Last Updated: Friday, 15-Aug-2008 15:03:46 EDT
