During the 1840s and 1850s, a dangerous ferment afflicted the North-South border region,
pitting the slave states of Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri against the free states …

" A History of Blacks in Kentucky traces the role of blacks from the early exploration and
settlement of Kentucky to 1891, when African Americans gained freedom only to be faced …

Over the years, America's national elections have become focused almost exclusively on
Democrats and Republicans; other parties exist but rarely rise to prominence. Elections at …

With a Foreword by Angela Y. Davis Winner of the 2003 Oral History Association Book
AwardWinner of the 2003 Gustavus Myers Center for Human Rights Outstanding Book …

In Kentucky, the slavery debate raged for thirty years before the Civil War began. While
whites in the lower South argued that slavery was good for master and slave, many white …

Paul Theobald chronicles the history of the one-room country schools that were spread
throughout the rural Midwest during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing …

Integrating social, cultural, economic, and political history, this is a study of the factors that
grounded--or swayed--the loyalties of non-Spaniards living under Spanish rule on the …

The intent of principal preparation “is to produce leaders”(Milstein, 1992, p. 10) that have the
requisite knowledge, dispositions, and skills to lead contemporary schools competently and …

Carl R. Osthaus examines the southern contribution to American Press history, from Thomas
Ritchie's mastery of sectional politics and the New Orleans Picayune's popular voice and …

Kentucky's first settlers brought with them a dedication to democracy and a sense of limitless
hope about the future. Determined to participate in world progress in science, education …