Welcome to H-Kentucky

The goal of H-Kentucky is to create an online collaborative environment to facilitate communication and the exchange or scholarly and pedagogical ideas among teachers, researchers, scholars, advanced students, and related professionals (e.g. local historians, librarians, archivists, genealogists), all in an open, democratic, respectful and non-partisan manner. H-Kentucky especially welcomes those who are interested in Kentucky, as well as those in any history/humanities field who live and/or work in Kentucky. 

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Discussion published by Randolph Hollingsworth on Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Mary Elliott Flanery, first female state legislator elected in Kentucky and the South

When Mary Elliott Flanery (D-Catlettsburg) of Boyd County took her seat in the lower house of the General Assembly in January 1922, she was the first female state legislator elected in Kentucky and the first female legislator elected south of the Mason–Dixon line. The 1921 state elections in the South were crucial in justifying the fight for women's right to participate in electoral politics. The elections in Boyd County (for the Kentucky House of Representatives District No.

Discussion published by Randolph Hollingsworth on Sunday, June 14, 2020

ANN: WVCI's National History Day grants for student prizes in Kentucky

For National History Day, 2020 Women's Vote Centennial Initiative provided grants to state history day programs which funded prizes for projects on the suffrage movement. For the National History Day competitions in Kentucky, the following prizewinning students earned WVCI grants for the Kentucky Historical Society:

Discussion published by Randolph Hollingsworth on Sunday, June 14, 2020

REV: William D. Bryan's The Price of Permanence: Nature and Business in the New South (x-post from H-SHGAPE)

Book Review of

William D. Bryan. The Price of Permanence: Nature and Business in the New South. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2018. 254 pp. $54.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8203-5339-5.