Kentucky Historical Society Research Fellowship Program Spring Deadline March 1, 2022

The Kentucky Historical Society (KHS) is seeking applications for the KHS research fellowship program for the spring 2022 cycle. The program provides funding for academic researchers whose projects focus on Kentucky or larger regional-related topics. Time periods are open - researchers have used the Kentucky Historical Society's archival holdings to shed light on a vast array of topics, including resistance and slavery, politics, medical history, religion, early frontier, and environmentalism and economic development.

Re: Frankfort Suffrage Women Cemetery Project

Congratulations to the Frankfort Suffrage Women Cemetery Project members!  A donation of $10,000 has been given to the Frankfort Cemetery to support the project to identify and honor suffrage leaders buried in the Frankfort Cemetery. Bronze medallions, designed by Sallie Clay Lanham, great granddaughter of Mary Barr Clay, have been placed at the gravesites of twenty-five women and men buried in the Frankfort Cemetery.

Re: Women's Equality Celebration in Downtown Frankfort, 21 August 2021

These Frankfort activists below will be honored with a bronze medallion at their gravesites in the Frankfort Cemetery, thanks to the leadership of Mary Ann Burch. At 9:00 AM on August 21, you can participate in a one hour guided tour. Transportation provided via Frankfort Trolley. Register at the Cemetery office, 215 E Main St, Frankfort, KY 40601. Download the (.pdf) brochure of the tour here.

Kentucky Historical Society Research Fellowship Fall Deadline October 1, 2021

The Kentucky Historical Society (KHS) is seeking applications for the KHS research fellowship program for the fall 2021 cycle. The program provides funding for academic researchers whose projects focus on Kentucky or larger regional-related topics. Time periods are open - researchers have used the Kentucky Historical Society's archival holdings to shed light on a vast array of topics, including resistance and slavery, politics, medical history and addiction, religion, activism, early frontier, and environmentalism and economic development.

Kentucky Historical Society Research Fellowship Fall Deadline October 1, 2021

The Kentucky Historical Society (KHS) is seeking applications for the KHS research fellowship program for the fall 2021 cycle. The program provides funding for academic researchers whose projects focus on Kentucky or larger regional-related topics. Time periods are open - researchers have used the Kentucky Historical Society's archival holdings to shed light on a vast array of topics, including resistance and slavery, politics, medical history and addiction, religion, activism, early frontier, and environmentalism and economic development.

TOC: Register of The Kentucky Historical Society, Spring 2020

Table of Contents for The Register of The Kentucky Historical Society
Volume 118, Number 2, Spring 2020
https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/44840

Editor's Page
Stephanie M. Lang, The Kentucky Historical Society
pp. 231-232

"Television belongs to everyone": The Life, Vision, and Legacy of Kentuckian Julian Goodman
Anthony Harkins, History faculty, Western Kentucky University
pp. 233-274

Re: Dedication Ceremony for Ky Historical Marker for Nannie Helen Burroughs

Side 1 at bottom of Burroughs Marker reads: Presented by Cheri B. Hamilton and Genie Potter. Side 2 at bottom reads: Louisville Office for Women. Tina Ward-Pugh, director, organized installation of Marker and the dedication day. It was a three-way team to get the Marker text okayed and into the ground!

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