The untold story of the world's premier bourbon and the family that made it #1 American Still Life tells the intertwined true stories of America's favorite whiskey and the family dynasty that produces it to this very day. Jim Beam is the world's top-selling bourbon whiskey, with sales of over five million cases per year. Not a day has passed in the 207 years of Jim ...

Manufacturer: Wiley
Written By: F. Paul Pacult

Among the darkest corners of Kentucky's past are the grisly feuds that tore apart the hills of Eastern Kentucky from the late nineteenth century until well into the twentieth. Now, from the tangled threads of conflicting testimony, John Ed Pearce, Kentucky's best known journalist, weaves engrossing accounts of six of the most notorious and long-running feuds - those in Breathitt, Clay, Harlan, ...

Manufacturer: University Press of Kentucky
Written By: John Ed Pearce

This book tells about the solid history of the Commonwealth that fills an urgent need as Kentucky faces its most challenging century.

Manufacturer: University Press of Kentucky
Written By: Lowell H. Harrison, James C. Klotter

Based on interviews conducted by the University of Kentucky's Family Farm Project and supplemented by archival research, photographs, and recipes, "Food and Everyday Life on Kentucky Family Farms, 1920-1950", recalls a vanishing way of life in rural Kentucky. John van Willigen and Anne van Willigen illuminate how the revolutionary change from subsistence to market-based agricultural production, ...

Manufacturer: University Press of Kentucky
Written By: John Van Willigen, Anne Van Willigen

This work, which treats the same area as Kozee's Early Families of Eastern and Southeastern Kentucky , is largely a source-book of genealogical data, rather than a collection of family histories. Genealogical information on each county is uniform and is arranged in the following manner: first is given the boundary and establishment by law of each county; next, a synopsis of the ...

Manufacturer: Genealogical Pub Co
Written By: William C. Kozee

Kentucky Ancestry is the most extensive available guide for Kentucky genealogical and historical research! This genealogical gem outlines the holdings of the Kentucky State Archives and Kentucky's libraries, courthouses, universities, and historical organizations! Author Hogan's experience and knowledge will help you achieve efficient and successful research in Kentucky - a state that played an ...

Manufacturer: Ancestry.com
Written By: Roseann Reinemuth Hogan

The saga of the Ledfords of Lancaster, Kentucky, Generations transcends family biography to become a social history of our national experience, a metaphor of America. This twentieth anniversary edition brings the Ledfords’ remarkable story up to date.

Manufacturer: University Press of Kentucky
Written By: John Egerton

Named for King Louis XVI of France in appreciation for his assistance during the Revolutionary War, Louisville was founded by George Rogers Clark in 1778. While its initial growth was slow, the advent of the steamboat in the early 1800s sparked booming industrial development, and by 1830 Louisville had secured its place as the largest city in Kentucky. During the Civil War, Louisville was ...

Manufacturer: University Press of Kentucky

The first comprehensive reference work to pull together facts about the people, places, things, and events that have made Kentucky both a seedbed of change and a place where tradition plays an honored role. More than 2,000 entries reflect all areas of the Commonwealth and span the time from prehistoric settlement to today's headlines, recording Kentucky's achievements in art, architecture, ...

Manufacturer: University Press of Kentucky

Manufacturer: State University of New York Press
Written By: Alessandro Portelli