Today we know the risks of smoking tobacco, but over 100 years ago the dangers were less so, and tobacco became a booming business in Kentucky. Its success can in part be credited to the Burley tobacco...
Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis led Americans in the American Civil War: Both men were born in Kentucky where our story takes place. But what happened to them both once the war...
The Emancipation Proclamation is one of the most important documents in US history. Issued at the height of the American Civil War, it granted freedom to enslaved people living in the eleven breakaway states of the...
James Edward Hanger was hit by shrapnel from a cannonball at the beginning of the American Civil War, but rather than settle for a pegleg, he returned home to Virginia and began designing an alternative – the world’s first articulated prosthetic that could...
Harlan County coal miners in the 1930s went on a labour strike protesting about the conditions Coal companies and the local police forces put them under. It broke out into civil unrest and Unions were...
