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...
In the wake of the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil in history, President George W. Bush delivers a much anticipated speech to a Joint Session of Congress, outlining America’s reaction to the unprecedented...
As one of the authors of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson’s words helped found a nation. But did you know that he also invented the modern day swivel...
The Battle of Middle Creek took place in Floyd County on January 10, 1862, but why was it so important to the legacy of the American Civil War and the history of the...
In 1775, David Bushnell pushed the limits of engineering to design a military submarine dubbed the Turtle Submersible, which he created to help the US fight back against the British Royal...
In protest against the Vietnam War – one of the most divisive conflicts in US history – American musicians wrote and performed hundreds of songs calling for peace and criticising the US government’s handling of the...
With the country on the brink of war, lawyer and patriot Patrick Henry delivers a speech on the rights of the colonies before the Second Virginia Assembly. His words ‘give me liberty or give me death’ would become the war cry of the...
Combining music, dance and dialogue to tell visually and emotionally engaging stories, musical theater can be traced back to ancient Greece, where musicians would often accompany lines delivered by actors. But it wasn’t until the late 19th century that musical...
At a time when the British ruled over the 13 colonies of North America with an iron fist, poet, playwright and ‘whistleblower’ Mercy Otis Warren – used her words to throw serious shade their...
This is the story of Route 23, known as the Country Music Highway that stretches across Eastern Kentucky, the home of some of America’s greatest Country Music...
Did you know that during the American Revolutionary War some American women disguised themselves as men in order to join the fight? Women played a critical role both on the homefront and on the...
