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Horse-Riding Librarians of the Appalachian Mountains

America Explained

The Pack Horse Library Initiative saw hundreds of female librarians cross the Appalachian Mountains to deliver books to those in...

George Brittain Lyttle: The Bandit Who Couldn’t Ride A Horse

Hidden Figures

History is full of criminal masterminds – people who used cunning and skill to outwit the law. And then there is George Brittain Lyttle, the notorious stagecoach robber who couldn’t ride a...

The Tobacco Press: Revolutionising Farmers’ Gold

Museum of Artifacts That Made America

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...

Lincoln v. Davis: A Tale of Two Leaders

America Explained

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...

Why the Emancipation Proclamation didn’t include Kentucky

America Explained

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...
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