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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...

Bloody Harlan – Harlan County Coal Wars

America Explained

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...

Battle of Middle Creek – Battle of Loyalties

America Explained

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...

Bluegrass Music: An Ode to America

America Explained

Kentucky’s Appalachian Mountains were the birthplace of Bluegrass Music and Bill Monroe who became the Godfather of the...

The Country Music Highway of Kentucky

America Explained

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...
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