Kentucky Rising: Democracy, Slavery, and Culture from the Early Republic to the Civil War - Couverture rigide

Ramage, James A; Watkins, Andrea S

 
9780813134406: Kentucky Rising: Democracy, Slavery, and Culture from the Early Republic to the Civil War

Synopsis

t is sometimes said that Kentucky joined the South after the Civil War, and many books have been devoted to studying the influence of the war and its aftermath on the Commonwealth. But less is known about the decades before the Civil War. In Generations of Hope: Kentucky, 1800-1865, James Ramage and Andrea Watkins explore this crucial but often overlooked period, finding that that the early years of statehood comprised an era of great hope and progress. Ramage and Watkins demonstrate how Kentuc

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À propos des auteurs

James A. Ramage, Regents Professor of History at Northern Kentucky University, is the author of John Wesley Hunt: Pioneer Merchant, Manufacturer, and Financier and Rebel Raider: The Life of General John Hunt Morgan. He lives in Highland Heights, Kentucky.

Andrea S. Watkins is assistant professor of history at Northern Kentucky University.

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