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| Preface | |
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| Frontiers-Then and Now | |
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| The Past | |
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| Writing about the Past | |
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| Native Americans in Kentucky | |
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| Paleo-Indians, 10,000 to 8000 B.C. | |
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| Archaic Period, 8000 to 1000 B.C. | |
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| Woodland Period, 1000 B.C. to A.D. 1000 | |
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| Late Prehistoric Period, A.D. 1000 to 1750 | |
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| The Great Dying | |
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| The Name "Kentucky" | |
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| Starting a State | |
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| The First West | |
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| The First Explorers | |
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| What They Found | |
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| Coming to Kentucky | |
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| Settling a State | |
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| Daniel Boone | |
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| Hard Times | |
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| Choices | |
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| The End of the Frontier | |
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| Statehood | |
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| Different Kentuckys | |
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| The People of Kentucky | |
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| Kentucky Homes | |
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| The Land | |
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| Climate | |
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| Geographic Regions | |
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| Jackson Purchase | |
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| Pennyroyal (or Pennyrile) | |
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| Western Coal Fields | |
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| Bluegrass | |
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| Mountains (Eastern Coal Fields) | |
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| Cultural or Human Regions | |
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| Appalachia (Eastern Kentucky) | |
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| Northern Kentucky | |
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| Bluegrass | |
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| South-Central Kentucky | |
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| Louisville | |
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| West Kentucky | |
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| Jackson Purchase | |
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| Regionalism | |
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| Kentucky Names | |
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| The Government of Kentucky | |
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| The Kentucky Constitution | |
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| Levels and Branches of Government | |
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| The Executive Branch | |
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| The Judicial Branch | |
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| The Legislative Branch | |
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| The Mystery of "Honest Dick" Tate | |
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| Living in Kentucky | |
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| Daily Life | |
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| Clothes and Fashion | |
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| Food | |
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| Work | |
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| Health | |
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| Fun and Games | |
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| Religion | |
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| From Statehood to the Civil War | |
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| Slavery | |
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| Slave Life | |
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| Freedom | |
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| Antislavery | |
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| Key Political Leaders | |
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| Three Kentucky Presidents | |
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| The Civil War and the End of a Century | |
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| The Brothers' War | |
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| On the Battlefield | |
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| Guerrillas | |
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| Results of the War | |
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| From the End of the Civil War to the Start of a New Century | |
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| Feuds and Murders | |
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| Working in Kentucky | |
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| Farming | |
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| Early Business and King Coal | |
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| Modern Industries | |
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| Global Kentucky | |
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| Words, Music, and More | |
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| Early Writing | |
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| Twentieth-Century Writers | |
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| Modern Writers | |
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| Writing History, Poetry, and Drama | |
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| Newspapers | |
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| Music | |
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| Radio and Television | |
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| Visual Arts | |
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| Motion Pictures | |
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| Kentucky in the Twentieth Century | |
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| The Transportation Revolution | |
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| The Communication Revolution | |
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| The New Deal | |
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| Wars | |
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| Out-Migration | |
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| Equal Rights | |
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| Equal Rights for Women | |
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| Equal Rights for All Races | |
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| Politics | |
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| Kentucky's Best Year | |
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| Going to School | |
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| Early Kentucky Schools | |
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| Life in School | |
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| Special Schools | |
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| Schools in the Twentieth Century and Beyond | |
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| Colleges and Universities | |
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| College Life | |
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| Today and Tomorrow in Kentucky | |
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| A Typical Kentuckian | |
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| Saving Parts of the Past | |
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| Identifying Future Issues | |
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| The Future | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| Additional Sources for Research | |
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| Index | |