Kentucky Historical Museum Frankfort
Kentucky History Awards 2017
MASTER OF CEREMONY
Dr. Amanda L. Higgins, KHS Community Engagement Administrator
SPECIAL AWARDS
Gilder Lehrman 2017 Kentucky History Teacher of the Year
-Jennifer Faith, Eastside Middle School | Shepherdsville
Richard H. Collins Award
“They Steal Our Deer and Land: Contested Hunting Grounds
in the Trans-Applachian West”
-Andrea L. Smalley | Northern Illinois University
EDUCATION AWARDS
Charles W. Logsdon Historic Downtown Walking Tour
-Elizabethtown Heritage Council | Elizabethtown
“I Saw a Need and Made a Solution: The Future of Indexing”
-Jeff Cropper | Logan County Genealogical Society
“Kentucky Connections Handbook,” Brown Fellows Program
-James Graham Brown Foundation | Mason Rummel
PUBLICATIONS AWARDS
Journal of the Jackson Purchase Historical Society
-Jackson Purchase Historical Society
43rd Annual Yearbook
-Hopkins County Historical Society
“Removing Recalcitrant County Clerks in Kentucky”
-Shawn D. Chapman
Wild Wolf: The Great Civil War Rivalry
-Ronald Wolford Blair
Kentucky and the Great War: World War I on the Homefront
-David Bettez
Historic Architecture of Shelby County, 1792-1915
-John David Myles
SERVICE AWARDS
Community Impact Award
-Kentucky Humanities Council
Kentucky Public History Intern Award
-Hannah O’Daniel
Brig. General William R. Buster Award
-Scott Clark | Brian Mabeltini
Thomas D. Clark Award of Excellence
-Filson Historical Society
Award of Distinction
-Donna Russell
Frank R. Levstik Award for Professional Service
-Kenneth A. Reis
Lifetime Dedication to Kentucky History Award
-Kurt Holman
Distinguished Service Award
-Dr. Thomas Owen
Post Conviction 2009 : Testing Assistance Programs
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Memorials to Abraham Lincoln | Wikipedia audio article
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Memorials to Abraham Lincoln
00:00:15 1 Changing image
00:02:14 2 Organizations
00:03:12 3 Memorials
00:05:06 3.1 Desecration
00:05:54 3.2 Statue burning
00:06:14 4 Stamps, currency and coins
00:07:43 5 International
00:08:51 6 Birthday
00:09:34 7 Sculpture in the United States
00:13:45 8 See also
00:14:16 9 Notes
00:14:25 10 Further reading
00:17:02 11 External links
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Abraham Lincoln, U.S. president 1861–65, has been memorialized in many town, city, and county names, Along with George Washington, he is an iconic image of American democracy and nationalism.
John J. Crittenden | Wikipedia audio article
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John J. Crittenden
00:03:21 1 Early and family life
00:05:35 2 Career
00:06:53 3 Early political career
00:09:39 3.1 Legislative interim
00:12:32 3.2 Old Court – New Court controversy
00:15:47 4 Association with the National Republicans
00:18:52 5 Association with the Whigs
00:22:39 5.1 Harrison and Tyler administrations
00:25:48 5.2 Polk administration
00:30:00 5.3 Campaigns of 1848
00:33:41 5.4 Gubernatorial administration
00:35:42 5.5 Second term as attorney general
00:40:29 5.6 Return to the Senate
00:44:42 6 Civil War
00:51:40 6.1 Service in the House of Representatives and death
00:55:19 7 Notes
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John Jordan Crittenden (September 10, 1787 – July 26, 1863) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Kentucky. He represented the state in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate and twice served as United States Attorney General in the administrations of William Henry Harrison, John Tyler and Millard Fillmore. He was also the 17th governor of Kentucky and served in the state legislature. Although frequently mentioned as a potential candidate for the U.S. presidency, he never consented to run for the office.
During his early political career, Crittenden served in the Kentucky House of Representatives and was chosen as speaker on several occasions. With the advent of the Second Party System, he allied with the National Republican (later Whig) Party and was a fervent supporter of Henry Clay and opponent of Democrats Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren.
Lame duck president John Quincy Adams nominated Crittenden to the U.S. Supreme Court on December 17, 1828 but Senators who supported president-elect Jackson voted to postpone confirmation until Jackson could nominate his own man. After his brief service as Kentucky Secretary of State, the state legislature elected Crittenden to the second of his four non-consecutive stints in the U.S. Senate. Upon his election as president, William Henry Harrison appointed Crittenden as Attorney General, but 5 months after Harrison's death, political differences prompted him to resign rather than continue his service under Harrison's successor, John Tyler.
He was returned to the Senate in 1842, serving until 1848, when he resigned to run for governor, hoping his election would help Zachary Taylor win Kentucky's vote in the 1848 presidential election. Taylor was elected, but Crittenden refused a post in his cabinet, fearing he would be charged with making a corrupt bargain, as Clay had been in 1825. Following Taylor's death in 1850, Crittenden resigned the governorship and accepted Millard Fillmore's appointment as attorney general.
As the Whig Party crumbled in the mid-1850s, Crittenden joined the Know Nothing (or American) Party. After the expiration of his term as attorney general, he was again elected to the U.S. Senate, where he urged compromise on the issue of slavery to prevent the breakup of the United States. As bitter partisanship increased the threat of secession, Crittenden sought out moderates from all parties and formed the Constitutional Union Party, though he refused the party's nomination for president in the 1860 election. In December 1860, he authored the Crittenden Compromise, a series of resolutions and constitutional amendments he hoped would avert the Civil War, but Congress would not approve them.
One of Crittenden's sons, George B. Crittenden, became a general in the Confederate Army. Another son, Thomas Leonidas Crittenden, became a general in the Union Army. The elder Crittenden was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1861, and supported the Union. However, he criticized many of the policies of President Abraham Lincoln and the U.S. Congress, including the Emancipation Proclamation and the admission of West Virginia to the Union. He continued to work for reconciliation of the states throughout his time in office. He declared his candidacy for re-election to the House ...
Italian Americans | Wikipedia audio article
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Italian Americans
00:02:45 1 History
00:02:54 1.1 Early period (1492–1775)
00:07:08 1.2 War of Independence to Civil War (1775–1861)
00:11:39 1.3 Civil War and after (1861–90)
00:14:44 1.4 The period of mass immigration (1890–1920)
00:27:26 1.5 1917-1941
00:35:04 1.6 World War II
00:39:05 1.7 Wartime violation of Italian-American civil liberties
00:42:20 1.8 Post-World War II period
00:48:37 1.9 Close of the twentieth century
00:51:49 2 Politics
00:55:57 3 Business and economy
00:56:58 3.1 Workers
00:58:50 3.2 Women
01:04:17 4 Culture
01:07:10 4.1 Literature
01:13:06 4.2 Religion
01:16:56 4.2.1 Italian Jews
01:20:04 4.3 Education
01:21:23 4.4 Language
01:27:55 4.5 Newspapers
01:32:17 4.6 Folklore
01:34:15 5 Discrimination and stereotyping
01:40:52 6 Communities
01:43:01 6.1 New York City
01:46:25 6.2 Philadelphia
01:49:15 6.3 Boston
01:50:19 6.4 Newark
01:52:12 6.5 Saint Louis
01:52:21 6.6 Syracuse
01:53:42 6.7 Providence
01:54:34 6.8 Chicago
01:56:57 6.9 Cleveland
01:58:41 6.10 Milwaukee
01:59:39 6.11 Ybor City
02:00:57 6.12 Birmingham
02:01:39 6.13 San Francisco
02:02:10 6.14 Los Angeles
02:03:29 6.15 San Diego
02:04:43 7 Demographics
02:10:14 7.1 U.S. States with over 10% people of Italian ancestry
02:10:48 7.2 U.S. Communities with the most residents of Italian ancestry
02:13:05 8 Notable people
02:13:14 9 See also
02:13:55 10 References and notes
02:14:05 11 Bibliography
02:14:14 12 External links
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Italian Americans (Italian: italoamericani or italo-americani [ˌitalo.ameriˈkaːni]) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans who have ancestry from Italy. Italian Americans are the seventh largest Census-reported ethnic group in the United States (which includes American ethnicity, an ethnonym used by many in the United States; overall, Italian Americans rank seventh, behind German American, African American, Irish American, Mexican American, English American, and American).About 5.5 million Italians immigrated to the United States from 1820 to 2004. By 1870, there were less than 25,000 Italian immigrants in America, many of them Northern Italian refugees from the wars that accompanied the Risorgimento—the struggle for Italian unification and independence from foreign rule. Immigration began to increase during the 1870s, when more than twice as many Italians immigrated (1870–79: 46,296) than during the five previous decades combined (1820–69: 22,627). The 1870s were followed by the greatest surge of immigration, which occurred between 1880 and 1914 and brought more than 4 million Italians to the United States, the great majority being from Southern Italy and Sicily, with most having agrarian backgrounds. This period of large scale immigration ended abruptly with the onset of the First World War in 1914 and, except for one year (1922), never fully resumed.
Further immigration was greatly limited by several laws Congress passed in the 1920s.Approximately 84% of the Italian immigrants came from the former Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. This was the poorest and least developed part of Italy, still largely rural and agricultural, where much of the populace had been impoverished by centuries of foreign misrule, and an oppressive taxation system imposed after Italian unification in 1861. After unification, the Italian government initially encouraged emigration to relieve economic pressures in the South. After the American Civil War, which resulted in over a half million killed or wounded, immigrant workers were recruited from Italy and elsewhere to fill the labor shortage caused by the war. In the United States, most Italians began their new lives as manual laborers in Eastern cities, mining camps and in agriculture.
The descendants of the Italian immigrants gradually rose from a lower economic class in the first generation to a level comparable to the national average by 1970. The Italian community has often been characterized by strong ties to family, the Roma ...