Thank you, Linda May, a retired teacher who volunteers as a virtual transcriber, reviewing and reproducing manuscripts. Linda lives in Indiana but has ties to Kentucky and wants to expand public access to our collections through our digital catalog. https://history.ky.gov/participate/volunteer

Deadline approaching: submit your proposals for #AHA27 by February 15, 2026. Our 2027 annual meeting will take place on January 7–10, 2027, in New Orleans. The Program Committee welcomes and encourages all historians to submit proposals.

We are pleased to announce the opening of the Cleophus Charles and Rosa Lee Charles papers. To learn more about this archival collection, view the finding aid at bereaarchives.libraryhost.com/repositories.... Both served @bereacollege.bsky.social for many years beginning in 1973. #bereabeloved

While Elizabeth Barret is best known for Stranger with a Camera, she directed several other films at Appalshop. Now you can watch her work in one place through a special YouTube playlist. Stay tuned for more uploads! Watch here: https://loom.ly/HCs9HH8

Upcoming funding deadline #skystorians. KHS is accepting applications for the KHS research fellowship program, which offers access to an array of KHS archival and museum collections across topics and time periods. Spring deadline is MARCH 1, 2026. 🐎 📖 history.ky.gov/khs-for-me/f...

At noon on Tuesday Feb 17 bring your own lunch when Ky Historical Society commemorates George Wasington’s Birthday with a lecture by historian Dr. Gary Gregg including excerpts from his upcoming biography of Washington. See also the 1798 survey map drawn by Washington of his landholdings in Ky.

In honor of filmmaker, archivist, mother, wife, and beloved friend Elizabeth Barret, for the first time you can now watch "Stranger With A Camera" for free on our YouTube page. Watch the film here: https://loom.ly/8jV50yg 📸 Appalshop, “Stranger With A Camera,” Elizabeth Barret, 2000

LAST CALL FOR VOLUNTEER JUDGES: 👀 National History Day in Kentucky regional competitions begin soon, and you can help make a difference by volunteering as a judge for competing students. Register here: ➡️https://register.nhd.org/Contests Learn more: ➡️https://history.ky.gov/nhdky

Family historians: learn to record GPS coordinates. It takes 10 seconds. It preserves places forever. Cemeteries. Old homesteads. Church sites. Vanished schools. Coordinates don’t move. Memories do. #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #KentuckyRoots #GPS Connect. Learn. Join for $20 at www.kygs.org

*LAST CALL Join KHS Oral Historian, Michael Kilmore, for a VIRTUAL workshop explaining the oral history grant application process and answering your questions. Feb. 18, 11 am - 12:00 pm EST Feb. 19, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm EST Register here: https://ow.ly/tSMS50XWWRZ

What happens when a high-stakes Kentucky scandal meets the world of undercover female spies? The newest podcast from Kentucky Chronicles features Professor Elizabeth De Wolfe to discuss her book Alias Agnes. 🎧 https://youtu.be/ycB9D4J_2QQ #KYHistory #TrueCrime #WomenInHistory

Elizabeth Banks Barret, an Appalshop filmmaker, died Tuesday at her home in Whitesburg after a long illness. She was 74. Her films include “Quilting Women,” “Coal Mining Women,” “Long Journey Home,” and “Stranger with a Camera.” Read more at: www.kentucky.com/news/local/o...

Less than 3 weeks remain to submit or nominate a book for the Center for Civil War Research's Wiley-Silver Prize! First books on Civil War history are welcome! Deadline is Friday, 2/20. @scwhistorians.bsky.social @shearites.bsky.social @joursouhist.bsky.social @shgape.bsky.social

Watch Terry Foody’s lecture "The 1833 Cholera Epidemic" for Kentucky Genealogical Society on Jan 22: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NU2.... Her books: "The Pie Seller, The Drunk & The Lady," and "The Cherokee & The Newsman" are available at various places locally.

Fascism!: The US Army Publishes a Pamphlet in 1945 Explaining How to Spot Fascism at Home and Abroad It's not hard to see right now. www.openculture.com/2023/06/fasc...

Jayne Moore Waldrop and Deborah Slone will lead “Seeing the Big Picture in Children’s Books: Collaboration Between Author and Illustrator” at the 49th Appalachian Writers’ Workshop at Hindman Settlement School. Applications are open through March 1, 2026, at www.hindman.org/workshop.

Kentucky- LRC is now on BlueSky!

Walter Winebarger is the fifth generation of his family to operate Winebarger’s Mill, a waterpowered gristmill located at Meat Camp, near Boone, North Carolina. Watch the film here: https://loom.ly/qQ9lIxs 📸 Appalshop, “Waterground,” Frances Morton, 1977

Diane Crump, first female jockey to ride in the Derby, has died www.wkyt.com/2026/01/02/j...

✍️ YEAR IN REVIEW ✍️ Journal of Southern History, Vol. 91 The November 2025 JSH is a special #openaccess issue on "Teaching about the South," with 21 contributors. muse.jhu.edu/issue/55697

“Transcends stereotypical images of mountain dance and Appalachian culture … includes priceless footage of an otherwise poorly documented tradition.”— University of South Carolina Watch the film here: https://loom.ly/oKyBgJQ 📸 Appalshop, “Step Back Cindy,” Anne Lewis, Susan Spalding, 1991

Dec 7, 1941, KY soldiers fought for their lives at Pearl Harbor in a surprise attack that drove America to join WWII. https://kyhistory.pastperfectonline.com/webobject/32027AB5-986C-4EFC-B4E0-843343221951

Great news for UK and Lexington's arts community. The foundation Bill Gatton left behind continues to be a major driver of progress in Kentucky. kentuckylantern.com/briefs/unive...

Kentucky nonprofit publisher @sarabandebooks.bsky.social forfeits federal grant rather than bow to Trump orders on diversity, gender. kentuckylantern.com/2025/12/02/k...

The country music superstar headed into the 59th CMA Awards with three nominations, including Entertainer of the Year.

Join us on Thursday, Dec. 4, at 5:30pm at the Boone Tavern Event Center as the Fall 2025 Berea Folklife apprentices & their mentor artists present on their fall apprenticeships in weaving, clawhammer banjo, contra dancing, Ballet Folklorico, and wild plant foraging & crafting. Dinner will be served!

We’ve added this site where the Scott Count Equal Suffrage League was founded to our digital map for the Kentucky Votes for Women Trail - check it out at networks.h-net.org/josephine-gr...

Preorder the 2nd edition of my book No Common Ground using the code 01SOCIAL30 on uncpress.org to get 30% off. @uncpress.bsky.social #confederate #monuments

Do you know about artist Emma H. Moore of Georgetown, KY? She lived in this house in 1910 with the family of her youngest sister Ollie Crutcher and reported on the census her occupation as artist. She was founding president of the Scott Co Woman's Suffrage League networks.h-net.org/emma-moore

A new biosketch for the Kentucky Woman Suffrage Project featuring Dr. Gladys Bryson is up - with many thanks to the generous support by the Smith College archives networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

Congratulations to Edda L. Fields-Black, winner of the Tom Watson Brown Book Award for COMBEE. #2025SHA

Looking forward to reading it!

The wheels are turning at Appalshop this fall, and we have plenty of new releases and updates to share with you! Read about them now on our website's blog: https://loom.ly/DZ44XCg

186 years ago, drafts of two letters were written to federal officials associated with the removal of Chickasaw Native Americans because of the Indian Removal Act. The Chickasaws of western KY were some of the last removed. #76for250 #America250 @america250.bsky.social#76for250

UKy grad students partner with community activist Believing in Forever Inc for winter coat drive at www.wkyt.com/2025/10/31/u...

@francoisehamlin.bsky.social & I are co-editors of a book series w/UNC Press called Boundless South & we are seeking more authors for the series. Below are the first two books in the series. DM us if you've got an idea or a proposal. We'll also be at #2025SHA uncpress.org/series/bound...

Join us next Thurs. 11/6 at noon for a Library Lunch & Learn with composer & sound artist @bharnetty.bsky.social! He will discuss his new @uncpress.bsky.social book Noisy Memory, the 1st chapter of which details his work w/ recordings in Berea's Special Collections & Archives.

Ten $25,000 scholarships for students studying American history will be given by the Daughters of the American Revolution in 2026 to mark America’s 250th anniversary #genealogy #americanhistory #scholarship

Kentucky Korean War Draft Cards are now digitized and accessible on Fold3. #genealogy blog.fold3.com/new-korean-w...

Applications are open for the #AHA26 Sinclair Workshop on Historical Podcasting. This session, limited to 10 attendees following an application, will focus on the development process for producing historical podcast. Apply at the link by November 15. 🗃️

As co-editors of the Boundless South series at UNC Press, @francoisehamlin.bsky.social & we want to hear from you. If you plan to attend #2025SHA & you've got a book you'd like to us to consider we will be in St. Pete. DM us or send an email even if you can't make it. uncpress.org/series/bound...

The Louisville Cardinal: U of L Department of Communication proposes fee to fund The Cardinal www.louisvillecardinal.com/2025/10/u-of...

On October 29, the AHA will host a virtual Congressional Briefing offering historical perspectives on AI. With moderator Kathryn Cramer Brownell (Purdue Univ.) & panelists Sarah Igo (Vanderbilt Univ.), Aaron Mendon-Plasek (Purdue Univ.), & Rebecca Slayton (Cornell Univ.). Register at the link.

History Inspires Showcase, Nov 11, 6-7 pm, The Filson Historical Society (free, registration required). 2025 cohort of Fellows, Lori Larusso (Ky cookbooks), Moira Magre (20th c clothing), and Sarah Pennington (voting rights and disenfranchisement in the region) display their creative projects.

What was Bell County, Kentucky like in the 1950s? During #AmericanArchivesMonth, home movies—preserved with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation—give us a window. This footage is from coal camp doctor John Parrott. Happy American Archives Month from Appalshop Archive!

Please join us November 6 at Noon for a presentation by sound artist, composer and author Brian Harnetty. Sponsored by Berea Folklife / Special Collections and Archives. Free lunch! Where?Hutchins Library Flex Space.

📜 Big news for Kentucky history! Russell County Clerk Patti Glover has signed on to digitize & preserve historic county records! A growing number of KY’s counties are now onboard! #PreserveKentucky #Genealogy #digitization #countyrecords

In 2001, First Lady Judi Patton hosted reception for Kentucky breast cancer survivors. Survivors statewide united in Frankfort & during the event, Mrs. Patton & the Kentucky Breast Cancer Coalition unveiled the state's first cancer quilt. The "Celebration of Hope" quilt honors victims & survivors.

✍️We're excited that the November 2025 JSH will soon be out in the world. It features a special forum on teaching about the South, in the South and beyond. The issue will also be free-to-read on Project Muse. So, SHA members check your mailboxes, and watch this space.✍️ thesha.org/contents