From ASA: Are you doing Appalachian studies research, and need more sources? We have a listing of more than 30 libraries, museums, and archives on our website. Submit yours to the list! www.appalachianstudies.org/resources

PhD diss “Edward R. Bradley was a towering cultural icon of the early twentieth century. He is best known as the owner and breeder of four Kentucky Derby winning horses and as the owner and operator of the longest-running illegal casino in American history.” digitalcommons.liberty.edu/doctoral/8345/

Supreme Court justice from Ky, John Marshall Harlan, wrote in Plessy v Ferguson: "Our constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens," he argued, adding that racial segregation "cannot be justified upon any legal grounds." kentuckylantern.com/2026/05/18/t...

It's #DigitalFriday ! This is my routine appeal to #skystorians and all other academics prepping for teaching to share any software, hardware, online resources (primary, secondary, teaching tools, blogs) tips and tricks that they've found useful this week! #AcademicSky 🗃️(pls boost to relevant feeds)

OPENING TOMORROW!

UK Libraries invites K-12 civics, social studies, and history teachers from across Kentucky to apply for the Earle C. Clements Innovation in Education Award. Three educators will win $1,500 each and be celebrated at an awards dinner in August. uky.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Ky Council for the Social Studies calls for nominations for Outstanding Social Studies Teacher of the Year, and Georgia Davis Powers Civic Leader. Educators, parents, students, former students, community members can nominate a social studies teacher and civic leader. www.kysscouncil.org/awards.html

Today, the #FeedingTheElephant team wants to #TalkaboutHumanities and #TalkaboutSocialSciences! @catherinefte.bsky.social, @dawnd.bsky.social, and @emily-elliott.bsky.social share the HSS projects that they find meaningful and important. 🔗 networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

Come join us April 25 at the Bucolics Project concert and April 27 at a follow-up workshop. Both events are free and open to the public @bereacollege.bsky.social. #music #poetry #archives

In #AHAPerspectives, get a sneak peek of the March issue of the #AHR, including articles on Indigenous resistance, child removal, the intertwining of history writing and politics, and the genealogy of the word nakba. 🗃️

Join us for our next History Behind the Headlines, exploring the history of US intervention in Latin America. This hour-long online event is free and open to the public. Can’t make it? Register anyway and view the recording on the AHA’s YouTube channel after the event. 🗃️

2026 Kentucky Council for the Social Studies (KCSS) Conference "Inquire. Ignite. Inspire." Saturday, September 12, 2026, at Kentucky Historical Society in Frankfort. Submit a proposal docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Deadline for submissions is April 30, 2026, at 11:59 PM CDT.

My article is here! Sending appreciation to Gerald Smith at the University of Kentucky and Stephanie Lang at the Kentucky Historical Society. Thank you for the opportunity to share my research on women in the Black Appalachian Commission!!

Did you know… The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the teaching of people’s history in classrooms across the country www.zinnedproject.org/news/womens-history-month

In 2026, the NWHA Youth Advisory Board is working on creating a database of women’s history and women’s gender studies programs in high schools. If you know of any, please email [email protected] so she can add them to the list.

Submit nominations for the AHA’s awards and prizes by May 15. The AHA recognizes outstanding historical work of many types, including exceptional books, distinguished teaching and mentoring, film, and digital projects and resources.

A new Review posted in H-Kentucky. Marshall, Anne E. Cassius Marcellus Clay: The Life of an Antislavery Slaveholder and the Paradox of American Reform. Univ of NC Press, 2025. 303 pp. Reviewed by Chase H. McCarter (Kentucky Historical Society) www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

Join the Kentucky Commission On Women Weds March 25 1:30 pm at the Capitol Education Center in Frankfort. Gov Beshear, First Lady Britainy Beshear, Lt Gov Jacqueline Coleman will discuss the status of Ky women's health and unveil the portrait of 2025 Kentucky Women Remembered inductee, Ouita Michel

Remembering the Scotia Mine Disaster with Dr. Brian McKnight (UVA-Wise and founding director of the Center for Appalachian Studies) - March 21, 2026, at the Kentucky Historical Society for a special America250KY event. Register Here: 16671a.blackbaudhosting.com/16671a/Remem...

Doug Boyd’s interview about oral history reached to the very edge of the world www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

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...