July 20, 2012 - 12:54pm
An episode of the PBS series 'History Detectives' that was filmed at the Kentucky Historical Society will air on Tuesday, July 24th.
On Tuesday, July 24th, at 8:00 pm a new episode of the popular PBS series History Detectives will feature a segment filmed in Kentucky. The segment was filmed at the Kentucky Historical Society (KHS) located in Frankfort and it highlights two Civil War-era Deringer pistols that were traced to the...
July 29, 2012 - 8:04pm
Join professor and author Elizabeth Leonard as she restores this tireless Bluegrass Unionist to his rightful place in history. Stop by The Filson Historical Society at noon this Thursday, June 14th.
The Civil War is a subject often broached by the minds of both creatives and historians. Stories of undaunted heroism gleam in gritty glory on the silver screen, fill the pages of historical fiction and create endless towers of impressive biographies, histories and scholarly examinations in...
July 29, 2012 - 8:05pm
On Saturday February 4, 2012, after four years of collaborating with historians and research, the Carnegie Center for Art and History is unveiled “Remembered: the Life of Lucy Higgs Nichols.”
Lucy Higgs Nichols, a nurse with the 23rd Indiana Regiment during the Civil War and The Spanish American War, was also a brave female who escaped from slavery in 1862. After the Civil War, Nichols moved New Albany, Indiana and worked with the men of the 23rd Division Volunteers. She was...
May 6, 2012 - 2:24pm
Linked to the North by its Civil War stance but portrayed each May with plantation imagery, just where does Louisville's core allegiance lie?
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July 29, 2012 - 8:04pm
Race and gender through the generations are seen through women's eyes in Looking for Lilith's production of Hunting the Basilisk, which opens on Friday.
