Lowell H. Harrison

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Lowell H. Harrison is an American Historian specializing in Kentucky. After graduating from College High (Bowling Green, Kentucky) and earning his undergraduate degree from Western Kentucky University in 1946, after being discharged from the U.S. Army, he did his graduate study at New York University where he began teaching in a part-time position. He was awarded the PhD from NYU in 1951. He attended the London School of Economics on a Fulbright Scholarship. His first regular teaching position was at West Texas State College as an associate professor. By 1957, he was head of their history department. Eventually, Harrison became chair of the College of Social Sciences at West Texas.

In 1967, Harrison returned to Western Kentucky University as professor of history and graduate advisor. In 1979 he was named university historian. He retired from teaching in 1988.

Books Include:

  • The Civil War in Kentucky
  • Kentucky's Road to Statehood
  • A New History of Kentucky (co-author)
  • Western Kentucky University
  • Lincoln of Kentucky
  • The Government of Confederate Kentucky
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