Timeline of Kentucky history

Timeline of Kentucky history

Early history

Seven Years War / French and Indian War

Lord Dunmore's War

Revolutionary War

Between the wars

Civil War

See Timeline of Kentucky in the Civil War

Post Civil War period

Twentieth century

See also

Notes

  1. Teaching materials are available at the Kentucky Heritage Council website, http://heritage.ky.gov/kas/projects/curriculum+materials.htm
  2. KY Coal Facts - History of Coal
  3. Christopher Gist, Ohio History Central; read Christopher Gist's journals online via the University of Toronto's Roberts Library
  4. "Kentucky," Online Etymology Dictionary
  5. The Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boone, Formerly A Hunter; Containing a Narrative of the Wars of Kentucky
  6. For more on this iconic frontierswoman, see Nuckols, Mrs. S.V., "The History of William Page and his Wife, Ann Kennedy Wilson Poague Lindsay McGinty," Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society 10 (1912). See an image of her gravestone at Digital Collections, University of Louisville Libraries
  7. See the history of Old Fort Harrod State Park
  8. Walker, Juliet E.K. Free Frank: A Black Pioneer on the Antebellum Frontier. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1983.
  9. See more on this at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center and see online the Kentucky Educational Television's documentary, "Kentucky's Underground Railroad—Passage to Freedom."
  10. Weisenburger, Steven. Modern Medea: A Family Story of Slavery and Child-Murder from the Old South. New York: Hill and Wang, 1998. See also the webpage on essays and articles for Margaret Garner: A New American Opera. Accessed 11 December 2010. www.margaretgarner.org.
  11. See the Library of Congress primary documents

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