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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451601103321

Autore

Clark Thomas Dionysius <1903-2005.>

Titolo

My century in history [[electronic resource] ] : memoirs / / Thomas D. Clark ; foreword by Charles P. Roland ; introduction by James C. Klotter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, : University Press of Kentucky, c2006

ISBN

0-8131-3706-3

1-283-23260-X

9786613232601

0-8131-7138-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (447 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RolandCharles Pierce <1918->

KlotterJames C

Disciplina

976.90072/02

Soggetti

Historians - Kentucky

Electronic books.

Kentucky Biography

Kentucky Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

The long road home -- Old place, new place -- A world in change -- The road taken -- Out of the cotton patch -- Big river -- West to Kentucky -- The way to Durham -- Year of decision -- Depression years -- Putting down roots -- Building the special collections -- Years of passage -- Indiana University -- Breaking the racial barrier -- Teaching and lecturing abroad -- An ancient land in the grip of history -- The road to professionalism -- Speaking Kentucky (and a lot of other places) -- The book thieves -- Family -- A time of reckoning.

Sommario/riassunto

When Thomas D. Clark was hired to teach history at the University of Kentucky in 1931, he began a career that would span nearly three-quarters of a century and would profoundly change not only the history department and the university but the entire Commonwealth. His still-definitive History of Kentucky (1937) was one of more than thirty books he would write or edit dealing with Kentucky, the South, and the American frontier. In addition to his wide scholarly contributions, Clark devoted his life to the preservation of Kentucky's historical records. His



efforts resulted in the Commonwealth'