LEADER 03015nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910827787803321 005 20240117215224.0 010 $a0-8131-3706-3 010 $a1-283-23260-X 010 $a9786613232601 010 $a0-8131-7138-5 035 $a(CKB)1000000000463414 035 $a(EBL)792163 035 $a(OCoLC)182620614 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000207331 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11201204 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000207331 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10238100 035 $a(PQKB)11448423 035 $a(OCoLC)607694668 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse3343 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL792163 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10495334 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL323260 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC792163 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30384859 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30384859 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000463414 100 $a20060410d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMy century in history $ememoirs /$fThomas D. Clark ; foreword by Charles P. Roland ; introduction by James C. Klotter 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLexington $cUniversity Press of Kentucky$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (447 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-8131-2400-X 327 $aThe 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. 330 $aWhen 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' 606 $aHistorians$zKentucky$vBiography 607 $aKentucky$vBiography 607 $aKentucky$xHistoriography 615 0$aHistorians 676 $a976.90072/02 700 $aClark$b Thomas Dionysius$f1903-2005.$0139462 701 $aRoland$b Charles Pierce$f1918-2022.$01667116 701 $aKlotter$b James C$01667117 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910827787803321 996 $aMy century in history$94026769 997 $aUNINA