FRONTIERS OF FAITH
Bringing Catholicism to the West in the Early Republic
John R. Dichtl
Description:
Frontiers of Faith: Bringing Catholicism to the West in the Early Republic examines how Catholics in the early nineteenth-century Ohio Valley despite the evangelical success of the Protestant faith during the Second Great Awakening expanded their church, strengthened their connections to Rome, and sought fellowship with their non-Catholic neighbors.
Using extensive correspondence, reports, diaries, court documents, apologetical works, and other records of the Catholic clergy, John R. Dichtl shows how Catholic leadership successfully pursued strategies of growth in frontier regions while continually weighing major decisions against established Protestant doctrine. Frontiers of Faith helps restore Catholicism to the story of religious development in the Early Republic and emphasizes the importance of clerical and lay efforts to make sacred the landscape of the New West.
John R. Dichtl is executive director of the National Council on Public History and former deputy executive director of the Organization of American Historians.
Price:$50.00
Format: cloth
ISBN: 978-0-8131-2486-5
Subjects:Religion, History: American
Pages: 250
Trim size: 6 X 9
Year Published: 2008
A CONCISE HISTORY OF KENTUCKY
James C. Klotter and Freda C. Klotter
Description:
To most people, the word Kentucky is likely to inspire thoughts of Derby Day, burley tobacco fields, feuding Appalachian families, coal mines, and Colonel Sanders's famous fried chicken. There is much more, however, to the Bluegrass State's rich but often unexplored history than mint juleps and the Hatfields and McCoys.
In A Concise History of Kentucky, authors James C. Klotter and Freda C. Klotter introduce readers to a captivating story that spans 12,000 years of Kentucky lives, from Native Americans to astronauts. All facets of Kentucky history are explored--geography, government, social structure, culture, education, and the economy--recounting unique historic events such as the deadly frontier wars, the assassination of a governor, and the birth of Bluegrass music. The book features profiles of famous Kentuckians such as Daniel Boone, Abraham Lincoln, Loretta Lynn and Muhammad Ali, as well as ordinary citizens.
A joint collaboration of the state historian of Kentucky and an experienced educator, A Concise History of Kentucky is an authoritative, readable story that will educate and entertain newcomers to Kentucky history and those who simply want to learn more about the Commonwealth.
James C. Klotter is professor of history at Georgetown College and the State Historian of Kentucky. He is the author or coauthor of several books, including A New History of Kentucky .
Freda C. Klotter has twenty-five years of classroom experience and currently serves as an educational consultant for the nonprofit Kentucky Collaborative for Teaching and Learning.
Price: $30.00
Format: cloth
ISBN: 978-0-8131-2498-8
Pages: 256
Year Published: available March 2008
Format: paper
ISBN: 978-0-8131-9192-8
EARLY STONE HOUSES OF KENTUCKY
Carolyn Murray-Wooley
Description:
In the years before the Revolutionary War, intrepid frontiersmen with roots in northern Ireland claimed vast tracts of land in Kentucky on which they developed plantations. They settled the land and, with their families, built enduring stone houses that became the centerpieces of their properties. In Early Stone Houses of Kentucky, author Carolyn Murray-Wooley examines these early frontier homes as well as the people who built and lived in them.
What traditions did these settlers call on to provide construction techniques and plans? How do the frontier dwellings of settlers with differing origins compare with these stone houses? Murray-Wooley looks at these and many other questions, exploring the transfer of cultural traditions from northern Ireland to the state of Kentucky.
Drawing on extensive field work and genealogical research, Murray-Wooley examines the history of these resourceful settlers and their architectural practices, uses scale drawings and floor plans to illustrate how the houses would have appeared at the time of construction, and compares them to modern photographs. The book includes color plates of more than thirty stone houses, as well as many black and white construction illustrations. Early Stone Houses of Kentucky is a fascinating look at the impact of a little-known community on the architecture and culture of the Bluegrass State.
Carolyn Murray-Wooley is an architectural historian, former executive director of the Bluegrass Trust for Historic Preservation, and founder of the Dry Stone Conservancy. She has also written The Founding of Lexington, 1775-1776, and coauthored Rock Fences of the Bluegrass with Karl Raitz. She lives and works in Lexington, Kentucky.
Price: $50.00
Format: cloth
ISBN: 978-0-8131-2479-7
Pages: 280
Trim size: 10 1/2 x 8 1/2
Year Published: Available July 2008
WILLIAM DUNBAR
Scientific Pioneer of the Old Southwest
By Arthur H. DeRosier Jr.
Description:
In 1804, while Lewis and Clark were still making their way up the Missouri River, Thomas Jefferson formulated a plan for a similarly ambitious exploration that would proceed from the Mississippi up the Red River "to the tops of the mountains" and then return by way of the Arkansas River. The man he selected to lead this venture was William Dunbar (1750-1810) of the Mississippi Territory.
The Scottish-born Dunbar was a man of many abilities and professions--surveyor, botanist, zoologist, astronomer, planter, architect, inventor. He perfected the cotton bale, learned how to put cottonseed oil to use, and he improved agricultural implements to increase production. In addition, he published many scientific articles in American Philosophical Society journals. In William Dunbar: Scientific Pioneer of the Old Southwest, Arthur DeRosier finally gives Dunbar's fascinatingly varied life and career the recognition they deserve.
Historian Arthur H. DeRosier Jr. is president emeritus of Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Montana.
Reviews:
"In this entertaining biography of William Dunbar, Arthur H. DeRosier, Jr. rescues an important scientist and explorer from obscurity, and provides an insight into the formative years of the State of Mississippi."--Edward J. Cashin, Augusta State University
Price: $55.00
Format: Cloth
ISBN: 978-0-8131-2455-1
Subjects: Biography/Memoir, History: American
Pages: 280
Year Published: Available October 2007
Trim Size: 6 x 9
Illustrations: 17 illustrations
May 13, 2008