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This episode of "Thinking Big" features Doug Boyd, Director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries. ...

A small neighborhood in northern Frankfort, Kentucky, Crawfish Bottom was located on fifty acres of swampy land along the Kentucky River. "Craw's" ...

In this edition of the Dark Horse podcast, environmentalist Thomas G. Barnes takes viewers on a walk through the scenic Red River Gorge to candidly...

To mark the release of his latest book, Hollywood Under Siege: Martin Scorsese, the Religious Right, and the Culture Wars, Thomas R. Lindlof introd...

Taking the Town: Collegiate and Community Culture in the Bluegrass, 1880-1917 explores culture and intellectual life in Lexington, Kentucky, at the...

An introduction to internationally acclaimed glass artist Stephen Rolfe Powell's career, the recent book published by UPK charts the evolution of P...

Thirteen Women Strong chronicles the 2006-07 season of the Northern Kentucky University women's basketball team. A year after NKU powered their way...

Literary fiction has presented readers with centuries of memorable women in trouble. Here, the author of the widely praised and beloved Come and Go...

In Kentucky Horse Country: Images of the Bluegrass, renowned photographer James Archambeault captures the natural beauty of Kentucky's Bluegrass re...

The vocation “author” can now be added to the resume of James E. ‘Ted’ Bassett III, who served Keeneland for more than 40 years as President, Chair...

The Complete Guide to Kentucky State Parks looks at the variety of outdoor activities the commonwealth has to offer, directing readers to any desir...

Novelist House (Clay's Quilt) and Kentucky journalist Howard, both "children of Appalachia," decided to pick up where the national media have left ...

In The Kentucky Bourbon Cocktail Book, Joy Perrine and Susan Reigler provide a reader-friendly handbook featuring more than 100 recipes including s...

Interview with Liz Taylor, co-owner of Poor Richard's Bookstore

Interview with author Lindsey Apple, "The Family Legacy of Henry Clay: In the Shadow of a Kentucky Patriarch"

Interview with author Brad Asher, "Cecelia and Fanny: The Remarkable Friendship Between an Escaped Slave and Her Former Mistress"

Interview with author Kent Masterson Brown, "One of Morgan's Men: Memoirs of Lieutenant John M. Porter of the Ninth Kentucky Cavalry"

Interview with author Douglas Boyd, "Crawfish Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community"

Interview with Connie Crowe, Manager, Kentucky Book Fair

Interview with author Mike Veach, "The Social History of Bourbon"

The host of The Bob Edwards Show and Bob Edwards Weekend on Sirius XM Radio, Bob Edwards became the first radio personality with a large national a...

Promotional trailer for David Margolick's ELIZABETH AND HAZEL: Two Women of Little Rock.

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The names Elizab...

Oceanographer and photographer Chris Linder takes us on a tour of his new book Science on Ice: Four Polar Expeditions, a mix of breathtaking photos...

Anat Pick, author of "Creaturely Poetics," on a BBC panel on animal rights and animal studies

Empire of Sacrifice

The Religious Origins of American Violence

Jon Pahl

It is widely recognized that American culture is both exceptionally religi...

Esther Clayson Pohl Lovejoy, whose long life stretched from 1869 to 1967, challenged convention from the time she was a young girl. Her professiona...

Barbara L. Gordon, one of the authors of Breast Cancer Recurrence and Advanced Disease: Comprehensive Expert Guidance (2010), discusses why she was...

BLUE GUITAR HIGHWAY (University of Minnesota Press) is a musician's tale: the story of a boy growing up on the Iron Range, playing his guitar at fa...