My century in history : memoirs /
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 Kent...
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky
©2006.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt2jcq71 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.