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1 online resource (xx, 393 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes index. |
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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. |
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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's f. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Clark, Thomas Dionysius, 1903-2005.
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Clark, Thomas Dionysius, 1903-2005. |
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Historians -- Kentucky -- Biography.
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Historians. |
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Kentucky. |
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Biographies.
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Kentucky -- Biography.
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Kentucky -- Historiography.
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Historiography. |
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Electronic books.
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Print version: Clark, Thomas Dionysius, 1903-2005. My century in history. Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©2006 081312400X 9780813124001 (DLC) 2006012093 (OCoLC)66463684 |
| ISBN |
9780813171388 (electronic book) |
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0813171385 (electronic book) |
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9780813137063 (electronic book) |
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0813137063 (electronic book) |
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081312400X (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9780813124001 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0813124018 (leatherbound edition ; alkaline paper) |
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9780813124018 (leatherbound edition ; alkaline paper) |
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