Still Life
On a road trip down Kentucky’s bourbon trail, Emily Bingham uncovers the story of her state’s famous spirit, one strong sip at a time Kentucky Bourbon Oct 23
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“Let’s Buy It!” Tourism and the My Old Kentucky Home Campaign in Jim Crow Kentucky
Kentucky’s first house museum and perhaps the first plantation not tied to a United States president to open to the public, this Bardstown tourist attraction will turn 100 in 2023. This essay chronicles its establishment and the way Kentucky embraced an Old South image despite its Civil War neutrality.
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A Race About Race
May 2019 Louisville Mag PDF Amid intensifying anti-war sentiment and shifting party alignments, Richard Nixon, the first (and still only) sitting president ever to attend the Run for the Roses passed through a gauntlet of advocates for “Black Revolution” who had spent the night in jail after occupying the University of Louisville. Among their messages […]
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