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Books

  • Astor, A. (2012). Rebels on the border: Civil War, emancipation, and the Reconstruction of Kentucky and Missouri. Louisiana State University Press.

  • Barney, W. L. (2011). The Oxford encyclopedia of the Civil War. Oxford University Press.

  • Foote, L., & Hess, E. J. (Eds.). (2021). The Oxford handbook of the American Civil War. Oxford University Press.

  • Harlow, L. E. (2014). Religion, race, and the making of Confederate Kentucky, 1830–1880. Cambridge University Press.

  • Harrison, L. (2010). The Civil War in Kentucky. University Press of Kentucky.

  • Howard, V. B. (2010). Black liberation in Kentucky: Emancipation and freedom, 1862-1884. University Press of Kentucky.

  • Kleber, J. E. (Ed.). (2014). The Kentucky Encyclopedia. University Press of Kentucky.

  • Louisville Civil War Roundtable. (2012). Kentucky in the Civil War: 150 for the 150th: An annotated bibliographic reference. Louisville Civil War Roundtable.

  • Marshall, A. E. (2010). Creating a Confederate Kentucky: The Lost Cause and Civil War memory in a border state. University of North Carolina Press.

  • McKnight, B. D. (2006). Contested borderland: The Civil War in Appalachian Kentucky and Virginia. University Press of Kentucky.

  • Noe, K. W. (2011). Perryville: This grand havoc of battle. University Press of Kentucky.

  • Phillips, C. (2016). The rivers ran backward: The Civil War and the remaking of the American middle border. Oxford University Press.

  • Sears, R. D. (2002). Camp Nelson, Kentucky: A Civil War history. University Press of Kentucky.

  • Tucker, S., & Pierpaoli, P. G. (Eds.). (2015). American Civil War: A state-by-state encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO.

  • Warner, E. J., & Yearns, W. B. (1975). Biographical register of the Confederate Congress. Louisiana State University Press.

  • Wright, G. C. (1996). Racial violence in Kentucky 1865-1940: Lynchings, mob rule, and “legal lynchings.” Louisiana State University Press.

  • Zuczek, R. (Ed.). (2016). Reconstruction: A historical encyclopedia of the American mosaic. Greenwood.

Journals

Articles

  • Bingham, E. (2019). “Let’s buy it!”: Tourism and the My Old Kentucky Home campaign in Jim Crow Kentucky. Ohio Valley History, 19(3), 27–56. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/734800

  • Lee, J. F. (2009). Whether it really be truth or fiction: Colonel Reuben T. Durrett, the Filson Club, and historical memory in postbellum Kentucky. Ohio Valley History, 9(4), 27–47. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/570740

  • Lewis, P. A. (2010). The Democratic Partisan Militia and the Black Peril: The Kentucky Militia, racial violence, and the Fifteenth Amendment, 1870-1873. Civil War History, 56(2), 145–174. https://doi.org/10.1353/cwh.0.0147

  • Marshall, A. E. (2012). A “sisters’ war”: Kentucky women and their Civil War diaries. Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, 110(3-4), 481–502. https://doi.org/10.1353/khs.2012.0070

  • Rhyne, J. M. (2006). A “murderous affair in Lincoln County”: Politics, violence, and memory in a Civil War era Kentucky community. American Nineteenth Century History, 7(3), 337–359. https://doi.org/10.1080/14664650600956528

  • Rubin, A. S. (2019). “Literally destroyed as a housekeeper”: Hunger and hardship in Civil War Kentucky. Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, 117(2), 215–228. https://doi.org/10.1353/khs.2019.0058

  • Somers, L. R. (2022). How emancipation redefined white loyalty in Civil War Kentucky. Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, 120(3-4), 275–299. https://doi.org/10.1353/khs.2022.a899961

  • Taylor, A. M. (2019). Texts and textiles in Civil War Kentucky. Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, 117(2), 229–244. https://doi.org/10.1353/khs.2019.0061

  • Wallenstein, P. (2012). Pioneer Black legislators from Kentucky, 1860s-1960s. Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, 110(3-4), 533–557. https://doi.org/10.1353/khs.2012.0052

Databases

Web Resources

  • Cornell University. (n.d.). The War of the Rebellion: A compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate armies. Making of America Collection; Cornell University Library. Retrieved November 16, 2023, from https://collections.library.cornell.edu/moa_new/waro.html

  • Kentucky Historical Society. (n.d.). Civil War Governors of Kentucky. Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition; Kentucky Historical Society. Retrieved November 15, 2023, from http://civilwargovernors.org/

  • University of Kentucky. (n.d.). ExploreUK - rare and unique research materials from UK Libraries. ExploreUK; University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center. Retrieved November 16, 2023, from https://exploreuk.uky.edu/

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