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    Taking the Town : Collegiate and Community Culture in the Bluegrass, 1880-1917 (2009)
    Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky
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    ISBN: 9780813125046 , 9780813173054 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 435 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9780813173054
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    Series Statement: The Thomas D. Clark Studies in Education v.TDCS
    DDC: 306.43
    Keywords: Geschichte 1880-1917 ; Intellektueller ; Collegestudent ; Bluegrass ; Lexington-Fayette, Ky.
    Abstract: Taking the Town: Collegiate and Community Culture in the Bluegrass, 1880--1917 explores culture and intellectual life in Lexington, Kentucky, at the turn of the twentieth century. Drawing from local newspapers and from the work of historians and other writers, Kolan Thomas Morelock reveals Lexington to be a city of contradictions: known as a cultural ""Athens of the West,"" it also struggled with the poverty, ignorance, and bigotry characteristic of southern communities after the Civil War. Taking the Town examines the contributions to local culture made by the literary and dramatic clubs p...
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    Reformers to Radicals : The Appalachian Volunteers and the War on Poverty (2009)
    Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky
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    ISBN: 9780813125091 , 9780813173085 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 321 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9780813173085
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 306.0975
    Abstract: The Appalachian Volunteers formed in the early 1960s, determined to eliminate poverty through education and vocational training and improve schools and homes in the mountainous regions of the southeastern United States. In Reformers to Radicals: The Appalachian Volunteers and the War on Poverty, Thomas Kiffmeyer illustrates how the activists ultimately failed, mainly because they were indecisive about the fundamental nature of their mission. The AVs, many of them college students, were also distracted by causes not directly connected with the war on poverty, such as civil rights and opposit...
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