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  1. Book Notes – Captives in Blue: The Civil War Prisons of the Confederacy

    Book Notes – Captives in Blue: The Civil War Prisons of the Confederacy

    Captives in Blue: The Civil War Prisons of the Confederacy. By Roger Pickenpaugh.  (2013.  Pp. 320.  $49.95.  Hardcover. Lexington: University of Alabama Press.  Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0380. http://www.uapress.ua.edu/) ISBN: 978-0817317836. A follow-up to Pickenpaugh’s earlier publication, Captives in Gray: The Civil War Prisons of the Union (2008), this book uses soldier diaries, newspaper...

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  2. Book Notes – Crawfish Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community

    Book Notes – Crawfish Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community

    Crawfish Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community. By Douglas A. Boyd.  (2011.  Pp. 220.  $35.00.  Hardcover. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.  663 South Limestone Street, Lexington KY 40508-4008. www.kentuckypress.com) ISBN: 978-0-8131-3408-6. Review By: Mary Clay As a former resident of Craw (‘Craw’ or ‘The Bottom’ – we never called it ‘Crawfish...

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  3. Book Notes – Many-Storied House

    Book Notes – Many-Storied House

    Many-Storied House. By George Ella Lyon.  (2013.  Pp. 121.  $19.95.  Paper. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.  663 South Limestone Street, Lexington KY 40508-4008. www.kentuckypress.com) ISBN: 978-0-8131-4261-6. In this newest title by award winning author, George Ella Lyon, readers are transported back through time and family memories by way of poetry....

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  4. Book Notes – Arab and Jewish Women in Kentucky

    Book Notes – Arab and Jewish Women in Kentucky

    Stories of Accommodation and Audacity by Nora Rose Moosnick A new addition to the University Press of Kentucky Oral History Series, Arab and Jewish Women in Kentucky: Stories of Accommodation and Audacity reflects the not-so-hidden diversity in the state, and also illustrates the power of oral history to document the...

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  5. Book Notes – James Klotter’s Bluegrass Renaissance

    Book Notes – James Klotter’s Bluegrass Renaissance

    Bluegrass Renaissance: The History and Culture of Central Kentucky, 1792-1852.   James C. Klotter and Daniel Rowland, eds.  (2012.  Pp. 400.  $40.00.  Cloth.   To purchase, order from Hopkins Fulfillment Service, P.O. Box 50370, Baltimore, MD 21211-4370; 1-800-537-5487 or 410-516-6956; Fax: 410-516-6998, or online at www.kentuckypress.com) Bluegrass Renaissance: The History and Culture...

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