By: Bill Burchfield, MSLS, Kentucky Historical Society Librarian We all know that the early history of the United States is filled with disease epidemics. Kentucky has shared in their sometimes-disastrous outcomes. Cholera was an especially dreadful disease that cropped up from time to time in various locations throughout the Commonwealth …
By: Cheri Daniels, MSLS, Head of Reference Services, Editor of Kentucky Ancestors Online As the summer of 1833 heated up, the people of Kentucky became swiftly aware of the dangers spreading in their direction. A cholera epidemic, the first of several they would endure over the next few decades, was …
The SC&L team recently revisited 1200 manuscript collections, reviewing the descriptions and content notes and updating the subject headings to make these materials more easily accessible to our research public. One of the treasures that we uncovered was a small collection of materials pertaining to Dr. Samuel Johnson Hall of …