History Of Harlan Kentucky

  history of harlan kentucky: A History of Harlan County Mabel Green Condon, 1962
  history of harlan kentucky: Farther Along: Origins of the Cobb, Pope, and Ball Families of Harlan County, Kentucky John Rhinehart, 2020-01-20 The book traces the progenitors of the Harlan County, Kentucky, Cobb, Pope, and Ball families from their known North American origins in colonial Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina to their eventual settlement in eastern Tennessee, western Virginia, and southeastern Kentucky. Substantial national, state, and local history is included in the narrative for the purpose of setting the people discussed in the context of their times. Issues such as the Methodist Church and the slavery issue, and Kentucky and the secession crisis are considered, as is Harlan County and the Civil War. Much attention is given to Harlan County's political history, from its Democratic-Whig beginnings to the Radical Republicanism of the Reconstruction Era (1865-1877. The narrative ends about 1900. Roughly 100 of the 500 pages of the book are exhibits.
  history of harlan kentucky: They Say in Harlan County Alessandro Portelli, 2012-09-13 This book is a historical and cultural interpretation of a symbolic place in the United States, Harlan County, Kentucky, from pioneer times to the beginning of the third millennium, based on a painstaking and creative montage of more than 150 oral narratives and a wide array of secondary and archival matter.
  history of harlan kentucky: Growing Up Hard in Harlan County Green C. Jones, 1985-01-01 G.C. “Red” Jones’s classic memoir of growing up in rural eastern Kentucky during the Depression is a story of courage, persistence, and eventual triumph. His priceless and detailed recollections of hardscrabble farming, of the impact of Prohibition on an individualistic people, of the community-destroying mine wars of “Bloody Harlan,” and of the drastic dislocations brought by World War II are essential to understanding this seminal era in Appalachian history.
  history of harlan kentucky: Which Side are You On? John W. Hevener, 2002 Detailing the dimensions of unionization and the balance of power spawned by New Deal labor policy after government intervention, this book is the definitive analysis of Harlan's bloody decade.
  history of harlan kentucky: The Harlan Renaissance William H Turner, 2021-10 A personal remembrance from the preeminent chronicler of Black life in Appalachia.
  history of harlan kentucky: Hell in Harlan George J. Titler, 2015-06 George Joy Titler came to Harlan County, Kentucky, in 1937 to help the United Mine Workers of America labor union organize Harlan County's miners. For decades, the county's coal operators bitterly and violently resisted the UMWA's repeated organizing efforts in this remote southeastern Kentucky region. The coal operators' influence and power permeated the county's government and justice system, and stretched its reach to the Governor's office in Frankfort. The operators paid scores of sheriff deputies to intimidate, threaten, and kill organizers or miners who challenged their economic grip on the county. After four tumultous years, the UMWA organizers secured for Harlan's miners a fair contract. In this book, Titler recounts the history of Harlan County's labor troubles, and gives a first-hand account of his four harrowing years in Bloody Harlan, where he and his friends survived car bombings, hotel bombings, machine gun ambushes, and other assasination attempts. His bravery and service on behalf of the miners and their families earned him a monacre befitting his personality: the Bull of Harlan.
  history of harlan kentucky: Harlan Miners Speak Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, 2011-10-01
  history of harlan kentucky: Payne Hollow Journal Harlan Hubbard, 2014-07-11 Harlan Hubbard was Kentucky's Thoreau, and his journals are intimate records of a life lived in harmony with nature. For more than fifty years the artist, writer, and homesteader described daily activities and recorded keen observations as he sought to live simply and authentically. The third and climactic volume of his journals, Payne Hollow Journal, contains entries from the years he and his wife, Anna, lived at their Payne Hollow home along the Ohio River's Kentucky shore. There they mastered the arts of country life, building their own stone and timber house in 1952 and raising their own food. To live with nature was not a novel experience for the couple; earlier they had floated down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans on their homemade shantyboat. Hubbard described this journey in Shantyboat Journal, the basis for his Shantyboat and Shantyboat on the Bayous. By turns poetic and practical, Payne Hollow Journal celebrates nature's intense beauty and sometimes harsh realities as perhaps only an artist can see them. Here Hubbard reveals how dedication to work that provides sustenance—gardening, wood chopping, fishing, foraging, and raising goats-can also be fulfilling. Don Wallis's arrangement of the Payne Hollow entries reflects the seasonal changes in Hubbard and his life as well as in the natural world around him. At the beginning of this volume Hubbard writes, When we are away from Payne Hollow, that place does not seem real or possible.... It is hard to explain our situation, to give reasons for our living this way to people who have no understanding or sympathy. A visit to the Hubbards' home through Payne Hollow Journal is ample explanation for anyone who has yearned to lead a life of simplicity and purpose.
  history of harlan kentucky: Days of Darkness John Pearce, 1994-11-15 Among the darkest corners of Kentucky’s past are the grisly feuds that tore apart the hills of Eastern Kentucky from the late nineteenth century until well into the twentieth. Now, from the tangled threads of conflicting testimony, John Ed Pearce, Kentucky’s best known journalist, weaves engrossing accounts of six of the most notorior accounts to uncover what really happened and why. His story of those days of darkness brings to light new evidence, questions commonly held beliefs about the feuds, and us and long-running feuds—those in Breathitt, Clay Harlan, Perry, Pike, and Rowan counties. What caused the feuds that left Kentucky with its lingering reputation for violence? Who were the feudists, and what forces—social, political, financial—hurled them at each other? Did Big Jim Howard really kill Governor William Goebel? Did Joe Eversole die trying to protect small mountain landowners from ruthless Eastern mineral exploiters? Did the Hatfield-McCoy fight start over a hog? For years, Pearce has interviewed descendants of feuding families and examined skimpy court records and often fictional newspapeputs to rest some of the more popular legends.
  history of harlan kentucky: Veit Harlan Frank Noack, 2016-04-08 Veit Harlan (1899-1964) was one of Germany's most controversial and loathed directors. The first English-language biography of the notorious director, Veit Harlan presents an in-depth portrait of the man who is arguably the only Nazi filmmaker with a distinct authorial style and body of work.
  history of harlan kentucky: The Great Dissenter Peter S. Canellos, 2022-06-28 The story of an American hero who stood against all the forces of Gilded Age America to help enshrine our civil rights and economic freedoms. Dissent. No one wielded this power more aggressively than John Marshall Harlan, a young union veteran from Kentucky who served on the US Supreme Court from the end of the Civil War through the Gilded Age. In the long test of time, this lone dissenter was proven right in case after case. They say history is written by the victors, but that is not Harlan's legacy: his views--not those of his fellow justices--ulitmately ended segregation and helped give us our civil rights and our economic freedoms. Derided by many as a loner and loser, he ended up being acclaimed as the nation's most courageous jurist, a man who saw the truth and justice that eluded his contemporaries. Our Constitution is color blind and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens, he wrote in his famous dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson, one of many cases in which he lambasted his colleagues for denying the rights of African Americans. When the court struck down antitrust laws, Harlan called out the majority for favoring its own economic class. He did the same when the justices robbed states of their power to regulate the hours of workers and shielded the rich from the income tax. When other justices said the court was powerless to prevent racial violence, he took matters into his own hands: he made sure the Chattanooga officials who enabled a shocking lynching on a bridge over the Tennessee River were brought to justice. In this monumental biography, prize-winning journalist and bestselling author Peter S. Canellos chronicles the often tortuous and inspiring process through which Supreme Courts can make and remake the law across generations. But he also shows how the courage and outlook of one man can make all the difference. Why did Harlan see things differently? Because his life was different, He grew up alongside Robert Harlan, whom many believed to be his half brother. Born enslaved, Robert Harlan bought his freedom and became a horseracing pioneer and a force in the Republican Party. It was Robert who helped put John on the Supreme Court. At a time when many justices journey from the classroom to the bench with few stops in real life, the career of John Marshall Harlan is an illustration of the importance of personal experience in the law. And Harlan's story is also a testament to the vital necessity of dissent--and of how a flame lit in one era can light the world in another. --
  history of harlan kentucky: Bloody Harlan Paul F. Taylor, 2017-04-01
  history of harlan kentucky: Twilight in Hazard Alan Maimon, 2021-06-08 “Twilight in Hazard paints a more nuanced portrait of Appalachia than Vance did...[Maimon] eviscerates Vance's bestseller with stiletto precision.” —Associated Press From investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist Alan Maimon comes the story of how a perfect storm of events has had a devastating impact on life in small town Appalachia, and on the soul of a shaken nation . . . When Alan Maimon got the assignment in 2000 to report on life in rural Eastern Kentucky, his editor at the Louisville Courier-Journal told him to cover the region “like a foreign correspondent would.” And indeed, when Maimon arrived in Hazard, Kentucky fresh off a reporting stint for the New York Times’s Berlin bureau, he felt every bit the outsider. He had landed in a place in the vice grip of ecological devastation and a corporate-made opioid epidemic—a place where vote-buying and drug-motivated political assassinations were the order of the day. While reporting on the intense religious allegiances, the bitter, bareknuckled political rivalries, and the faltering attempts to emerge from a century-long coal-based economy, Maimon learns that everything—and nothing—you have heard about the region is true. And far from being a foreign place, it is a region whose generations-long struggles are driven by quintessentially American forces. Resisting the easy cliches, Maimon’s Twilight in Hazard gives us a profound understanding of the region from his years of careful reporting. It is both a powerful chronicle of a young reporter’s immersion in a place, and of his return years later—this time as the husband of a Harlan County coal miner’s daughter—to find the area struggling with its identity and in the thrall of Trumpism as a political ideology. Twilight in Hazard refuses to mythologize Central Appalachia. It is a plea to move past the fixation on coal, and a reminder of the true costs to democracy when the media retreats from places of rural distress. It is an intimate portrait of a people staring down some of the most pernicious forces at work in America today while simultaneously being asked: How could you let this happen to yourselves? Twilight in Hazard instead tells the more riveting, noirish, and sometimes bitingly humorous story of how we all let this happen.
  history of harlan kentucky: The Watercolors of Harlan Hubbard Harlan Hubbard, 2021-10-19 Harlan Hubbard (1900–1988), a Kentucky writer, environmentalist, and artist, spent many years trying to rediscover and revive the vanishing language of landscape in his watercolor paintings. Known for their sense of drifting movement and their depiction of the natural way of life fondly associated with Hubbard, they inexplicably remain his least studied artworks, despite presenting some of the best evidence of Hubbard's place in the history of landscape painting. The Watercolors of Harlan Hubbard not only argues for Hubbard's place in the art historical canon but also highlights and analyzes the artist's own voice. In this unique collection, more than two hundred watercolors are interspersed with anecdotes from those who knew Hubbard or drew inspiration from his work, offering a personal meditation on a deeply influential artist and serving as an invitation to those who have yet to discover him.
  history of harlan kentucky: Two Sides to Everything Shaunna L. Scott, 1995-02-23 This is an oral history and ethnography of miners and their families in Kentucky focusing on political ideology and working class consciousness. Harlan County, Kentucky emerged in the public eye during the 1930s when poverty, unemployment, and violent unionization struggles caught the attention of the national news media and the American people. It burst on the scene again during the 1972-73 Brookside strike, an event chronicled in the Academy Award-winning film, Harlan County, U.S.A. In this book the author brings the American reader up to date on this interesting community by documenting the everyday lives of Harlan miners and their families in the mid-1980s. Using a neo-Marxian perspective, Two Sides to Everything characterizes the nature, limitations, and transformative potential of class consciousness among two generations of Harlan miners. It also elucidates the apparent contradictions between popular images of central Appalachians, as militant labor activists, on one hand, and passive, traditional, fatalistic hillbillies, on the other. The book accomplishes these tasks through a systematic consideration of the relationship between the central experiential bases and sources of identity among Harlan county miners—class, kinship, community, religion, and gender.
  history of harlan kentucky: Gone Home Karida L. Brown, 2018-08-06 Since the 2016 presidential election, Americans have witnessed countless stories about Appalachia: its changing political leanings, its opioid crisis, its increasing joblessness, and its declining population. These stories, however, largely ignore black Appalachian lives. Karida L. Brown's Gone Home offers a much-needed corrective to the current whitewashing of Appalachia. In telling the stories of African Americans living and working in Appalachian coal towns, Brown offers a sweeping look at race, identity, changes in politics and policy, and black migration in the region and beyond. Drawn from over 150 original oral history interviews with former and current residents of Harlan County, Kentucky, Brown shows that as the nation experienced enormous transformation from the pre- to the post-civil rights era, so too did black Americans. In reconstructing the life histories of black coal miners, Brown shows the mutable and shifting nature of collective identity, the struggles of labor and representation, and that Appalachia is far more diverse than you think.
  history of harlan kentucky: John Marshall Harlan Loren P. Beth, 2014-07-11 Harlan. Known today to every student of constitutional law, principally for his dissenting opinions in early racial discrimination cases, Harlan was an important actor in every major public issue that came before the Supreme Court during his thirty-three-year tenure. Named by a hopeful father for Chief Justice John Marshall, Harlan began his career as a member of the Kentucky Whig slavocracy. Loren Beth traces the young lawyer's development from these early years through the secession crisis and Civil War, when Harlan remained loyal to the Union, both as a politician and as a soldier. As Beth demonstrates, Harlan gradually shifted during these years to an antislavery Republicanism that still emphasized his adherence to the Whig principles of Unionism and national power as against states' rights. Harlan's Supreme Court career (1877-1911) was characterized by his fundamental disagreement with nearly every judicial colleague of his day. His ultimate stance -- as the Great Dissenter, the champion of civil rights, the upholder of the powers of Congress -- emerges as the logical outgrowth of his pre-Court life. Harlan's significance for today's reader is underlined by the Supreme Court's adoption, beginning in the 1930s, of most of his positions on the Fourteenth Amendment and the Commerce Clause of the Constitution. This fine biography is also an important contribution to constitutional history. Historians, political scientists, and legal scholars will come from its pages with renewed appreciation for one of our judicial giants.
  history of harlan kentucky: Harlan Hubbard Wendell Berry, 2021-10-19 By examining the life and work of celebrated painter, Harlan Hubbard, author Wendell Berry creates the perfect vehicle for emphasizing the themes of his other writings: the value of self-sufficiency, our responsibility to the environment, the holiness of everyday life, and the preference of simplicity over modern, mechanized life. Includes 20 color plates of Hubbard's own paintings, along with several photographs of Anna and Harlan Hubbard.
  history of harlan kentucky: The Republic according to John Marshall Harlan Linda Przybyszewski, 2018-07-25 Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan (1833-1911) is best known for condemning racial segregation in his dissent from Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, when he declared, Our Constitution is color-blind. But in other judicial decisions--as well as in some areas of his life--Harlan's actions directly contradicted the essence of his famous statement. Similarly, Harlan was called the people's judge for favoring income tax and antitrust laws, yet he also upheld doctrines that benefited large corporations. Examining these and other puzzles in Harlan's judicial career, Linda Przybyszewski draws on a rich array of previously neglected sources--including the verbatim transcripts of his 1897-98 lectures on constitutional law, his wife's 1915 memoirs, and a compilation of opinions, drawn up by Harlan himself, that he wanted republished. Her thoughtful examination demonstrates how Harlan inherited the traditions of paternalism, nationalism, and religious faith; how he reshaped these traditions in light of his experiences as a lawyer, political candidate, and judge; and how he justified the vision of the law he wrote. An innovative combination of personal and judicial biography, this book makes an insightful contribution to American constitutional and intellectual history.
  history of harlan kentucky: Harlan County Haunts Darla Jackson, 2008-03-01 Harlan County Haunts explores the unknown with over 60 tales of spooky encounters and weird occurrences. Although the focus is on Harlan County, there are stories from around the southeastern Kentucky region as well as other states. Featured in Harlan County Haunts is the novella, Caroline, which highlights one of Harlan County's most compelling unsolved crimes.Jackson, a lifelong Native of Harlan County, takes you on a ghostly journey through the mountains of Appalachia and beyond. Harlan County Haunts contains ghosts, monsters, angels, and many personal accounts of encounters with the unexplained.Harlan County Haunts was over two years in the making, with Jackson compiling well over 100 true accounts of experiences with the paranormal. After many interviews and research, the stories in the book are what she considered the best and most credible.
  history of harlan kentucky: Anna Hubbard Mia Cunningham, 2014-07-11 Anna Eikenhout (1902-1986) was an honors graduate of Ohio State University, a fine-arts librarian, a skilled pianist, and an avid reader in three languages. Harlan Hubbard (1900-1988), a little-known painter and would-be shantyboater, seemed an unlikely husband, but together they lived a life out of the pages of Thoreau's Walden. Much of what is known about the Hubbards comes from Harlan's books and journals. Concerning the seasons and the landscape, his writing was rapturous, yet he was emotionally reticent when discussing human affairs in general or Anna in particular. Yet it was through her efforts that their life on the river was truly civilized. Visitors to Payne Hollow recall Anna as a generous, gracious hostess, whose intelligence and artistry made the small house seem grander than a mansion.
  history of harlan kentucky: Union Prayer-Book for Jewish Worship Central Conference of American Rabbis, 2018-10-23 This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
  history of harlan kentucky: Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky Lewis Collins, 1878
  history of harlan kentucky: Bell County Tim Cornett, 2002 Bell County is a place steeped in history and imbued with a pioneering spirit. Its favorable location in southeastern Kentucky at the foothills of the Cumberland Mountains makes it the gateway to the Bluegrass State and beyond. Formed just after the Civil War from neighboring Harlan and Knox Counties, the area was explored by famous frontiersmen Dr. Thomas Walker and Daniel Boone, opening the nation's door to the West. From the 1750s until the last footfalls of the pioneers had been heard in the West, thousands trekked across this region. As the land became more accessible, travelers began to settle in this remote area. The discovery of coal, the advent of logging, and the coming of the railroad made Bell County a place to live and prosper, and its residents have always taken pride in their town's humble beginnings. Images of America: Bell County celebrates the region's heritage with vintage images and informative text. Black-and-white photographs culled from a variety of sources highlight the spirit of a remarkable community, where self-made millionaires and peg-legged admirals were among the many unforgettable individuals to call the area home. This photo journal invites readers to rediscover Bell County and its treasures.
  history of harlan kentucky: African American Miners and Migrants Thomas E. Wagner, Philip J. Obermiller, 2004-02-09 Thomas E. Wagner and Phillip J. Obermiller's African American Miners and Migrants documents the lives of Eastern Kentucky Social Club (EKSC) members, a group of black Appalachians who left the eastern Kentucky coalfields and their coal company hometowns in Harlan County. Bound together by segregation, the inherent dangers of mining, and coal company paternalism, it might seem that black miners and mountaineers would be eager to forget their past. Instead, members of the EKSC have chosen to celebrate their Harlan County roots. African American Miners and Migrants uses historical and archival research and extensive personal interviews to explore their reasons and the ties that still bind them to eastern Kentucky. The book also examines life in the model coal towns of Benham and Lynch in the context of Progressive Era policies, the practice of welfare capitalism, and the contemporary national trend of building corporate towns and planned communities.
  history of harlan kentucky: Shantyboat Harlan Hubbard, 1977-01-01 Shantyboat is the story of a leisurely journey down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans. For most people such a journey is the stuff that dreams are made of, but for Harlan and Anna Hubbard, it became a cherished reality. In their small river craft, the Hubbards became one with the flowing river and its changing weathers. This book mirrors a life that is simple and independent, strenuous at times, but joyous, with leisure for painting and music, for observation and contemplation.
  history of harlan kentucky: The Kentucky Encyclopedia John E. Kleber, 2014-10-17 The Kentucky Encyclopedia's 2,000-plus entries are the work of more than five hundred writers. Their subjects reflect all areas of the commonwealth and span the time from prehistoric settlement to today's headlines, recording Kentuckians' achievements in art, architecture, business, education, politics, religion, science, and sports. Biographical sketches portray all of Kentucky's governors and U.S. senators, as well as note congressmen and state and local politicians. Kentucky's impact on the national scene is registered in the lives of such figures as Carry Nation, Henry Clay, Louis Brandeis, and Alben Barkley. The commonwealth's high range from writers Harriette Arnow and Jesse Stuart, reformers Laura Clay and Mary Breckinridge, and civil rights leaders Whitney Young, Jr., and Georgia Powers, to sports figures Muhammad Ali and Adolph Rupp and entertainers Loretta Lynn, Merle Travis, and the Everly Brothers. Entries describe each county and county seat and each community with a population above 2,500. Broad overview articles examine such topics as agriculture, segregation, transportation, literature, and folklife. Frequently misunderstood aspects of Kentucky's history and culture are clarified and popular misconceptions corrected. The facts on such subjects as mint juleps, Fort Knox, Boone's coonskin cap, the Kentucky hot brown, and Morgan's Raiders will settle many an argument. For both the researcher and the more casual reader, this collection of facts and fancies about Kentucky and Kentuckians will be an invaluable resource.
  history of harlan kentucky: A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole, 2007-12-01 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize “A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.”—The New York Times Book Review A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero, one Ignatius J. Reilly, is huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original characters, denizens of New Orleans' lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the zaniest series of high and low comic adventures (Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun-Times).
  history of harlan kentucky: Our Appalachia Laurel Shackelford, Bill Weinberg, 2014-10-17 Many books have been written about Appalachia, but few have voiced its concerns with the warmth and directness of this one. From hundreds of interviews gathered by the Appalachian Oral History Project, editors Laurel Shackelford and Bill Weinberg have woven a rich verbal tapestry that portrays the people and the region in all their variety. The words on the page have the ring of truth, for these are the people of Appalachia speaking for themselves. Here they recollect an earlier time of isolation but of independence and neighborliness. For a nearer time they tell of the great changes that took place in Appalachia with the growth of coal mining and railroads and the disruption of old ways. Persisting through the years and sounding clearly in the interviews are the dignity of the Appalachian people and their close ties with the land, despite the exploitation and change they have endured. When first published, Our Appalachia was widely praised. This new edition again makes available an authentic source of social history for all those with an interest in the region.
  history of harlan kentucky: Red Book Alice Eichholz, 2004 ... provides updated county and town listings within the same overall state-by-state organization ... information on records and holdings for every county in the United States, as well as excellent maps from renowned mapmaker William Dollarhide ... The availability of census records such as federal, state, and territorial census reports is covered in detail ... Vital records are also discussed, including when and where they were kept and how--Publisher decription.
  history of harlan kentucky: Kentucky Place Names Robert M. Rennick, 2013-04-06 From the wealth of place names in Kentucky, Rennick has selected those of some 2,000 communities and post offices. These places are usually the largest, the best known, or the most important as well as those with unusual or inherently interesting names. Including perhaps one-fourth of all such places known in the state, the names were chosen as a representative sample among Kentucky's counties and sections. Kentucky Place Names offers a fascinating mosaic of information on families, events, politics, and local lore in the state. It will interest all Kentuckians as well as the growing number of scholars of American place names.
  history of harlan kentucky: The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come John Fox, 1993-01-19 This powerful novel is one of the most perceptive tellings of the Civil War experience.
  history of harlan kentucky: History & Genealogy of the Harlan Family in America Alpheus Harlan, 2017-07-28 ALPHEUS HARLAN'S CLASSIC TOME History and Genealogy of the Harlan Family in America is not only a must-have keepsake for everybody with the last name or maiden-name of Harlan, but is also an invaluable historical guide and documentation tool for ANYONE interested in genealogical research in North America. Hundreds of other surnames are listed and referenced in early Colonial America. This is an exact reprint of the original history, (Vol. 2 being the second half), begun in the Year of Our Lord 1625 - just 14 years after the first printing of the King James Bible - and retains all the archaic spelling and pronunciation of the Elizabethan English of the day. It documents in detail the three Harland Brothers who arrived in the New World with their fellow Puritan Pilgrims in a ship that set sail from England a few years after the Mayflower, landing in Delaware; how the famous Mason-Dixon Line is anchored on the Harlan Farm there; how their family helped establish Friends Meetinghouses across Pennsylvania; how they established Harlan County, Kentucky, and Harlan County, Nebraska, and dozens of other Harlan towns and sites across the Wild West; how their family was torn apart during the Civil War, fighting for both the U.S. Army and the Confederate Army - two Harlan soldiers from the North, and two from the South, all killed together at the Battle of Bull Run; how Harlan Quakers ran key Safe Houses for the Underground Railroad that Harriet Tubman's escapees stayed in; how the daughter of U.S. Senator James Harlan married the son of President Abraham Lincoln; why there are two U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Marshal Harlans; why there is an African American branch of the Harlan Family, and a Latin American branch, and a Native American branch (with Harlan cousins still living on the Omaha Indian Tribe Reservation), a British branch, and an Irish branch of the family - who built the most famous ship in the world, the Titanic! There was a Congressman Harlan, a Judge Harlan, a General Harlan, and a Major Harlan of the U.S. Army back in the Cowboy Days who was Court Martialed for being a horse thief! And of course the sweet young lady Harlan for whom the song O Home on the Range was written. All this and much more! VOLUME 2 (From Senator James Harlan to 20th Century) is edited by Reverend T.L. Harlan in a limited reprint for A Family of Friends.
  history of harlan kentucky: The Death of Luigi Trastulli and Other Stories Alessandro Portelli, 2010-03-30 Portelli offers a new and challenging approach to oral history, with an interdisciplinary and multicultural perspective. Examining cultural conflict and communication between social groups and classes in industrial societies, he identifies the way individuals strive to create memories in order to make sense of their lives, and evaluates the impact of the fieldwork experience on the consciousness of the researcher. By recovering the value of the story-telling experience, Portelli's work makes delightful reading for the specialist and non-specialist alike.
  history of harlan kentucky: Kentucky's Last Great Places Thomas G. Barnes, 2002-06-28 With over 100 glorious full-color photographs and insightful text, Kentucky's Last Great Places highlights the incredible natural beauty found in the Commonwealth's old-growth forests, prairies, wetlands, and other distinctive biological habitats. Many types -- more than 3,000 vascular plants, 230 fish, 105 amphibians and reptiles, 350 birds, 75 mammals, and 12,000 insects -- make Kentucky their home. Many of these species and their habitats are considered rare, threatened, or endangered. Overall, less than one percent of Kentucky is classified ecologically as being in a pre-European condition that deserves significant protection. Award-winning photographer and author Thomas G. Barnes combines his striking photographs with essays describing the splendor found in more than forty of Kentucky's diverse natural preserves or ecological areas, including the old-growth Blanton Forest near Pine Mountain in Harlan County, Axe Lake Swamp in Ballard County near the Mississippi River, Red River Gorge, the Kentucky River Palisades, Mammoth Cave, and many others. This spectacular oversized book explores the biodiversity of Kentucky, the challenges to protecting its biological heritage, and the ways that organizations such as The Nature Conservancy, Kentucky Nature Preserves Commission, the National Park Service, and others are continuing to protect the state's unique biological legacy. Thomas G. Barnes, an associate extension professor of forestry at the University of Kentucky, is the author of Gardening for the Birds.
  history of harlan kentucky: Crawfish Bottom Douglas Boyd, 2011-08-01 A small neighborhood in northern Frankfort, Kentucky, Crawfish Bottom was located on fifty acres of swampy land along the Kentucky River. “Craw’s” reputation for vice, violence, moral corruption, and unsanitary conditions made it a target for urban renewal projects that replaced the neighborhood with the city’s Capital Plaza in the mid-1960s. Douglas A. Boyd’s Crawfish Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community traces the evolution of the controversial community that ultimately saw four-hundred families displaced. Using oral histories and firsthand memories, Boyd not only provides a record of a vanished neighborhood and its culture but also demonstrates how this type of study enhances the historical record. A former Frankfort police officer describes Craw’s residents as a “rough class of people, who didn’t mind killing or being killed.” In Crawfish Bottom, the former residents of Craw acknowledge the popular misconceptions about their community but offer a richer and more balanced view of the past.
  history of harlan kentucky: History of Perry County, Kentucky Eunice T. Johnson, 2020-05-05 By: Eunice T. Johnson, Pub. 1953, Reprinted 2016, 286 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-919-2. Perry County was created 1820 from Clay and Floyd Counties. It in turn was carved up to create in part and whole the counties of: Breathitt, Harlan, Knott, Letcher, and Leslie. This is the story of one of the most colorful communties in the Appalachian Mountains. Located on the north fork of the Kentucky River, It sits in the southeastern corner of the state bordering Virginia. This book covers the whole story from the time the first hardy pioneers moved across the mountains from Virginia to build cabins, stake out land claims, and subdivide this part of Kentucky into a county. The author has also included a section of the book entitled Early Perrry County Families Baker, Begley, Boling, Brashear, Campbell, Combs, Cope, Cornett, Davidson, Duff, Eversole, Francis, Fugate, Grigsby, Gross, Hall, Holliday, Ison, Johnson, Lusk, Morgan, Napier, Noble, Ritchie, Smith, Stamper, Webb and a list of individuals from the counties First Tax Book, 1821-1822.
  history of harlan kentucky: Which Side are You On? Lynda Ann Ewen, 1979
  history of harlan kentucky: The Black Heart Book Rosezelle Boggs-Qualls, Daryl C. Greene, 2004
Skidmore Family History
1841 in Harlan County, Kentucky, James (born about 1799, died by August 1899), a son of Stephen and Nancy Russell Farmer. James had married firstly in Clay County, Kentucky, …

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From "History & Genealogy of the Harlan Family," page 1. "James Harland, Yeoman and member of the Episcopal Church, was b. about the year 1625 in the "Bishoprick, nigh Durham, …

THEY SAY IN HARLAN COUNTY: AN ORAL HISTORY. By Alessandro …
They Say in Harlan County: An Oral History, the much-anticipated new book by prominent oral historian Alessandro Porteiii, was well worth the twenty-year wait. This new book is more than …

They Say in Harlan County - api.pageplace.de
Detail of State of Kentucky: Base Map, U.S. Geological Survey, 1958. It was 1988, my fi fth visit to Harlan County. I was on the winding road from Harlan to Evarts, driving a borrowed pickup …

Harlan County - Post Offices
15 Jan 2019 · THE POST OFFICES OF. HARLAN COUNTY, KENTUCKY Kentucky's sixtieth county was created from a section of Knox County by legislative act on January 28, 1819. It …

HARLAN COUNTY, KENTUCKY - Seeking my Roots
T.H E FIRST white settlers of Harlan County were the family of Samuel Howard (then spel.led Hoard). When they ·first set foot on Harlan soil, in 1796, they found an dlmost impenetrable …

Harlan County and Alessandro Portelli - Oral History Forum
Alessandro Portelli, author of such innovative works in oral history as The Order Has Been Carried Out, The Battle of Valle Giulia, and The Death of Luigi Trastulli, has spent 25 years …

Robert Ward Munck ·Park Historian Cumberland Gap National …
Wallins Creek in Harlan County for two years and then moved to Hensley Settle-ment in 1903. Sherman moved in on 59 acres, the parcel he had purchased and the 21 acres which Nicey …

Michael Goodnight Killed By Indians Near Harrodsburg
The family version of the removal to Kentucky and the killing of Michael Goodnight by Indians is told in this manner: "After locating and building a cabin at Harlan's Station in what later …

They Say in Harlan County: An Oral History. New York: Oxford - H …
Harlan County, Kentucky, has long inspired historians and documentarians, who have been drawn there by the stark juxtapositions that char‐acterized the place: poverty in a land owned by …

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the rugged physical and cultural tenain of Harlan and Bell coun- fies has stood out in the conventional retelling of the sad and bit- ter events of the coal strikes of 1931—1932 in …

Radicals, Reunion, and Repatriation: Harlan County and the
Harlan County and the Constraints of History By Jessica Legnini Traversing the northeastern section of Harlan County, Ken tucky, Route 38 is a two-lane highway which hugs the southern …

HARLAN COUNTY, KENTUCKY 389 - JSTOR
the name of "Bloody Harlan." The history of the county illustrates many of the prob-lems of social disorganization which ac-company the sudden impact of industrial civilization upon a self …

VOLUME 1 - Bell County Public Library District
Settlement School; to Rev. W. T. Robbins for the chapter on "History of the Churches," which he wrote in its entirety; to Bob Hollingsworth for the names of the Circuit Court Clerks; to the late …

Historical significance of a Kentucky colonel named Harlan
Historical significance of a Kentucky colonel named Harlan BY JUDGE DARRELL WHITE (RET.) What do a Kentucky colonel named Harlan, a “colorblind” constitution and an old Bible have in …

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Collection consists of a photograph album of 55 photographs related to six coal companies in Kentucky. The photograph album belonged to Henry Snodgrass, who worked at Black Star …

Dead work: The construction and reconstruction of the Harlan …
about the historical and social context of the Harlan Miners Memorial are in order. PRELUDE TO A MONUMENt. THE HISTORICAL-SOCIAL CONTEXT OF THE MINERS MEMORIAL Harlan …

Life Story: John Marshall Harlan
John Marshall Harlan was born on June 1, 1833 in rural Boyle County, Kentucky, in the midst of pre-Civil War sectionalism. Named after Chief Justice John Marshall who initiated judicial …

The Biography of Joseph H. Harlan - MOGenWeb
JOSEPH H. is a native of Boyle county, Kentucky, and was born May 9th, 1821. He moved, in 1835, to Cooper county, Missouri, from where he came across the plains to California in 1853. …

Harlan High School Harlan, Kentucky JAMES S. GREENE III - JSTOR
present a succinct and relevant narration of the history of the past three decades from an American perspective. The main focus of In Our Times is on domestic developments, but there …

Skidmore Family History
1841 in Harlan County, Kentucky, James (born about 1799, died by August 1899), a son of Stephen and Nancy Russell Farmer. James had married firstly in Clay County, Kentucky, Margaret Asher.

HarlanFamily - hill-ky.org
From "History & Genealogy of the Harlan Family," page 1. "James Harland, Yeoman and member of the Episcopal Church, was b. about the year 1625 in the "Bishoprick, nigh Durham, England," and is the earliest paternal ancestor known to the family in America bearing the name Harlan. He lived and d. an Englishman, and was bur. upon English soil,

THEY SAY IN HARLAN COUNTY: AN ORAL HISTORY. By …
They Say in Harlan County: An Oral History, the much-anticipated new book by prominent oral historian Alessandro Porteiii, was well worth the twenty-year wait. This new book is more than a history of this fabled area of Kentucky; it is a labor of love. Porteiii spent those twenty years collecting oral history interviews with Harlan County ...

They Say in Harlan County - api.pageplace.de
Detail of State of Kentucky: Base Map, U.S. Geological Survey, 1958. It was 1988, my fi fth visit to Harlan County. I was on the winding road from Harlan to Evarts, driving a borrowed pickup truck, when I began to notice the roadkill. It was a dangerous road, with more than its share of adventurous drivers, and it was getting dark.

Harlan County - Post Offices
15 Jan 2019 · THE POST OFFICES OF. HARLAN COUNTY, KENTUCKY Kentucky's sixtieth county was created from a section of Knox County by legislative act on January 28, 1819. It was named for Major Silas Harlan (1752-1782), a pioneer Salt River settler, who served with George Rogers Clark in his Illinois campaign and died in the Battle of Blue

HARLAN COUNTY, KENTUCKY - Seeking my Roots
T.H E FIRST white settlers of Harlan County were the family of Samuel Howard (then spel.led Hoard). When they ·first set foot on Harlan soil, in 1796, they found an dlmost impenetrable forest, interspersed so thickly with cane breaks that in many places …

Harlan County and Alessandro Portelli - Oral History Forum
Alessandro Portelli, author of such innovative works in oral history as The Order Has Been Carried Out, The Battle of Valle Giulia, and The Death of Luigi Trastulli, has spent 25 years learning from more than 150 interviews conducted with residents of Kentucky‟s Harlan County.1 The book is clearly a labour of love, demonstrated in part by Portel...

Michael Goodnight Killed By Indians Near Harrodsburg
The family version of the removal to Kentucky and the killing of Michael Goodnight by Indians is told in this manner: "After locating and building a cabin at Harlan's Station in what later became Mercer County, Michael Goodnight returned to North Carolina and then set out again to Kentucky in July, 1781, with his family and household effects.

They Say in Harlan County: An Oral History. New York: Oxford - H …
Harlan County, Kentucky, has long inspired historians and documentarians, who have been drawn there by the stark juxtapositions that char‐acterized the place: poverty in a land owned by wealthy coal companies, a striking landscape trag‐ically scarred from strip-mining, and the bloody labor struggles that have inspired music and poet‐ry.

Radicals, Reunion, and Repatriation: Harlan County and the
Harlan County and the Constraints of History By Jessica Legnini Traversing the northeastern section of Harlan County, Ken tucky, Route 38 is a two-lane highway which hugs the southern side of Black Mountain. Following the contours of the Clover Fork of the Cumberland River, the road leaves the southern

VOLUME 1 - Bell County Public Library District
Settlement School; to Rev. W. T. Robbins for the chapter on "History of the Churches," which he wrote in its entirety; to Bob Hollingsworth for the names of the Circuit Court Clerks; to the late W. T. Rice, of Harlan, Kentucky, for information about the boundary and origin of Bell County,

HARLAN COUNTY, KENTUCKY 389 - JSTOR
the name of "Bloody Harlan." The history of the county illustrates many of the prob-lems of social disorganization which ac-company the sudden impact of industrial civilization upon a self-sufficient, isolated agricultural society.' Harlan is located in the most rugged mountain area of southeastern Kentucky. Its narrow valleys at the head-waters of

Historical significance of a Kentucky colonel named Harlan
Historical significance of a Kentucky colonel named Harlan BY JUDGE DARRELL WHITE (RET.) What do a Kentucky colonel named Harlan, a “colorblind” constitution and an old Bible have in common? Well, for starters, this colonel is known—not for fried chicken—but for his principled stand in support of constitutional

Graphic 44 - ky history
Collection consists of a photograph album of 55 photographs related to six coal companies in Kentucky. The photograph album belonged to Henry Snodgrass, who worked at Black Star Coal Corporation Inc. in Harlan County, Kentucky.

Dead work: The construction and reconstruction of the Harlan …
about the historical and social context of the Harlan Miners Memorial are in order. PRELUDE TO A MONUMENt. THE HISTORICAL-SOCIAL CONTEXT OF THE MINERS MEMORIAL Harlan is the county seat of Harlan County, which is located in southeast Kentucky in the heart of the coal fields of central Appalachia.

The Biography of Joseph H. Harlan - MOGenWeb
JOSEPH H. is a native of Boyle county, Kentucky, and was born May 9th, 1821. He moved, in 1835, to Cooper county, Missouri, from where he came across the plains to California in 1853. The first year he spent in Colusa county, the second in Butte, and …

Harlan High School Harlan, Kentucky JAMES S. GREENE III - JSTOR
present a succinct and relevant narration of the history of the past three decades from an American perspective. The main focus of In Our Times is on domestic developments, but there is adequate

Life Story: John Marshall Harlan
John Marshall Harlan was born on June 1, 1833 in rural Boyle County, Kentucky, in the midst of pre-Civil War sectionalism. Named after Chief Justice John Marshall who initiated judicial review in Marbury v. Madison (1803), no one could have imagined that John Marshall Harlan would live up to Marshall’s judicial legacy.

John Marshall Harlan - secure2.kentucky.gov
John Marshall Harlan Excerpt from Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court Ruling (May 18, 1896) Background Information: John Marshall Harlan’s views on race evolved over his lifetime. Harlan owned slaves before the Civil War, and as a Union officer he opposed granting African Americans any rights at all.

JUSTICE JOHN MARSHALL HARLAN OF KENTUCKY - JSTOR
James Harlan, an associate of Clay, admired the statesman, but greater to him than even Clay was the Chief Justice of the United States, John Marshall. The ancestors of John Marshall Harlan had been in America since 1687. In that year George Harlan, an Englishman, emigrated to New Castle, Delaware, from his home in County Down, Ireland. He soon ...