My century in history : memoirs / Thomas D. Clark ; foreword by Charles P. Roland ; introduction by James C. Klotter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clark, Thomas Dionysius, 1903-2005.

Contributor:

Roland, Charles Pierce, 1918-2022.

Klotter, James C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historians--Kentucky--Biography.

Historians.

Kentucky--Biography.

Kentucky.

Kentucky--Historiography.

Clark, Thomas Dionysius, 1903-2005.

Clark, Thomas Dionysius.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (447 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

When Thomas D. Clark was hired to teach history at the University of Kentucky in 1931, he began a career that would span nearly three-quarters of a century and would profoundly change not only the history department and the university but the entire Commonwealth. His still-definitive History of Kentucky (1937) was one of more than thirty books he would write or edit dealing with Kentucky, the South, and the American frontier. In addition to his wide scholarly contributions, Clark devoted his life to the preservation of Kentucky's historical records. His efforts resulted in the Commonwealth'

Contents:

The long road home

Old place, new place

A world in change

The road taken

Out of the cotton patch

Big river

West to Kentucky

The way to Durham

Year of decision

Depression years

Putting down roots

Building the special collections

Years of passage

Indiana University

Breaking the racial barrier

Teaching and lecturing abroad

An ancient land in the grip of history

The road to professionalism

Speaking Kentucky (and a lot of other places)

The book thieves

Family

A time of reckoning.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786613232601

9780813137063

0813137063

9781283232609

128323260X

9780813171388

0813171385

OCLC:

182620614