HIS 396 Kentucky History
The course will provide an overview of the major people, ideas, and events that have shaped Kentucky’s history. After examining the state’s geography and prehistoric period, the class will explore the diverse Commonwealth’s social, political, economic and cultural development from the seventeenth century to the present. Throughout, it will also engage with themes running throughout the state’s history including the evolving relationship between Kentuckians and the land they inhabited and the changing image Kentucky embodied, both to themselves and to the outside world.