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Introduction
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Melanie Beals Goan
Published: 12 November 2020
...The story begins in Nashville in 1920. Laura Clay, Kentucky's most well-known is there, not to urge the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, but rather to support anti-suffragists' efforts to defeat it. The introduction lays out why Kentucky's struggle to give women the vote matters...
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Working for Peace
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Melanie Beals Goan
Published: 12 November 2020
... allies Paul Alice suffrage parades field organizers Millard Walter J socialism Antis Bennett Sallie Clay Breckinridge Madeline “Madge” McDowell Cantrill James Campbell constitutional amendment state suffrage Democratic Party the Fulton County Hubbard May Hord Hubbard Sallie Mrs S M James...
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The Battle for RDX Production
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Colin F. Baxter
Published: 23 April 2018
... Forces Woolwich Arsenal Clay Lucius D Currie Lauchlin Roosevelt Franklin D Hopkins Harry Marshall George C Works Progress Administration WPA Aberdeen Proving Ground Campbell Levin H Jr Hofstetter C F Patterson Robert P Hale George C J. R. Donald General Brehon B. Somervell General Lucius D...
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“Traces of Vast Design”
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James P. Cousins
Published: 15 November 2016
... William Henry Harvard University Jenkins John Reid Thomas Smith Adam Virgil Xenophon underclassmen University of Pennsylvania Medical College boarding houses botany Clay Henry disease obstetrics pharmacology depreciation servants Transylvania Seminary antirelief position Jeffersonian...
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Friends in High Places
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Randolph Paul Runyon
Published: 23 April 2018
... and the surrounding area. They begin lifelong friendships with Henry and Lucretia Clay and with Mary Owen Todd. Bonaparte Napoleon Louis XVI Bonaparte Joseph French Revolution Salm Constance de Bonaparte Jerome Jefferson Thomas Mentelle Jeannette Robert Cornelia Mentelle Roland Manon Washington George du...
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A “Progressive and Enlightened” State
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James W. Miller
Published: 08 March 2017
... watched the scrimmage was Cassius Clay, who would win a gold medal in boxing at the 1960 Olympics. Lincoln lost one early game and then took off on a winning streak, despite prejudiced refereeing from white officials when playing all-white teams. Gilliard cautioned his players to get used to questionable...
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The State
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Joseph W. Pearson
Published: 01 September 2020
... Lady’s Book and Ladies’ American Magazine Philadelphia ideological tribalism class divisions nativism Roman Catholic political fears generated by Burke Edmund Jackson Andrew Jacksonian Democratic Mason George Clay Henry Jacobins in antebellum political contexts Harrison William Henry Leigh...
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Henry Clay, Part One: American Hero
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James A. Ramage and Andrea S. Watkins
Published: 01 January 2012
...People in Kentucky and throughout the United States in the 1850s said Henry Clay was an example of self-reliance, meaningful and unselfish public service, and success without formal schooling or powerful connections. Clay and Kentucky helped one another as Kentucky was one of the most respected...
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Building Legacies
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Lindsey Apple
Published: 01 January 2012
...Recognizing in his sons his own fascination with risk, Clay sought to channel their gambling spirit into acceptable outlets. With the aid of strong daughters-in-law he involved his sons in “meaningful” work through a family conglomerate called here the Clay Corporation. It proved to be a local...
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Prudence and Resolve
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Daniel F. Harrington
Published: 29 May 2012
... the decision rested with Washington, and the Americans were slower to reach conclusions. If President Truman was determined to uphold the position in Berlin, he was equally determined to avoid war. The Western powers approached the Soviets, first locally, at the military governor level (US General Lucius Clay...
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John Fee, His Courage, and His Clarity
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Gretchen Dykstra
Published: 24 September 2024
... an education. Through the distribution of pamphlets that promoted abolitionism by colporteurs around Kentucky, Fee captured the attention of Cassius Marcellus Clay, who became Fee’s patron and supported him financially in his efforts to integrate his community by providing him with the land to found...
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Paw Hensley and the Naked Haint Woman of Squabble Creek
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Larry Sparks and Matthew R. Sparks
Published: 01 October 2024
... encountered a mysterious figure: the legendary Naked Haint Lady of Squabble Creek. He immediately shares his encounter with his wife Mabel, who doesn’t believe his tale at all. ghosts apparitions haints spirits paranormal supernatural Clay County Kentucky My great-grandpa Hensley Sparks was a walking...
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A Simple Justice: Kentucky Women Fight for the Vote
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Melanie Beals Goan
Published online: 23 September 2021
Published in print: 12 November 2020
... to reveal figures whose names have been lost to history. Laura Clay and Madeline McDowell Breckinridge led the Kentucky movement, but they did not do it alone. This timely study introduces readers to individuals across the Bluegrass State who did their part to move the nation closer to achieving its...
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A Woman's Film and a Man's Adventure at Fox
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Michael Sragow
Published: 22 November 2013
...In the late 1920s, Fleming’s contract with Paramount expired, and he was hired by Fox Studios. Here, he directed Common Clay (1930)—a love story about a rich man and his maid—and then Renegades , an adventure story about the French Foreign Legion in North Africa...
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Henry Clay, Part Two: Champion of the Union
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James A. Ramage and Andrea S. Watkins
Published: 01 January 2012
...Americans identified with Henry Clay as the symbol of the American eagle, the Genius of Liberty, and the champion of Union-saving compromises. Clay believed in the Union over the state and made his position clear in his numerous political positions. Believing that slavery was a necessary evil put...
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The More We See This Country
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Randolph Paul Runyon
Published: 23 April 2018
.... Russell, had given them a life interest. Waldemar pays for the construction of a house there, across the street from Henry Clay's Ashland estate. du Pont de Nemours Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours Victor Apple Lindsey Bradford John Dufour Jean Jacques Duhamel Jean Pierre François Duhamel John...
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The Fast Track into the Future
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Maryjean Wall
Published: 01 September 2010
... of the war behind them, while Saratoga visitors quickly turned their thoughts to much more pleasant prospects lying ahead, the most important of which was the showdown between Kentucky and Asteroid. John Clay, the owner of Kentucky, took the horse to the track at Paterson to sell in 1863. Clay had raced...
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Published: 15 April 2015
... objectives was a series of assumptions about how postwar governance in Germany should be implemented. The implementation of these plans by military leaders, particularly by then lieutenant general Lucius D. Clay, during the first year of the occupation dramatically shaped the longer-range policy goals...
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The Jurist: George M. Bibb (1776–1859)
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Kurt X. Metzmeier
Published: 15 November 2016
... Marquis de Georgia Hampden Sydney College Lafayette Marquis Lincoln Abraham Madison James New Jersey Revolutionary War Virginia Bibb Mary Tabb Scott Blackstone William Clay Henry Cliosophic Society Commentaries on the Law Jefferson Thomas Lexington KY Princeton University Scott Charles...
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I Desired to Read the Word of God
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Randolph Paul Runyon
Published: 26 October 2021
... Maysville Michaux F A Sisson Elizabeth Treaty of Greenville in 1795 Washington Cuming Fortescue Flint James Palmer John Welby Adlard Clay Henry Cummings Samuel Flemingsburg Greathouse William Mahan John B Mason County Rankin John slavery in Kentucky Stowe Harriet Beecher Uncle Tom’s Cabin...