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“The Taking of Jemima Boone,” the first nonfiction book by the novelist Matthew Pearl, recounts a legendary abduction case that complicates our view of relations between settlers and Native Americans during westward expansion.
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A history story can be repeated so many times that it becomes truth. Often, you search for authoritative sources and find just one the progenitor, which lacks a source for its information.
For example, historian Terrell Garren, in his book, Mountain Myth, traces the key statistic used to characterize Western North Carolina as Unionist during the Civil War to a man with ulterior motives.
The oft-cited false numbers first appeared in a campaign biography by Alexander Hamilton Jones, trying to win a U.S. congressional seat reserved for Unionists in North Carolina.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. “Since the escalation of racial tensions is one of the major problems facing our country today, it is most urgent that history books contribute to understanding between races.”
In 1971, that line appeared in the introduction to “Kentucky’s Black Heritage,” a book published by the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights (KCHR) to help teachers educate their students on the long tradition and vast contributions of Black Kentuckians.
What You Need To Know
“Kentucky’s Black Heritage” was published in 1971
The book was an attempt to spread knowledge of Black history throughout the commonwealth
Its message and mission remain relevant a half-century later