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Historian Donates Research to U of L Archives

Louisville historian Samuel W. Thomas is donating his personal collection of photos, negatives, manuscripts, audio tapes, maps and building plans to the University of Louisville Photographic...

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Water Museum in the Works

The Louisville Water Company will begin a $2.6 million renovation project this month to restore its original Pumping Station. The white building next to the iconic Water Tower on River Road, now on the...

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Frazier Exhibit Shows Horrors of Slave Trade

The Frazier History Museum opens the first exhibit to examine the entire history of the Transatlantic Slave Trade with artifacts from an excavated slave ship.

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Emancipation Across the River: Carnegie Center Explores New Albany,...

A century after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation freed enslaved people in Confederate territories and states, New Albany’s Carnegie Center for Art and History explores the history...

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George Washington Exhibit Coming to Louisville

George Washington once traded his horse for 5,000 acres of Kentucky land near present day Rough River.The legend of the first president is coming back to Kentucky as the focus of a traveling exhibit...

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An Oral History of Bourbon in Louisville

Bourbon is America's native spirit. Federal law says so. But for people in Louisville, bourbon is even closer, sentimentally and literally. The city developed quickly through the growth of the bourbon...

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Conrad-Caldwell House Museum Expands Programming with Exhibits, Book Club

  Old Louisville’s Conrad-Caldwell House Museum is expanding its programming, hoping to attract a wider visitor base with a series of free community events.“Some ideas are still in development,” says...

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No, Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman Didn't Plan the March to...

At the corner of Second and Main streets in downtown Louisville, there's a historical marker honoring the old Galt House hotel* and its famous guests, among them, Union Army Generals Ulysses S. Grant...

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Remembering The 1974 Louisville Tornado, 40 Years Later

Not long ago I took an afternoon drive through many of the neighborhoods that were ravaged by a violent tornado on the afternoon of April 3, 1974, 40 years ago this month. My deliberate itinerary took...

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