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...
View ArticleWater 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...
View ArticleFrazier 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.
View ArticleEmancipation 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...
View ArticleGeorge 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...
View ArticleAn 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...
View ArticleConrad-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...
View ArticleNo, 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...
View ArticleRemembering 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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