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Bruce Adams
Dept. of History
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY 40292

Work Phone: 502/852-3640
Email: bruce.adams@louisville.edu

Travel Statewide.

  • Tiny Revolutions: Laughing One's Way through Soviet History
  • Contemporary Russia: Politics and Daily Life





Constance Alexander
634 Robertson Road South
Murray, KY 42071

Work Phone: 270/753-9279
Email: constancealexander@newwavecomm.com

Travel: Regions 1, 2, 3, 4, 6.

  • Confessions of a Small Town Newspaper Columnist
  • Kilroy Was Here: Children on the Home Front in WWII




Bryan Bush
Box 807
Fairdale, KY 41018

Home Phone: 502/299-2564
Email: Bryan@bryanSBush.com

Travel Statewide.

  • Abraham Lincoln and the Speeds of Louisville: Deep and Lasting Friendship
  • General Leonidas Polk: Did he Cost the South Victory at Perryville?




Bradley C. Canon
Prof. of Political Science
1016 Della Drive
Lexington, KY 40504

Home Phone: 859/278-6155
Email: pol140@uky.edu

Travel Statewide.
  • Interpreting the Constitution: Original Intent or Keeping it up to Date?
  • Privacy in the Workplace in the 21st Century




Vickie Cimprich
331 Highland Avenue
Ft. Mitchell, KY 41017

Home Phone: 859/341-0093
Email: vjcimprich@earthlink.net

Travel Statewide.
  • Interracial Community Among the Western Shakers
  • More Love: The Domestic Life and Economy of the Western Shakers
  • Kentucky Educational Opportunities with Hispanics/Latinos




Robert S. Clark
115 Wakefield Drive
Campbellsville, KY 42718

Home Phone: 270/465-6261
Email: rsclark2@windstream.net

Travel: Statewide.
  • Abraham Lincoln: Family and Friends in Kentucky
  • George Rogers Clark Defends Kentuckians during the American Revolution




Gaylord Cooper
933 Johnson Lane
South Shore, KY 41175

Home Phone: 606/932-4958
Email: coopergl@roadrunner.com

Travel: Region 7
  • Kentucky Mountain Superstitions: Origins and Uses
  • Kentucky Mountain Language—It Ain’t Hillbilly




Ronald E. Elliott
317 S. 6th Street
Bardstown, KY 40004

Home Phone: 502/349-9480
Email: authoron@yahoo.com

Travel: Statewide.
  • Through the Eyes of Lincoln: A Modern Photographic Journey
  • Kentucky Humorists: From Cobb to Crawford




James M. Gifford
Jesse Stuart Foundation
Box 669
Ashland, KY 41105

Work Phone: 606/326-1667
Email: gifford@jsfbooks.com

Travel: Regions 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
  • Jesse Stuart: The Man and His Books
  • Appalachian Humor




Necia Desiree Harkless
731 West Main Street
Lexington, KY 40508

Home Phone: 859/567-1878
Email: nharkless@hotmail.com

Travel: Regions 5, 6.
  • Nubian Pharaohs and Meroitic Kings: The Kingdom of Kuse
  • Lewis Haydn: From Kentucky Slave to Massachusetts Legislator




Jo Marshall
Somerset Community College
808 Monticello Street
Somerset, KY 42501

Work Phone: 606/678-7114
Email: jo.marshall@kctcs.edu

Travel: Statewide.
  • People and Places in the Worlds of William Faulkner




Clara Metzmeier
1810 Parkview Drive
Campbellsville, KY 42718

Home Phone: 270/465-6104
Email: claram@kyol.net

Travel: Statewide.
  • Janice Holt Giles: Janice’s Legacy
  • Piney Ridge Trilogy: Giles’ Essay of Place




Charles E. Parrish, (Chuck)
8608 Cool Brook Court
Louisville, KY 40291

Home Phone: 502/239-0288
Email: candcparrish@hotmail.com

Travel: Regions 3, 4.
  • History of Navigation on the Ohio River




Burnam W. Reynolds
Professor of History
Box 51
Asbury College
Wilmore, KY 40390

Work Phone: 859/858-3246
Email: burnam.reynolds@asbury.edu

Travel: Statewide.
  • The Crusades: What Were These Wars Really About?
  • Just What is a Just War?




Sandra Staebell
Western Kentucky University
1906 College Heights Blvd. #1092
Bowling Green, KY 42101

Work Phone: 270/745-6260
Email: sandy.staebel@wku.edu

Travel: Statewide.
  • The Kentucky Clothes Closet: 150 Years of Fashionable Dressing(with slides)
  • Fabric Footnotes: Kentucky Women and Their Quilts (with slides)




John A. Taylor
1301 Hagen Road
Louisville, KY 40223

Work Phone: 502/254-7236
Email: john.taylor61@gmail.com

Travel: Regions 3, 5, 6.
  • The Buffalo Soldiers: A Great Grandson Remembers
  • Black Jockeys and the Sport of Kings




Rudy Thomas
Lindsey Wilson College
210 Lindsey Wilson Street
Columbia, KY 42728

Work Phone: 270/384-8059
Email: thomasr@lindsey.edu

Travel: Statewide.
  • Folklore and the Mythic Journey
  • Kentucky Writers—May God Love Them if No One Else Does




Ernest M. Tucker
Dept. of History
Ashland Community College
1400 College Drive
Ashland, KY 41101

Work Phone: 270/326-2030
Email: ernie.tucker@kctcs.edu

Travel: Statewide.
  • The Lincoln Bed in the White House: History and Legend
  • The Pleasure of Writing Your Own Stories

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