The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society

Published continuously since 1903, the Register is among the oldest historical journals in America but continues to provide fresh perspectives on the history of Kentucky and its people. The Register includes the work of leading scholars on the commonwealth but is widely accessible to general readers interested in Kentucky history. Published quarterly, it is a benefit of Kentucky Historical Society membership.


Leading scholars whose articles have appeared recently in the Register include John David Smith, Edward M. Coffman, James A. Ramage and Robert M. Ireland. The Register has also published extended interviews with nationally prominent historians, including Robert V. Remini, George C. Herring, Edward M. Coffman, William J. Cooper Jr. and Charles P. Roland. A full issue was devoted to the career of Thomas D. Clark. Other recent issues have explored slavery and the Civil War; women in government and politics; Daniel Boone and life on the early frontier; the Kentucky home front during World War II; and the state of the field of oral history. The best article each year is honored with the Richard H. Collins Award.

Issues of the Register include an extensive book review section that covers all recent scholarship on Kentucky as well as a wide array of works on American history and culture. Extended review essays have explored topics ranging from guerrilla warfare during the Civil War to the life and writings of Robert Penn Warren.

To obtain recent back issues of the Register, contact the KHS Membership Office at 502-564-1792, ext. 4490. Photocopies of articles from the The Register may be ordered by using the KHS Publications Request Form.

Guidelines for submitting manuscripts to the Register.

Index for the Register, volumes 79-105 (1981-2007)

Table of Contents for the full run of the Register.



The Register Editorial Staff

Nelson L. Dawson, Editor
Nelson.Dawson@ky.gov

James Russell Harris, Senior Associate Editor
Russell.Harris@ky.gov

Elizabeth J. Van Allen, Associate Editor
Beth.Vanallen@ky.gov


The Register News

Coming Soon!
The Summer/ Autumn 2008 Issue of the Register

This double Lincoln bicentennial issue will feature four articles and four presentations along with two reprinted Lincoln essays and a survey of recent books about Lincoln.

Articles
Brian Dirck: "Lincoln's Kentucky Childhood and Race"
Elizabeth D. Leonard: "One Kentuckian's Hard Choice: Joseph Holt and Abraham Lincoln"
R. Darrell Meadows: "Toward a View of Abraham Lincoln's Trans-Appalachian World in Motion"
Mark J. Stegmaier: "Abraham Lincoln and the Danville Farmer: The President-Elect Discusses Policy with a Kentuckian"

Presentations
Shearer Davis Bowman: "Lincoln and Clay"
J. Blaine Hudson: "Abraham Lincoln: An African American Perspective"
John E. Kleber: "The Judgment of Future Events: Kentucky Embraces Abraham Lincoln, its Native Son"
Frank J. Williams: "Legend and Myth: Abraham Lincoln in Kentucky"

Reprints
Lowell H. Harrison: "Lincoln, Slavery, and Kentucky" (Chapter 13 of "Lincoln of Kentucky")
Mark E. Neely: "American Nationalism in the Image of Henry Clay: Abraham Lincoln's Eulogy on Henry Clay in Context" (Register, 1975)

Review Essay
John David Smith: "Recent books about Abraham Lincoln"