The Public Papers Of Governor Martha Layne Collins 1983 1987

Author : Martha Layne Collins
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813156903

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The Public Papers of Governor Martha Layne Collins, 1983-1987 by Martha Layne Collins Pdf

This volume presents the important speeches and correspondence of Governor Martha Layne Collins, the only woman to be elected governor of Kentucky. Papers from state archives chronicle the agenda and rhetoric that Collins, a former schoolteacher, used to accomplish her intertwined goals of education reform and economic development. Also included are Collins's letters to automobile makers urging them to consider Kentucky as a manufacturing site and her triumphant announcement that Toyota had selected Georgetown, Kentucky for its North American plant. An introductory essay by Elizabeth Duffy Fraas's summarizes Collins's life and career and assesses the impact of her administration on the state. The editor's notes provide context and background for each of the 199 speeches or documents included. The volume contains Collins's pivotal speeches during her rise to leadership in the Democratic Party, which chose her to chair its 1984 National Convention, and presents her vision to position Kentucky in the global marketplace. Other sections deal with related issues of labor and management, energy and environment, and health and welfare. For those interested in learning more about the challenges facing women with careers in politics, Fraas has assembled a section including Collins's statements on gender issues, motherhood, and the role of women in the political sphere.

Author : Martha Layne Collins,Elizabeth Duffy Fraas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0813106087

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The Public Papers of Governor Martha Layne Collins, 1983-1987 by Martha Layne Collins,Elizabeth Duffy Fraas Pdf

This volume presents the important speeches and correspondence of Governor Martha Layne Collins, the first and only woman to be elected governor of Kentucky. Papers from the state archives chronicle the agenda and rhetoric that Collins, a former schoolteacher, used to accomplish the intertwining goals of education reform and economic development. Included are Collins's letters to automobile makers to consider Kentucky as a manufacturing site and her triumphant announcement that Toyota had selected Kentucky for its plant. The volume also includes Collins's pivotal speeches during her rise to leadership in the Democratic Party, which chose her to chair its 1984 National Convention. Other chapters deal with related issues of labor and management, energy and environment, health and welfare, and women in politics. An introductory essay summarizes Collins's life and career and the impact of her administration on the future of the state.

Author : Melissa A. McEuen,Thomas H. Appleton Jr.
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780820344539

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Kentucky Women by Melissa A. McEuen,Thomas H. Appleton Jr. Pdf

"Covering the Appalachian region in the east to the Pennyroyal in the west, the essays highlight women whose aspirations, innovations, activism, and creativity illustrate Kentucky s role in political and social reform, education, health care, the arts, and cultural development."--

Author : William Ellis
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813129846

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A History of Education in Kentucky by William Ellis Pdf

Kentucky is nationally renowned for horses, bourbon, rich natural resources, and unfortunately, hindered by a deficient educational system. Though its reputation is not always justified, in national rankings for grades K-12 and higher education, Kentucky consistently ranks among the lowest states in education funding, literacy, and student achievement. In A History of Education in Kentucky, William E. Ellis illuminates the successes and failures of public and private education in the commonwealth since its settlement. Ellis demonstrates how political leaders in the nineteenth century created a culture that devalued public education and refused to adequately fund it. He also analyzes efforts by teachers and policy makers to enact vital reforms and establish adequate, equal education, and discusses ongoing battles related to religious instruction, integration, and the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA). A History of Education in Kentucky is the only up-to-date, single-volume history of education in the commonwealth. Offering more than mere policy analysis, this comprehensive work tells the story of passionate students, teachers, and leaders who have worked for progress from the 1770s to the present day. Despite the prevailing pessimism about education in Kentucky, Ellis acknowledges signs of a vibrant educational atmosphere in the state. By advocating a better understanding of the past, Ellis looks to the future and challenges Kentuckians to avoid historic failures and build on their successes.

Author : Brereton C. Jones
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780813156897

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The Public Papers of Governor Brereton C. Jones, 1991-1995 by Brereton C. Jones Pdf

In his inaugural address, Governor Brereton C. Jones proclaimed, "This administration is committed to having the most positive, progressive, exciting four years in our state's history." Through speeches and press releases, this volume reflects the principal concerns of Jones's time in office. Thematically organized, the more than two hundred public statements included here present the public face of the Jones administration on such issues as health care, education, economic development, the environment, and governmental reform. Nowhere else has the full text of these speeches and press releases been printed. Governor Jones, born in 1939, was elected to the West Virginia legislature in 1964, where he served for four years before retiring from politics. After moving to Kentucky and switching allegiance from the Republican to the Democratic Party, he re-entered politics with a successful campaign to become lieutenant governor in 1987. He was elected the Commonwealth's fifty-fourth governor in 1991 by a record margin of nearly two to one. Jones initiated a number of reforms once in office. He turned a $400 million budget deficit into a $300 million surplus in four years, and he passed dramatic ethics reform in both the executive and legislative branches. Health-care issues were also of great importance to Jones, who spent the years before his election working with the Kentucky Health Care Access Foundation in addition to farming. After surviving a helicopter crash in 1992, he turned the main focus of his administration toward health-care reform and initiatives. Though he met with legislative opposition when he proposed universal health care for all Kentuckians, he did help pass legislation in 1994 that would serve as a solid beginning on the issue for future governors.

Author : Timothy J. Minchin
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780820368153

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America’s Other Automakers by Timothy J. Minchin Pdf

In 2018 almost half of all vehicles made in North America were produced at foreign-owned plants, and the sector was on track to monopolize the market. Despite this, the industry has been overlooked compared with its domestic counterpart, both in scholarship and popular memory. Redressing this neglect, America’s Other Automakers provides a new history of the foreignowned auto sector, the first to extensively draw on archival sources and to articulate the human agency of participants, including workers, managers, and industry recruiters. Timothy J. Minchin challenges the view that the industry’s growth primarily reflected incentives, stressing human agency and the complexity of individual stories instead. Deeply human in its approach, the book also explores the industry’s impact on grassroots communities, showing that it had more costs than supporters acknowledged. Drawing on a wide range of primary and secondary sources, America’s Other Automakers uncovers significant tensions over unionization, reports of discriminatory hiring, and unease about the industry’s rapid growth, critically exploring seven large assembly facilities and their impact on the communities in which they were built.

Author : Thomas D. Clark,Margaret A. Lane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002-10-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UVA:X004633982

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The People's House by Thomas D. Clark,Margaret A. Lane Pdf

In The People's House: Governor's Mansions of Kentucky, Dr. Thomas D. Clark, Kentucky's historian laureate, and Margaret A. Lane paint a vivid portrait of the life inside the mansions' bricks and mortar. They examine the accomplishments and failures of their residents, the ideas and influences that have grown up within their walls, and the births, deaths, marriages, and celebrations that have brought life to the homes. Complete with over two hundred color and black and white photographs and illustrations, many of them quite rare, this only account of Kentucky governor's mansions offers a unique glimpse inside the buildings that have been respected, revered, and used by the state's leaders for two centuries.

Author : Lowell H. Harrison
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813187808

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Kentucky's Governors by Lowell H. Harrison Pdf

Compiled and edited by Lowell H. Harrison, the essays in Kentucky's Governors profile every chief executive of the Bluegrass State from eighteenth-century governor Isaac Shelby to Ernie Fletcher. First published in 1985, this edition of Kentucky's Governors is expanded and revised to include governors Wilkinson, Jones, Patton, and Fletcher, as well as new information on respected figures such as Louie B. Nunn. An introduction by Kentucky's historian laureate, Thomas D. Clark, provides key insights into successive governors' evolving constitutional powers and their changing roles in political debates and policy formation. Following Clark's overview, each chapter presents significant biographical information while detailing the campaign, election, achievements, strengths, and weaknesses of each governor. To aid in further research, each contributor lists several suggested sources, both primary and secondary, for additional investigation into the lives and careers of Kentucky's leaders. A thorough index is also included to facilitate reference within this updated and revised edition. The profiles in Kentucky's Governors give insights into each leader's engagements with economic development, education, agriculture, and taxes, issues that have helped define two hundred years of history in the Bluegrass State.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1132 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015066180418

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American Book Publishing Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kentucky Historical Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Kentucky
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133691308

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The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society by Kentucky Historical Society Pdf

Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 870 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Bibliography, National
ISBN : UOM:39015066381453

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The British National Bibliography by Arthur James Wells Pdf

Author : James C. Klotter,Craig Thompson Friend
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813176505

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A New History of Kentucky by James C. Klotter,Craig Thompson Friend Pdf

When originally published, A New History of Kentucky provided a comprehensive study of the Commonwealth, bringing it to life by revealing the many faces, deep traditions, and historical milestones of the state. With new discoveries and findings, the narrative continues to evolve, and so does the telling of Kentucky's rich history. In this second edition, authors James C. Klotter and Craig Thompson Friend provide significantly revised content with updated material on gender politics, African American history, and cultural history. This wide-ranging volume includes a full overview of the state and its economic, educational, environmental, racial, and religious histories. At its essence, Kentucky's story is about its people -- not just the notable and prominent figures but also lesser-known and sometimes overlooked personalities. The human spirit unfolds through the lives of individuals such as Shawnee peace chief Nonhelema Hokolesqua and suffrage leader Madge Breckinridge, early land promoter John Filson, author Wendell Berry, and Iwo Jima flag--raiser Private Franklin Sousley. They lived on a landscape defined by its topography as much as its political boundaries, from Appalachia in the east to the Jackson Purchase in the west, and from the Walker Line that forms the Commonwealth's southern boundary to the Ohio River that shapes its northern boundary. Along the journey are traces of Kentucky's past -- its literary and musical traditions, its state-level and national political leadership, and its basketball and bourbon. Yet this volume also faces forthrightly the Commonwealth's blemishes -- the displacement of Native Americans, African American enslavement, the legacy of violence, and failures to address poverty and poor health. A New History of Kentucky ranges throughout all parts of the Commonwealth to explore its special meaning to those who have called it home. It is a broadly interpretive, all-encompassing narrative that tells Kentucky's complex, extensive, and ever-changing story.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Feminism
ISBN : OSU:32435080534696

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New Books on Women and Feminism by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lowell H. Harrison,James C. Klotter
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1997-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813126210

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A New History of Kentucky by Lowell H. Harrison,James C. Klotter Pdf

" The first comprehensive history of the state since the publication of Thomas D. Clark's landmark History of Kentucky over sixty years ago. A New History of Kentucky brings the Commonwealth to life, from Pikeville to the Purchase, from Covington to Corbin, this account reveals Kentucky's many faces and deep traditions. Lowell Harrison, professor emeritus of history at Western Kentucky University, is the author of many books, including George Rogers Clark and the War in the West, The Civil War in Kentucky, Kentucky's Road to Statehood , Lincoln of Kentucky, and Kentucky's Governors.

Author : Clayton McClure Brooks
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008-07-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812240948

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A Legacy of Leadership by Clayton McClure Brooks Pdf

In A Legacy of Leadership, leading journalists and academics create a new framework for understanding the contributions of governors in defining democracy and shaping American history.