Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition

FAIN: RQ-50813-14

Kentucky Historical Society (Frankfort, KY 40601-1931)
R. Darrell Meadows (Project Director: January 2014 to November 2014)
Patrick A. Lewis (Project Director: November 2014 to February 2020)

Preparation for digital publication of the papers of the governors of Kentucky during the Civil War. (36 months)

The Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition (CWG-K) is bringing together the records of Kentucky's Civil War chief executives, the three Union governors, Beriah Magoffin (1859-62), James F. Robinson (1862-63), and Thomas E. Bramlette (1863-67), and the two provisional Confederate governors, George W. Johnson (1861-62) and Richard Hawes (1862-65). A documentary edition of all papers associated with all five Kentucky Civil War governors will quickly become a required evidentiary source for any serious researcher investigating this region and its history in this era. CWG-K promises to become an indispensable tool for the exploration of nationally significant questions related to the Civil War.

Media Coverage

Kentucky Civil War Governors On The Web (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Charles H. Bogart
Publication: Civil War News
Date: 10/1/2016

The War on the Net: Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition (Review)
Author(s): Susannah J. Ural
Publication: Civil War Times
Date: 8/3/2016
URL: http://www.historynet.com/the-war-on-the-net.htm

Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition (Review)
Author(s): Anne E. Marshall
Publication: Journal of American history
Date: 9/1/2017
Abstract: Review in the Digital History Reviews section of the 104, no. 2 (September 2017)
URL: https://academic.oup.com/jah/article-abstract/104/2/572/4095564?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Review: Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, Kentucky Historical Society (Review)
Author(s): Mark R. Cheathem
Publication: The Public Historian
Date: 11/1/2017
Abstract: Review in vol. 39, no. 4 (November 2017) of The Public Historian
URL: http://tph.ucpress.edu/content/39/4/192

Associated Products

Selected Documents from Henderson in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition (Article)
Title: Selected Documents from Henderson in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition
Author: Anthony P. Curtis
Author: Patrick A. Lewis
Author: Whitney R. Smith
Abstract: As a preview of the rich resources CWG-K will provide, the project selected five documents (out of twenty-three thousand currently collected and an estimated forty thousand eventually) from the Henderson, Kentucky, area for inclusion in a special issue of the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society. Together, they suggest just a few of the important themes and hidden treasures that this project will uncover.
Year: 2015
Primary URL: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/register_of_the_kentucky_historical_society/v113/113.4.curtis.html
Primary URL Description: Register via Project MUSE
Access Model: Subscription
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
Publisher: Kentucky Historical Society

Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition: Early Access (Database/Archive/Digital Edition)
Title: Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition: Early Access
Author: Patrick A. Lewis
Author: Anthony P. Curtis
Author: Whitney R. Smith
Author: Matthew C. Hulbert
Author: Anneliese Dehner
Abstract: The Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition is a freely-accessible online collection of historical documents associated with the chief executives of the state, 1860-1865. Civil War Governors is about far more than the five governors, though. The project records the diverse and largely unknown lives of tens of thousands of Kentuckians, and opens new windows onto the local and personal Civil War stories that have been overlooked. This site, Early Access, is the first public glimpse into the Civil War Governors world.
Year: 2016
Primary URL: http://discovery.civilwargovernors.org
Primary URL Description: Early Access home page
Access Model: open access

The Caroline Chronicles: A Story of Race, Urban Slavery, and Infanticide in the Border South (Course or Curricular Material)
Title: The Caroline Chronicles: A Story of Race, Urban Slavery, and Infanticide in the Border South
Author: Patrick A. Lewis
Author: Matthew C. Hulbert
Author: Anthony P. Curtis
Author: Whitney R. Smith
Abstract: The Caroline Chronicles is a unique, document-driven learning activity. It can be used in an AP U.S. History classroom, undergraduate survey, or topical seminar on race and slavery, gender history, law and civics, the Civil War era, or Southern history. Instructor and student packets include:17 rich primary source documents, 3 contextualizing secondary readings, 3 prompts for writing assignments, with grading guides for instructors, Instructions for an in-class courtroom activity
Year: 2016
Primary URL: http://civilwargovernors.org/the-caroline-chronicles/caroline-teach/
Primary URL Description: Caroline Chronicles teaching home page
Audience: Undergraduate

Caroline (Radio/Audio Broadcast or Recording)
Title: Caroline
Director: Cody J. Foster
Director: Patrick A. Lewis
Abstract: Hear the Civil War Governors team tell Caroline’s story on the Long Story Short podcast, produced by graduate students in the University of Kentucky History Department.
Date: 05/19/2016
Primary URL: https://soundcloud.com/longstoryshort-815910419
Primary URL Description: Direct link to Soundcloud host
Secondary URL: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/longstoryshort/id1034308180?mt=2#episodeGuid=tag%3Asoundcloud%2C2010%3Atracks%2F264895401
Secondary URL Description: Direct link to iTunes host
Access Model: open access, podcast
Format: Web

"Where I Now Stand": The Trials of Robert Buffum (Course or Curricular Material)
Title: "Where I Now Stand": The Trials of Robert Buffum
Author: Patrick A. Lewis
Abstract: What did the Civil War do to its veterans? How did they cope with the horrors they suffered and inflicted? What trauma did soldiers bring home to their families after 1865? How relevant are these stories to our present? Robert Buffum makes us confront each of these questions. To help guide thoughtful discussions in classrooms and communities, CWGK has assembled a guided primary source reader that presents the story of a veteran struggling with loss, physical scars, substance abuse, a crumbling domestic life, and lack of support from the government he fought to defend.
Year: 2017
Primary URL: http://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/exhibits/show/where-i-now-stand/intro
Primary URL Description: Online exhibit accompanying the reader
Audience: Undergraduate

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