Editing Kentucky (section)

===History===

====Surveys and reference====

* Bodley, Temple and Samuel M. Wilson. ''History of Kentucky'' 4 vols. (1928).
* [[Harry M. Caudill|Caudill, Harry M.]], ''Night Comes to the Cumberlands'' (1963). {{ISBN|0-316-13212-8}}
* Channing, Steven. ''Kentucky: A Bicentennial History'' (1977).
* Clark, Thomas Dionysius. ''A History of Kentucky'' (many editions, 1937–1992).
* Collins, Lewis. ''History of Kentucky'' (1880).
* {{cite book|last=Gunther|first=John|author-link=John Gunther|chapter=Romance and Reality in Kentucky|title=Inside U.S.A|pages=[https://archive.org/details/insideusa00guntrich/page/640 640–652]|location=[[New York City|New York]], [[London]]|publisher=[[Harper & Brothers]]|year=1947|title-link=Inside U.S.A. (book)}}
* [[Lowell H. Harrison|Harrison, Lowell H.]] and [[James C. Klotter]]. ''A New History of Kentucky'' (1997).
* Kleber, John E. et al. ''The Kentucky Encyclopedia'' (1992), standard reference history. {{ISBN|0-8131-1772-0}}
* [[James C. Klotter|Klotter, James C.]] ''Our Kentucky: A Study of the Bluegrass State'' (2000), high school text
* Lucas, Marion Brunson and Wright, George C. ''A History of Blacks in Kentucky'' 2 vols. (1992).
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080306060234/http://www.uky.edu/Subject/aakyall.html World-Wide Web Resources – Notable Kentucky African Americans]
* Share, Allen J. ''Cities in the Commonwealth: Two Centuries of Urban Life in Kentucky'' (1982).
* Wallis, Frederick A. and Hambleton Tapp. ''A Sesqui-Centennial History of Kentucky'' 4 vols. (1945).
* Ward, William S., ''A Literary History of Kentucky'' (1988) ({{ISBN|0-87049-578-X}}).
* WPA, ''Kentucky: A Guide to the Bluegrass State '' (1939); classic guide from the Federal Writers Project; covers main themes and every town [https://archive.org/details/kentuckyguidetob00federich/page/n8/mode/1up online]
* {{cite book|title=Two Hundred Years at the Fall of the Ohio: A History of Louisville and Jefferson County|last=Yater|first=George H.|year=1987|publisher=[[The Filson Historical Society|Filson Club, Incorporated]]|edition=2nd|isbn = 978-0-9601072-3-0}}

====Specialized scholarly studies====

* Bakeless, John. ''Daniel Boone, Master of the Wilderness'' (1989)
* Blakey, George T. ''Hard Times and New Deal in Kentucky, 1929–1939'' (1986)
* Coulter, E. Merton. ''The Civil War and Readjustment in Kentucky'' (1926)
* Davis, Alice. "Heroes: Kentucky's Artists from Statehood to the New Millennium" (2004)
* Ellis, William E. ''The Kentucky River'' (2000).
* Faragher, John Mack. ''Daniel Boone'' (1993)
* [https://www.questia.com/read/6471305/politics-in-the-border-states-a-study-of-the-patterns Fenton, John H. ''Politics in the Border States: A Study of the Patterns of Political Organization, and Political Change, Common to the Border States: Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri'' (1957)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803021432/https://www.questia.com/read/6471305/politics-in-the-border-states-a-study-of-the-patterns |date=August 3, 2020 }}
* Harlow, Luke E. ''Religion, Race, and the Making of Confederate Kentucky, 1830–1880.'' New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
* Ireland, Robert M. ''The County in Kentucky History'' (1976)
* {{cite book|title=Kentucky's Civil War 1861–1865|author-link=James C. Klotter|last1=Klotter|first1=James C.|last2=Harrison|first2=Lowell|author-link2=Lowell H. Harrison|last3=Ramage|first3=James|last4=Roland|first4=Charles|last5=Taylor|first5=Richard|last6=Bush|first6=Bryan S|last7=Fugate|first7=Tom|last8=Hibbs|first8=Dixie|last9=Matthews|first9=Lisa|last10=Moody|first10=Robert C.|last11=Myers|first11=Marshall|last12=Sanders|first12=Stuart|last13=McBride|first13=Stephen|editor-last=Rose|editor-first=Jerlene|year=2005|location=Clay City, Kentucky|publisher=Back Home in Kentucky, Inc.|isbn = 978-0-9769231-1-4}}
* Kelly, Andrew, Ed. "Kentucky by Design: The Decorative Arts and American Culture". Lexington, University Press of Kentucky, 2015. {{ISBN|978-0-8131-5567-8}}
* [[James C. Klotter|Klotter, James C.]] ''Kentucky: Portrait in Paradox, 1900–1950'' (1992)
* Pearce, John Ed. ''Divide and Dissent: Kentucky Politics, 1930–1963'' (1987)
* Remini, Robert V. ''Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union'' (1991).
* [https://www.questia.com/read/100662336/liberal-kentucky-1780-1828 Sonne, Niels Henry. ''Liberal Kentucky, 1780–1828'' (1939)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200802211353/https://www.questia.com/read/100662336/liberal-kentucky-1780-1828 |date=August 2, 2020 }}
* Tapp, Hambleton and [[James C. Klotter]]. ''Kentucky Decades of Discord, 1865–1900'' (1977)
* [https://www.questia.com/read/61648056/lincoln-and-the-bluegrass-slavery-and-civil-war-in Townsend, William H. ''Lincoln and the Bluegrass: Slavery and Civil War in Kentucky'' (1955)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200925151832/https://www.questia.com/read/61648056/lincoln-and-the-bluegrass-slavery-and-civil-war-in |date=September 25, 2020 }}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130605161639/http://www.questia.com/read/14459929/night-riders-defending-community-in-the-black-patch Waldrep, Christopher ''Night Riders: Defending Community in the Black Patch, 1890–1915'' (1993)] tobacco wars