Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Websites

  1.  http://filmoffice.ky.gov/why/facts.aspx Places to make a movie in Kentucky.
  2.  http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofkentuck01kerr/historyofkentuck01kerr_djvu.txt
  3. http://archive.org/index.php has free_history sites, old books at Project Gutenberg, etc.
  4. _http://www.history.ky.gov/ -  Lots of history (.gov site vs .edu vs .org and .com)
  5. http://www.hmsoa.org - Historical Markers one sees off the roads and in towns
  6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Saltpetre_Cave (Mining gunpowder along with great story about "Free Frank" McWorter)
  7. http://www.transy.edu/about/museum.htm -  Monroe Moosnick Museum - Transylvania
  8. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/Moments08RS/14_web_leg_moments.htm- Charlotte Mentelle
  9. http://www.mtlhouse.org/history.html - Mary Todd Lincoln and Lexington
  10. http://www.ket.org/kentuckystory/program5.htm  -  Slavery in Kentcky (KET) 
  11. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20774985 - "Archive of Terror" in Paraguay and BBC's Witness podcast http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/witness  of history audio files shows how far ahead of his time Abraham Lincoln was and still is.
  12. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Magnolia