Originally established in 1775 the town of Lexington, Kentucky grew quickly into a national cultural center amongst the rolling green hills of the Bluegrass Region. Nicknamed the ‘Athens of the West, ‘ Lexington and the surrounding area became a leader in higher education, visual arts, architecture, and music, and the center of the horse breeding and racing industries. The national impact of the Bluegrass was further confirmed by prominent Kentucky figures such as Henry Clay and John C. Breckinridge.
Bluegrass Renaissance: The History and Culture of Central Kentucky, 1792-1852, chronicles Lexington’s development as one of the most important educational and cultural centers in America during the first half of the nineteenth century. Editors Daniel Rowland and James C. Klotter gather leading scholars to examine the successes and failures of Central Kentuckians from statehood to the death of Henry Clay, in an investigation of the area’s cultural and economic development and national influence. Bluegrass Renaissance is an interdisciplinary study of the evolution of Lexington’s status as antebellum Kentucky’s cultural metropolis.
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Central Kentucky’s Athens of the West Image in the Nation and in History
Putting Kentucky in Its Place
Kentucky’s Athens of the West Viewed in A Distant Mirror
Slavery and Abolition in Kentucky: Patter-Rollers Were Everywhere
Mrs. Boone, I presume?: In Search of the Idea of Womanhood in Kentucky’s Early Years
A Richer Land Never Seen Yet: Horse Country and the Athens of the West
Three Central Kentuckians, the Bone of Political Office, and the Kentucky Diaspora, 1792-1852
Jewels in the Crown: Civic Pride and the Educational Institutions in the Bluegrass, 1792 to 1852
Horace Holley and the Struggle for Kentucky’s Mind and Soul
Living Hills: The Frontier Science of Rafinesque
Lexington Limners: Portrait Painters in the Athens of the West
Public Music Making, Concert Life, and Composition in Kentucky During the Early National Period
Benjamin Henry Latrobe and Neoclassical Lexington
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Daniel Rowland is associate professor of history at the University of Kentucky and has published numerous articles on art, architecture, and political culture in early modern Russia as well as contributing to the Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History.
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