James C. Klotter
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James C. Klotter Office Address: Georgetown College 400 E. College St. #244 Georgetown, KY 40324 (502) 863-8076; FAX (502) 868-8888 E-Mail: James_Klotter@georgetowncollege.edu
(859) 277-4572 Education: Ph.D., University of Kentucky, 1975 Honorary Degrees: L.H.D., Union College, 1998 Litt.D., Eastern Kentucky University, 1997 Work Experience: Georgetown College, 1998- Professor of History and the State Historian of Kentucky Kentucky Historical Society, 1973-98 Executive Director and the State Historian, 1990-98 The State Historian and Assistant Director, KHS, 1988-90 The State Historian and General Editor, KHS, 1980-88 Managing Editor, Register of the KHS, 1978-80 Assistant Editor, KHS, 1973-78 Professional Memberships and Service: Boards and Offices Held Collaborative for Teaching and Learning Board Member, 1998-2008 Vice Chair, 1998-99 Chair, 2000-2003 Kentucky Historical Society Foundation Board, 2001-2009 Kentucky Association of Teachers of History President, 1985-87 Kentucky Council on Archives, Chair, 1980-82 University of Kentucky Library Associates Board Member, 1982-84, 1995-2008 Vice-President, 1983-84 President, 1984-85 Kentucky Civil War Roundtable Secretary, 1984-94 President, 1994-2007 Headley-Whitney Museum Board, 2002-2003 University Press of Kentucky Board, 2008- Kentucky Mansions Preservation Foundation Board, 2006- Ward Hall Preservation Foundation Board, 2004- Filson Historical Society Editorial Board, Ohio Valley History, 2001- Kentucky Oral History Commission Board Member, 1981-82, 1990-98 Advisory Board 1999- Falls of the Ohio Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Committee Board of Directors, 2001-2004 Conference of Historical Journals Board Member, 1987-88 Frontier Nursing Service Board of Governors, 1991-96
Kentucky Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission Advisory Council, 2006-2009 Muhammad Ali Museum Advisory Board, 1999-2002 Friends of McConnell Springs Advisory Board, 1998- Camp Nelson Museum Advisory Board, 2004-2005 Eastern Kentucky University Center for Kentucky Studies Advisory Board, 1999-2008 Accelerated Schools Advisory Board, 1999-2002 “Kentucky Story!” Advisory Board, 2007-2008 Other Organizations and Committee Work Henry Clay Foundation Friends of Kentucky Archives Bluegrass Trust for Historic Preservation Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Oral History Association Journal Award Committee, 1996 American Association for State and Local History Awards Committee, 1983-85 Election Committee, 1997 Southern Historical Association Membership Committee, 1981-82, 1996-97 Program Committee, 1986-87 Holmes Award Committee, 2002-2003 Organization of American Historians Publicity Committee, 1991 Selected Recent Honors: Governor’s Outstanding Kentuckian Award, 1998 Distinguished Service Award, Kentucky Historical Society, 1998 Thomas D. Clark Award for Excellence in Kentucky History, 2003 Thomas D. Clark Award for Literary Excellence, 2004 Thomas D. Clark Kentucky Archives Award, 2005 Governor’s Award, 2007 (for the best book on Kentucky history, published over last four years) President’s Award, Midwest Archives Conference, 2008 Outstanding Alumnus of Kentucky Award, Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education, 2008 McCandless Lecture, Regents Park College, University of Oxford, 2008 Principal Publications: A Concise History of Kentucky (University Press of Kentucky, 2008). With Freda Klotter Faces of Kentucky (University Press of Kentucky, 2006) With Freda C. Klotter Received Award of Merit from Kentucky History Awards, Historical Confederation of Kentucky, and Award of Merit from the American Association for State and Local History. Kentucky Justice, Southern Honor, and American Manhood: Understanding the Life and Death of Richard Reid (LSU Press, 2003). Southern Biography Series. Won the Governor’s Award in 2007, for the best book on Kentucky history published over the past four years. Nominated for the Merle Curti Award, the Francis Parkman Prize, the Herbert Jacob Book Prize, the Kentucky Literary Award, the Douglas Southall Freeman History Award, National Council on Public History Book Award, and the Charles Sydnor Award. A New History of Kentucky (University Press of Kentucky, 1997). Coauthored with Lowell Harrison Kentucky: Portrait in Paradox, 1900-1950 (Kentucky Historical Society, 1996). History Mysteries: The Cases of James Harrod, Tecumseh, “Honest Dick” Tate, and William Goebel (University Press of Kentucky, 1989). The Breckinridges of Kentucky, 1760-1981 (University Press of Kentucky, 1986). Nominated for Frank Owsley Award, Douglas S. Freeman History Award, and Richard Leopold Award. William Goebel: The Politics of Wrath (University Press of Kentucky, 1977). Kentucky: Decades of Discord, 1865-1900 (Kentucky Historical Society, 1977). Coauthored with Hambleton Tapp. Chapter reprinted in From the Fort to the Future: Educating the Children of Kentucky (1986). Edited Works: Our Kentucky: A Study of the Bluegrass State (University Press of Kentucky, 1992; revised edition, 2000). Editor. Book received Certificate of Commendation, AASLH. The Human Tradition in the Old South (Scholarly Resources, 2003). Editor. The Human Tradition in the New South (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005).Editor. Kentucky: Land of Tomorrow (Kentucky Historical Society, 1998). Coeditor. The Kentucky Encyclopedia (University Press of Kentucky, 1992). Associate editor. The Union, The Civil War, and John W. Tuttle: A Kentucky Captain’s Account (Kentucky Historical Society, 1982). Coedited with Hambleton Tapp. Kentucky Profiles: Biographical Essays in Honor of Holman Hamilton (Kentucky Historical Society, 1982). Coedited with Peter Sehlinger. The Public Papers of Governor Simeon Willis, 1943-1947 (University Press of Kentucky, 1987). Editor.
General Editor, with Terry Birdwhistell and Doug Boyd, of “Kentucky Remembered: An Oral History Series” for the University Press of Kentucky. Eight books in print to date: Bert Combs the Politician (1991), Barry Bingham: A Man of His Word (1993), Conversations with Kentucky Writers vol. 1 (1996), vol. 2 (1999), Tobacco Culture (1998), Food and Everyday Life on Kentucky Family Farms (2006), This is Home Now: Holocaust Survivors Speak (2009), and Freedom on the Border: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky (2009). General Editor, “Topics in Kentucky History,” for the University Press of Kentucky. Three volumes in print: Henry Watterson and the New South (2006) and Madeline McDowell Breckinridge: The Battle for a New South (2008), and Murder and Madness: The Myth of the Kentucky Tragedy (2009). Chapters or Sections in Books: “Family Influences on a Progressive: The Early Years of Sophonisba P. Breckinridge,” in Kentucky Profiles (1982) “William O’Connell Bradley,” “William Sylvester Taylor,” “William Goebel,” and “Simeon Willis,” in Lowell H. Harrison, ed., Kentucky Governors (1985; rev.ed., 2004) “The Frontier Years,” “The Natural World,” “Making a Living,” “Roads, Rivers and Rails,” “Religion and Education,” “The Civil War,” “The Rural and Urban Landscape,” in Martin E. Schmidt, Kentucky Illustrated (1992) “Past as Prologue,” in Michael T. Childress, ed., Exploring the Frontier of the Future (1996) “Kentucky Historian,” in John E. Kleber, ed., Thomas D. Clark of Kentucky: An Uncommon Life
“The Black South and White Appalachia” Journal of American History, 66 (March 1980): 932-49 Reprinted in Turner and Cabell, eds., Blacks in Appalachia (University Press of Kentucky, 1985). “Sex, Scandal, and Suffrage in the Gilded Age” The Historian, 42 (February 1980): 225-43 “Slavery and Race: A Family Perspective” Southern Studies, 17 (Winter 1978): 375-97 “Clio in the Commonwealth: The Status of Kentucky History” The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, 80 (Winter 1982): 65-88. Reprinted as The Status of Kentucky History in pamphlet form by NEH-funded “Reflections of the Past” project. “Moving Kentucky Into the 21st Century: Where should we go from here?”
“Appalachian Feuds: An Overview” Filson Club History Quarterly, 56 (July 1982): 290-317 “Snapshots of a State in Change: An Overview of Kentucky in the Twentieth Century” Filson Club History Quarterly, 66 (July 1992): 421-48. Winner of the Otto A. Rothert Award for the best article published in the journal in 1992. “Promise, Pessimism, and Perseverance: An Overview of Higher Education History in Kentucky” Ohio Valley History 6 (Spring 2006): 45-60. “Little Shepherds, Little Colonels, and Little Kingdoms: A Selective Review of Kentucky Writing, 1784-1950”
(in order of publication) “Mary Desha: Alaskan Schoolteacher of 1888”
“A Hatfield-McCoy Feudist Pleads for Mercy” West Virginia History, 43 (Summer 1982) “Introduction,” in Eleanor B. Chalkley, Magic Casements (Frankfort: Kentucky Historical Society, 1982)
Society, 1983) “Publishing in State Journals”
“Old Families and the New History” Reviews in American History (September 1983) “The History of the Family: Old, New, and Hybrid Approaches” KATH Newsletter, 7 (Spring 1984) “Boss Ben Johnson, the Highway Commission, and Kentucky Politics, 1927-1937” Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, 84 (Winter 1986) (coauthor) “Kentucky in the Constitutional Era” Kentucky Bench & Bar, 51 (Fall 1987) “Hatfields and McCoys Revised” Appalachian Journal, 15 (Summer 1988) “Advice for ABDs” OAH Newsletter, 16 (August 1988) “Slavery in Louisville” in Randall Miller and J.D. Smith eds., Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery (1988) “What Makes Kentucky Unique?” Guidelines (September 1988) A Century of Banking: The Story of Farmers State Bank and Banking in Owsley County, 1890-1990 (Booneville: Farmers State Bank, 1989) (coauthor) “Researching and Writing Local History in Kentucky” The Circuit Rider, 12 (July/August 1989) “Two Centuries of the Lottery in Kentucky” The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, 87 (Autumn 1989) “Preface,” in Kentucky‘s Historic Farms (Turner Publishing Co., 1994) Sixteen articles in The Kentucky Encyclopedia (1992)
“Introduction,” in Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition: Kentuckians and World War II (Frankfort: Kentucky Historical Society, 1994) “Kentucky,” in Donald C. Bacon, et al., eds., Encyclopedia of the United States Congress. Vol 3(1995) “Kentucky,” in Dictionary of American History: A Supplement (1996) “Kentucky Business History: A Story Begging to be Told,” Kentucky Humanities 1 (1997) “Migration and Kentucky: An Overview,” in Kentucky Connections: Teaching with History (1998) “Time Past and Time Future: Kentucky History, People, and the Next Century”
“What Might Have Been,” Kentucky Journal (1998) “Foreword,” in Craig T. Friend, ed., The Buzzel about Kentuck (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998). “Earle Chester Clements,” in Kenneth T. Jackson, ed., Scribner’s Encyclopedia of American
“J.C.S. Blackburn,” “W.C.P. Breckinridge,” in John A. Garraty and Mark C. Caines, eds., American National Biography. Vol. 2, 3. “Robert Jefferson Breckinridge,” in Richard J. Attenbaugh, ed., Historical Dictionary of American Education (1999) “James Douglas Breckinridge,” “Whig Party,” in John E. Kleber, ed., Encyclopedia of
“Looking Backward Into the Future,” Kentucky Humanities (2000) “What if…?” Kentucky Humanities (2000)
“John Cabell Breckinridge,” Encyclopedia of the American Civil War. Vol. 1 (2000) “John Sherman Cooper,” Scribner's Encyclopedia of American Lives. Vol. 3 (2001) “Undertaking a Capital Campaign: Lessons from the Kentucky Historical Society,” History News, 56 (Spring 2001) “William Goebel,” in Leonard Schlup and James G. Ryan, eds., Historical Dictionary of the Gilded Age (2003) “Foreword,” to Peter Sehlinger, Kentucky’s Last Cavalier (Frankfort: Kentucky Historical Society, 2004) “Duty, Honor, and Family: The Breckinridges of Kentucky,” Kentucky’s Civil War 3 (2004) A 100 Year Partnership: Hyden Citizens Bank and Leslie County, 1904-2004 (Hyden: Citizens Bank, 2005) “The Echoes of the Civil War in Kentucky,” in Jerlene Rose, ed., Kentucky’s Civil War (Clay City: Back Home in Kentucky, 2005) “History,” in Clark’s Kentucky Almanac and Book of Facts, 2006 (Lexington: Clark Group, 2005) Also appeared in later editions. “Mary Breckinridge” and “Frontier Nursing Service,” in Ruth Abramson and Jean Haskell, eds.,
“Introduction,” in Thomas D. Clark, My Century in History (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006) “Kentucky,” in Richard Zuczak, ed., Encyclopedia of the Recontruction Era. 2 vols. (Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 2006): 354-58 “Foreward,” in Frederick Smock, ed., Abraham Lincoln of Kentucky (Frankfort: Kentucky Arts Council, 2008) “A Power Trio,” Kentucky Humanities (November 2008): 30-32 “Preface,” to Susan Dwyer, Lincoln’s Advocate (2009) “William Goebel,” Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2009)
Law and History Review Journal of the Early American Republic Register of the Kentucky Historical Society Ohio Valley History Kentucky Review Smithsonian Oxford University Press University Press of Kentucky LSU Press University of Tennessee Press University of Alabama Press University Press of Florida Ohio University Press Kent State University Press
“The Politics of Wrath: Assassination of a Kentucky Governor, 1900,” American Historical Association, Washington, D.C., January 1999. “W.C.P. Breckinridge,” Southern Historical Association, Atlanta, Georgia, November 15, 1979 “Practitioners of the Craft: Historians on the Job,” Southwestern Historical Association, Dallas, TX, March 28, 1981 “Publishing in State History Journals,” Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, Baltimore, Maryland, October 23, 1982 “Separating the Wheat from the Chaff: The Editor’s Role,” Ohio Valley History Conference, Murray, Ky., October 4, 1986 “History Mysteries and Adult New Readers,” Modern Language Association Conference on Literacy, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 14, 1990 “Is Kentucky Southern?” Southern Foodways Alliance, Louisville, Ky., July. 11, 2008 “Kentucky History: Looking Back, Looking Forward,” Japan-American Society, Frankfort, Ky., August 13, 1996
Codirector, NHPRC Grant, Papers of the Governors (1980-81) $67,000 Codirector, NHPRC Grant, State Board of Assessment (1982) $22,000 Project Coordinator, Kentucky Humanities Grant, Kentucky Studies Seminar (1984) $22,000 Chair, National Endowment for the Humanities Grant, Reflections of the Past: Archival Resources in Kentucky (1985) $143,000 Humanities scholar for over a dozen grants from the Kentucky Humanities Council and other agencies over the years. Breaux Fellowship, Filson Historical Society, 2004 Mellon Research Fellowship, Virginia Historical Society, 2005 Summer Study Grant, Georgetown College, 2007
Have been contacted on a regular basis by journalists. In the field of radio, have made numerous appearances on call-in shows and have been used as a historical resource and for comment by the Kentucky Network, NPR, and other in-state and out-of-state stations. Regarding television, have appeared in many in-state commercial and cable programs. In the field of public television, have been a consultant on various programs, and have appeared in several others, ranging from ones on Settlement Schools, to “Ed Prichard Remembers Kentucky in the New Deal,” to more frequent appearances on “Comment on Kentucky.” Nationally, have made several appearances on separate programs on the A & E Network, including its “Biography” series and “Civil War Journal,” and on the History Channel. College Duties (Abbreviated)Chair, Curriculum Committee, 2001-2004Chair, Teacher Education Committee, 2000-2001 Chair, Grievance Committee, 2005 Acting Chair, History Department, 2001-2002 Member, Honors Committee, 2005-2006 Member, Graduate Council, 2005- Directory: his his -> Kennan's Telegram (Excerpt) his -> Developed for the Ontario Curriculum his -> A chronology 1660-1832 The Restoration Settlement his -> Tourist Areas Haiti, another discovery his -> A copy of the following stories, with graphics, charts and photos is available in a 100+ page paperback from the Hightower News/Dr. Paul Hightower 1701 S. 34th St.,Terre Haute, in 47803, for $30 his -> History and Social Science Standards of Learning Enhanced Scope and Sequence his -> 0 his -> Evolution of the National Weather Service Download 53.3 Kb. Share with your friends:
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