The name Burnt Tavern references a stagecoach stop rest built in 1794 by the Rev. James Smith and his family in what is now ...

The donation from the foundation named for a Kentucky businessman is the largest donation to an FFA foundation in US history.

The city’s first stagecoach line to Winchester started in August 1803.

Johnson was a lifelong advocate of education and learning, and was the first Black student to enroll at the University of ...

Chip Polston hosts a discussion about Kentucky history with Scott Alvey, executive director of the Kentucky Historical Society; Stephanie Lang, Ph.D., editor of the Register of the Kentucky ...

Four years after Gov. Andy Beshear announced the largest economic development project in Kentucky history, the first electric ...

Kentucky’s first newspaper is older than the state itself. A lot can be said about the Kentucky Gazette: It was the first newspaper in Lexington, and the first paper published west of Pennsylvania.

The Department of History at Murray State University will host Russian and Soviet History Specialist Dr. Karen Petrone ...