March 20, 2001

WKU Authors Helping Share Kentucky's Heritage

Bowling Green, Ky. - Authors from Western Kentucky University are helping Kentucky residents learn more about their history.

Four faculty members recently had manuscripts approved for publication and a book written by a retired history professor was the featured selection in a statewide reading program.

"Western is collaborating with University Press of Kentucky and Kentucky Educational Television to widen citizen knowledge of the richness of their shared heritage," said John Hardin, assistant dean of Potter College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.

Lincoln of Kentucky, written by Lowell Harrison, was the February selection in KET's "What If All Kentucky Reads the Same Book" program. More than 1,000 people participated in the program that read Harrison's 246-biography of the nation's 16th president and his ties to his boyhood home.

Works by three WKU faculty members and one retired faculty member were among 15 manuscripts selected for publication by the editorial board of the University Press of Kentucky on Feb. 16. Publication dates have not been determined.

Those books are:
Kentucky Family and House Ghosts by William Lynwood Montell, a retired Folk Studies program faculty member.

Dixie Limited: Railroads, Culture, and the Southern Renaissance by Joe Millichap, a professor in the Department of English.

Peter Bruner: A Slave's Adventures Toward Freedom: Not Fiction, But the True Story of a Struggle with an introduction by John Hardin, an associate professor in the Department of History and the assistant dean of Potter College.

Elisha W. Green: A Life of the Rev. Elisha W. Green with an introduction by Marion Lucas, a University Distinguished Professor in the Department of History.

For more information, contact John Hardin at (270) 745-2344. More WKU news is available on the World Wide Web at www.wku.edu. If you'd like to receive WKU news via E-mail, send a message to WKUNews@wku.edu.