history

Emancipation Across the River: Carnegie Center Explores New Albany, Louisville Connections

Erin Keane — Thu, 16 May 2013 21:10:32 +0000

A century after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation freed enslaved people in Confederate territories and states, New Albany’s Carnegie Center for Art and History explores the history of emancipation celebrations on both sides of the Ohio River with a talk by historian Pen Bogert.

Frazier Exhibit Shows Horrors of Slave Trade

Erin Keane — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:03:27 +0000

The Frazier History Museum opens the first exhibit to examine the entire history of the Transatlantic Slave Trade with artifacts from an excavated slave ship.

Water Museum in the Works

Erin Keane — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:36:10 +0000

The Louisville Water Company will begin a $2.6 million renovation project this month to restore its original Pumping Station. The white building next to the iconic Water Tower on River Road, now on the National Historic Registry, was built in 1860 to house the city's original water works steam engines that pumped water from the Ohio River.

Historian Donates Research to U of L Archives

Colleen Stewart — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:26:28 +0000

Louisville historian Samuel W. Thomas is donating his personal collection of photos, negatives, manuscripts, audio tapes, maps and building plans to the University of Louisville Photographic Archives.

Thomas, a prolific Louisville historian, has written more than 20 books on Louisville neighborhoods, institutions and architecture.

Archives staff are currently sorting though 200 linear material, but an exhibit of notable photos is on display.