Job Posting -- Kentucky Historical Society (1 year July '18 – June'19)

The Kentucky Historical Society seeks a Research Associate to join the staff of the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition (CWGK), a digital humanities project which provides visual, textual and intellectual access to documents associated with the state’s Civil War governors.

The Research Associate will perform editorial work and will also assist KHS staff in developing, publishing, and promoting a themed lesson plan scaled for K-12, higher education and public forum settings

This is a Federally Funded, Time Limited position made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Anticipated timeframe is July 1, 2018 – June 30, 2019.

For more information click here.

Podcast: Tim Smith, "Civil War Battlefield Preservation in History, Memory, and Policy," WKU Libraries’ Kentucky Live! series

Dr. Timothy B. Smith from the University of Tennessee at Martin was the featured speaker on Thursday, March 8, in Bowling Green, Kentucky. He spoke about his latest book, Altogether Fitting and Proper: Civil War Battlefield Preservation in History, Memory, and Policy, 1861–2015 (University of Tennessee Press, 2017), and this lecture was captured in a podcast archived in the WKU Libraries' repository, TopSCHOLAR.