A presentation given by Robert (Bob) L. Jackson, president of Murray State University, on January 28, 2023 at the monthly meeting of the Jackson Purchase Historical Society on the Murray State University campus in Murray, Kentucky on the history of Murray State from 1922 to 2022.
A panel discussion presented to the Jackson Purchase Historical Society on November 19, 2022 at the Calloway County Courthouse Annex in Murray, Kentucky by Gina Winchester, Randy Patterson, Pat Seiber and Bobbie Smith Bryant on the celebration plans and history of Calloway County’s bicentennial.
A presentation given by LaDonna Latham and Thomas Bugg to the Jackson Pruchase Historical Society at the Hickman County Historical and Genealogical Society in Clinton, Kentucky on October 22, 2022 on the bicentennial celebration activities and history of Hickman County, Kentucky.
A presentation given by Erik Nordberg on September 10, 2022 at a meeting of the Jackson Purchase Historical Society at the Paris-Henry County Heritage Center in Paris, Tennessee on the history of clay mining in West Tennessee.
A presentation on the communities and people that were removed and relocated from the Land between the Lakes region of Western Kentucky following the construction of dams on the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers given by Jayne Moore Waldrop to the Jackson Purchase Historical Society on July 16, 2022.
A presentation given by Jayne Moore Waldrop on the African American artist Ellis Wilson conducted at the Second Christian Church in Mayfield, Kentucky to the Jackson Purchase Historical Society on July 16, 2022.
A presentation by Carla Hildebrand, the park manager of the Wickliffe Mounds State Park, to the Jackson Purchase Historical Society on May 21, 2022. Carla’s presentation addressed the occupation of the site by the Mississippian culture of Native Americans, the American Revolution, the Lewis and Clark expedition, the Trail of Tears, and the development of the site as a tourist attraction in the 20th century.
Zoom presentation delivered by George G. Humphreys to the Jackson Purchase Historical Society at the Emerging Technology Center, West Kentucky Community and Technical College in Paducah, Kentucky on March 19, 2022. The presentation was on the book, “The Fall of Kentucky’s Rock: Western Kentucky Democratic Politics since the New Deal” by the author George Humphreys.
Zoom presentation delivered by Scott Williams to the Jackson Purchase Historical Society at the Discovery Park of America in Union City, Tennessee on January 22, 2022. The presentation was on the book, “The Accidental Fame and Lack of Fortune of West Tennessee’s David Crockett” by the author Scott Williams.
Zoom presentation delivered by Bernadette Rule, author and poet, to the Jackson Purchase Historical Society at the Graves County Public Library in Mayfield, Kentucky on October 30, 2021. The presentation was a talk and book reading from the historical novel “Dark Fire,” a story based on the Black Patch Wars in the Jackson Purchase during the 1920s.
Zoom presentation delivered by Danielle Nielsen, Associate Professor of English at Murray State University, to the Jackson Purchase Historical Society in Murray, Kentucky on August 21, 2021. The presentation titled “Rhetoric of Sufferage Cookbooks” was based upon research conducted when writing the article “Inventing a Space to Speak: Ethos, Agency and United States’ Woman Suffrage Cookbooks (1886-1916)” that was published in the Journal of Gender & History.
Zoom presentation given by Sam Terry IV during the 2021 Summer Meeting of the Jackson Purchase Historical Society on June 26, 2021. The title of the program was “The Veep as the Merry Widower,” and focused upon Alben W. Barkley’s latter years as the “Merry Widower” and his marriage to Jane Rucker Hadley, who wrote a book — “I Married The Veep.”
Zoom presentation given by Berry Craig during the 2021 Spring Meeting of the Jackson Purchase Historical Society on April 10, 2021. The title of the program was “”Kentuckians and Pearl Harbor: Stories from the Day of Infamy,” based upon his book published earlier in the year.
Zoom presentation given by Bobbie Smith Bryant during the 2021 Winter Meeting of the Jackson Purchase Historical Society on January 23, 2021. The title of the program was “Cooking the Kentucky Way,” a social and cultural history of food and food making in the Jackson Purchase.
Zoom presentation delivered by Richard Parker during the 2020 Fall Meeting of the Jackson Purchase Historical Society on November 14, 2020. The title of the program was “Escape to Freedom: The Role of the Steamboat in the Underground Railroad.”
Journal of the Jackson Purchase Historical Society wins the 2020 Kentucky Historical Society History Award for best Pamphlet or other Printed Material. Jim Humphrey’s acceptance speech given on November 7, 2020.
Zoom presentation given by Murray State University history professor Bill Mulligan on the Civil War letters of Chauncey H. Cook, Company G 25th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, from the September 19, 2020 summer meeting of the Jackson Purchase Historical Society.
Berry Craig interviews Bill Mulligan, Murray State University Professor of History, about the history and future plans of the Jackson Purchase Historical Society.