This week marks the 80th anniversary of the US atomic bombings of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August, 1945. A special episode of WUKY's Saving Stories shares the first-hand account of Aiko Nakashima Allen, who survived the bombing of Nagasaki as a 14-year-old and was interviewed in Kentucky over 40 years later.
With tens of thousands of digitized photographs of campus life freely available through ExploreUK, everyone in the Wildcat community has an opportunity to explore over 150 years of UK’s history.
WUKY's Saving Stories takes a behind-the-scenes look at Lexington's role in launching the Long John Silver's restaurant chain, from the very first location on Southland Drive to the nationwide experimental fast food concept.
ExploreUK has been subjected to increased traffic from bots, AI agents, and other spammers, resulting in significant performance issues.
Now the traditional residence of the university president, Maxwell Place was once home to one of Lexington's most prominent families — and the site of an attempted murder. Associate Dean for Research and Discovery Deirdre Scaggs tells the story in the latest episode of Lex Talk History.
Doug Boyd, Director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, has worked with the public station and "Kentucky's largest classroom" for years to collect and share stories from across the Commonwealth.
Nearly 200 issues of two Kentucky abolitionist newspapers, the True American and the Examiner, are freely available online through the Kentucky Digital Newspaper Program (KDNP), the Libraries’ online newspaper repository.
Over 100 students visited UK Libraries in May to explore William T. Young Library and gain hands-on experience with academic research.
James Robert Southard’s ongoing photography series, The Kentuckian, explores the rich and varied landscape of labor across Kentucky. The images — featured here in the Oxford American — are being preserved by UK Libraries.
Mitchell Scott, Coordinator of Collections Strategies Librarian, was featured alongside Christine Haynes, Professor of History at the University of North Carolina and David Givens, Director of Resource Acquisitions at Brown University Library.
