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Thomas D. Clark. Inducted 2014. Born: July 14, 1903. Louisville, Mississippi. Died: June 28, 2005. Lexington, Kentucky. Thomas Dionysius Clark was perhaps Kentucky’s best-known historian. He was as a professor, preservationist, lecturer, dynamic public speaker, researcher, and a skilled writer and advocate for improving life in Kentucky.
Mar 2, 2023 · In this fascinating and highly readable book, Clark writes of his own astonishingly primitive childhood in an Appalachian river town, Catlettsburg, Kentucky, at the junction of the Big Sandy and Ohio Rivers. Clark was a member of a sprawling, ragged family. His father was an intelligent, fiddle-playing shoemaker with little formal education.
Thomas D. Clark (1903-2005) Thomas D. Clark, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Kentucky, died after a short illness on June 28, 2005. An extraordinary man, he was an inspirational teacher, a scholar who published more than 30 books on Kentucky, southern, and frontier topics, an academic citizen who led colleagues not just on his ...
Books. Kentucky's Last Frontier. Presents the history of the exploration, settlement, and development of the vast mountain empire encompassed by several eastern Kentucky counties that pays...
Thomas Dionysius Clark (July 14, 1903 – June 28, 2005) was an American historian. Clark saved from destruction a large portion of Kentucky's printed history, which later became a core body of documents in the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives.
Frontispiece: Dr. Thomas D. Clark in Estill County, October 23, 2002. Photo by Charles Bertram/Lexington Herald-Leader. 08 07 06 05 04 03 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Thomas D. Clark of Kentucky : a uncommon life in the commonwealth / edited by John Kleber. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.
The foundation, a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization founded in 1994 and run by a board of committed volunteers, carries on Clark’s legacy through its support of the University Press of Kentucky and special educational projects.
