This history book focuses on Western Kentucky, particularly Muhlenberg County. It examines racial relations and violence after the Civil War to school integration in the 1960s. A strength of this work is the contextualizing of the events that are explored in detail, expanding outward to other areas of the Bluegrass State and the South. This volume begins with the author remembering the uncanny segregated experience of going with his white fourth-grade class to see "The Ten Commandments" movie … [Read more...] about Across the Kentucky Color Line: Cultural Landscapes of Race from the Lost Cause to Integration by Lee Durham Stone