This page provides a collection of free history and genealogy books about Kentucky, Kentucky history, Kentucky places, and Kentucky people.
- A history of Jessamine County, Kentucky, from its earliest settlement to 1898
- A History of Kentucky and Kentuckians: The Leaders and Representative Men
- A short history of Franklin County, Kentucky, prepared in compliance with the suggestion of the resolution of Congress in regard to the celebration of the centennial anniversary, and read at … Lake Park, near Frankfort, Kentucky, on the Fourth of July, 1876 – James, C. E
- Ancestors – descendants, John I. Jones, who married May Ellen Swartzwelder (a McCann), Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky -Bowman, Mary Elizabeth Hagan; McCann, William R. (William Ray), b. 1885
- Biographical sketch of the Hon. Lazarus W. Powell, (of Henderson, Ky.), governor of the state of Kentucky from 1851-1855, senator in Congress from 1859-1865 -Kentucky. General Assembly
- Collins’ historical sketches of Kentucky, vol 1
- Collins historical sketches of Kentucky, vol 2
- Eastern Kentucky Papers: The Founding of Harman’s Station, with an Account of the Indian … – William Elsey Connelley
- George Michael Bedinger: a Kentucky pioneer
- History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas counties, Kentucky
- History of Corporal Fess Whitaker -Whitaker, Fess, b. 1880
- History of Daviess County, Kentucky, together with sketches of its cities, villages, and townships, educational religious, civil military, and political history, portraits of prominent persons, biographies of representative citizens, and an outline history of Kentucky
- History of Henderson County, Kentucky
- History of Kentucky, by Charles Kerr, William Connelley, and E. Merton Coulter, published by The American Historical Society in 1922.
- History of Lewis County, Kentucky – Ragan, O. G
- History of Lexington, Kentucky: Its Early Annals and Recent Progress, Including Biographical … – George Washington Ranck
- History of Morgan’s cavalry -Duke, Basil Wilson, 1838-1916
- History of the 3d, 7th, 8th and l2th Kentucky C.S.A -George, Henry, 1847
- History of the battle of Blue Licks -Young, Bennett Henderson, 1843-1919 Includes bibliographical references and index
- History of the Eighth regiment Kentucky vol. inf., during its three years campaigns, embracing organization, marches, skirmishes, and battles of the command, with much of the history of the old reliable Third brigade – Wright, Thomas J., captain 8th Ky. infantry.
- History of the First Kentucky Brigade
- John Mason Dyer family of Union County, Kentucky : ancestors and descendants -Arnold, Jane Dyer, 1911-
- Kelion Franklin Peddicord of Quirk’s scouts, Morgan’s Kentucky cavalry, C. S. A -Logan, Indiana Washington (Peddicord), Mrs., 1835-
- Kentucky’s famous feuds and tragedies; authentic history of the world renowned vendettas of the dark and bloody ground – Mutzenberg, Charles Gustavus, 1863-
- Life and Times of Colonel Daniel Boone: Comprising History of the Early Settlement of Kentucky
- Life, army record, and public services of D. Howard Smith – Smith, Sydney K. (Sydney Kerr), 1850 – Selected memoirs of D.H. Smith who was a colonel of the 5th Kentucky cavalry (Confederate) and served under General John H. Morgan during his various raids.
- Memoirs of the Lower Ohio Valley
- Pike County, Kentucky 1822-1976 Historical Papers Number Two (Volume 2
- Pike County, Kentucky 1821-1987 Historica l Papers Number Six (Volume 6)
- Records of the field offices for the State of Kentucky, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872
- Report on the Title of Thomas Lincoln to, and the History of, the Lincoln Boyhood Home Along Knob Creek in LaRue County, Kentucky -Brown, Kent Masterson
- Appendix to the Report on the Title of Thomas Lincoln
- Samuel Allin (1756-1841), Revolutionary War soldier of North Carolina and Kentucky : a record of his many descendants, 1756-1960 -Allen, Maud Bliss, 1880-1968; Iverson, Flora F; Iverson, Carma
- Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States: From Interviews with Former Slaves Kentucky Narratives -Work Projects Administration
- Soldiers of the war of 1812 : Report of the adjutant general of the state of Kentucky.
- Some of the Medical Pioneers of Kentucky – McCormack, J. N. (Joseph Nathaniel),1847-1922, ed
- Some Webster County, Kentucky families – Baker, Bassett, Givens, Johnson, Payne, Price, Rice and others – Bassett, Minerva Bone, 1915-; Gillespie, Patricia Randle, 1923-
- The Adventures of Daniel Boone: the Kentucky rifleman
- The biography of Eld. Barton Warren Stone -Stone, Barton W. (Barton Warren), 1772-1844
- The Boone family; a genealogical history of the descendants of George and Mary Boone who came to America in 1717; containing many unpublished bits of early Kentucky history, also a biographical sketch of Daniel Boone, the pioneer, by one of his descendants -Spraker, Ella Atterbury, b. 1883
- The history of Kentucky : from its earliest settlement to the present time, by T. S. Arthur and W. H. Carpenter, published by Lippincott, Grambo & Co., in 1853.
- The Lincoln migration from Kentucky to Indiana, 1816
- The Prichard family : history and genealogy of the descendants of James and Elizabeth Hughes Prichard of New Castle, Kentucky -Johnson, Martha Coleman, 1849-
- The wild riders of the first Kentucky cavalry : a history of the regiment, in the great war of the rebellion, 1861-1865 : pathetic scenes, amusing incidents, and thrilling episodes, a regimental roster, prison life, adventures, and escapes – Tarrant, Sergeant E
- William McCoy and his descendants; a genealogical history of the family of William McCoy, one of the Scotch families coming to America before the revolutionary war, who died in Kentucky about the year 1818. Also a history of the family of Alexander McCoy, a Scotchman who served through the revolutionary war, and died in Ohio in the year 1829 -McCoy, Lycurgus, 1835-
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